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Stephen Batchelor – Finding Ease in Aloneness

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Importance of Solitude in Relationships

The poet rilka wrote that a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of their solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. I'm cist a tippet, and this is own being. To day with buddhist teacher and scholar stephen bachelor, reading his book on the art of solitude brought to mind for me the poet rilke's reflections on the importance of solitude,. even and precisely for relationships.

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