Before you can be with others, first learn to be alone.
It was ‘such a great misfortune’, he thought, to lose the capacity to be alone with oneself, to get caught up in the crowd, to surrender one’s singularity to mind-numbing conformity.
To suffer binds you to something higher than yourself, higher than your own will. Takes you from the world to find what lies beyond it.
He shows His love not by helping avoid suffering, but by sending you suffering, by keeping you there.