Solitary

 The Solitary, one who seeks prayer in stillness and silence, becomes critical, not of the world around them, but first, critical of themselves.  The solitary moves away from being simply rebellious or self-opinionated.  The desert experience in prayer is not for the blame game.  Rather, the solitary knows the mess of the world, all its anxious seeking for power, control, esteem, all its anxiety and fear, because the solitary first sees it in themselves.  Therefore, they have compassion, they sense a suffering with, even though the world may be unaware of the reasons for its own misery.  The solitary hopes for and then experiences mercy, and unconditional love.  This is how it responds to the world, and exemplifies such response to others.  The wilderness of silence is a healing from bitterness and resentment.  In the prayer of obscurity, alone, one can be healed even of loneliness.