{"id":594,"date":"2012-04-06T22:34:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T14:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mothermaryswords.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/06\/this-thing-called-alone-14\/"},"modified":"2012-04-06T22:34:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T14:34:47","slug":"this-thing-called-alone-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/2012\/04\/this-thing-called-alone-14\/","title":{"rendered":"This thing called &#8220;alone&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>So many people refer to this thing called being alone. What is being alone? I understand the modern version of alone. Isolated, nobody around. \u00a0Although the old English definition was ALL-ONE. \u00a0It seems like most of society is based on this one word. \u00a0Singers, actors, films, TV, books, drugs, drinking, eating, etc\u2026all stem from one word, alone. \u00a0Yet \u00a0nobody talks about the word. \u00a0But everyone is talking about it. Singing about it. Acting out about it. Celebrating it in art, communities, and families. Friends tell friends that they don\u2019t want to be alone. \u00a0Alone seems to lead to a need or want when the word is not discovered for its deeper meaning. \u00a0People don\u2019t leave relationships because they will be alone, and they don\u2019t want to be alone. Someone dies and people don\u2019t want to be alone. \u00a0Am I suggesting that we don\u2019t need love, people, communities, friends, or great stories. Not at all. \u00a0But I am suggesting we look at our words and see where they come from. \u00a0My sense is that if each one of us was to sit with the question: \u201cWhy am I scared to alone?\u201d transformation would take place. \u00a0Please don\u2019t answer quickly, sit with the question, be with it in your heart, \u201cWhy am I scared to be alone?\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If the sense is that there is a God, consciousness, energy, and all of it, explain to me where is this aloneness. This aloneness drives the planet. \u00a0The core issue of fear is derived from the ignorance of not wanting to look at it. \u00a0This seems like a core issue for most people now. \u00a0In my sessions when I bring this up, most people don\u2019t want to hear this question. \u00a0The reason for this is the sense that the story of poor me that they have been getting away with for many years will have to crumble. Most people don\u2019t want to change, they love to be selfish, they love to play small, be small, I know this because that used to be my course. \u00a0Then this question came about within in me and shifted all the non-sense. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alone in the context of nobody around leads to lack. \u00a0Lack leads to want. Want leads to more of what you think you don\u2019t have. \u00a0This leads to possessiveness, selfishness, expectations, from others, because within yourself you believe that you are alone. \u00a0Then starts the thrill ride of judgement, gossip, negativity, conditional loving, torment, lying, stealing, deception, because if you feel you are alone in the world, then you will feel you can get away with everything. This seems like KARMA. WHY AM I SCARED TO BE ALONE? sit with it, examine it, be with it, fight it, love it, contemplate it, until it opens you up to BIG LOVE. \u00a0Dialogue about it. Discover it in stillness. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In BIG LOVE you will sense worthiness, joy, strength, and abundance. You will sense that all you have is enough. \u00a0Because you looked at the question, you will discover the FEAR, and because you didn\u2019t run from it, you will find the GOLD that you are.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is time that we look straight at our FEAR of being ALONE, and say, \u201cCome on, is that all you got, I know who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today: Ask, \u201cWhy am I scared to be alone?\u201d then sit with it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mothermaryswords.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/206924562_0b10d6edba_z.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/mothermaryswords.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/206924562_0b10d6edba_z.jpg?w=487\" alt=\"Image\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many people refer to this thing called being alone. 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