Loneliness

Loneliness is a crisis. Today's Chinese word for "crisis" includes two characters. One means "danger" and the other "hidden opportunity"; their earlier meanings are "opportunity born of danger or difficulty." It is not by chance that the crisis captures our attention: it is an essential part of our development. In reality, every person is vulnerable; we usually carefully hide our wounds. The crisis is a clash between the old and the new, between the known past and the unknown future; between who we are now and who we would like to become. What was once good and effective is no longer so;

Loneliness

New goals are not achieved by old methods. Very often, in the crisis, the hidden conflicts and contradictions in us come face to face. The crisis tests the strength of the personality, it can even destroy it - the step into the unknown is always frightening, but the truly new is learned only in adventures. An inquisitive adult is one who has learned to constantly develop and exercise his capacity for change; to be freed from the old in order to embrace the new. The ultimate purpose of solitude is to make room for the different and the unexpected. The other cannot enter our hearts and minds unless we achieve emptiness; only then can we truly listen and hear it. Many of the things we "know" to be true, upon closer examination, turn out to be otherwise.