Eremitic

 

On Page 118 of his book, The Passionate State of Mind, Eric Hoffer writes one entry which I quote and then comment on.

 

 

Hoffer: “          211

 

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.”

 

My response: When a person is an individualist or individuators, solitariness, privacy and time alone is critically essential to developing the self, to self-realize, to fulfill one’s duty to God to maverize, and work to preserve, administrate and expand God’s kingdom on earth, and conceivably on other worlds—eventually.

 

The solitariness enjoyed by the maverick is a healthy solitariness, but she realizes and acts so that she still has time with others, some social life, some interacting that is beneficial to all parties involved.

 

I think the kind of person that is solitary but escaping not from others, but from oneself, is actually a joiner or groupist that somehow ran afoul from his clique, and he hides away antisocially to escape seeing himself as he is in their eyes be their report accurate or biased or intentionally false.