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Wilderness begins with disconnections. It continues with deceit

Wisdom is not in a book, it has no secret source. You will find the real very near; it is in yourself. But to discover it there must be the activity of constant alertness. When thought is passively aware, watching and following, then the map of self-knowledge unfolds itself. Self-knowledge is not by the study of the self in isolation, for there is no isolation. To live is to be related, and isolation is merely escape. If thought is alertly passive, watching its own movements and flutters, then when sleep comes the conscious mind is capable of receiving the hints and intimations of the hidden consciousness. He who desires to discover the real, the eternal, must put aside every book, every system, every guru, for that which is can be uncovered only through self-knowledge. From: Fifth Talk in Madras

Without hesitation, Dove chose the nowhere road. For that was the only place, in his heart of hearts, that he really wanted to go.

Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being unaware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of.

Work on making yourself a complete being. Though you were born with the physical traits of one sex, you possess the characteristics of both - including those of plants and animals. You were created as a nearly complete universal being, but with flaws. True perfection can only be achieved when one recognizes that they need to combine their oneness with others and nature. Only then is one considered complete.

World is so full of idiots that you can't even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one!

...you are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression...

You can be the most productive person in your area of your calling if you can just isolate yourself and learn to convert your time into products.

You are the salt of the earth. But remember that salt is useful when in association, but useless in isolation.

You will believe me when I say the life we lead grows less and less distinct from the life we led of Cruso's island. Sometimes I wake up not knowing where I am. The world is full of islands, said Cruso once. His words ring truer every day.

You end up isolated if you don't cultivate the capacity for solitude, the ability to be separate, to gather yourself. Solitude is where you find yourself so that you can reach out to other people and form real attachments. When we don't have the capacity for solitude, we turn to other people in order to feel less anxious or in order to feel alive. When this happens, we're not able to appreciate who they are. It's as though we're using them as spare parts to support our fragile sense of self. We slip into thinking that always being connected is going to make us feel less alone. But we're at risk, because actually it's the opposite that's true.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.

Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone.

But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

Battling terrorism must go beyond belligerence vs. isolation.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.

I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.

He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.

I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

I guess Im attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And its why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and the book and your screenplay and no-one can read it.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric.

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.

Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.

Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against your own firm or shaky sense of who you are.

Isolation is a dream killer.

Isolation is the dream killer.

I think any show has the potential to bring about social change. I do not think any one show in isolation can do it. I think it is a groundswell that needs to continue to be bolstered from all ends.

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

It's really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and unexplored place.

It's so difficult to figure out how to offer support and also be honest with someone you love who's in a damaging relationship without making them feel defensive and retreating even further into isolation.

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

Liberty is the possibility of isolation.

Many tribal peoples consider illness to be one of the most reliable sources of revelation. Many of the practices that traditional religions impose upon seekers-abstinence, isolation, stillness-are practices that illness imposes upon us, so it is in a sense a cocoon that allows revelation to unfold.

Losing friends and spouses is an inevitable part of aging, and many people have a tendency to go quietly into semi-isolation. Instead, set your intention on expanding and deepening the love in your life.

Moreover, if one selects a problem, works on it in isolation for a few years and finally solves it, there is a danger, unless the problem is very famous, that it will no longer be regarded as all that significant.

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.

Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can feed you.