Become aware of your aloneness - which is a reality. And it is so beautiful to experience it, to feel it, because it is your freedom from the crowd, from the other. It is your freedom from the fear of being lonely.
In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.
Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
She crawled on top of him, naked and warm and soft, smelling like a miracle that had saved him from a lifetime of aloneness.
Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor.
There are degrees and kinds of solitude. . . . I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.
Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as the evenings through the great stars become accustomed to eternity.
Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.
There is a need for aloneness. . . for an actor.
All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into the room, to soothe her, to love her. He came every night and sat with her. The first couple of times, he simply stayed - a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered, "Shhh, I'm here, it's all right. " After three weeks he held her. Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. The girl knew from the outset that Hans Hubermann would always appear midscream, and he would not leave. (36)
I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.
Out of that aloneness - the experience of God. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.
I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.
Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.
. . . be indulgent toward those who. . . are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.
I wish you all the aloneness you hunger for.
In the awakened state of Presence, aloneness becomes all-oneness.
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.
Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn't feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness.
