"What a lovely surprise to discover how unlonely being alone can be."—Ellen Burstyn, actor
For some people, unlike Ellen Burstyn, being alone doesn't mean a lovely discovery of pleasing solitude, but rather strong feelings of loneliness, which might include emptiness, isolation, dejection, unhappiness, or the grief caused by separation from loved ones. Yet today, as from earliest Biblical history, people can find a permanent solution to loneliness by discovering their unity—their oneness—with God.
Oneness with God replaces an emotional, abstract state of being with a concrete spiritual state where an individual perceives his or her inherent spiritual nature as the creative expression of God (see Gen. 1:26, 27). Just as we recognize the inseparability of a ray of light from the sun, in the same way we can see ourselves as inseparable from God, at one with our divine Creator. When we understand our unity with the one divine Mind, we naturally feel the presence and goodness of God with us. And that understanding shows us that we can never truly be alone. When we see that our fullness and completeness exist eternally in our divine source, loneliness disappears. And in its stead we experience peace, joy, and fulfillment.
