A.H. Almaas Diamond Approach
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y

 

Aloneness

When the personality is gone, you feel alone, because the boundaries -- your ideas and memories -- are your father and mother. The separateness is your memories of your mother and father, your relationship with them and all your past experiences which you're bringing into the present. Your past experience separates you from the now. That separation from the now is a boundary around you like an egg shell. To let the boundaries go means accepting aloneness. When aloneness is accepted, there are no boundaries. What you perceive then is just the lack of boundaries. This will be experienced as a newness, a rebirth. (Diamond Heart Book 2, pg 170)

 

Aloneness & Boundaries

 

Aloneness and personal essence

The aloneness of the Personal Essence is slightly different and more paradoxical than that of the other aspects of Being. The Personal Essence is a Personal Presence that is capable of making direct personal contact. So with it one can be relating to another human being and still be alone. One can be in intimate human contact, but feel completely alone within. This means one is being the Personal Essence in the presence of Space. One is an aloneness relating to another aloneness. One is an aloneness contacting another aloneness. This sounds paradoxical, but this is exactly the state of two human beings who are relating with the Personal Essence, from Being to Being. (The Pearl Beyond Price, pg 415)