How could I answer this question? This is highly paradoxical, as it is personal. The point is, if I feel ‘an empty space’ in my heart then it is not like feeling nothing at all, but a presence, a presence of absence perhaps. Then if I looked inside ‘my heart’, and found it empty, then maybe I have not looked at the right place, I have not looked deeply or closely enough, i.e. not at the heart of my heart so to speak. For long as there are feelings there is something, and long as you feel emptiness, empty you’re are not – the wanderer of the icy wildernesses say, long as you feel pain in your frost-bitten hands and feet they are alive.
Sometimes, I feel very unhappy, but then I wonder how could I feel unhappy if unhappiness is all that is there – how could someone see darkness without there being any light at all. So, I have come to believe that feeling unhappiness means not being completely unhappy, a part inside still being in the light.
Then, when I feel as if my heart was empty, I could believe there was something inside me that was not empty, and therefore could feel that emptiness. That something I would say is my true heart. A heart that if it is can never be empty. It is always full with one thing or the other, with love, kindness, hatred, fear etc.
The answer to your question therefore is, yes, I do sometimes feeling empty, but it is when I become shorts sighted, when I am unable to look within closely enough … at times failing to see where my true heart is … at times mistaken and deluded, i.e. feeling as if I have run out of life, of chances, of opportunities, and even of hope, but only to realise a little while later that it was all just a feeling, a passing show, some fleeting shadow, caused by my looking for fullness, for love and happiness, at wrong places. You feel empty whenever, then follow your feelings, and reach for your true heart, the heart of your heart, as that of your being.
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How could I answer this question? This is highly paradoxical, as it is personal. The point is, if I feel ‘an empty space’ in my heart then it is not like feeling nothing at all, but a presence, a presence of absence perhaps. Then if I looked inside ‘my heart’, and found it empty, then maybe I have not looked at the right place, I have not looked deeply or closely enough, i.e. not at the heart of my heart so to speak. For long as there are feelings there is something, and long as you feel emptiness, empty you’re are not – the wanderer of the icy wildernesses say, long as you feel pain in your frost-bitten hands and feet they are alive.
Sometimes, I feel very unhappy, but then I wonder how could I feel unhappy if unhappiness is all that is there – how could someone see darkness without there being any light at all. So, I have come to believe that feeling unhappiness means not being completely unhappy, a part inside still being in the light.
Then, when I feel as if my heart was empty, I could believe there was something inside me that was not empty, and therefore could feel that emptiness. That something I would say is my true heart. A heart that if it is can never be empty. It is always full with one thing or the other, with love, kindness, hatred, fear etc.
The answer to your question therefore is, yes, I do sometimes feeling empty, but it is when I become shorts sighted, when I am unable to look within closely enough … at times failing to see where my true heart is … at times mistaken and deluded, i.e. feeling as if I have run out of life, of chances, of opportunities, and even of hope, but only to realise a little while later that it was all just a feeling, a passing show, some fleeting shadow, caused by my looking for fullness, for love and happiness, at wrong places. You feel empty whenever, then follow your feelings, and reach for your true heart, the heart of your heart, as that of your being.
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