Painfully Lonely vs Profoundly Lonely
All the colours of the rainbow have turned to white light, which is their source. The poverty of colour reveals the source.
Yet, the individuality of each colour exists and remains. It’s just not seen in the photo.
Yours and my individuality exist too.
However, if we do not know our source, we will be painfully lonely.
If we do know our source, we will experience profound loneliness.
R.H. Blyth in his book Zen in English Literature, writes, “True independence, loneliness, poverty, come from complete union with nature, with humanity,” union with our source.
Understanding how and why the claims of “true independence” and “complete union” can exist together in the same sentence, is the key to a happy life.
True independence, loneliness, and poverty are not separate from complete union with our source.
The loneliness of the color red is painful only if red thinks it exists separately from the white light.