Solitude

 

Solitude is dangerous. It's very addictive. It becomes a habit after you realize how calm and peaceful it is. It's like you don't want to deal with people anymore because they drain your energy.

~ Jim Carrey

To practice solitude is to practice being in this singular moment, not caught in the past, not carried away by the future, and most of all not carried away by the crowd. You don’t have to go to the forest.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

It's beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced or contaminated by society.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you cannot be at ease with yourself when alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. You can be sure that the unease will then reappear in some other form within the relationship, and you will probably hold your partner responsible for it.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

~ Albert Einstein

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

~ Nikola Tesla

You are not alone as a person, You are alone as the entire universe.

~ Mooji

You have to get away from all that madness for a while because we become insane, we get confused with our roles, as being who we really are. Man is not his role. Man is something deeper than that. So, go into the forest or some place ALONE in nature, all by yourself, and find out who you really are! And when you no longer confuse yourself with your particular temporary body, but identify with the entire process of nature and the whole cosmos… When death comes, what a funny thing that will happen. Death comes, and will find no one to kill.

~ Alan Watts