Alone in the Presence of the Self

When we do not allow ourselves the time to develop an inner relationship with our own souls, we leave ourselves open to countless maladies. We are alone in the presence of self. Being alone in the presence of self is the worst kind of aloneness.

There is something very disturbing about not being able to be comfortable with our own insides.

The reason that a process of introspection is so vital on the road toward self is just this: when we sit quietly with ourself, all the unfinished business, old hurts and unquenched longings begin to rumble around and make themselves felt to us.

If we cannot sit through this process of feeling our painful feelings, sorting through them and resolving them, we really cannot sit with ourself because sitting with ourself is too painful.

When we have sorted out the problem and learned methods of sitting with inner pain, we are able to sit through these feelings so that we can eventually get to serenity and self.

Be willing to sit with all of who you are.

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. ~ Paul Tillich