Solitude – The Cure for Hurrying
The truth is, as much as we complain about it, we are drawn to hurry. It makes us feel important. It keeps the adrenaline pumping. It means we don’t have to look to closely at our heart or our life. It keeps us from feeling our loneliness.
Solitude as ultimate remedy
Solitude is the ultimate remedy for the busyness that charms. Plan a time for you to have solitude. Do not wait for the day that you are no longer busy before planning for solitude because it hardly happens. At its heart, solitude is primarily about not doing something. When we go into solitude, we withdraw from conversation, from the presence of others, from noise, from the constant barrage of stimulation. In solitude, we get rid of all the stuff we use to convince ourselves that we are important or okay.
Prerequisites to Solitude
Solitude requires relentless perseverance. I find it helpful to think about solitude in two categories. We need brief periods of solitude on a regular basis – preferably each day, even at intervals during the day. But we also need, at great intervals, extended periods of solitude – half a day, a day, or a few days.
Solitude Words of Support
The press of busyness is like a charm. Its power swells… it reaches out seeking always to lay hold of ever-younger victims so that childhood or youth are scarcely allowed the quiet and the retirement in which Eternal may unfold a divine growth. Soren Kierdegaard
A solitude is the audience-chamber of God. Walter Savage Landor
Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Henri J. Nouwen
