Spiritual development is about the big picture and self-realisation leaves no choices! You encounter yourself and therefore it is not always easy or fun because you encounter pieces of yourself, in yourself, that can be quite confronting.
It sounds like the poison of society; loneliness, being alone. We quickly think of elderly people who have lost the love of their lives and are only waiting for the deliverance of death so that they may be reunited. Loneliness; a spectre for many. But loneliness need not only be physical in nature, and not just something that older people face. Loneliness is characterised by versatility and affects everyone. Besides the physical experience, one can also be lonely mentally or emotionally. When you find yourself among people, with your family, friends or your partner. Lonely because you don't experience connecting with those who are so close. Mentally, because your thinking and thoughts are not heard
We have been given a body, yet we build temples, churches and other houses of worship. We have been given ears, yet we only listen to others whose word we take for truth. We have been given eyes to see, but we only look outside ourselves. We feel, but only what the other does to us. Our attention is not focused on what is already inside us, but only what is happening outside us. We are only observers of half-truths. Our attention goes outside and we lose its power. Continually our senses are focused on what is happening outside us and we forget our inner riches. God did not build the church, he gave us the body. What we see is not