Emptiness and Meaning

This follows from what I just said about God. If you have no meaning in you life, you feel empty. You try to fill yourself up with all sorts of things: eating, shopping, drugs, other people. I believe we need to fill ourselves up from within.

What does this mean? It means filling yourself up with love, self love, God’s love if you like, your own bit of that love – divinity. This is the meaning of your life.

We talk about children being full of themselves. That is their natural state. You need to be full of yourself, full of love for yourself, full of the love that is your birthright. You need to know the meaning of your life, which is love. Then you will not feel empty and your life will be full with meaning.

Without that love, with that emptiness, you feel anxious and fearful. You are facing a void. You are full of longing and sadness, of a sense of loss, and you don’t even know what you are longing for. Without meaning in your life, you don’t feel safe. You are not grounded or centred in your self. You have no inner peace. And you are in danger of looking to others to comfort the pain of your longing and to fill you up, to give you meaning, which no one can do for you. You are headed for dissatisfaction in your relationships.