The importance of solitude is seldom understood in our asian lives , though we are the biggest preacher of it. Most of the time, in the times of difficulty we try to find people to blame things on , to find support from or talk things out. But have we ever given a thought that talking to ourself can be the most rewarding thing. I agree that discussing things out with others do give us different perspective, but talking to ourself in our own solitude time can give us a new direction.
Most of the times we just live like normal animals, undermining the strength of our mind. We play during childhood, then study, work, marry, bear kids, marry them off to others and then die alone - only to recognize that we have never lived. We never think that being alone is the best way to discover the most beautiful thing ever got created on this earth - OUR SOUL. Many times in our society a SOUL is regarded as a spirit , a ghost!! But have anybody thought that it is the most beautiful place to visit , where springs never dries out.
As an indian I am taught of 4 stages or ashrams of life , one of them is VANPRASTHA ASHRAM and SANYA ASHRAM. During this stages of life, when one grows old, he has to take up the path of sloitudeness in the forest and devote his remianing life to God.But why one have to take up this path in the end??why not through the journey of life??
I think that it is only in the silence of solitudeness we can hear the voices of our daily existence and see the truth that life reveals to us, which we conviently ignore in the company of others.
As quoted by Hans Margolius - Only in quiet waters do thing mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
