Living Alone

To live alone is not to be cut off from the world.

It is to breathe with the wind. To lean with the tree. To keep one's place while watching a boat grow distant.

Having no one beside you does not mean there is nothing there. Morning sunlight comes, the midday wind comes, the evening light on the water comes. The person who is alone lets none of these pass unnoticed.

Loneliness is not an empty place with no one in it. It is a place where a person stays deeply with themselves. In being alone, they meet again the self they lost among others.