On Saturday I was finally well enough to get out of bed. (Was sick like a dog for a week from some local Balinese flu virus. They had to call the doctor. Eating pills like candy)

On two separate occasions that day I got this deep feeling of loss, or loneliness that I had felt the day Louise had left to go home again after staying 3 weeks. But it was, on closer introspection, also filled with deep love and tenderness.

Loneliness it seems is love that has been orphaned.

We all know that it is possible to have the feeling of loneliness even when we are together with lots of people. Being with other people has got nothing to do with the emotion of loneliness.

Loneliness arises when you have much love inside you that has no channel to pass through.

Some may also think that love that is channelled must be reciprocated by somebody else. But that is not so. Only the ego requires this. You can love without being loved back. In fact you would be well advice to not set a criterion for loving.