I do not know if you are aware how lonely you are. I do not mean solitude, I do not mean aloneness; I mean loneliness. You feel this loneliness when someone you love dies or someone you love turns away from you. When that person turns away from you, you are jealous, and that jealousy is the response of this loneliness, which is the questioning of the very centre that demands permanency. I do not know if you have ever been aware of this loneliness, the ache of loneliness, the complete isolation without having any relationship to anything. You must have felt it. Every person who is at all sensitive, thoughtful or aware feels it, and then, feeling this loneliness from which arises fear, we run away from it; take to drink, sex, church, God, rituals, anything in order to escape from this feeling of loneliness to something more satisfactory. For those who call themselves religious, God becomes an extraordinary escape; for those who are worldly, intellectual rationalisation is an escape; and if you have money, drink or sex is an escape. One thousand and one things are there to escape from this loneliness. And these escapes become all-important because they give you a sense of permanency. When that permanency is questioned, you are back again to the problem of loneliness and fear, and you try to fill this loneliness with knowledge, with education, with sex, with virtue. But nothing can fill it. If you have gone into yourself and observed this whole process, you will see that nothing can fill it. All that you have to do with loneliness is to face loneliness.

From Collected Works, Vol. 13

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