Tribal Defences

 I think that loneliness is what we avoid accepting.  We don’t like to be with ourselves seemingly doing nothing, accomplishing nothing.  So we busy ourselves with activities, shopping, internet, travel.  These activities are not wrong in themselves, but they become useless as a solution to loneliness.  That is the world without much of a spiritual path.  Loneliness is normal.  It is part of our humanness.  If we can sit with this feeling, this reality, we might notice some things hard to swallow, but quite important.  We confront our own nothingness.  I don’t mean this as a value judgment.  You can be very important in your life, but you are only here for a short time and then you die.  As the Buddha might say, we are all heaps of dung!  What good is that?!! On a spiritual path it will show us that we are deeply loved, just for being ourself.  Just for being here now.  It is unconditional.  We don’t have to “do” anything.  Loneliness is the door to our truest worth.