11 notes tagged "solitude"

1. finding yourself through solitary work and concentration Sep 2024
   Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people’s ideas, or memorizing a body of
   #introspective #solitude #concentration #autotelic
2. discovering what you believe by articulating it to a friend Sep 2024
   So solitude can mean introspection, it can mean the concentration of focused work, and it can mean sustained reading. All of these help you to know
   #introspective #concentration #conversation #solitude
3. courage to think things through for yourself Sep 2024
   That’s what Emerson meant when he said that “he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men,
   #courage #solitude #leadership
4. the ubiquity of the experience of loneliness Dec 2022
   life begins with traumatic separation … (and) is spent trying either to recover that lost connection by some form of regressive impulse or to
   #solitude
5. transferring journey to companionship Dec 2022
   loneliness that serves both the achievement of personhood and the quality of any relationship … the more one can embrace one’s separateness, the
   #journey #solitude #individuality
6. longing for wholeness Dec 2022
   excerpt from a conversation with him in our Summer 1995 issue, “The Stranger.” being a stranger is a beautiful state of being. So it is difficult
   #solitude
7. exigencies of childhood vulnerability Dec 2022
   the literal dependence of terribly vulnerable child on its relationships is profoundly overlearned, overconditioned … it becomes difficult later to
   #solitude #childhood #courage
8. Moment of utter collapse, kafka Sep 2019
   For a man who has been locked up in his “Hamlet isolation” for half a lifetime, the experience of human warmth and closeness is a reprieve from
   #solitude #suffering #seriousman
9. going to the place of the Mothers Sep 2019
   Any man embarking on this symbolic quest must understand that he will be swept into one enthusiasm after another. Such enthusiasms soon wane and are
   #symbols #mother #triplicity #solitude #introspective
10. jung house in the woods retreat May 2019
    Deep Work
    #biographical #solitude #concentration
11. Solitude and Leadership  Mar 2010
    If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts
    #introspective #leadership #solitude

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