Woke to recognition of need for timeout, lingered with happy catboy, to KS for a meal and a few coldies with World Cup soccer on, moved timeout up the hill to conclude at GW.
It helped considerably.
Other titles: Withdrawal, Strategic Withdrawal, Inaccessibility, Disassociation from Inferior Forces
Hilary Barrett:
"Retreat means withdrawing from what can harm you, or what might swallow you up: it is a way to keep yourself whole. So retreating creates success: it is not defeat, but the way to avoid defeat, like an army that falls back and stays intact. When you retreat, you hide yourself away – you might disappear into the landscape altogether – so that you will not lose yourself.
Retreat moves away from threats, and towards wholeness and integrity. It is a way to be constant to principle, and to yourself, by paying less attention to immediate results. The hermit, constant to the truth he perceives, withdraws from society into an inner space."
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