It is a mistake to imagine that solitude means aloneness. You are never really alone. Solitude vibrates with intimacy. Millions of stars gaze down through the hemlocks at a single trillium in the forest.
Solitude contains the deepest companionship. This is a mystery. You will be happy when people are with you, and just as happy when they leave, happy when two, and happy when al-one.
In solitude, you are everyone's secret companion. You are the force that draws them into deeper silence. You dwell inside them, just as great living souls dwell in the heart of your solitude.
Make friends with solitude, and you will be the friend in the heart of every creature. Meet me here, in the solitude that is both of us.
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