Unseen by those who feel empty, rejected by those full of regret, and feared by those who resist change...is this inescapable spiritual fact concerning emptiness, sorrow, or fear: our lives are full of what we fill them with!...
The day of our spiritual awakening is the same as the delightful date of our departure from a bankrupt world filled with beggars dressed as kings and queens.
Familiarity looks upon the absence of the known as an "emptiness" to be avoided at all costs.
Familiarity looks upon the absence of the known as an "emptiness" to be avoided at all costs.
The essential emptiness of allowing the opposites to collapse is the same as the essential fullness of the opposites unified.
Until we learn to make peace with our own sense of emptiness, we will never know the true nature of fulfillment.
Truth, like sunlight, radiates out, ceaselessly pouring down from the Great Unknown into an experience of temporarily "knowing." But, don't miss the point: without emptiness, nothing flows. Don't let the fear of empty spaces deceive you into trying to fill yourself; for if you do... you will never realize, let alone enter into the current of real Life.
Topic: Enter the Fullness of Real Life that Is Freedom Itself (8/25/21 Classroom Talk)