Marianne Moore said, "The cure for loneliness is solitude." Solitude is solidarity with ourselves. Speak and listen inwardly for a response. Ask a question and listen for a reply. See how long you can extend the inner dialogue imagining a conversation with yourself. Our best ideas are generated within ourselves, and we discover Jung was quite right with his, "There is within each of us another whom we do not know." And it is time to make acquaintances. Cutting off the TV and sitting quietly, listening within, opens up a new world. Invites exploration of a side of us we did not know we had. Insight and intuition come to life when we listen to what we have to say and honor what we hear with attentive respect, and we discover a friend we did not know we had, expanding our world, deepening our pool of inner resources just by listening to what we have to say.
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