Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
We only keep what we lose.
I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.