What if loneliness becomes your friend?
Sometimes difficult to live with, loneliness is also a source of great wealth. We must learn not to fear it.
Each of us may be alone at some point in our lives. This loneliness is felt more harshly in certain circumstances, after the holidays for example, which have seen the house fill up for a time, or when we find ourselves for the first time away from his family. We all experience moments of loneliness. The children themselves are no exception. It starts in the evening, if they do not share their room with a brother or sister. They are reluctant to go to bed, precisely because they fear being alone. However, this course is necessary, like all other experiences of loneliness, provided that they are progressive and adapted to each, according to his age and temperament.
The benefits of loneliness
On the walls of a convent, it was once written: "Too much loneliness kills, a little solitude sustains life." While it is essential for a child to learn to be alone, it is terrible for him to find an empty house every day on his way home from school and to stay there for long hours with his computer for company only. Taming loneliness can only be done gradually, because loneliness, sometimes harsh, is also beneficial. We all need solitude, to varying degrees, even if it scares us, because our inner life cannot develop without a certain dose of loneliness and silence.
However, if we do not develop our inner life, if we live continuously on the surface, we cannot be fully ourselves, so we cannot really communicate with others, we inevitably remain in exchanges Superficial. And, of course, we cannot be in contact with God. A minimum of solitude is essential if we want to reach the calm depths of the soul where it gathers and silences. This is where God stays and is found infallibly if you reside there yourself.
Loneliness and loneliness
Terrible is the loneliness of the isolated, who has no one to talk to and who dies from not being loved. Proud, that of the misanthrope, folded in his ivory tower, far from the others he despises. Vain, the one who's full of din. But infinitely fruitful is the loneliness of the hermit, alone with the Alone, of the old lady who fills her days of prayer, of the seeker or the artist who stands aside to accomplish what he carries in him. It is not loneliness in itself that is good (or bad), it is what we do with it and what we find there.
To tame loneliness, you must first associate it with it. You can't tame what you're running from. It is a vicious circle: the one who is afraid of loneliness does everything to never find himself alone, and the more he repels loneliness, the more he fears it.
To love solitude, it must be full of our inner riches. But for us to become aware of these riches, we must find ourselves alone. It is by jumping into the water that one learns to swim: it is by experiencing a certain solitude that one learns to manage it.
Each of us may be alone at some point in our lives. This loneliness is felt more harshly in certain circumstances, after the holidays for example, which have seen the house fill up for a time, or when we find ourselves for the first time away from his family. We all experience moments of loneliness. The children themselves are no exception. It starts in the evening, if they do not share their room with a brother or sister. They are reluctant to go to bed, precisely because they fear being alone. However, this course is necessary, like all other experiences of loneliness, provided that they are progressive and adapted to each, according to his age and temperament.
The benefits of loneliness
On the walls of a convent, it was once written: "Too much loneliness kills, a little solitude sustains life." While it is essential for a child to learn to be alone, it is terrible for him to find an empty house every day on his way home from school and to stay there for long hours with his computer for company only. Taming loneliness can only be done gradually, because loneliness, sometimes harsh, is also beneficial. We all need solitude, to varying degrees, even if it scares us, because our inner life cannot develop without a certain dose of loneliness and silence.
However, if we do not develop our inner life, if we live continuously on the surface, we cannot be fully ourselves, so we cannot really communicate with others, we inevitably remain in exchanges Superficial. And, of course, we cannot be in contact with God. A minimum of solitude is essential if we want to reach the calm depths of the soul where it gathers and silences. This is where God stays and is found infallibly if you reside there yourself.
Loneliness and loneliness
Terrible is the loneliness of the isolated, who has no one to talk to and who dies from not being loved. Proud, that of the misanthrope, folded in his ivory tower, far from the others he despises. Vain, the one who's full of din. But infinitely fruitful is the loneliness of the hermit, alone with the Alone, of the old lady who fills her days of prayer, of the seeker or the artist who stands aside to accomplish what he carries in him. It is not loneliness in itself that is good (or bad), it is what we do with it and what we find there.
To tame loneliness, you must first associate it with it. You can't tame what you're running from. It is a vicious circle: the one who is afraid of loneliness does everything to never find himself alone, and the more he repels loneliness, the more he fears it.
To love solitude, it must be full of our inner riches. But for us to become aware of these riches, we must find ourselves alone. It is by jumping into the water that one learns to swim: it is by experiencing a certain solitude that one learns to manage it.
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