[Unedited] Stephen Batchelor with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Solitude Isn't the Same as Loneliness
Solitude in french mainly means being lonely. In english, we have the great advantage of a word that's relatively valuein neutral. We don't think of it is the same as loneliness, but in many ways that it is,. The sight of loneliness, the sight also of how we can also be at ease and at leisure, as montaigne puts it, with ourselves. So itsand meditationsas again, are really the management, the governance, the exploration, the cultivation and the practice of solitude or aloneness.
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