No Method. No Mercy. Just This.
The 21st Century Self from Clear Mind Press
Dear Robert, I have just purchased your new book and have read to the end of chapter 3 on Loneliness, I wanted to pause and to write to you. This chapter is intimate and beautiful. I carry that ache, and I know it so well, I feel very, very blessed to have read this, it spoke to me immediately and deeply, with much pathos and tenderness, it brought tears of recognition to my eyes and a quiet confirmation that there is not a wrongness there in me for this feeling - thank you so much. I can trust life and lean more into the fullness of my experience from reading this. What a gift you are giving as you age - as they say - like a fine wine…
—Renaee
That quiet ache in the chest. As a child I used to think it was because I had no siblings and my father's job meant moving often, almost every two years, to a different city, a different country, once even a different continent. So, no good friends to be made, no solid connections. So I married twice and had three children, but the wound just wouldn't heal. Now I'm 77 and I think I finally understand what it is to be human and fragile and separate and I'm only now willing to stop trying to escape the unavoidable loneliness of a human life. Thank you Robert for expressing these feelings so beautifully.
This resonates totally. Thinking that’s why many people (and me) want to be with cats and dogs and donkeys….