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