You Are Alone

"You are alone in existence. You come alone, you die alone. Between birth and death, of course you can deceive yourself that someone is with you - your wife, your father, your mother, your husband, your friend - but this is just make-believe. you come alone, you go alone; you are alone between birth and death."

- Osho (from Freedom the Courage to Be Yourself)

"This is the life of gods and of the godlike and blessed among men, liberation from the alien that besets us here, a life taking no pleasure in the things of Earth, [the flight of the alone to the Alone]"

- Plotinus (Enneads VI, 9)

"You are alone with your God, and there is no one around you. This is the truth. Rest your mind on this, and attain peace."

- Swami Krishnananda

There are more than 6 billion humans on planet Earth today but even if there were 600 billion you would be just as alone then as you are today. Crowds create only crowding.

You have been sold a bill of goods. In your youth you were read to stories about "living happily ever after" and your parents may have occasionally lied to you about how they would never leave you. As soon as your cuteness and novelty wore out, you were no longer of any interest to them. In fact, you were a nusiance.

In your adolesence you learned that there is no Santa Claus, no Easter Bunny, and no Tooth Fairy. There was no saviour, no prince, no gift-bearer and nobody that heard your cries at night. You had to do it for yourself.

In your teenage years, you were bombarded incessantly with love songs and impossible dreams of a lover that is everything to you. Yet each and every lover, if you were fortunate enough to find even one, abandoned you as soon as the cuteness and novelty wore off. Instead of joy, you found frustration and instead of pleasure you found jealousy, deceit and all manner of selfishness.

In your early adulthood, you began to see how former friends could care less if you drop dead. You tired of being the one that had to initiate the phone calls, letters, and emails, without any reciprocation. When your friends moved away or 'settled down" it was as if you no longer existed to them.

When you began to have different thoughts you were ostracized, when you took up different interests, you were discarded, when your appearance changed, you were mocked, and when you needed help, no help was to be found. Your inner thoughts could not be understood, your journey was yours and yours alone.

Listen, my friend - it doesn't matter. Everything is as it should be.

To be alone does not equate with loneliness - far be it! Alone means to be ALL ONE. To understand your aloneness is to understand completeness. To understand aloneness is to understand God. You are the alone flying upwards to the Alone. God is alone and only that which is of the same kind can understand and communicate.

God has many forms, many manifestations, many hypostases - but still always One; still always one and undivided. The universe is also one - One Verse - One Song - One Dance. The universe is alone - there is no other like it

To be alone is to be one and to be one is to have no need, no division, no frustration - you are the number zero and God is the number One. One plus Zero is still One. As zero - can you find your beginning, can you find your end?

In the Temple of Solomon, within the Holy of Holies, only one could enter. There was no room for two. That room is in your inmost parts. You are the Holy of Holies.

In your Oneness you will find the Teacher - you are never taught, you teach yourself.
In your Oneness you will find the Physician - "Physician, Heal Thyself!"
In your Oneness you will find the Friend - "A friend that sticks closer than a brother"
In your Oneness you will find the Beloved - "I am my beloved, and my beloved is mine"

In your Oneness you will find the One, for there is none besides thee.