231) Who, really, are your friends? Some reflections during the often-weirdly-lonely holidays
Truly, we’re never alone. And when we feel we are and that nobody cares, I suspect all it takes is some courage to reach out, and the social web responds, helping us realize that we’re embraced in a web of friendship, far greater than we generally appreciate.
90) Gratitude Day 8: Loneliness
Loneliness is like a psychic heartbeat. It shows you that you are a creature of Love. You yearn for love. Not just to BE loved, like you want to consume other people and vampirically suck the love out of them. But TO love.
Loneliness tells you, moment by moment, that you are a fountain, a river, an ocean of love, and it is the sheer, relentless pain of loneliness that confirms that, irrefutably. For if you weren’t a creature of Love, then you wouldn’t be lonely. You would just “be”.
It is the very agony of loneliness that reflects your inner light. It is a Friend who visits, right in the depths of your suffering.