“We choose – or choose not – to be alone when we decide whom we will accept as our fellows, and whom we will reject. Thus an eremite in a mountain is in company, because the birds and coneys, the initiates whose words live in his ‘forest books,’ and the winds – the messengers of the Increate – are his companions. Another man, living in the midst of millions, may be alone, because there are none but enemies and victims around him.”
