
“Yet solitude need not be loneliness: it can also be the cure of loneliness. It is not a matter of “learning to live without others,” but rather of learning to live with nature and others, not outshouting them with our insistent presence, but being instead ready to see and hear, in love and respect. For, in understanding as in sense perception, it is when we stop speaking that we begin to hear; when we stop staring, things emerge before our eyes; when we stop insistingon our explanations, we can begin to understand. As solitude dissolves the opacity of our collective monad and the dusk lights up the moral sense of life, humans can begin to see.”
― The Embers and the Stars: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Moral Sense of Nature
― The Embers and the Stars: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Moral Sense of Nature

“Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you.”
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“Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same.”
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