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Stephen Batchelor – Finding Ease in Aloneness

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Greatest Thing in the World

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be yourself," Montaigne said. "Don't worry that solitude will find you hunched up in boredom." Solitude establishes the foundation for a more reasoned and reflective way of saying and acting, he says.

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