Could you give some insight into loneliness and how to abolish it? At times it seems to me that the more I realize about the awesome nature of spiritual love, the more loneliness I feel in my current human relationships. I long to share my discoveries with others, but who do I turn to? Sometimes I feel a deep loneliness in my heart. I know I have many tools to be happy, and the most important...

Classroom Talk: 9/20/2002 - Loneliness stalks the heart that stands outside the present moment, looking back upon itself and feeling the pain of being without a love. If only this same heart, unknowingly divided, could see that this painful loneliness is produced by its own unhappy considerations of itself, then -- upon returning Home to its native Wholeness -- this heart now reunited would realize the lasting Love it could never find outside of itself.

We're about to learn about a new kind of understanding with the power to transform "dark" moments into liberating self-discoveries. Let's get started... We don't yet see "problems" for what they really are: a part of the Light within us that we have yet to perceive! Any thought or feeling that troubles us in mind or heart, any fear or worry, is like a candle not yet lit...

Classroom Talk: 8/4/2002 - All partial loves prove themselves to be just that; and in their inevitable passing we are always returned to that bittersweet realization that the love we long for can never become the possession of the self that longs.

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...

Topics covered: It isn't your anger or fear or depression. They belong to a level of consciousness that is asleep to itself; The more we listen to conditioned reactions, the more we become a captive of that consciousness and suffer accordingly; The mind projects a negative and unavoidable tomorrow from its own conditioned content. It then reacts to its own projected image...

Nothing is missing from our lives except for our not yet awakened ability to see this essential truth: just as fire needs wood to express its warmth and light, so too do we need the "darkness" of what we have yet to understand about ourselves. It rarely occurs to us, but *there is a greater potential in what we don't yet know about this life of ours than there is in what we've already seen...

I grew up as a loner, not really connecting with nor wanting to connect with family, friends, or people in general...while in reality I was starving to connect, and was unbearably lonely, even as an adult. But it still couldn't be admitted to or seen as such. I tried to convince myself I really didn't need anyone. Recently in speaking with a friend, I was shocked to discover this big unseen pa...

I have been married for several years, but my spouse interacts with me so rarely that it's like there is no marriage. I feel very alone. (From student correspondence)...

Nothing is more discontented than our lower nature, the false self. It is always unhappy with one thing or another. If there is one weed in a field of roses, you can bet that is what it will see. Since it has no real life of its own, it must endlessly create stimulating thoughts and feelings of one kind or another in order to give it the sensations of being alive. Like Sisyphus, the king of an...

Classroom Talk: 12/5/2018 - No (psychological) self exists without memory; no (psychological) memory exists without thought; no thought exists by itself. And yet, nothing is more alone and isolated than is the thinker-... regardless of how many thoughts may emerge to support and sustain the appearance of its temporary identity.

Whenever we will put ourselves on the side of what we know is true, then Truth takes our side, lending us what is noble, needful, and divine.