Each of us has a personal periodic, internal tide, an instinctual cyclical rhythm that alternates between "accomplishing, energetic doing time" in which you engage in the activities of the world and a "retreating reflective time" in which you detach from the world.   Reflective time is when you stop to stare out the window at the rain, gaze at the stars and day dream alternate realities that feed your imagination.  When we do not value or attend to the retreating cycle as much as the accomplishing cycle, we betray our basic rhythm and risk becoming walking through life on autopilot; deplete in vitality and meaning.  We have not allowed time to replenish our inner world.  

Right now too few of us are tending to our cycle of being, of going within.  We are suffering from "Hambre del alma", a starving soul.  By not recognizing and feeding our longing for retreat, not declaring our need for inner silence and balance, we diminish ourselves.  By not taking time for ourselves we starve our lives.