To be alone for any length of time is to shed an outer skin.
The body is inhabited in a different way when we are alone than when we are with others.
Alone, we live in our bodies as a question rather than a statement.

Quote: David Whyte, Consolations
Photo: David Whyte’s description — “Looking towards Bee Holme from Ransoms, Low Wray campsite (West shore of Windermere in autumn mist)”