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Loneliness is the pain of being alone and is damaging. Solitude is the joy of being alone and is empowering.
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If we can embrace it, this opportunity to adjust and refine our perspectives creates the strength and security for still greater solitude and, in time, the substance and meaning that guards against loneliness.
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Solitude removes us from the mindless humdrum of everyday life into a higher consciousness which reconnects us with ourselves and our deepest humanity.
By setting aside dependent emotions and constraining compromises, we free ourselves up for problem solving, creativity, and spirituality.
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Loneliness can be defined as a complex and unpleasant emotional response to isolation or lack of companionship.
It can be either transient or chronic, and typically includes anxiety about a lack of connectedness or communality...
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Lonely people eat and drink more, and exercise and sleep less. They are at higher risk of developing psychological problems such as alcoholism, depression, and
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Positive solitude is a state of being alone without being lonely, in a contented manner.
Loneliness, on the other hand, is isolation with a hunger for social contact, something that distorts one’s perceptions, damaging the ability to inter...
We use the two terms interchangeably because we’ve been conditioned to think of them as the same state.
Loneliness is being alone — and not liking it. It’s a feeling. Solitude is being alone — and content. It’s a choice. If you can mast...
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