Aloneness - not Loneliness

Ordinary people feel loneliness and the Enlightened are in aloneness.  Ask the question who you are.  When you don't understand yourself, it means that you are away from yourself.  Almost all people except the few enlightened, are away from themselves and don't even ask who they are.  They always seek companions because they are always afraid of loneliness. Their companions are not merely friends but television, games, books, chat, etc.  They are engaged with something or other to get rid of loneliness. When they stop all such activities, when they silently sit without doing or thinking anything, they find themselves at home - that is aloneness.  They are themselves now - the Enlightened ones.
You may leave an ordinary man and an enlightened sage in a forest.   The first one will be afraid of loneliness, afraid of animals and have worries of food, shelter and other things needed for him whereas the sage will be in blissful being the Emperor of the Kingdom of Everlasting Silence.  He will witness that he is all and in all and he cannot have any companions  He is alone now not lonely.