Day 086l: Alone within it All … (July 09, 2019)
I made it smoothly through the entirety of the city, flowing much of the way through various parks and gardens and tree-lined promenades, until I found myself passing the entrance to a local hermitage-turned-chapel (Ermita de San Amaro) on the near outskirts of town, and peacefully entered the same …
“We must at times all choose to be so alone, so fully alone, that we cannot help but withdraw into our innermost self. At first this is a way of bitter suffering, and yet if one can sit with the smaller self long enough, solitude itself is overcome. The True Self inevitably resurfaces, and we are no longer alone. For it is in that epihanous moment that we rediscover the truth that our own innermost self is the spirit – that it is the indivisible interconnected – that is God Itself. And suddenly in that instant we find ourselves immersed in it all, fully alive and completely in the midst of the world. And yet we are somehow undisturbed by its vast multiplicities, for our innermost Soul then knows ourselves to be One with all beings.” ~ via Hermann Hesse
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