"I know two kinds of loneliness: one that makes me sad as hell and gives me the feeling of being lost, without direction, and the other On the contrary, it makes me strong and happy. The first stems from the fact that I have the impression that they have more contact with my fellow men, to be totally separated from each other and from myself, to the extent not understand that life can have meaning, it seems to me that have more consistency and I do not find my place. But the experience of another loneliness makes me strong and sure of myself, I feel in communion with all, with everything and God, I feel part of a large share with others this great force that is in me (Etty Hillesum).
often see as antagonistic and solitude and communion we seek to escape the first and second, in fact, it These accept a dimension of loneliness constitutive of our humanity to access the true communion with others: " Those who can not stay alone, beware of seeking communion . But vice versa is also true that who is not in communion only be viewed from .
Only in communion we can be alone and that those who can live only in the Communion. The two are interdependent. Only in the Communion we learn to be just the right way and only in solitude we learn to be in communion in the right way.
There is no precedence of a condition on the other, but they are determined simultaneously with the call of Christ (Dietrich Bonhoeffer). It is discovered that you can be in communion in the greatest solitude and discover a more intense communion of loneliness that keeps us from each other absorption and fusion, which makes us ourselves.
source: Monastery of Bose
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