You are unknown to yourself
Loneliness become a mirror. Society is a deception. That’s why you are always afraid of being alone, because you will have to know yourself and you will have to know yourself in your nudity, in your nakedness. You are afraid. To be alone is difficult. Whenever you are alone, you immediately start doing something so you are not alone. You may start reading the newspaper, or you may put on the TV, or you may go to some club to meet some friends, or you may go to visit some family – but you must do something. Why? Because the moment you are alone you identity melts, and all that you know about yourself becomes false and all that is real starts bubbling up. All religions say that man must move into solitariness to know himself. One need not be there forever, that is futile, but one has to be in solitude for a time, for a period. And the length of the period will depend on each individual. Mohammed was in solitude for a few months; Jesus for only a few days; Mahavira for twelve years and Buddha for six years. It depends. But unless you come to the point where you can say, “Now I have know the essential”, it is a must to be done.
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