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Celebrating Time Alone

Stories Of Splendid Solitude

By: Lionel Fisher

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Paperback | 28 April 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Choosing to enrich your life by yourself is very different from being “lonely.” In Celebrating Time Alone, Lionel Fisher shares his personal reflections on solitude, brought into sharp focus by living alone for six years on a remote Pacific Northwest beach.

He supplements his own reflections by interviewing men and women in sixteen states, in both rural and urban settings, who have stretched the envelope of their aloneness to Waldenesque proportions.

All the material is intended to offer counsel, inspiration, affirmation, insights, encouragement, and advice on living well alone, to help learn to use solitude and periods of aloneness for self-discovery and personal growth—whether they choose aloneness or have it thrust on them.

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If Lionel Fisher isn't the world's leading authority on "splendid solitude," he certainly qualifies as one of its most eloquent advocates. A sensitive, articulate, highly entertaining writer, Fisher presents a remarkable collection of stories with the collective capacity to touch and inspire readers to seek their own paths to personal discovery and self-fulfillment. -Thayer Cheatham Willis, MA, LCSW psychotherapist

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Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
Finding a Path with Heart: The New Hermits	p. 1
Gone to Innisfree: Journey to the Undiscovered Country	p. 19
It's About Time: The Only Real Wealth	p. 27
Through Loss, Sorrow, Denial: The Long Passage Home	p. 45
The Unabashed Joys of Self-Indulgence	p. 57
The Dragon at the Gate of Solitude: Loneliness	p. 69
Alone Together: Making the Best of Both Worlds	p. 81
The Tao of Now: Passion for Each Passing Moment	p. 95
Sex and the Solitary Person: Life Without Physical Intimacy	p. 107
A Logo for Those Alone: No Fear! And No More Regrets	p. 119
Achieving Egolessness: Getting Out of Our Own Way	p. 129
In Search of Validity: Truth, Authenticity, Self	p. 139
The Way of the Curmudgeon: Better Living Through Eccentricity	p. 153
Preparing for the Trip of a Lifetime	p. 161
The Long, Courageous Journey to Ourselves	p. 183
Bibliography	p. 193
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