Finding Yourself Where Nobody Else Looks

Feelings of abandonment leave loneliness, loneliness leaves hopelessness, hopelessness leaves despair and despair takes on addiction and addiction leads to further self abandonment, even though it is an attempt to find oneself.

So we might say that loneliness is the root cause of addictions and the ensuing self-destruction in the name of self-preservation. And loneliness is caused by feelings of abandonment.

So if we can find ourselves where nobody else looks, we will have saved our own souls. Hence the need for Community, Teaching and Teacher.

- Ali Ansari