Involvement

 

"...that idea of The Far-Off Man, way, way out there, but 

What does The Hermit tell us...?

Romana has broken The Cardinal Rule of Gallifrey. 

She has become involved, 
and in a pretty permanent sort of way. 


The lonelier you are, the more you're joined together with everything else. "

(They sit on a small stone bench.)
DOCTOR: 

Have you seen the state of the time column recently? 

Wheezing like a grampus.

ADRIC: 

But it will get us to Gallifrey, won't it? 

DOCTOR: 
Gallifrey? Oh yes, yes. 

Are you really set on going to Gallifrey? 

ADRIC: 

Yes. 

DOCTOR: 
Oh. 

ADRIC: 
That is where we're going, isn't it? 

DOCTOR: 

That's one of the questions I was just pondering. 

There's bound to be an awful lot of fuss about Romana. 

Why she stayed in E-space, official investigations, that sort of thing. 

ADRIC: 

The Time Lords won't approve? 

DOCTOR:

What? She has broken The Cardinal Rule of Gallifrey. 

She has become involved, 
and in a pretty permanent sort of way. 

I think that you and I should let a few oceans flow under a few bridges before we head back home.

 
"...that idea of The Far-Off Man, way, way out there,  but 

What does The Hermit tell us...?
 
If you try this get as lonely as you can get, 
you become visibly aware which you can't get away from it, 
because when you get very lonely very fast you become extremely thin 
and 
everything that goes on is or now ordinarily unnoticed cum spiritum 
 

First of all, you will find that there is a  Community of Insects.
And they are tremendously interested in You, and not necessarily hostile, in maybe some cases they are so.

But alone in The Forest, when you get really quiet, you'll notice little creatures will come and inspect you look you all over an
they'll go away and tell their friends and they'll come and look to see what it is and you become aware of every single sound and you realize that alone you're in the midst of a vast burning crowd 

- it may not be human but it's everything else - 

so that the the point of being, The Discipline leads you to understand that   

You can't Resign

The lonelier you are, the more you're joined together with everything else. "

" Look at it - from another point of view, supposing I say everybody's playing the game Me First  - now, I'm going to play the game You First, to use the phrase of Bonhoeffer who called Jesus The Man for Others - now, let's see if we could play that game instead of 

Me First, 

You First 

Or,

"I'm the one see who's so generous I'm the one who's so loving so self-effacing and all you insolent brats ...."  

- Alan Watts