The physical loneliness, external silence and true recollection are essential for those who want to lead a life in conscience. but like many things in this world are only means to achieve a end, and if we don't visualize the end we will misuse the means .
It's not to run away from men, that we ourselves retire to the desert but to better see the world in which we are and seek ways to be more useful. Some who have never experienced true solitude will be able to affirm without hesitation that the solitude of the heart is the only one that matters and that the other, outer loneliness, doesn't matter. But these two solitudes are not incompatible. One can lead to the other .
The most real loneliness is not outside we, it is not the absence of noise or the absence of being around us ; it's an abyss that opens in the depths of our soul, a need for food never can be satisfied. Only one way leads to loneliness, that of the hunger, thirst, pain, vulnerability and desire, and the man who has found loneliness finds himself empty, as if drained by death. He crossed the horizons, there is no longer a way for him to take. He found in a country where the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. He do not travel anymore because it is by remaining motionless that one discovers this country .
And it's there, in this loneliness, what begin the most fruitful activities. This is where you learn to work in the relaxation, to increase their vision, to see in the darkness and find, beyond desire, a door that opens to infinity .
Materially, conditions are necessary. You have to have a place, in nature or in a room with a room where no one can find us, bother us or just notice us. He we must be able to detach ourselves from the world to really be of this world. We must liberate ourselves by untying the tense and tenuous ties that bind us by seen, hearing, the smell, the feelings, thinking about the presence of men. And when such a place is found, let's be satisfied but let's not be troubled if we are forced to leave it for a good reason. love this place, let's go back as soon as possible and don't change it for the slightest peccadillo. And in this place, let's breathe easy, naturally, without precipitation, so that our minds can rest, forget your worries, to plunge into the silence and the secrecy of all things .
Some men evoking inner loneliness think it is possible to live in the middle of the world and its confusion. They admit that outer loneliness is good in theory, but argue that it is better to safeguard inner solitude while living with others. In fact, their life is devoured by activities and strangled by attachments of all kinds.. They fear inner loneliness and do everything they can to escape it.. And what's worse, is that they try to draw others into activities as vain and all-consuming as their own. They are great servants of “the cause”, great creators of more or less useful work. They print programs, write letters, and phone for hours. They are happy to organize meetings, from banquets, conferences, courses and events. They animate and spend themselves without counting. They will even be able to bring together a large number of people around the theme of loneliness with so much solicitude that the tumult, interpellations and applause can only remove the spirit of loneliness from its unspeakable accuracy .
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