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When
we’re feeling lonely, we’ve lost the idea that we’re all one, and none of us
are separate from the whole. |
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We all have days when we feel lonely, but
the very idea of loneliness comes from the false notion that we are separate
and isolated parts in a world filled with other separate, isolated parts. In
truth, we can no more be separate from our world than a fish can be separate
from the water in which it swims. When we really begin to look at the
boundaries we see as so solid, they prove to be quite porous. For example, it
is not clear exactly where our skin ends and the air begins when we consider
how our skin is affected by changes in the quality of the air. When it is
dry, our skin becomes dry, and when it is humid, our skin becomes moist and
supple. By the same token, it is difficult
sometimes to distinguish the boundary between one person and another,
especially when our actions tie us together so inextricably. Every move we
make has an effect that touches all the people around us. On an even more subtle
level, when we share space with another person, we often pick up on their
energy, feeling how they feel and attuning to them, whether we mean to or
not. This is what we mean when we say a mood or a feeling is contagious. We
cannot help but be part of the realities of the people around us because we
take form from the same energetic force, and this force unifies all life.
This force is the light that all the great mystics and gurus encourage us to
move toward, and it is the light we will dissolve into when we move beyond
our individual egos. If loneliness is a temporary condition
based on an incomplete understanding of what we are made of, we can think of
its presence as a catalyst for exploring our ideas about reality. We can
respond by testing the boundaries we believe separate us from the life within
and all around us. If we test them, we will discover that they are not so
solid after all and that we can never really be alone. |
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