To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: OWN LIFE it was called, meaning individualism and eccentricity.*
George Orwell

If I chose to hide you away, it is for a reason.
I have brought you to this place.
Drink in the silence. Seek solitude.

Listen to the silence.

It will teach you. It will build strength
Let others share it with you.
It is little to be found elsewhere.

Silence will speak more to you in a day than the world of voices can teach you in a lifetime.
Find silence. Find solitude – and having discovered her riches, bind her to your heart.
Frances Roberts

The person happy to be alone is
indeed a dangerous person for
they shall know and be themself,
Untethered, unattached,
Not to do their own thing, but
to bring their different and best for others.

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and power to serve others.^

*George Orwell’s 1984;
**The Northumbria Community‘s Morning Prayer;
^Joseph Campbell, from Jospeh Campbell and Bill Moyers’ The Power of Myth.