Loneliness stalks the heart that stands outside the present moment, looking back upon itself and feeling the pain of being without a love. If only this same heart, unknowingly divided, could see that this painful loneliness is produced by its own unhappy considerations of itself, then — upon returning home to its native wholeness — this heart now reunited would realize the lasting Love it could never find outside of itself.

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