To be lonely is to be surrounded. Surrounded not necessarily on the outside, but surely within. Are you worried about yourself? Do memories keep haunting you? You are lonely. You are very very lonely. Who then is alone? The fellow who is alone is the one who is not with himself, just as the lonely fellow is always with himself. The fellow who is alone is rarely with himself. Because he is not with himself, he becomes available. He becomes available. Available to be with that which is.
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Acharya Prashant: The word тАШlonelinessтАЩ or тАШlonelyтАЩ is actually a misnomer. The one who calls himself lonely is actually never тАШlonelyтАЩ. If lonely means not being with anybody, not having anybody to accompany you, then the one who is lonely is actually never without company. He or she always has company. Yes?
And whose company does this person have? This person always has his own company. Okay?
This will make it easier for us to understand.
Traditionally, generally, it has been said that the lonely person is the one who is needing somebody elseтАЩs company, right?
You look at it a little differently. You go a little deeper into it. The lonely person is not just needing somebodyтАЩs company, in fact it is possible that at times, he may even think that he does not need anybodyтАЩs company. He may think that he is not in need of somebodyтАЩs company, because he already is in the company of his own thought.
