It’s important to spend time alone, but how much is too much? A lot of growth and reflection comes from when we spend time with ourselves, but at the same time being around others that understand us is incredibly healing.
It’s a balance of being alone and being together that is key.
Something like visiting a city is like wading through thick psychic mud. All the chaos is people’s mind, all their fears & desires, create this kind of discordant psychic noise.
It’s very draining to be in that energy, and people become very numb, very disconnected from each other. It seems like a contradiction, but you can be surrounded by thousands of people, while also being incredibly alone. There’s even a term for it, “urban solitude”.
When you’re alone, you’re the boss. You’re the most intelligent and attractive person in the room, and there’s no one to challenge that. The ego can have a field day in these situations, it can inflate itself enormously without any threats.
You can easily become the most Enlightened person in the world, or at least your world. If you’re not aware when this is happening, then being alone to try and get in touch with yourself can actually lead to being more out of touch with yourself.
Through other people, we can get to know ourselves better.
Being alone is seen as a positive thing not because it’s inherently healing, but because dysfunctional relationships have become the norm. If we had loving, non-judgmental, nurturing relationships with each other, there wouldn’t be any real advantage to being alone.
You would be free to be yourself whenever and wherever, without any judgment. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case, which is why being alone seems so appealing.
There’s magic that happens when people gather together with a common intention. There’s power in numbers, so long as everyone is on the same page.
Our society, cultures, religions, all these different cliques, they all deny individuality. Your ego has to behave a certain way if you want to fit in at all. It’s no wonder those on the path of self-discovery have such a strong desire to be alone.
There’s thousands upon thousands of smaller spiritual groups which tend to be more tolerant towards individuality, but even these 
The challenge now is to come together while still being true to ourselves. To be equal without being the same. To give up judgments of both ourselves and others.
To realize human beings aren’t so different from each other, and in a larger perspective, the things that really separate us are nothing more than trivial beliefs. People put more focus upon the things that divide, than the things that unite us all, a little shift in perspective there would go a long way.
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