With all the pleasures of the world, friends, why do we feel lonely at times?

Answer 1

That is the Vairagya waking up...but we kill him and start again with the world

Answer 2

When you are alone you are not alone, you are simply lonely - and there is a tremendous difference between loneliness and aloneness. When you are lonely you are thinking of the other, you are missing the other.

Loneliness is a negative state. You are feeling that it would have been better if the other were there - your friend, your wife, your mother, your beloved, your husband. It would have been good if the other were there, but the other is not. Loneliness is absence of the other.

Aloneness is the presence of oneself. Aloneness is very positive. It is a presence, overflowing presence. You are so full of presence that you can fill the whole universe with your presence and there is no need for anybody.

Osho The Discipline of Transcendence, Volume 1 Chapter 2

Answer 3

I already enjoyed all types of pleasures the world can offer. Nothing else is left now. So I feel lonely and meditate.

Answer 4

The American Heritage Dictionary states: "Alone emphasizes being apart from others but does not necessarily imply unhappiness. . . . Lonely often connotes painful awareness of being alone . . . Lonesome emphasizes a plaintive desire for companionship," that is, a condition of grief, woe, or melancholy. The person's heart needs to be comforted with sincere and loving fellowship for it to be cheerful once again. Finally, solitary is defined as a condition that "often shares the connotations of lonely and lonesome . . . Frequently, however, it stresses physical isolation that is self-imposed."

What causes loneliness?

Problems, situations, and conditions have varying effects on individuals. A person might feel rejected by their peers because of their own physical appearance, race, or religion. Changes of environment --i.e., attending a new school, initiating a new job, or moving away from friends &/or family-- can bring a sense of loneliness. The loss of a parent or marriage partner can result in loneliness, possibly for many years. Also, as we get older, one's circle of friends & acquaintances changes, decreases, or might even disappear.
Not even marriage can ensure freedom from loneliness. Mutual misunderstanding or lack of compatibility may cause stress that can produce uncertainty & often results in isolation for spouses & children.

Another kind of loneliness can affect us very deeply, which occurs when a person's relationship with God suffers & they feel separated from him.

What it boils down to is that people have needs that must be met for us to be truly happy -- needs both for human companionship, & a personal relationship with our Creator.

Answer 5

If you have all sweets , you get gloyed .happiness and sorrow are in the mind and in the way it is trined to look at things .Life is intersting as long as we have something to do , something to achiev and something new to explore .If you are satisfied withone thing , you tend to igm=nore it and look for something else . Thus yu ar constanltly on the lookout for something new and differnent fromfrom what you have .When yu find for a while tha you find nothig else to engage in and that things and people around you are not of any interest to you any moe , you tend to feel disinterested in anything and everything for sometime. This is something like familiarity breeding contempt .
while we ar einterested in somethin g people around yo may not be so interested in what you are interested .nothing like religion .god and spirituality is involved in it .
but religious practices and philosophy might offer solutions for such sitauations.in life .as some preactices need lonliness and seclusion to assuage the turmoil that the mind should be undergoing during loniliness . On the other hand one can undertake a tour to see new places and people and have some diversion also.or engage in activities that are of interest to him/ her

Answer 6

i can completely understand what you advise approximately feeling such as you do no longer slot in with your individual age! Friendship smart, i've got been with the aid of plenty interior the previous 2 years and that i've got had to advance up speedy, and that i conflict to get on with human beings my own age as i think like i'm on a diverse point of adulthood to them. i'm considered as boring or extraordinary and infrequently even impolite too, and that i don't have many friends, even the buddies I do have circulate away me out plenty. Its difficult simply by fact I often experience remoted and on my own, however the previous 3 hundred and sixty 5 days I honestly have made some friends interior the three hundred and sixty 5 days above me and the three hundred and sixty 5 days above that, and that i've got got here across that i'm getting on plenty extra valuable with the older pupils in my college, so I now spend maximum of my time with them. i understand its difficult, yet you have a far extra mature outlook on issues or maybe although its emotionally difficult on the 2d it is going to likely be somewhat worth it interior the tip. in basic terms grasp in there and undergo in recommendations your no longer on my own in the style you experience. ultimately something the human beings your age will mature, and it is often much less complicated to commence development friendships. sturdy success!

Answer 7

There is a spot in your heart that can only be filled with a relationship with God. You can try and fill it with things, other people, pleasures, but it won't work because it belongs to Him.Mmm

Answer 8

Not all the people feel like this. But I accept that I do have this feeling, and very severly, I have my own reasons, perhaps you have your own. For me, I'm sick of the hollowness, and materialism around me. Perhaps we need something other than eating, drinking, sleeping to live.

Sufis say that the Light of God (Allah's Noor) is the base of everything in this universe, and is giving energy to everything.
Perhaps that's why, we want to return to our base, the Light of God!!!

Answer 9

Have you ever heard a traveling man such as a train engineer, a traveling salesman, or truck driver, say "it's in my blood"? What they mean is that they can not sit still, they must be on the move. They are in search of something. Well, I say, that is not in the blood, it is in the soul. They are not at peace within their soul. They are constantly in search of something they do not have. ( in no way am I trying to imply that there are no Christian travelers)

I tend to think it similar with lonliness. We are not at peace within our souls. (even a believers soul can be ill at peace)
We have an unnamed longing for an inner fulfillment that we can not name. The soul is discontent, it is at longing, for what can be different for each of us at different times. It can be as simple as companionship, to be reunited with a loved one.

I think at some level every person seeks God, even though they do not name Him as such. A soul without God is destined for lonliness, all one has to do is slow down to feel it.



I can testify that the closer to God that I keep myself, the less frequent lonliness comes to me. In fact, I rarely suffer from it, but when I do, I truly suffer........

Answer 10

Perhaps the benchmarks or a circle drawn around yourself by yourself. All these are my assumptions and if they are not there please bear with me.
Before closing I shall ask you one thing what makes you feel lonely or consider loneliness a big problem?

Answer 11

Because we ve not established cosmic connection. Our security is not in our bank balance or worldly connections, which may seem inadequate in certain situations, but if we r able to connect to cosmic energy whenever we want to then we will not feel lonely. I try to establish that connection but have not succeeded so far. If u do please share with us.