Henri Nouwen is one of my favourite writers. This quote is from "The Genesee Diary" which I am reading for Spritiual Formation this semester. It speaks more to this idea of being created for relationship, the I/Thou component of being human which is this theme God has laid on my heart.

This morning, during his weekly conference, John Eudes made a remark about the relationship between solitude and intimacy that touched me deeply. He said, “Without solitude there can be no real people. The more you discover what a person is, and experience that a human relationship requires in order to remain profound, fruitful and a source of growth and development, the more you discover you are alone – and that the measure of your solitude is the measure of your capacity for communion. The measure of your awareness of God’s transcendent call to each person is the measure of your capacity for intimacy with others. If you do not realize that the persons to whom you are relating are called to an eternal transcendent relationship that transcends everything else, how can you relate intimately to another at his centre from your centre?”