Solitude and a Little Rest

With a Few Announcements

To be acquainted with what is best and oldest in yourself, is to know yourself as you were, before the world was made, before you emerged into time.¹

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Dear Friends and Family,

Last week, we turned to the solitude segment of our series on silence, solitude, and simplicity. It came to me this week that for these letters to offer meaningful reflections on solitude, it would be helpful for me to spend a little while in its phenomenological depths.

For the next three weeks, I will be offline.

The timing is good. After several weeks trailing breadcrumbs of research and still trying to make meaning of it for a manuscript I’m working on, I have come up empty on this week’s letter. I need a little rest.

Our Sunday letters will continue with passages on solitude.

Our next monthly silence gathering is Sunday, August 4. All are welcome. Please email me to register: reneeeliphd@substack.com. (I will get back to you!)

With love,

Renée

1. Harold Bloom, “Preface” to Henry Corbin, Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, Bollingen Series XCI), p. x.