Do you ever feel alone? A sense of alienation (or aloneness) is actually an epidemic in our culture.
But what if that aloneness was actually serving a purpose? What if it was there to open you to a deeper understanding of who you really are? And what if your true nature is oneness... the very opposite of aloneness?
Yesterday, 24th October, was Global Oneness Day. It was dedicated to feeling connected to a global community, to experiencing a deep peace within and to knowing that you are not alone -- that you are at one with all of life.
That’s all very well, I hear you say, but what if you don’t know what purpose the aloneness is serving!
Aloneness is the joy of being just yourself. It is being joyous with yourself, it is enjoying your own company. There are very few people who enjoy their own company. And it is a very strange world: nobody enjoys their own company and everybody wants others to enjoy their company! If they don't enjoy, they feel insulted -- and alone they feel disgusted with themselves. In fact, if YOU cannot enjoy your own company, who else is going to enjoy it? Your aloneness is your essential being.
Meditation is total freedom, aloneness, the flight of the alone to the alone. There is no other. One hundred percent mindfulness will be needed -- less than that won't do.
Aloneness, solitude is positive. It is overflowing joy for no reason. It is our very nature to be joyous; hence there is no need to depend on anybody else. There is no other motive in it, it is simply there. Just as the water flows downwards, your being rises upwards. Just give it a chance -- give it solitude. And remember again, solitude is not solitariness, just as aloneness is not loneliness. You must make a distinction between two words: lonely and alone. In the dictionary they carry the same meaning, but those who have been meditating, they know the distinction. They are not the same, they are as different as possible.
Loneliness is an ugly thing; loneliness is a depressive thing -- it is a sadness; it is an absence of the other. Loneliness is the absence of the other -- you would like the other to be there, but the other is not, and you feel that and you miss them. YOU are not there in loneliness, the absence of the other is there.
Alone? -- it is totally different. YOU are there, it is your presence; it is a positive phenomenon. You don't miss the other, you meet yourself.
If you are alone, you grow, because there is space to grow -- nobody else to hamper, nobody else to obstruct, nobody else to create more complex problems. Alone you grow, and as much as you want to grow you can grow because there is no limit, and you are happy being with yourself, and a bliss arises.
Loneliness is a state of mind when you are constantly missing the other, aloneness is the state of mind when you are constantly delighted in yourself. Loneliness is miserable, aloneness is blissful. Loneliness is always worried, missing something, hankering for something, desiring for something; aloneness is a deep fulfillment, not going out, tremendously content, happy, celebrating. In loneliness you are off centre, in aloneness you are centred and rooted
This is about putting YOU first.
If you feel there are blocks or negativity in your life, or you wish to understand your qualities or what lessons you have chosen to learn, then book a Spiritual Response Therapy with me, which can be done for anyone living anywhere, via the internet. This will clear them all away in your Soul Records (Akashic Records) and the shift will be life changing.
Meditation classes are Wednesday 2nd November at 7pm-8.30pm in Chigwell Row, Essex
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