When we are feeling lonely, we have lost the idea that we
         are all one and none of us are separate from the whole.

We all have days when we feel lonely, but the very idea of loneliness comes from the false notion
that we are separate and isolated parts in a world filled with other separate, isolated parts.
In truth, we can no more be separate from our world than a fish can be separate from the water in
which it swims. When we really begin to look at the boundaries we see as so solid, they prove to be,
in fact, quite porous. For example, it is not clear exactly where our skin ends and the air begins
when we consider how our skin is affected by changes in the quality of the air. When it is dry, our
skin becomes dry, and when it is humid, our skin becomes moist and supple.

By the same token, it is difficult sometimes to distinguish the boundary between one person and another,
especially when our actions tie us together so inextricably. Every move we make has an effect that touches
all the people around us. On an even more subtle level, when we share space with another person, we often
pick up on their energy, feeling how they feel and attuning to them, whether we mean to or not. This is what
we mean when we say a mood or a feeling is contagious. We cannot help but be part of the realities of the
people around us because we take form from the same energetic force, and this force unifies all life.
This force is the light that all the great mystics and gurus encourage us to move toward, and it is the light we
will dissolve into when we move beyond our individual egos.

If loneliness is a temporary condition based on an incomplete understanding of what we are made of,
we can think of its presence as a catalyst for exploring our ideas about reality. We can respond by
testing the boundaries we believe separate us from the life within and all around us. If we test them, we
will discover that they are not so solid after all and that we can never really be alone.

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