We are living in this ongoing world but
We have to accept the fact that we are living alone — maybe in a crowd, but we are living alone; maybe with our wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, but they are alone in their aloneness, we are alone in our aloneness, and those alonenesses don´t touch each other, never touch each other.

That we may live with someone for twenty years, thirty years, fifty years — it makes no difference, we will remain strangers. Always and always will be strangers. Accept the fact that we are strangers; that we don´t know who you are, that you don´t know who I am. I myself don´t know who I am, so how can you know? But people are presuming that the wife should know the husband, the husband is assuming the wife should know the husband. Everybody is functioning as if everybody is a mind reader, and he should know, before you say it, your needs, your problems. He should know, she should know– and they should do something. Now this is all nonsense.

Nobody knows us, not even we, so don´t expect that anybody else should know you; it is not possible in the very nature of things. We are strangers. Perhaps by chance we have met and we are together, but our aloneness is there. We should not forget it, because we have to work upon it. Only from there is our redemption, our salvation. But we are doing just the opposite: how to forget our aloneness? The boyfriend, the girlfriend; go to the movie, the football match; get lost in the crowd, dance in the disco, forget ourself, drink alcohol, take drugs, but somehow don´t let this aloneness come to our conscious mind — and there lies the whole secret.

WE have to accept our aloneness, which in no way we can avoid. And there is no way to change its nature. It is our authentic reality. It is WE.