Dr. James Hollis

Well, when I confabulate a response to it, you see, and that response is indicative of what is going on inside of me.

So that's a good example.

I mean, for some people, you know, they have those moments when they're out jogging, for example, or riding a bicycle or whatever it does, listening to music.

There's no right path for everyone.

It's like find the place where you're able to be alone with yourself.

And if you can tolerate being with yourself and you pay attention, something will start coming up, you see.

And ultimately, ironically, that's the cure to the great disease of our time, which is loneliness.

It's interesting that the UK and Japan

now have cabinet-level posts for ministers of loneliness, so great as a lonely.

We've never been more connected in human history through our electronic media.

And yet people are now isolated in their rooms talking to each other.

And I saw a cartoon, probably New York or somewhere, where a couple was getting married and the minister says to the couple, text each other, I do.

It was ultimately a joke about how we are so media dependent now.

that we're disconnected from each other.

And so whatever it is that helps you link to something in here.

Jung asked this question, which I'm also haunted by in a constructive way.

He said, we all need to find what supports us when nothing supports us.

And that's ultimately the cure for loneliness, that there's something inside of me that knows me better than me is...

working hard to bring about a healthy response to whatever life brings.

And it has a purposefulness to it, an intentionality, an expression.