Part I: The fear of empty moments is really the fear of momentarily seeing that without a cause to chase after, without a dream to disappear into, our lives are seen as being empty of meaning. Part II: It is not we who touch the truth, but it is truth that touches us, that transforms us for our willingness to enter into its revealing Light.

First he says, "It is the fullness of life that is the illusion," because the emptiness visits him so fully. Then he says, "No, it is the emptiness of life that's the illusion," because the fullness of life is upon him. Back and forth, forth and back again, he swings between fullness and emptiness, emptiness and fullness Until one day It dawns on him: the real illusion is the cup.

Our task . . . Is to prepare a Vessel to be filled, And not . . . To fill an imagined vessel with what we dream it has been prepared for. The former begins by the light of inner work, fueled by an awakening faith. The latter has its beginning in the darkness of spiritual sleep; its inertia sustained by the machinations of self-centered considerations. The New Vessel is built to ho...

Isn't it true in the moment when you look out and see a beautiful pink sky ablaze at sunset that it awakens the same beauty inside of you? When you see something timeless, when you see something beautiful, what you see is not outside of you. What you see outside of you is simply reminding you of something that you're asleep to in yourself. The beauty isn't out there in a pink moment. The intelligence isn't in a timeless thought or insight...

Truth, like sunlight, radiates out, pouring down ceaselessly from the “emptiness” of The Great Unknown into the fullness of how we experience it... as something temporarily “known.” But, don’t miss the point: without emptiness, nothing flows. We mustn’t allow the fear of empty space to deceive us into trying to fill ourselves; for if we do...

Giving yourself empty things to do can't fill the emptiness you feel inside, so... risk leaving that space empty; allow it to be filled with something you can't give yourself: freedom from the fear of feeling empty...

We're about to learn about a new kind of understanding with the power to transform "dark" moments into liberating self-discoveries. Let's get started... We don't yet see "problems" for what they really are: a part of the Light within us that we have yet to perceive! Any thought or feeling that troubles us in mind or heart, any fear or worry, is like a candle not yet lit...

My most contented hours are those filled with emptiness; and I regret -- as comes their appointed time -- having to fill these precious moments with what is little more than the mandatory, but mostly empty business of this world...

If we will only give everything we have to whatever we may be doing at the moment then, when that relationship reaches its natural end, we will always find we have been given more than we had at the start. It is Law: to be filled anew, we must fully empty ourselves of ourselves time and time again.

Lies hide fear. Fears hide attachments. Attachments hide dependency. Dependency hides the fear of emptiness...

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.

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.