subject: The Aloneness of Our Uniqueness - The Little Prince Series [print this page] Ongoing Daily Spiritual Insight from the Story ofThe Little Prince
The pilot who has lived his life all alone because he can't find people who have enough depth to enjoy meaningful conversation with them has crashed in the Sahara desert, a thousand miles from civilization.
Now he is truly alone. He hasonly himself to rely on to fix his broken airplane.
Do you ever feel that waythat ultimately your life is down toyou?
Someone said to me recently, "When you get right down to it, no one is ever unconditionally there for us in life. When all is said and done, we areon our own. We have to rely on ourselves."
I agree.
Not that there isn't such a thing as unconditional love. But it isn't something we can expect, and certainly not require, of another person.
If there is to be unconditional love in a situation, Namaste author Michael Brown explains inThe Presence Process thatwe must bring thisunconditional love to the situation.
Michael likens unconditional love to seeking oxygen in the depths of the ocean. If we want to breathe oxygen deep below the surface of the sea, we must take it down thereourselves.
Unless we are in touch with our own essence, being alone can be frighteningespecially when we realize that ultimately there is no one we can rely on except ourselves.
But once we begin to function from our essence, we realize that all the resources we couldever require are available right in our own center.
Aloneness isn't an isolating experience once we see it through the eyes of Presence. Rather it's an experience of ouruniqueness within the all-encompassing oneness that's the source of everything.
We can be lonely because we live in the illusion of isolation, or we can be alone and delighted with our own company because we are brimming with a sense of our infinite resources and unlimited capacity for fulfillment.
The crashed airman has learned totolerate being alone, but he hasn't yet discovered his innate capacity to bask in his uniquenesssomething he's about to begin learning from the Little Prince, who appears to the pilot at sunrise after his first night sleeping on the sand of the Sahara.
The story is going to show us thatwe are everything we could ever need in life. Not in our egoic self, but in our oneness with universal Presence.
Once realize this and we then bring our unconditionally loving, totally fulfilled essence to all of the situations, events, and people who cross our path.
Aloneness in this healthy, fulfilling sense is something that expands as our life goes on. It's something we willnever stop growing into.
If this is frightening to us, the sooner we look it in the eye and make peace with it the better.
In my own life I ran from aloneness for years. Now I bask in it, and it's not only fulfilling but also what empowers me to connect meaningfully, without neediness, with others.
As the days, weeks, months, and years go by, I embrace my uniqueness and the aloneness it implies more and more fully. How about you?
I am at last learning how to be myself without needing the validation of others, without requiring their emotional support, and without turning to anyone but my own center for the wisdom I need to live a wonderfully exciting life.
The Aloneness of Our Uniqueness - The Little Prince Series
