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Halcyon's aim is to help you reflect on how you can better deal with related change in your own life.

Isolation

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The loathsome behaviour of City boys and hedgies at the height of their success. It was the behaviour of people without culture and without any sense of their connection to other people. They were isolated within their own phenomenally narrow set of values. Such isolation breeds stupidity because judgment is discarded as it might threaten the gamblers' groupthink. Outsiders are mocked because they 'don't understand'. - Bryan Appleyard

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No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence - George Eliot

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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality - Anthony de Mello http://bit.ly/12P8LP

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Loneliness is not about being physically alone, it's about a person's individual experience of isolation and how they evaluate it - Mental Health Foundation

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Loneliness engenders in us a respect for other people. It might make us feel sad, but it shares a root with compassion. Our sense of our own suffering, when lonely, makes us more attuned to the beauty and goodness of other people, and to how they too are doing what they can with their fate - Robert Rowland Smith http://theschooloflife.typepad.com/the_school_of_life/2010/05/robert-ro…

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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty - Mother Teresa

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Listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation - Mark Nepo

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Language created word "loneliness" to express pain of being alone. And the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone - Paul Tillich