YOU ARE NEVER ALONE

Words of Spiritual Teachers

Have you ever tried to be alone? When you do try, you will feel how extraordinary intelligent we must be to be alone, because the mind will not let us be alone. When you are willing to face what is - then that loneliness comes to an end because it is completely transformed. It is no longer loneliness.

(J. Krishnamurti).

You cease to be an exile when you discover that creation is your home.

(Anthony de Mello).

All suffering comes from a person’s inability to sit still and be alone.

(Hugh Prather).

There will be times when you will have to stand very much alone, and in that aloneness, you will have to be unshakable in your convictions. Remember this and stand firm.

(Eileen Caddy).

As long as I have no relationship to the thing outside me, the problem is not; the moment I establish a relation with it outside me the problem is.

(J. Krishnamurti).

Which is worth more,

a crowd of thousands,

or your own genuine solitude?

Freedom, or power over an entire nation?

A little while alone in your room

will prove more valuable

than anything else that could ever be given you.

(RUMI).

Loneliness is not only positively characterized by a certain degree of isolation, but is negatively characterized by a deficiency of participation.

(Stephen Batchelor).

We always find ourselves in the paradoxical situation of being simultaneously alone with others.

(Stephen Batchelor).

We allow that which is termed the trauma as called fear to allude into our being and to create in our being a lessening; the lessening creates that which is termed a fear called aloneness which creates in the ultimate of its being a state that is called madness.

Madness is created with the inability to cope with one’s self and all that it is creating. Knowing full well it can stop anytime it wishes to. It is an escape but only into another consciousness. You never escape from anything.

(Ramtha).

I was alone at birth; I must die alone; and, in a sense, I am always alone, for the gulf separating me from others can never satisfactorily be bridged.

I am alone and yet not alone, for I am together on this planet with trillions of living creatures, all as eager as myself for happiness, all as afraid of pain and sorrow as I am, all presumably with the same right to grasp happiness and feel pain and sorrow to the maximum possible extent. How ought I to relate to these fellow sentient beings in a positive, constructive way?

(John Blofeld).

Through the sustained contemplation of the equality of self and other we descend to a depth at which we suddenly touch that being – with – others is inevitably transformed into an existentially active being – for – others. It is like feeding oneself: there is no hope for anything in return.

(Stephen Batchelor).

Willingness to listen comes from the gentle recognition that you are never alone.

(Hugh Prather).

Optimum being alone is the actualization of meaningful being for oneself. One is thus constantly grounded in an awareness of the voidness of any self-sufficient existence inhering within the core of things. One is also deeply conscious of the dependent and relative nature of whatever is experienced. There is the immediate “mystical” experience of oneself and the world as they are. And instead of anxiety, joy becomes the underlying mood of one’s being in the world.

(Stephen Batchelor).