Community and Solitude

I found myself drawn to a favorite book this evening, A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward a Hidden Life by Parker Palmer.

We have much to learn from within, but it is easy to get lost in the labyrinth of the inner life. We have much to learn from others, but it is easy to get lost in the confusion of the crowd. So we need solitude and community simultaneously: what we learn in one mode can check and balance what we learn in teh other. Together, they make us whole, like breathing in and breathing out.