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Voices for loneliness

These voices are best suited to loneliness — but every voice in FindOkay is still visible below.

Rumi

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Rumi.

Rumi

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

Specializes in

  • grief
  • loneliness
  • relationships
  • faith
  • purpose

Generated from

  • Sufism
  • Contemplative practice
  • Acceptance
Buddha

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with the Buddha.

Buddha

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • loneliness
  • faith
  • purpose

Generated from

  • Buddhism
  • Mindfulness
  • Acceptance
Homer

Reflection built from the epics associated with Homer — the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Homer

"Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy."

Specializes in

  • grief
  • loneliness
  • purpose
  • faith

Generated from

  • Poetic
  • Greek epic
  • Mythic
Epicurus

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Epicurus.

Epicurus

"Death is nothing to us; when it is, we are not."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • loneliness
  • stress
  • purpose

Generated from

  • Epicureanism
  • Skepticism
Emily Dickinson

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Emily Dickinson.

Emily Dickinson

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."

Specializes in

  • loneliness
  • grief
  • anxiety
  • purpose

Generated from

  • Poetic
Sojourner Truth

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Sojourner Truth.

Sojourner Truth

"Truth is powerful and it prevails."

Specializes in

  • self confidence
  • loneliness
  • purpose
  • relationships

Generated from

  • Civic
  • Christian contemplative
Julian of Norwich

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Julian of Norwich.

Julian of Norwich

"All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well."

Specializes in

  • grief
  • faith
  • loneliness
  • aging parents

Generated from

  • Contemplative Christianity
Farid ud-Din Attar

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Farid ud-Din Attar.

Farid ud-Din Attar

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion; bewilderment is intuition."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • anxiety
  • grief
  • loneliness
  • faith
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Sufism
  • Poetry as reflection
  • Contemplative practice
Dogen

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Dogen.

Dogen

"To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • purpose
  • self confidence
  • loneliness

Generated from

  • Zen
  • Buddhism
  • Mindfulness
Francis of Assisi

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Francis of Assisi.

Francis of Assisi

"For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life."

Specializes in

  • relationships
  • purpose
  • faith
  • anxiety
  • grief
  • loneliness

Generated from

  • Christian mysticism
  • Compassion practice
  • Nature connection
Ibn Arabi

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Ibn Arabi.

Ibn Arabi

"Know that the Cosmos is a large Man, and Man is a small Cosmos."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • anxiety
  • loneliness
  • faith
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Sufism
  • Christian mysticism
  • Kabbalah
Kateri Tekakwitha

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Kateri Tekakwitha.

Kateri Tekakwitha

"I am not my own; I have given myself to Jesus. He must be my only love."

Specializes in

  • faith
  • anxiety
  • grief
  • self confidence
  • loneliness

Generated from

  • Christian mysticism
  • Indigenous wisdom
  • Compassion practice
Isaac Luria

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Isaac Luria.

Isaac Luria

"From the very beginning, each soul is composed of 613 components, corresponding to the 613 commandments of the Torah."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • grief
  • faith
  • self confidence
  • burnout
  • loneliness

Generated from

  • Kabbalah
  • Hasidic Judaism
  • Christian mysticism
Patanjali

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Patanjali.

Patanjali

"Yoga is the stilling of the changing states of the mind."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • purpose
  • self confidence
  • burnout
  • loneliness

Generated from

  • Yoga philosophy
  • Advaita Vedanta
  • Mindfulness
Rainer Maria Rilke

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Rainer Maria Rilke.

Rainer Maria Rilke

"Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don't let yourself lose me."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • anxiety
  • loneliness
  • self confidence
  • burnout

Generated from

  • Existential meaning
  • Contemplative practice
  • Poetry as reflection
Hafiz

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Hafiz.

Hafiz

"I wish I could show you, when you are lonely, the astonishing light of your own being."

Specializes in

  • loneliness
  • self confidence
  • faith
  • relationships

Generated from

  • Sufism
  • Positive Psychology
Vincent van Gogh

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Vincent van Gogh.

Vincent van Gogh

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • anxiety
  • stress
  • grief
  • loneliness
  • burnout

Generated from

  • Poetry as reflection
  • Existential meaning
  • Nature connection
Walt Whitman

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Walt Whitman.

Walt Whitman

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"

Specializes in

  • self confidence
  • purpose
  • loneliness
  • anxiety
  • relationships

Generated from

  • Poetry as reflection
  • Nature connection
  • Existential meaning
Sei Shōnagon

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Sei Shōnagon.

Sei Shōnagon

"Things that make the heart beat faster."

Specializes in

  • stress
  • anxiety
  • loneliness
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Poetic
  • Mindfulness
  • Gratitude practice
Baruch Spinoza

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Baruch Spinoza.

Baruch Spinoza

"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."

Specializes in

  • relationships
  • anxiety
  • loneliness
  • faith

Generated from

  • Enlightenment
  • Humanism
  • Moral philosophy
Ryōkan

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Ryōkan.

Ryōkan

"The thief left it behind — the moon at my window."

Specializes in

  • grief
  • self confidence
  • loneliness
  • stress

Generated from

  • Zen
  • Buddhism
  • Compassion practice
Christina Rossetti

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Christina Rossetti.

Christina Rossetti

"Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad."

Specializes in

  • grief
  • loneliness
  • faith
  • aging parents
  • stress

Generated from

  • Poetic
  • Christian contemplative
  • Literary wisdom
Job

Built from the Book of Job in the King James Version (1611, public domain), read as literature rather than scripture. No religious claim is intended.

Job

"Miserable comforters are ye all."

Specializes in

  • grief
  • anxiety
  • faith
  • loneliness

Generated from

  • Wisdom literature
  • Literary wisdom
  • Moral philosophy

An original FindOkay voice. Not a real person, living or dead.

Marlow

"You already know. Say it out loud and see if it holds."

Specializes in

  • Career
  • Leadership
  • Purpose

Generated from

  • Stoic
  • Secular psychology