Text/July Chang'an
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Zhuangzi said: "The husband is quiet and lonely, and he who does nothing is the origin of all things." ”
It means emptiness, tranquility, and indifference as the origin of all things, and also represents a person's way of dealing with the world - aloneness.
Being alone is not unsociable, but choosing the right time, giving yourself the right space and time, a person faces his own soul, reads his inner feelings, what he wants, how to go in the future, and how to use practical actions to achieve his ideals.
Really good people know how to be "alone."
01. Solitude is a monologue of the mind
The writer Mader said: "A person's soul, only when alone, can see its own clarity and brightness, in order to enjoy the fullness and vigor of life." ”
This is a monologue of the soul, a dialogue with the heart, repeated thinking, aware of their own shortcomings, in order to make a series of compensation in reality.
Think deeply and then act, insight and contemplation.
Only in solitude can we find that there are problems of one kind or another, just as the ancients said, "I am three provinces and my body", every day to use some time alone, torture the soul, in order to be able to clear the mind, so as to achieve a sudden and enlightened realm.
Truly powerful people need to fill their souls with solitude to a point where others look up to them.
To put it bluntly, it is self-reflection.
Once had a friend who was successful in business, he used some time every day to reflect on himself, record his shortcomings, what improvements were needed, and slowly he corrected all the problems on his body, treated others with sincerity, showed himself with strength, won the recognition of others, and thus reached the top brilliantly.
People, the most precious time, is the time of solitude, wounded can heal themselves, do wrong can self-reflection, dialogue with the heart, listen to the monologue of the heart, so as to go further.
02. So you can have more time for self-improvement
Goethe said: "Talent can be cultivated in solitude, and character is best formed in the rough waves of the world." ”
This means that being alone gives you more time to develop your talents, and that the best character can only be formed in the grind of the world.
Enough to see the importance of solitude.
Being alone is not unsociable, but selectively buying time for yourself, not blindly pandering to the time of others, and doing some unnecessary socializing.
Human life is limited, waste can no longer make up, rather than sitting there and talking, it is better to be alone to cultivate their talents, rather than drinking with people and eating meat, it is better to bury one's head in reading.
Frankly speaking, almost no one can endure the torture of solitude, in fact, that is the ladder of success, in the time of solitude, you are only one person to face loneliness, face the real self, what you want to do, what you want to do, and how to do it, all of which you have to put into practical action, not imagination.
Balzac, the father of the modern French novel, rented a dilapidated old house for a great literary dream, endured terrible solitude, and thus began to write literature. He locked himself up like a prisoner and sat in bed every day for fourteen hours without interruption.
This is an inhuman endurance, when alone, he is God, he is the master of life, so there is the world's greatest literary masterpiece "The Comedy of Man".
Truly powerful people can turn solitude into a tool to improve their abilities, and constantly struggle for their own attachment.
03. Being alone is also a self-celebration
Qinghuan is a person's solitude, it is a way of life, a kind of self-inner regulation, from the plain and quiet to understand the true meaning of life.
Lin Qingxuan wrote in "Qinghuan": "When one feels that the fragrance of wild vegetables is better than the taste of mountains and treasures, or sees that the stones on the side of the road may be more attractive than diamonds, or feels that listening to the birdsong in the forest is more touching than walking the caged birds, or experiencing that quietly tasting a pot of tea is better than eating a noisy dinner party to cleanse the soul... He understood "Qinghuan". ”
It is enough to see that being alone is a self-indulgence.
Maintain inner indifference, not shaken by worldly fame and fortune, and prefer to live alone rather than go with the flow.
Alone, enjoying the faint joy, the wind, is gentle, the clouds, is white and indifferent, even the air is permeated with a faint fragrance.
Being alone, washing away the dirt of the soul in the joy, facing the real nature of nature, you can get great washing and inspiration from here.
A Zen master with one heart said to his disciples, "A truly powerful person learns to self-regulate in solitude, not to be self-sufficient in glory, not to grieve with loneliness, so as to make his mind clear and more enterprising." ”
Success without complacentity, loneliness without increasing sadness, no sorrow or joy, is the great wisdom of the world.
Solitude is a profound learning, is a way for a person to reach the highest realm, a truly powerful person, can interpret himself in solitude, know himself, so as to create himself in his own space and time, although it is arduous, although it is bumpy, but calmly face all this, not sad or happy, down-to-earth, enjoy the most natural bitterness of life.
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