The Philosophy of Solitude
In Our Time: Philosophy
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The Paradoxical Importance of Being in Communion With God
In the desert alone he was more preoccupied, both with providing for his material needs and actually with mulling over things that had been said to him. So paradoxically, the solitude of contemplation is better achieved in the monastic community than alone in the desert am hermitage. But youall so important point, that the material difficulties of staying in solitude are interfering with the idea of solitude in the first placeyes, exactly. And i think it's not just the material though. If you become completely isolated, you might inflate yourself. You inflate your ego in a way,. potentially that's a kind of danger, of recurrent danger of of that kind of spiritual practice.
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