Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn.   –David Whyte   “ One wonders only when he is alone, and seeks the truth,”  said Einstein. The great thinker and ploymath Goethe,  discovered that creative inspiration came only when he was alone.  Winnicott, the pediatrician and psychologists, defines “the capacity to stay on his own” as a crucial indicator of child development. H.D. Thoreau, the notable American philosopher and nature lover proclaimed that he made his spiritual discoveries during his walks in nature. He wrote in Walden that being on his own in nature provided …