Notice Your Yearning to Be Quietly Alone.
“Notice your yearning to be quietly alone, to remain unbothered. Develop this urge until you become a special kind of invisible person. You can be in the middle of a huge crowd and still be all alone within yourself. No one will see this secret self. One part of you easily converses with others while your secret self remains apart from the usual demands of society. Find this invisible self that human chaos cannot reach.” -Vernon Howard
This is a beautiful invitation to the higher life and resonates with that very small but important part that can look around and see all the madness and want no part of it. This is a solid part that can be built upon to discover a life many talk about but do not possess.
If that’s not worth working for, I don’t know what is.
This yearning is always present, the problem is all the noise of life ( & the mind ) drowns out the urge to come home to ourselves. But from even a higher view, there is no problem at all, only a mind that creates problems to keep those problems alive, and its continued domination over ones life. With hard work of watching oneself, this becomes crystal clear. Real freedom exists, but will never be found in thought, thinking (everyone’s major mistake).