240909 What I learned in my studies this morning 4

Today's Meditation(s):

365 Tao: Daily Meditations #262 (Deng Ming-Dao)

Being alone is fine and different from being lonely. Solitude gives me time to think and plan, explore and muddle through as I stretch to learn something new or understand something old.

Being lonely sucks. It seems, in my experience, to be a lack of happiness within myself. That if I valued my own company more highly, respected myself more, I'd have weathered such times with more aplomb than was evidenced at the time.