Can You Discover the Truth on Your Own?

I didn't think of this question. I was not alone. I don't often experience myself as being truly alone, although I am aware that in some way, I am always alone.

When I was at college I went through a phase of examining language for meaning in a pseudo-deconstructivist fashion. I thought about the phrase, "Always alone." All ways, all one, I realised, with a delicious shiver. It kind of summed up the feeling of being here, central and present, and yet at the same time, being everywhere, which is a sensation I associated with states of mind including the creative, the meditative, and the stoned.

Isolation is not a happy place for most human beings. We require social reinforcement and comfort. We can remove humanity by solitary confinement or imprisonment. Yet, without solitude, we become lost, uncentred, devoid of ourselves, empty vessels needing to be filled.

This is one reason I like the internet community of which I am part. I sit alone, on a cold grey London morning, drinking tea, sensing the wakening world around me, and my real contact is not with my fellow urban passengers, but with you. So I have a supplementary question.

What truth are you seeking?