Next Time You Feel Lonely

Don’t reduce life into technology. Life reduced into technology loses all flavor of joy.

Loneliness is absence. Because you don’t know your aloneness, there is fear and you feel lonely, so you want to cling to something – to somebody, to some relationship – just to keep the illusion that you are not lonely. But you know you are, hence the pain.

I used to know a man who said, “I trust only money. I trust nothing else.”

I said, “You are making a very significant statement.”

He said, “Everybody changes. You cannot rely on anybody. And as you get older, only your money is yours. Not even your son, not even your wife – nobody cares. If you have money, they all care, they all respect you because you have money. If you don’t have money you become a beggar.”

They are just an absence of aloneness. The experience of aloneness will dispel them instantly. And the method is the same: just watch your mind, be aware. Become more and more conscious, so finally you are only conscious of yourself. That is the point when you become aware of aloneness.

So remember: whatever I am saying is not just for you… I am talking also for the future generations.”

you are thankful to the person who has accepted your love, who has accepted your gift.

You have not really learned the lesson that change is simply the very fabric of life. You have to understand it and go with it.

It does not mean that a man who is centered in his aloneness, complete in himself, cannot make friends. In fact only he can make friends, because now it is no longer a need, it is just sharing. He has too much; he can share.

he Osho insights provided here open a door where all questions of "how

the Osho insights provided here open a door where all questions of "how