Introversion is the meeting point between beauty and plainness.

It is when on the
outside there is only love and warmth, the qualities of any decent human life, but on the
inside there is wisdom and perception. It is when on the outside, there are relationships
with a few, and on the inside there is enough to fuel a relationship with the world; on the
outside there is concern for the present and on the inside there is awareness of the future.
Introversion is the door which divides the two; not exclusively, because a door will
always open, but protectively because it is night and there are thieves about…………

What is night? Night is when no-one really knows what they want or what they are doing.
Night is when people question things, so the door has to be locked because when people
don’t know what they want, they steal anything. The treasures of a mind developing in
silence are always at risk. So there has to be enforced caution…………………………

Introversion should also be exercised after a party where there has been a sharing of
valuables. Here, it has gently to close the door to even the closest friends and then invite
in solitude. It is the caution which checks carefully whom it invites in, in the first place,
not out of fear but out of love for what has been given in trust to take care of…………

And yet introversion is not silence anymore than real solitude is………………….

It is participation, but not only participation. It is speaking with peace, walking with
humility, working with love. When action is accompanied by a depth of quality, this is
sign of introversion. It is when instead of saying within, you choose to venture the door,
taking something of value to all, with you…………………………

It won’t always be night. A time will come when morning will arrive. What happen
then?? The curtains are drawn and what’s inside is visible through the windows. The eyes
reflect clearly the life of the mind. Still it can’t be touched, but it can be seen and
enjoyed.

And when the day comes- windows and doors are flung open. The mind is open,
accessible and the sunlight makes equal what’s inside with what’s outside. That will be a
time where privacy and “individuality” protection and caution will have passed. A unique
period of sharing, when minds will be so light that they can pass through each other
unhurt. A time when the virtue that introversion has protected will be poured into a
common source of joy. It will be heaven…………………….