' In Liberation, you stand alone '...

"If you are a true seeker of liberation you've got to be willing to
stand alone. At the moment of Liberation everything falls
away...everything. Suddenly the ground beneath your feet is gone, and
you are alone. You are alone because you have directly realized that
there is no other, there is no separation. There is only you, only
Self, only limitless emptiness, pure consciousness.

To the mind, the ego, this appears terrifying. When the mind looks at
limitlessness and infinity, it projects meaninglessness and despair.
To the ego Absolute Freedom can look terrifying. But when the mind is
let go of, the view changes from meaningless despair and fear to the
unending joy and wonder of Liberation.

In Liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no
supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized
that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists; that there
is nothing to support; that the whole ego experience was a flimsy
illusion. So you stand alone but never, never lonely because
everywhere you look, all you see is That, and You are That."



~ Adyashanti

"flight of the alone to the alone," as Plotinus called it