Mash Up: Solitude

Solitude:

"It is only alone, truly alone that one bursts apart, spring forth"-Maria Isabel Barreno

1. A man stands there just now, absently emptying his pockets and weeping.  Without reason, his friends have abandoned him. 

2.  In solitude I remain 

    With absolutely nothing to gain 
    Perhaps in time I will be strong 
    You see! Solitude is not my favorite song

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4.   At its source you will find the answer to the question of whether you must create.  Accept that answer, just as it is given to you, without trying to interpret it.

5. A crazy thought just occurred to me.  Babies are essentially in solitude.  They can not talk to anyone, and they are alone with their thoughts.  Sometimes I wonder what goes through a babies mind, or even what went through my mind when I was a baby.

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7.  Solitude, a heightened and deepened kind of aloneness for the person who loves. 

8.    In my opinion, solitude would be very lonely.  I cant even imagine what I would do with myself if I was kept in a room, alone, for a certain amount of time.  I think I might go crazy if that were to happen to me.  Not being able to talk to anyone would be terrible!  I feel like everyone needs someone just to keep them company and avoid solitude.  

9. I sit in my chair

And filled with despair
There's no one could be so sad
With gloom everywhere
I sit and I stare
I know that I'll soon go mad

10. But with your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths. 

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12. And if the body speaks, it is the speaking only of so many levers and forces.  The body is a thing to be ordered, not obeyed.  

13.  Your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance. 

14.   It is impressive that Rilke can find it in himself to admit that he pushes things and other people away from him.  For all that I know I am not aware that i push people or things away.  Then again, I can not be so sure because like Rilke said, he did not realize this habit of his until after he was married.  I wonder if I do push things away from myself to stay in solitude.  

15.  It is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along, the most unworthy... 

16.   Sometimes I feel alone, but then I realize I am everything but alone.  I just had to realize that I have the strength to be able to handle solitude.  It takes a lot of courage to accept solitude, well at least it does for me.  Solitude does not mean to be alone, it means to be alone with your thoughts.  While sometimes I have thought that I was alone, I was just coming to terms with the meaning of solitude.  

17.  Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult

18.  The solution solitude can vary from person to person but I can tell you what I think the solution for me was.  Learn to live with it, and experience your thoughts.  I think being in solitude is very similar to what we are doing at this very second.  We are left alone with our thoughts to write what comes to our minds.  That is just how being in solitude may feel, just alone with your thoughts.  

19. It had occurred to her while sitting there that everyone she would encounter in her life from now on would be a stranger.  

1. Lightman, Alan. Einstein's Dreams.  New York: Random House, 1993 (29)

2.  Chidi, Sylvia.  In Solitude

3. Ipod nano. Google Search

4. Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet. New York: Random House, 1984 (9)

5. Personal Reflection 

6. The Forgotten Art of Silence and Solitude.  Google Search 

7. Rilke, Rainer Maria. (69)

8.  Personal Reflection

9. Ellington, Duke. Solitude

10. Rilke, Rainer Maria.  (44)

11. Many Paths. Google Search

12. Lightman, Alan. (20)

13. Rilke, Rainer Maria. (8)

14. Personal Reflection

15.  Rilke, Rainer Maria. (54)

16.  Personal Reflection

17. Rilke, Rainer Maria. (67)

18. Personal Reflection

19.  Wiggins, Marianne.  The Shadow Catcher. New York, 2007 (77)