“I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.' This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have complete panoramic vision.” RealBeautifulSpiritualVisionJourneyLonelinessIndependenceBeautiful ThingsVery BeautifulSpiritual Journey Author:Chogyam Trungpa
“It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and incomprehensibility of that suffering in what it does to those who suffer. The priest shares in these struggles of his suffering people, the uncertainties it brings, the sense of divine abandonment it induces, and the loneliness caused.” PeopleDoeSpiritualSufferingStruggleShareLonelinessDivineUncertaintyFrustrationPriestsWarfareAbandonmentSpiritual Warfare Author:Arthur Middleton
“Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.” PeopleMindSpiritualEnergyWaterSilenceClearLonelinessHotNoiseEmptinessMessyBatteriesClear WaterSpiritual Energy Author:Benjamin Hoff
“On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.” SpiritualCertainPovertyLonelinessMaterialsContinentsDiscouragementMeaning Life Book:No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition
“... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind.... A new danger comes to your soul, and intolerance and impatience with those who are as you have been all but destroy that which you have taken such pains to build up. Not alone are there spiritual barriers between you and the friends that you have, but your business training has made your mind incisive. In the swift rush of business you have no time for small debates and petty dilemmas.” MindKindHas BeensMadeSoulPainSpiritualBusinessVirtueTakenLonelinessDangerWallTrainingLonelyDebateYour SoulBarriersIntolerancePettyNot AloneImpatienceDilemmaProgrammes Author:Alice Foote MacDougall