Every once in a great while you get a very quick glimpse of the fact that you are spiritually alone. How much more alone can a human being be than when all of the psychological props are pulled out from under him or her? Every shattered dream and every crisis brings us back to that moment in which we realize that inwardly we are alone, with nothing and no one to lean on. We must see the fact...

When you focus on feelings of loneliness, you become identified with the part of you that is producing the very condition you don't want. The more you talk to yourself about why you are alone and why people don't like you, the more you emanate an energy that actually creates distance between you and other people. The only way this comes to an end is when you start to understand that you are yo...

Student Talks: 7/23/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Nothing serves to create a greater sense of isolation -- a feeling of being cut off from life -- than being at the center of your own thoughts about yourself; where you live out your days as a castaway on the "island of self" upon which you have, unknowingly, agreed to abandon yourself. Part 2: No worldly acclaim, possession, or relationship with...