Distractions

 Distractions numb us to our inner longing.  We consume, experience, entertain, exercise and these can all be good, until they numb us to our inner longing.  Setting priorities helps us to keep the balance.  I believe that our deepest connection/experience of God, the Divine, is silence rather than nature.  Before the universe there was silence.  But not emptiness.  Whenever you meditate and feel alone, that is just an opinion.  Go deeper, or allow yourself to be taken deeper into the silence and you will get a second opinion or rather you will get Truth.