I heard this phrase the other day; ‘if you aren’t capable of being alone, then you aren’t capable of love.’
I guess that makes sense. If you love something or someone, then you’re able to let that person or thing go to be itself, as the “they” say.
Meaning if you love a person, you’re capable of letting them go if they ask. And if you love a thing, you can let that thing be of its nature.
You often hear someone say, “Don’t hate the player, hate the game.” But when you love a thing, you love the “game” of the thing. So you don’t mind losing.
Real love is when you don’t mind losing, you are just happy to have had the experience or to have been considered.
I spend a lot of time alone. I find that being alone gives me time to create art. So it brings me closer to things that I love.
Helena Blavatsky, the occultist, believed in her religion Theosophy, that all ideas we create are in a hall of records called the Akashic records.
Helena believed that this was the value being done by monks, priests, nuns, and other shamans who pursued a life of solitude. Their solitude provided them with a life of intense mental concentration and ideation. And we all benefit from their sacrifice, as we can all tap into the collective consciousness of the Akashic records when we create.
I love being alone because being alone gives me the ability to create. And they say that creation is an act of love. And so I would say, that pursuing solitude is an act of love.
