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Only Connect
it is not physical solitude that actually separates one from others;
not physical isolation, but spiritual isolation. it is not the desert island
nor the stony wilderness that cuts you from the people you love. it is
the wilderness in the mind, the desert wastes in the heart through
which one wanders lost and a stranger. when one is a stranger to
oneself then one is estranged from others too.
if one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
how often in a large city, shaking hands with my friends, i have felt
the wilderness stretching between us. both of us were wandering
in arid wastes, having lost the springs that nourished us - or having
found them dry. only when one is connected to one's own core is one
connected to others, i am beginning to discover. and, for me, the core,
the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh