Everyone experiences loneliness in their lives. Yet most people are secretly afraid of it. A recent study found that half of all Americans have only one close friend that they can confide in, and one-quarter have no friends at all. The last census found that one-fourth of all American households consisted in just one person. Research has also shown that many popular self-help methods to cope with loneliness actually make people feel worse than they already do. Yet loneliness is not simply a social phenomenon. Rather, it is an existential condition of life. So you can’t turn to other people, or true love, for a solution. Nor can you turn to God, for God is probably lonelier than you are! But loneliness is not evil. Indeed many great religious heroes like Moses, Jesus, Buddha, and Mohammad made their most important spiritual revelations in solitude. This book offers a new understanding of the idea of Revelation, which gives spiritual significance to the arts, human relationships, love, and indeed to loneliness itself. It has four simple but far-reaching principles: I am here; this is what I am; and what I am is beautiful! Is anyone else out there?