Loneliness and aloneness

Osho: "Loneliness is a negative state of mind.

Aloneness is positive, notwithstanding what the dictionaries say. In dictionaries, loneliness and aloneness are synonymous, they are synonyms; in life they are not.

Loneliness is a state of mind when you are constantly missing the other; aloneness is the state of mind when you are constantly delighted in yourself.

Loneliness is miserable, aloneness is blissful. Loneliness is always worried, missing something, hankering for something, desiring for something.

Aloneness is a deep fulfillment, not going out, tremendously content, happy, celebrating.

In loneliness you are off centre, in aloneness you are centred and rooted.

Aloneness is beautiful. It has an elegance around it, a grace, a climate of tremendous satisfaction.

Loneliness is beggarly. All around it there is begging and nothing else, it has no grace around it. In fact, it is ugly.

Loneliness is an dependence; aloneness is sheer independence - one feels as if one is one's whole world, one's whole existence."

Osho, Come Follow to You, Vol 4, #6