Sublime

To be lonely means you are in need of the other; to be alone means you are utterly rooted in yourself, centered in yourself.

A solitary, a sannyasin—that’s what sannyasin means, a solitary being, a wanderer, absolutely happy in his aloneness. If somebody walks by his side it is okay, it is good. If somebody leaves it is also okay, it is good. He never waits for anybody and he never looks back. Alone, he is whole. This beingness, this wholeness, makes you a circle. And th

We are born alone, we live alone, and we die alone. Aloneness is our very nature, but we are not aware of it. Because we are not aware of it we remain strangers to ourselves, and instead of seeing our aloneness as a tremendous beauty and bliss, silence and peace, at-easeness with existence, we misunderstand it as loneliness. Loneliness is a misunde

In the poetic rightness of etymology, the word alone comes from the Middle English—not separateness, but all + one. Both at the same time.

The initiate moves out of the self they were relative to others or in a social context. This is often a phase of acute loss even if the cause is seemingly beneficial.

and I am alone, must create my own passions of life

Alone you are born, alone you will die. Between these two alonenesses you can deceive yourself that you are not alone, that you have a wife, a husband, children, money, power. But between these two alonenesses you are alone. Everything is just to keep yourself engaged in something or other, so that you don’t become aware of it.