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Can Loneliness Be A Good Thing? - by Renee Faber

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Listen now (14 min) | Walk with me down a lonely road.

Roads, especially the beautiful, empty ones that wind through canopies of trees, hollow me out in a loneliness. I don’t know why. I just always confront that hollow feeling while traveling, which often presses its way past lovely dappled light, falling onto roads paved or not paved. Yet, I yearn to travel, and have for most of my life. There is a hunger to gulp in everything the world offers, lest I miss something, lest I never set my eyes on that next wonder with the potential to guide me closer to ultimate truth. I realize after years of Buddhist study and practice that one must look…

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