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I often find no understanding for my spirituality, I feel alone?

How often do you hear and read, that enlightenment can only be found in oneself. People become hermits, take vows of silence, go to “foreigners” and withdraw into rituals. The picture, that the Catholic Church paints of her Savior (deep in the minds of mankind) is, that of a lonely person on the cross. The profiles of every prophet show how aloof these heralds of a new truth were presented - knowledge separates - one might think.

You see! All lonely! Logical, right?

If someone has knowledge, that is inaccessible to others, then somehow they have to be alone. , that seems all too under-standable. But it is precisely here, that we commit a crucial mistake in understanding. Because the knowledge of the truth, that enlightenment holds ready port for port, is precisely the knowledge of love. So it turns out, that the view, that an enlight-ened one, or someone on the way there, is lonely, is just a reflection, a projection of our own loneliness.

Lonely in the chaos of the world?

A somewhat confused story. There is someone standing on an island, the ground dry, no vegetation, yet he has always defended this island to the point of blood. On his island he wages a daily struggle for survival, for the daily food, he even has to pay rent for his refuge. New waves of fear, guilt, and sin are constantly rolling in. And time is running out. Tempus fugit. There are other islands around him, but he cannot reach them, even if it sometimes seems so.

A light on the horizon?

What is so twisted about the story: The person on this, his individual island, in his dry garden, sees this light on the horizon. It comes from the bright white sail of a magnificent ship, that is cruising on the sea of love, that surrounds his little island. And what does our islander think? “What must this ship feel lonely!” Does a shiver run down your spine too?

But how do I turn it around - do I feel alone with an overwhelming secret?

Lonely and alone - these are two more differentiations - from which we fundamentally want to keep our distance. The crux of this question, this argumentation is the word "secret". The simple fact is, that love knows no secrets, nor is it itself a secret. The path of spirituality, the path to enlightenment, is the path of love, is this ocean of gentle care, that surrounds us - and the further we progress, the clearer it becomes to us - what we have until then, in our blindness of the chaos of the world, remained hidden.

What kind of love would, that be, what kind of enlightenment, that tries to make a secret of itself?

True religion knows no secret, no magic. The path to another system of thought, which is not based on the confusion of the experienced world, but rather means the path to exclusive, absolute love, is open to everyone. It is not necessary to chastise yourself, to follow any magical rituals, to know any formulas, or to increase any materials.

Does the knowledge reach us?

Whoever only invites love, whoever calls on it, will receive an answer. For this it is neither necessary to celebrate certain rituals known only to the “initiated”, nor to learn the catechism by heart. The point here is simply to recognize, that we live in an absolute love, seem to own our island here. An island, separated from the sea of this love, only slightly wetted, humidified. We are afraid of the sea.

Is love all encompassing?

When we acknowledge solitude, the fact, that creation is love, we acknowledge its absolute, all-embracing nature. We recognize, that our island must therefore be a fantasy, in its solitairy, that it is forged from thought fragments, that are based on prejudices, judgments, evaluations, rules and manipulation. What we feel, see, taste, hear, think - is an illusion.

A daring step on a golden rock?

Here it is again - this step into an abyss, that leads to a secure footing on a golden rock. (A parable from Zen) When we consider the system of thought, that we have learned as an absolute must, as a basis for survival, when we replace this system of thought with the truth - namely love - if we only ask for it in the beginning - the knowledge comes to us. Door by door. Unstoppable.

Absolute love cannot know loneliness?

Those who knowingly and willing to learn on this path, will notice how any feelings of loneliness easily dissolve. Love means compassion, means forgiveness, means the negation of all differences, ultimately means the mental dissolution of the opposite as a body - towards one's own self in solitude. What you do to your brother, you do to yourself. You will do him love.

Summary

Love, even in its smallest approach, in even the smallest of appearances, is always all-encompassing and completely whole. Our thought system (our ego), which is always looking for errors and meaning in the outside, is built on the completely crazy basis of dualism. So we are very seldomly (and mostly not at all) able, to recognize love in its entirety, to see it. Love dissolves this framework, this foundation, this web, that sustains us blindly, replaces it - with itself.