Wanting to be alone

Question: Masters, I have read time and time again how family, friends, and community are important. I can engage in small talk with them but can’t wait to be alone again. I do agree we are all one and interrelated with others, but to me, a perfect life is seen in the movie Castaway, starting Tom Hanks.             ~Lee, USA

Question: Masters, I am not interested in having any relationship with my relatives, friends, or anybody else. I don’t know whether I belong to this or to any other world.  ~Vjaiand, India

Answer: Every soul is on its own journey. You come to Earth to be able to experience the duality or negativity available nowhere else. For most souls those lessons will include contracts you have made with other people, and therefore it is necessary for you to interact with others in order to complete your tasks.

Each soul is on Earth for itself, not for the benefit of someone else. There are individual lessons that you are here to understand. If you are working on an issue of self-worth, self-love, or any of the human emotions that you have carried over from a past incomplete lifetime, solitude is the best way to work on your journey without interference from other people.

Tom Hanks’ character in Castaway was thrown into a situation where he had to face himself. Did he value his life enough to keep fighting with his inner demons and with his physical environment? When the thought of ending it all took over for a while, his subconscious kept putting up obstacles and giving him reasons to live. He would not have grown in the self-acceptance and inner peace that he took away from the island if other people had been around.

Some of you have chosen to have lifetimes in which you can advance your wisdom only when you are alone to work on your fears and doubts, which are the outward personification of your chosen life-lessons. Society around you is begging you to return and interact so it can have the benefit of your hard work. Believe in what your intuition is telling you to do. Mystics of your past history followed their inner feelings and knew, for them, the way to enlightenment was a singular journey.