© Vinay Kumar Vaidya,
(vinayvaidya111@gmail.com)
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How to be alone yet not lonely?
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What is freedom?
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Good! You know, first of all you should be a best friend of your own. For this you need to have a sympathetic look of yourself. You should not run-away from yourself. See / Let, If there is boredom, agony, emptiness, sorrow and other many such complex 'states' of your mind. Usually, a man of ordinary I.Q. runs away from the stark reality of oneself. If the worldly things attract you because they help you run away from yourself then may be they are not your enemy, but not your friend either. But when you have discovered how not to depend on the world for escaping from your own self, the world then turns into a very good friend. Then you have found out what is 'loneliness' and to be really alone is always an opportunity to go into one's own self. I am telling this, because I have myself done this. When you sit silently alone in a park, in darkness or in light, with so many people around or no one there with you, and don't 'try' to see the beauty of the sky / trees, birds and flowers, but be just silent, you suddenly know what a beauty this silence is there always within there. Then though you can praise the beauty outside, but you are not a slave to the beauty out there. Rather, you are content and then can really truly enjoy the lesser pleasures of the world / life without worry or being dependent on them. This is freedom.
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(vinayvaidya111@gmail.com)
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How to be alone yet not lonely?
--
What is freedom?
...
Good! You know, first of all you should be a best friend of your own. For this you need to have a sympathetic look of yourself. You should not run-away from yourself. See / Let, If there is boredom, agony, emptiness, sorrow and other many such complex 'states' of your mind. Usually, a man of ordinary I.Q. runs away from the stark reality of oneself. If the worldly things attract you because they help you run away from yourself then may be they are not your enemy, but not your friend either. But when you have discovered how not to depend on the world for escaping from your own self, the world then turns into a very good friend. Then you have found out what is 'loneliness' and to be really alone is always an opportunity to go into one's own self. I am telling this, because I have myself done this. When you sit silently alone in a park, in darkness or in light, with so many people around or no one there with you, and don't 'try' to see the beauty of the sky / trees, birds and flowers, but be just silent, you suddenly know what a beauty this silence is there always within there. Then though you can praise the beauty outside, but you are not a slave to the beauty out there. Rather, you are content and then can really truly enjoy the lesser pleasures of the world / life without worry or being dependent on them. This is freedom.
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