Pod, Carl, and others, I can understand your feelings of loneliness fully. I’ve lived most of my life alone. By choice, I might add, can’t find anyone to blame, bummer. From my earliest days, as a boy, I’ve had an insatiable desire to know where I came from, what the hell I’m doing here, and where I’m going after I leave here. As a result, I spent all my spare time alone, studying books that might shed some light on that, while my peers were out partying. None of my peers were the least bit interested. Sometimes the loneliness was crushing, I often asked myself, what the hell am I doing here, I don’t belong here, on this planet. (I still don’t feel I belong here).
Only when I finally got to the teachings that point out that there is only one consciousness, one being, did I get relief from the loneliness. And I agree with SG, that one needs to intergrate this knowledge. It’s nice to know about this info, but it will only help one, once you actually let this seep fully into your awareness, and allow yourself to feel that.
The thing is that “you and me are one, not two”, (From Bhagavad Gita) I think. Ponder that. I know everyone reading this, has done this, but do it again. Do it when you are standing in front of one of your friends
That’s awesomely difficult to do all the time, and I falter time and again, and feel very lonely for a time, but recover, once I remember. Anyway, hugs to all the lonely folks, (including myself now), you’re not alone.
There’s so much more, talk again soonish.
