Because there is so much misery, chaos, and degradedness taking place in the world, a certain sadness begins to occur to you. That sadness could be called feeling your heart, actually experiencing your heart fully and thoroughly. Sadness is accompanied by a feeling of aloneness. You wish you could rush to somebody and babble out everything, empty out your heart and share it completely, so that you don’t have to feel sad. There’s that temptation, but it is not possible. It’s like unfulfilled love. When you try to tell somebody how much you love him or her, the other person can’t understand how much you love him or her. The person can’t understand why you’re making such a dramatic scene. This feeling of aloneness is an organic development. It’s a natural situation. One doesn’t actually have to develop aloneness. Rather, it is a question of actualizing and realizing aloneness. When that happens, communicating with others becomes very simple.

From Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala, page 149.

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