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It was a period when we all felt it, but did we really know how to welcome it as it should? Solitude is an important feeling to think about, and we see it again through Henry David Thoreau and Hannah Arendt (and a little Seneca the best guy).
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The quotes from the video:
"The yogi, absorbed in contemplation, contributes in his degree to creation; he breathes a divine perfume, he hears wonderful things. [...] To some extent, and at rare intervals, even I am a yogi."
Thoreau
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. "
Thoreau
“Being with myself and judging by myself are articulated and updated in thought processes, and each thought process is an activity during which I speak to myself about what happens to concern me. The mode of existence which is present in this silent dialogue, I would now call solitude. Loneliness therefore represents more than the other modes of being alone, in particular and especially loneliness and isolation, and it is different from them. (...) Loneliness implies that, although alone, I am with someone (that is to say myself). (...) It means that I am two in one ”.
Arendt
PS: I am no longer sure of the location of the type cuts (...)
translater note : can't find the exact quote online so I leave the google translate one
“For it is dangerous to attach one’s self to the crowd in front, and so long as each one of us is more willing to trust another than to judge for himself, we never show any judgment in the matter of living, but always a blind trust, and a mistake that has been passed on from hand to hand finally involves us and works our destruction. It is the example of other people that is our undoing; let us merely separate ourselves from the crowd, and we shall be made whole.”
Seneca
“I have never felt lonesome, or in the least oppressed by a sense of solitude, but once, and that was a few weeks after I came to the woods, when, for an hour, I doubted if the near neighborhood of man was not essential to a serene and healthy life.”
Thoreau