Loneliness has its good points. It shows a yearning for more closeness with the world and, ultimately, Me. It is a yearning to share. It is a silent knowing that there is more for you, and the more you seek is calling to you.

Is there anyone who has not experienced loneliness? Someone with many friends knows loneliness just as well as someone with one friend or, seemingly, no friends. Someone in a cave all by himself may not feel lonely and, very likely, isn't thinking about loneliness at all.

In wanting to undo loneliness, My children are looking for an intimacy with themselves, and that means with Me, for am I not your Self? True Oneness is far from loneliness, beloveds. In Oneness, who or what is there to be lonely for?

And yet the human situation is that closeness with others is sought, and making friends may bring you closer to yourself. Friendships may be filled with disappointment, and, even so, friendships can bring you closer to your ultimate closeness with yourself, Who, when all is said and done, is I.

Forgetting yourself for a moment, when you feel especially lonely, it can be seen as a signal telling you that there are other lonely hearts out there yearning for your heart to touch theirs. No one is alone in his loneliness, yet aloneness is felt and seems to be a fact of human life.

When people come off their high horses, people's hearts are bared. There is no entertainment, no kidding oneself, no kidding another. The human condition is that you are bewildered. You stand vulnerable before the world. And you may feel you are the only one who feels this way, and yet everyone feels the same as you do, although the feelings may change from moment to moment.

Someone may congregate with many friends in order to avoid feelings of loneliness, and sometimes he succeeds. People may take drugs ultimately to escape loneliness. It is not that My children are addicted to loneliness, yet it sometimes seems that many are addicted to not looking at it. And some walk through the loneliness on their own until the lonely feeling leaves.

It takes great honesty and simplicity for a human being to say: "I am lonely. I yearn for companionship. I have companionship, and still I yearn for a fullness in my heart that I don't have. If I have ever had it, I have not been able to keep it. I am lonely sometimes for I know not what. The fact is that loneliness plagues me. Loneliness washes over me like a tsunami wave."

And some run away from waves of loneliness and don't look. Others mourn their loneliness.

I understand very well your sense of loneliness. I am going to tell you what you already must know. No one, not even the most loving companionable wife or husband, can assuage all the sense of loneliness that takes place within. You can know that your loneliness does have a basis. It is not baseless. You are lonely for something, and it is full awareness of Our Oneness that you are lonely for. Ultimately, that is what you are seeking.

Meanwhile, make friends and so give solace to the lonely world. Beloveds, the world is lonely for you, so fill the apparent emptiness for others as much as you can. Be the friend you want someone, or many, to be to you. Be that friend to others. Give out your friendliness to all those who cross your path. Even if it is only a moment's passing, give it.