A Gift from the Sea

Physical solitude does not separate us from others, but spiritual isolation

Anne Morrow Lindbergh | January 2005 (Vol. XVIII, No. 1)

For a full day and two nights I have been alone. I lay on the beach under the stars at night alone....  Beauty of earth and sear and air meant more to me. I was in harmony it, melted into the universe, lost in it, as one is lost in a canticle of praise, swelling from an unknown crowd in a cathedral. I felt closer to humankind, too, even in my solitude. For it is not physical solitude that separate us from others, not physical isolation, but spiritual isolation.

~ from A GIFT FROM THE SEA by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Syndicate content