Why do we want to have a companion

                                            why does one want a companion..? Can we live alone inthis world without a husband or wife, without children, without friends?  Most people cannot live alone,therefore they need companions. It requires enormous intelligence to be alone, and you must be alone to find God,truth. It is nice to have a companion, a husband or a wife, and also to have babies. But, you see we get lost in all that, we  get lost in family, in the job, in the dull, monotonous routine of a decaying existence. We get used to it, and then the thought of  living alone becomes dreadful, something to be afraid of. Most of us have put all our faith in one thing, all our eggs in one basket, and our lives have no richness apart from our companions, apart from our families and our jobs. But if there is a richness in one's life--not the richness of money or knowledge, which anyone can acquire, but that richness which is the movement of reality with no beginning and no ending--then companionship becomes a secondary matter.

                                        But, you see, you are not educated to be alone. Do you go out for a walk by yourself? It is a very important to go out alone, to sit under a tree--not with a book, not with a companion, but  by yourself--and observe the falling of a leaf, hear the lapping of the water, the fisherman's song, watch the flight of a bird, and your own thoughts as they chase each other across the space of your mind. If you are able to be alone and watch these things, then you will discover extraordinary riches which no government can tax, no human agency can corrupt, and which can never be destroyed