Sometimes, it is enough simply to take notice of such things, and allow them to speak to us, as deep calls to deep. 'Consider the lilies of the field,' said Jesus (Matthew 6:28). He didn't say this just to illustrate the important point, 'Do not worry'; but because it is a crucial spiritual discipline in itself: to observe, and contemplate, the way the natural world simply 'is'.
It is this most basic human loneliness that threatens us and is so hard to face. Too often we will do everything possible to avoid the confrontation with the experience of being alone, and sometimes we are able to create the most ingenious devices to prevent ourselves from being reminded of this condition. Our culture has become most sophisticated in the avoidance of pain, not only our physical pain but our emotional and mental pain as well. We not only bury our dead as if they were still alive, but we also bury our pains as if they were not really there. We have become so used to this state of anesthesia, that we panic when there is nothing or nobody left to distract us. When we have no project to finish, no friend to visit, no book to read, no television to watch or no record to play, and when we are left all alone by ourselves we are brought so close to the revelation of our basic human aloneness and are so afraid of experiencing an all-pervasive sense of loneliness that we will do ...
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