Solitude and solidarity are two sides of the same coin. How can we seek genuine solidarity with another complicated soul unless we have first found comfort in our own skin? How can we know solidarity with another unless we’ve first peeled back the layers of our own souls and their qualitative strata of motivations?
First I must know “Amos” before I can know “You” (capital A and Y). If I only know “amos” I will only come to know “you” (lowercase a and y). Deep calls to deep (Ps. 42:7). My inherent dignity and worth confidently perceives the inherent dignity and worth in you. Thomas Merton said, “Very often it is the solitary who has the most to say; not that he uses many words, but what he says is new, substantial, and unique. He has something real to give because he himself is real.”
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