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Recommend some books about the science of loneliness/ developing the skills of being lonely.
what does that even mean?
why not surround yourself with other people and develop socialization skills? surely you'd enjoy that more!
>>8156809
Read the Phaedrus and find a newfound passion for love ?
Search for that "Divine Madness"
Find passion and rejoice !
Read love poetry by the likes of Sappho and Catullus
Sappho
And how you laugh your charming laugh. Why it
makes my heart flutter within my breast,
because the moment I look at you, right then, for me,
to make any sound at all won’t work any more
Catullus
To sit where I can see your face
And hear your laughter come and go Is greater bliss than all the gods
Can ever know.
The bright dream carries me away:
Watching your lips, your hair, your cheek
I have so many things to say,
Yet cannot speak. I look, I listen, and my soul Flame
>>8156809
There's some stuff in Rilke's letters about cultivating loneliness.
Tristia by Ovid
