News22 Dec 2011 09:55 pm
Straight from the interview: The importance of silence and solitude, part 3
From my interview with Samir Heffley, who is on the board of directors for the nonprofit Osho Meditation Center in Boulder.
“If you are able to give yourself enough time some time to just be alone with yourself, even for seven days, you will be astonished at how difficult it is. And then you will understand a very important thing: a lot of times we make our lives so busy because we’re quite afraid to be alone.”
“If you are able to give yourself enough time some time to just be alone with yourself, even for seven days, you will be astonished at how difficult it is. And then you will understand a very important thing: a lot of times we make our lives so busy because we’re quite afraid to be alone.”
“It’s a beautiful thing to really meet the truth of who you are, and it’s so liberating. And then you start being less and less afraid, which is huge. There’s so much fear in the world. Not just surface things, like what if I lose my job or what’s happening to the planet, but when you face the fundamental fear inside yourself of your aloneness, your whole relationship to fear changes in the world.”