Golden Solitude

Yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time, for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.

Don’t surrender your loneliness so quickly. Let it cut more deep. Let it ferment and season you As few human or even divine ingredients can.

Shams al-Din Hafiz