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===Topic: ''On Solitude''===
===Group: [[Unknown]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Amanson]]===
===TR: [[Mark Turnbull]]===
==Session==
===Lesson===
Solitude. [[Solitude]] is the place where the two of you [yourself and your [[Ta|Interior Guide]]] are One. It is not a
place of [[loneliness]] – far from it. It is that place where [[the universe]] makes itself known more [[intimately]]
than in multitudes. It is intimacy with a peculiar slant – you are the one welcoming all that could ever be,
but quietly, and in the guise of your one true [[partner]], the [[architect]] of your [[journey]]. Or rather the co-
architect; but one whom, if you’re smart, will [in any given situation] play the deciding card, be the
deciding factor. No one knows you so well, no one has your well-being so deeply at [[heart]], no one has so
much riding on the outcome, on the [[decisions]] you make. These are decisions He oversees precisely
because He (or She) Over-Sees: sees beyond that which you with your limited [[imagination]] can
[[anticipate]]. And these decisions… or rather, this connection… is forged in solitude. Solitude is the foundry
where the ore is smelt; where the fire turns gross [[matter]] into [[Spirit]] gold. Some people equate solitude
with [[isolation]] but it is quite the opposite. Isolation can be felt deeply – despairingly – in a crowd.
Solitude is crowded with [[Oneness]]. It is [[rest]] and [[recognition]] in one. It is, in a sense, the door to all that
follows: in a day, a year, a life. It is where one retreats to, to realize the [[power]] that will confront, that
will take on, all that is not solitude. The world, if you will.
[[Time]] is a different person in solitude than he is in the raging world. Time becomes [[gentler]], easier to
[[work]] with, not so prone to fits of [[narcissism]] and [[panic]]. Time is often erased in solitude, while in isolation
time becomes a wearying jockey riding a horse in need of water – you!
Allow Solitude to be your drummer, the person in your band who keeps the [[rhythm]], keeps everyone,
everything, on cue; happily meeting the next measure, the next [[pace|cadence]], right on time, on the beat. Find
Solitude to create the world you would like the world to be. And then extend what you have nurtured
there out into the world and see how much closer it has [[become]] – it will become – to the world you
would like it to be. Solitude is where the [[seed]] is planted. It might be said Solitude is the seed. Be water.
Be sunshine. Watch yourself [[grow]]. Solitude is the garden in which this happens.
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==Heading==
===Topic: ''On Solitude''===
===Group: [[Unknown]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Amanson]]===
===TR: [[Mark Turnbull]]===
==Session==
===Lesson===
Solitude. [[Solitude]] is the place where the two of you [yourself and your [[Ta|Interior Guide]]] are One. It is not a
place of [[loneliness]] – far from it. It is that place where [[the universe]] makes itself known more [[intimately]]
than in multitudes. It is intimacy with a peculiar slant – you are the one welcoming all that could ever be,
but quietly, and in the guise of your one true [[partner]], the [[architect]] of your [[journey]]. Or rather the co-
architect; but one whom, if you’re smart, will [in any given situation] play the deciding card, be the
deciding factor. No one knows you so well, no one has your well-being so deeply at [[heart]], no one has so
much riding on the outcome, on the [[decisions]] you make. These are decisions He oversees precisely
because He (or She) Over-Sees: sees beyond that which you with your limited [[imagination]] can
[[anticipate]]. And these decisions… or rather, this connection… is forged in solitude. Solitude is the foundry
where the ore is smelt; where the fire turns gross [[matter]] into [[Spirit]] gold. Some people equate solitude
with [[isolation]] but it is quite the opposite. Isolation can be felt deeply – despairingly – in a crowd.
Solitude is crowded with [[Oneness]]. It is [[rest]] and [[recognition]] in one. It is, in a sense, the door to all that
follows: in a day, a year, a life. It is where one retreats to, to realize the [[power]] that will confront, that
will take on, all that is not solitude. The world, if you will.
[[Time]] is a different person in solitude than he is in the raging world. Time becomes [[gentler]], easier to
[[work]] with, not so prone to fits of [[narcissism]] and [[panic]]. Time is often erased in solitude, while in isolation
time becomes a wearying jockey riding a horse in need of water – you!
Allow Solitude to be your drummer, the person in your band who keeps the [[rhythm]], keeps everyone,
everything, on cue; happily meeting the next measure, the next [[pace|cadence]], right on time, on the beat. Find
Solitude to create the world you would like the world to be. And then extend what you have nurtured
there out into the world and see how much closer it has [[become]] – it will become – to the world you
would like it to be. Solitude is where the [[seed]] is planted. It might be said Solitude is the seed. Be water.
Be sunshine. Watch yourself [[grow]]. Solitude is the garden in which this happens.
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: Unknown]]
[[Category: Amanson]]
[[Category: Mark Turnbull]]
[[Category: 2022]]