Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to get the blessings of solitude.

Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul. In ancient times, purposeful solitude was both palliative and preventative. It was used to heal fatigue and to prevent weariness. It was also used as an oracle, as a way of listening to the inner self to solicit advice and guidance otherwise impossible to hear in the din of daily life.

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

Travelling alone was like laundry for my thoughts.

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there.

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one else, how does life proceed for you? Who are you when you are alone? Self-creation is a Holy Experience. It is sacred. It is you, deciding Who You Are.

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.