Solitude on Pavan Yarahttps://pavanyara.com/tags/solitude/Recent content in Solitude on Pavan YaraHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USpavan.yara@gmail.com (Pavan Yara)pavan.yara@gmail.com (Pavan Yara)Pavan YaraThu, 14 Apr 2016 13:37:00 +0530Independence of Solitudehttps://pavanyara.com/blog/independence-of-solitude/Thu, 14 Apr 2016 13:37:00 +0530pavan.yara@gmail.com (Pavan Yara)https://pavanyara.com/blog/independence-of-solitude/<blockquote> <p><em>What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world&rsquo;s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.</em>           - Emerson, self reliance essay</p>

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.           - Emerson, self reliance essay

]]>Solitudehttps://pavanyara.com/blog/solitude/Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:00:00 +0530pavan.yara@gmail.com (Pavan Yara)https://pavanyara.com/blog/solitude/<p>All men, at some moment in their lives, feel themselves to be alone. And they are. To live is to be separated from what we were in order to approach what we are going to be in the mysterious future. Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature &ndash; if that word can be used in reference to man, who has &ldquo;invented&rdquo; himself by saying &ldquo;No&rdquo; to nature &ndash; consists in his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.</p>All men, at some moment in their lives, feel themselves to be alone. And they are. To live is to be separated from what we were in order to approach what we are going to be in the mysterious future. Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature – if that word can be used in reference to man, who has “invented” himself by saying “No” to nature – consists in his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.

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