Loneliness is a negative state of mind. Solitude is positive, no matter what the dictionaries say. In dictionaries, loneliness and solitude act as synonyms, but in life they are not.
Loneliness is a state of mind where you constantly lose others, and aloneness is a state of mind where you constantly delight in yourself.
Loneliness is suffering, aloneness is bliss.
Loneliness is always worried, missing someone, longing for someone; solitude is a deep satisfaction that does not go out, great contentment, happiness, celebration.
In solitude you are off center, in aloneness you are centered and rooted.
Solitude is wonderful. It has grace, grace, an atmosphere of great satisfaction.
Loneliness is begging; all around him is begging. There is no grace inside it, it is actually ugly.
Loneliness is bondage, aloneness is pure independence. It seems to a person that he is his whole world, his whole existence.
If you enter into a relationship with another person when you experience loneliness, you will exploit that other person. The other will become a means to your satisfaction. You will use another. People usually don’t like being used, because a person’s life is not meant to be a vehicle for someone else.
Each person is an end in itself. Nobody is meant to be used like a thing. Everyone is meant to be worshiped, respected, like kings and queens.
First become solitary.
First, start enjoying yourself. First become so sincerely happy that it doesn’t matter if no one comes to you; You are full, overflowing.
If no one knocks on your door, then everything is still in order — you are not missing anything. You don’t wait for someone to come and knock on your door. You are at home. And the person who lives in his aloneness will always be attracted to another person who also lives beautifully in his aloneness. Like attracts like.
When two masters meet — the masters of their lives, the masters of their solitude — happiness does not just add up, it multiplies.
It becomes a grand celebration. And they don’t exploit each other. Rather, they complement each other. They both become one, enjoy the existence that surrounds them.
«Do not break my loneliness, but do not leave me alone!»
I think that many of us could join this request of Mikhail Zhvanetsky ….