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I Wonder Why Solitude Is Not Appreciated More

"The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other" ~ Osho

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JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F

Interesting. I never knew loving another meant not being with them while you hide out alone.

GypsyMiss · 41-45, F

@JaggedLittlePill being able to love someone for who they are, not what they can give you is the height of true love. Another fabulous quote that sums it up by Thomas Merton: [quote]"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them"[/quote]

MrFinch · M

@GypsyMiss Great quote, great advice.

JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F

@GypsyMiss You can keep offering flowery qutoes..but quotes mean nothing in the face of reality.

Life is about relationships with other people. Isolation is isolation. These quotes are bullshit . Don't live life by quote.

Yes. Loving yourself is important. You need not be alone to love yourself. You can love yourself while loving others. You can love others without loving yourself. It happens all the time. You do not have to have been alone in order to love another.

Letting others be themselves is a given. Lots of people have a problem with this. I don't need a quote to tell me.

@MrFinch did you happen to notice how old this post is and the last time anyome commemted on it? November 2017.