In the same moment you can see there is nothing to talk to yourself about that is worthwhile listening to -- you will feel the faint stirring of a sweet new silence within you that braces the soul with a strength unexpected.

The pain of loneliness is born of having learned how to live apart from your self.

In the same moment you can see there is nothing to talk to yourself about that is worthwhile listening to -- you will feel the faint stirring of a sweet new silence within you that braces the soul with a strength unexpected.

There is a very distinct reason why the work of remembering oneself serves as the very foundation, the heart of spiritual self-liberation. It is very easy for us to forget what it is that we want from life. For instance, one can have an all-consuming desire to acquire some trinket or toy, or even a new relationship that -- "this time" -- will bring an end to one's loneliness. But as we have a...

All of our relationships, in particular the one we have with those we love, exist for a dual purpose, along with its great promise: first, most of us understand that our partner in life is there to help us grow, to awaken and stir in us, accordingly, an awareness of love's highest possibilities. But the other -- and equally important half of this same purpose and promise -- without which the f...

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When faced with the prospect of living with an emptiness that seems capable of swallowing us whole, most of us elect to do the only thing we believe is possible under such dire circumstances. We start right away working out fresh ways to fill ourselves once more. The drill is familiar: find someone or something new with which to make another beginning. Do whatever is needed to bring an end to...

Can you help shed some light on why we are here in this life? In conversations with others, I find myself insisting on being "right." Why should I care so much that my ideas about life are understood by everyone? Could you give some insight into loneliness and how to abolish it? Without reverting to their lower level, how do you get people to stop making their hurtful, cut-down remarks? How do...

Winning power, or achieving worldly influence can never make us feel whole, or deliver us from the irreconcilable loneliness -- and fear -- of feeling apart from others, or from life itself. Only through our consistent, persistent interior work to be whole can we hope to realize the power -- the presence of those higher influences -- without which it is impossible to overcome all that we would...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of June 25, 2018. Once you learn what it means to actually, factually accept the "moment of yourself" - as you are - then you will not only understand what it means to accept all "others" - as they are - but you will also learn to be grateful for their presence, and what they have come to teach you (about yourself) as they pass through your life.

Topic: Loneliness, Heartache, and Depression; Questions: My partner wakes up cheerful and I wake up resistant; How does one actually 'stop complaining and start changing'; I feel stuck in my marriage but don't want to go through the discomfort of ending it; I stay in a loveless marriage because I fear that I won't learn the lessons I'm meant to learn; Is it okay to leave your partner if they'r...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 7, 2013. Some say... The beginning of things took place with a giant bang; but I say Life began with the cry of a Newborn awakening to a universe being made by its own incomprehensible tears.