Topic: End the Fear of Emptiness Forever (1/26/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: End the Fear of Emptiness Forever (1/26/20 Classroom Talk)

Eventually we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness -- all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had -- outside of us.

Classroom Talk: 12/15/2021 - There are no shortcuts to stillness. There is no trying to be empty; with almost no exception, effort is ambition...and though it is full of becoming, it is empty of Being. The darkness of (spiritual) emptiness is inseparable from the Light of awareness by whose grace we are given to see the unthinkable: it is impossible to fill ourselves.

Student Talks: 5/8/2020 - Key Lesson: Until we stop trying, in vain, to fill the empty moments of our lives with all of the distractions we pursue to quell that ache, we will never see, let alone realize that this same sense of emptiness we fear is full of a Light, a Living Awareness that neither fears nor wants for anything outside...

Classroom Talk: 4/28/2024 - The cost of "knowing" real beauty -- of realizing all that is timelessly noble and true -- is to be the emptiness into which it pours, and from out of which it will pour again.

Student Talks: 5/3/2024 - Key Lesson: The cost of "knowing" real beauty -- of realizing all that is timelessly noble and true -- is to be the emptiness into which it pours, and from out of which it will pour again.

Classroom Talk: 12/20/2002 - Who serves only himself in this life may be first to find a seat at the table, but he eats from a plate filled only with emptiness.

In this exchange with an online viewer, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about a critical stage in the inner development of spiritual aspirants in which a necessary sense of emptiness appears after letting go of painful attachments.

Topic: Free Yourself From the Fear of Empty Moments (3/22/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Free Yourself From the Fear of Empty Moments (3/22/20 Classroom Talk)