Flight of The Alone to The Alone, 2020, Matthew Ryan Herget

flight of the alone to the alone

(2020, Matthew Ryan Herget)

Flight of The Alone to The Alone
2020 | Oil and digital painting on aluminum | 88.36 x 117.86 inches (three pieces) | Inquire | Print

rebirth, matthew ryan herget

Aloneness, Chögyam TrungpA

“...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to control its world and secure itself. We give up our clingings to superiority and self-preservation...It means giving up searching for a home, becoming a refugee, a lonely person who must depend on himself...Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from The Path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes Aloneness.”

THE STATE OF ALONENESS, Rohit Mehta

It was Plotinus who very picturesquely described the path of spiritual realization as a “flight of the alone to the alone.” This element of “aloneness” has been stressed with reference to the spiritual life by mystics of all ages. Light on the Path, too, exhorts the disciple to “stand alone.” The spiritual journey has to be undertaken in absolute aloneness, for the Path to Reality is so narrow that there is space only for one to walk at a time.