“If you wish to love you must learn to see again. And if you wish to see you must give up your drug. You must tear away from your being the roots of society that have penetrated to the marrow. You must drop out. Externally everything will go on as before, you will continue to be in the world, but no longer of it. And in your heart up will now be free at last and utterly alone. It is only in this aloneness, the utter solitude, that dependence and desire will die, and the capacity to love is born.”
—The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello, pp. 104-105
I so long to feel at home in this “alone” space.