“The opposite of loneliness, it's not togetherness. It is intimacy.”

“Opposites work together in the very opposite of the way they seem… They work together in teams.”

“Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.
(pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")”

“We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.”

“Everything that is harmoniously constituted is knit together out of opposites…”

“Jesus does not want us floating through space or sitting in front of our televisions. Jesus wants us interacting, eating together, laughing together, praying together. Loneliness is something that came with the fall.”

“I no longer think being in love is the polar opposite of being alone, however. I say that because I used to want to be in love again as I assumed this was the opposite of loneliness. I think being in love is an opposite of loneliness, but not the opposite. There are other things I now crave when I am lonely, like community, like friendship, like family. I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can't possibly carry all that we want it to.”

“If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.”

“Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.”

“We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition.”