Solitude
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Sep 22, 2026
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
Perfect, I thought.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
Solitude sounded like paradise.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
The tower was a rickety
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
old structure,
John Mark ComerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I just want you to meditate on this with me.
John Mark ComerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
"Solitude is not a private therapeutic place.
John Mark ComerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Rather, it is the place of conversion, the place where the old self dies and the new self is born, the place where the emergence of the new man and the new woman occurs.
John Mark ComerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In solitude, I get rid of my scaffolding.
John Mark ComerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Just me, naked, vulnerable, weak, sinful, deprived, broken, nothing.
John Mark ComerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It is this nothingness that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run to my friends, my work, my distractions.
John Mark ComerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Solitude is the furnace of transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter, the struggle against the compulsions of the false self and the encounter with the loving God who offers himself as the substance of the new self." Thank you for your patience with that quote.
John Mark ComerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's just a lot there.
JasonHOST
Make your life worth living.
JasonHOST
Embrace Solitude as an opportunity to grow by building a strong relationship with yourself.
JasonHOST
That one is the big one for me.
JasonHOST
All right, let's move on to number four.
Kevin HartSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
reflect.
Kevin HartSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
How do you really feel about who you are and where you're going? And what do you really want? How are you doing in your relationships? Are you falling short? Are you grateful? Is there anything that you've been neglecting in the busyness of life that you know you need to do to feel your best? Solitude brings clarity and stability.
Kevin HartSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You got to be able to check yourself.
Kevin HartSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
See, when I made my fuck-ups, we don't have to go through them.
Mary JNARRATOR
I have for a long time suffered such torments, simply because thought has always had me entirely in its power, and it will kill me unless I change my condition.
Mary JNARRATOR
Solitude is not made for those who burn and are consumed in themselves.
Mary JNARRATOR
1st of August 1817.
Mary JNARRATOR
His mental activity was numbed by his physical incapacity.
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Mary JNARRATOR
Consequently, you will value, desire, and love life.
Mary JNARRATOR
And provided there be the possibility or certainty of your return to human society someday, your new aspect of life will fill and gladden your mind with a joy like that of childhood.
Mary JNARRATOR
Solitude does indeed sometimes act like a second youth.
Mary JNARRATOR
It rejuvenates the soul, revives the imagination, and renews in an experienced man those impressions of early innocence that you so ardently desire.
Penny ArcadeVOICE_ACTOR
But solitude and sanctuary are not among them.
Penny ArcadeVOICE_ACTOR
No matter how kind, how non-judgmental, or even how silent, not even a lover can hold our solitude or offer a sanctuary.
Penny ArcadeVOICE_ACTOR
Solitude cannot be shared.
Penny ArcadeVOICE_ACTOR
It can only shelter one.
Penny ArcadeVOICE_ACTOR
And we must never make another person into a sanctuary.
Gavin MichalHOST
Who has solitude? Kotzk and Ischwitz.
Gavin MichalHOST
My goodness, did they have solitude.
Gavin MichalHOST
Solitude in thought and solitude in geography.
Gavin MichalHOST
Nietzsche did encourage certain kinds of friendship.
Gavin MichalHOST
He's a nuanced thinker.
Tim RoeNARRATOR
With some, as they advance in life, it becomes a strong and confirmed passion; so they cannot live without the excitement produced by running round the circle of society till they become giddy and fall.
Tim RoeNARRATOR
Solitude, except for a time to soothe the mind, is felt to be irksome by most people.
Tim RoeNARRATOR
Solitary confinement is one of the severest of punishments, and when carried out rigidly has been known to end in lunacy.
Tim RoeNARRATOR
It is to be observed that persons associate most pleasantly together when their trains of mental association run in the same direction or parallel to each other.
Beth ThomasNARRATOR
End of Part 1, Sections 1 through 10 of A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful by Edmund Burke Part 1, Sections 11 through 19 of A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful by Edmund Burke This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
Beth ThomasNARRATOR
A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful by Edmund Burke Section 11 Society and Solitude The second branch of the social passions is that which administers to society in general.
Beth ThomasNARRATOR
With regard to this, I observe that society, merely as society, without any particular heightening, gives us no positive pleasure in the enjoyment.
Beth ThomasNARRATOR
But absolute and entire solitude, that is, the total and perpetual exclusion from all society, is as great a positive pain as can almost be conceived.
Neal DrakeHOST
It's so.
Neal DrakeHOST
Solitude.
Neal DrakeHOST
It's
NikkiHOST
almost, it's one of those like sensory deprivation tanks.
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