
The Holy Longing

Don’t surrender your loneliness So quickly. Let it cut more deep. Let it ferment and season you As few human Or even divine ingredients can. Something missing in my heart tonight Has made my eyes so soft, My voice So tender, My need of God Absolutely Clear.
Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance
The loneliness of being misunderstood is acute, a sharp sting. The loneliness of choosing silence is chronic, a dull, heavy ache that settles in your bones.
The Shadowed Archive • The Exhaustion of Being Understood
George Orwell once said: The most terrible loneliness is not the kind that comes from being alone, but the kind that comes from being misunderstood; the loneliness of standing in a crowded room, surrounded by people who do not see you, who do not hear you, who do not know the true essence of who you are. And in that loneliness, you feel as though
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