DAILY RECOVERY READINGS FOR MEN

[MajestyJo]

Saturday, August 10, 2013

You are reading from the book Touchstones

According to the teachers, there is only one thing that all people possess equally. This is their loneliness.
—Hyemeyohsts Storm

Many of us have tried to find a way to outwit our loneliness, or to escape its truth. We have learned that we cannot. As fathers looking at our children we may wish to spare them this pain. As men with our mates, we have dreamed of an ideal connection where all loneliness was dispelled.

We can't obliterate loneliness. But we can learn to accept and deal with it. There is no need to compulsively cover all traces and all reminders that we are alone. We can accept this universal truth. We are alone, but so is everybody. We can make true contact with each other out of our aloneness. True intimacy with another man or woman comes out of first seeing our separateness, and then bridging the gap.

Today, I accept the feeling of loneliness as part of life. I can make contact with my brothers and sisters, knowing we are all in the same condition.

We can be alone in a crowd, for me it was learning to be alone with me, without having to look for outside people, places and things to fill up my space.