So Many Lonely People

When the Beatles sang the song about all the lonely people and where did they all come from I didn't really get it other than on a personal level. All I knew was how lonely I was. Today as I once again reflected on these words I really got it. Everywhere I look there is that sadness in peoples eyes. Even those who appear happy, if you look deep enough you will see that same sadness. Where does it come from? I have pondered this question for over 30 years and this is what I've come up with.


 Much of our Pain and Suffering from Loneliness comes from too little Soulful Love, Too little Soulful Intimacy, too little Soulful Interaction and too little knowledge of how to do any of them. That look you see in peoples eyes is a longing for all of those things...Our bodies ache for it. Our hearts Long for it and are breaking without it.

 We are a society of people who have become so mental that we forgot we have another more real and just as important part of ourselves that we call 'Soul.' The part of us that whispers to us daily to be heard. It has stories to tell us of the magic that awaits us once we connect back to it. Stories of  a different kind of Love that longs to be expressed through our physical aliveness. A Soulful Love that is so ancient that it has become new to us after so many thousands of years of being separated from it.

 The Soul calls to us to become our 'True Self.' Much is written on this subject in these times. Our True Self is the Soul. Our Outer Personality comes and goes with each new lifetime we experience. It dies when the body dies and a new one is born with each new set of childhood memories we take into adulthood. But it is the Soul that carries all the things we learn and master in a lifetime forward into each new one.

 In every new lifetime The Soul Whispers to us how to bring the outer physical self and the inner Soul Self together to work as one so we can be our true selves in our outer experience. But like our beloved childhood character Pinnocio, we have chosen not to listen and have gotten ourselves into deep trouble, lost and alone in the darkness. We are puppets to our outer minds that have so much control over us by keeping us lost in the illusion that our wooden personality is who we really are. Yet deep down inside we all long to become real again.

 We carry the seed of that 'Soulful Kind of Love' in our Romance movies and story book Loves. Although many think these things are just fantasies made up from the imagination of wishful, unrealistic people. Few realize that Imagination is the language of the Soul and the visions that Soul uses to send  messages out to the writers and poets of the times, in hopes that others will hear it's callings through them.

 Healthy Soulful Love is Romantic and tragic when in this outer world of duality, as Pure Love is made up of Both Worlds. The Rose has always been a symbol of Love yet it has thorns. The Turtle Dove another one of Loves symbols yet it sings a forlorn song in the evening just before dark sets in and again early in the morning when the darkness is turning itself over to the light. Nature is Pure Love, yet it has storms so fierce they kill many.
Another one of the messages of the 60's was that Love is all we need. Love is all powerful. Nothing is impossible with love. Than why are there so many lonely people? Why isn't Love coming to our rescue?

I asked myself this question daily for years. Why was I so lonely. Some told me it was because I needed to love myself first and that would be enough. Others said it was because some of us have come into this lifetime to experience being alone and lonely so we could learn to be happy without others, or that Love does not need anyone else. I say yes to all of these but only to an extent. No matter how complete you become, how much you love yourself, or how little you need others to be whole, you are still in a human body and one of the greatest gifts of Life in the physical body is that we get to feel the things that our Soul cannot feel without the body. It loves the physical experience. It loves how it feels to be kissed, or hugged or held. Human contact is important to the human body and our Soul. But none of these acts are fulfilling unless they are done 'with soul.'

 This is where the problem lies. How Soulful are we? How much Heart and Soul do we put into your hugs or kisses, or when we hold someone, or have conversation with someone? How much of these things are done to get something in return rather than because we feel the movement of the soul coming from inside of us to do them. Until we all connect back to our Hearts and Souls, all of us will feel that loneliness that can only be filled up through Soulful interaction which can break the lonely separateness consciousness we have found ourselves lost in for far too long.
Where are all the lonely people, look and you will see them all around you.