Be A Light Unto Yourself

It's you when I look in the mirror and it's you when I don't pick up the phone
Sometimes you can't make it on your own.

When you are alone, you are not alone. There is a tremendous difference between loneliness and aloneness. When you are lonely you are missing the other. Loneliness is a negative state. You are feeling it would have been better if the other was there-- your friend, your wife, your mother, your beloved, your husband. It would have been good if the other was there, but the other is not.

Loneliness is absence of the other. Aloneness is the presence of oneself. Aloneness is very positive. It is a presence, overflowing presence. You are so full of presence that you can fill the whole universe with your presence and there is no need for anybody

Ultimately, each of us must develop within ourselves the capacity to make our way through the darkness without any companions, maps, or guides.