You are alone

No one knows what it’s like to be you.

You could describe yourself in the finest words.

You might share your deepest secrets, hopes and fears.

You can spend a lifetime with someone in the most loving partnership, side by side through all the ups and downs.

Still, no one will come even a hair’s breadth closer to knowing your actual experience of life.

No one sees what you see. No one hears what you hear.

This moment is yours – and yours alone.

Many people find their fundamental aloneness so troubling that they deny it entirely.

That denial creates deep suffering, as they desperately seek others to fill the void within.

But this void cannot be filled even by the most heartfelt human connection.

You are the void.

Intimacy is born the moment we accept the truth of our experience.

That’s when you make contact with who you really are.

That’s when you embrace life as it is.

We are alone.

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