Solitude takes us out of the world and into ourselves. Solitaries are fugitives from conventional wisdom. “Be islands unto yourselves,” said Gautama in his last public address. “Let yourself be your only refuge.”
“I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude–a feeling which increases with the years.” Albert Einstein
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