Aloneness

We are born alone, in a sense live alone even if we physically live with others, and die alone. Aloneness is an integral element of our true nature. But this feeling of aloneness that’s with us our whole life long is actually the wholeness of the divine, which is already within us.
Loneliness carries with it feelings of sadness, sorrow, depression, and pain. We experience it as a form of negative emptiness like a hole in the heart, a deep wound, a negative darkness. We seek to avoid the pain by trying to find someone or something to fill it—often through the experience we call “love.”
When we avoid our One Self, unconsciously clinging to anybody or anything that helps us forget our feeling of emptiness, the relief we receive is temporary because our suppressed feeling of loneliness only intensifies.
In contrast, we can transmute loneliness into aloneness, which creates meaning in our life. This is because aloneness is our presence meeting us within. To be alone is to be with ourselves in oneness, where nothing is lacking and we are never separate or abandoned. How can we be, when our essence is one with the whole?
When we open our inner eyes, “alone” becomes all one. 
In our solitude, we grow deeply in love with our One Self. Love is the experience of fullness inside us. In this bliss, we don’t miss anyone, not even God. On the contrary, we meet the divine in a profound reunion.
When we transmute our loneliness into aloneness—all-oneness—we realize that the silence within has no tinge of sadness but is a radiant peace. The more we settle into aloneness, the more we settle into this peace. No sadness remains and we start enjoying our One Self because we are in tune with our being, the whole.
When we are lonely, we seek outside our One Self to find the meaning of life. This is avoidance of our true being. As we embrace our aloneness by going within, we realize we are the meaning of our life.
Outside us, there are crowds of people experiencing deep loneliness. But inside our One Self, we find fulfillment. Out of this deep sense of inner fulfillment, we share ourselves with the world around us, no longer needing anything from others but instead bringing our fullness to them.  (From Namaste Publishing)