Being Alone

"I think anything like that - which is contemplative, silent, shows a person alone - people always feel sad. Is it because we have lost the art of being alone?"

                          ~Andrew Wyeth

Work addicts or other folks who do an excessive amount are individuals who can seldom be alone. Being alone often instigates personal awareness, thought, reflection, contemplation of self and people we love.

Given that we populate our days and nights with activity, we are never alone. Aloneness brings us too near to ourselves, the very person many of us try desperately to lose.

Only in the event that we confront our fear of being alone will we have the ability to begin our own healing process.




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Today is a good time to spend some time alone,

thinking and feeling and not running.

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