Can EMPTINESS ever be FILLED?

Question

How do you fill your own emptiness?
are we just insatiable.... or just forever hollow?

Answer 1

Dear enki, you of all people know no one is forever "hollow." You have a beautiful mind & spirit; it shows. I love your questions--did they come from emptiness? Nope. They come from a source in you that is VERY full. In my life, from to time, I've felt an "empty space." (Just a part of me.) & I think, perhaps it's not time yet to fill that space, precisely what is IT that I feel I need there? Like, 95% of me is fine, but that little 5% could drive me up the wall if I LET it. Anyone who is REALLY empty surely must be dead. They'd have no sensory perceptions, no thoughts, no dreams. Think of your glass (hokey I know, but may make my point), is it half empty or half full? It's probably three quarters full! I think people are more "full" than they realize, but when they focus on the "empty space" that's not the way they FEEL.

Answer 2

If you are talking about a bowl sure. I fill my emptiness with food. I'm insatiable right now i never had nothing to eat yet, no i won't be forever hollow as soon as i eat i will be filled up. ha ha just kidding. emptiness can be filled but only for a short time simply because our lives are constantly changing what was fulfilling one day may not be fulfilling the next, we seek to fulfill our lives constantly while we may succeed for short amounts of time it can never be truly full and lasting. I fill my own emptiness with love, family, friends, learning, giving, taking and everyday life. I fill it with what I need at that moment and change it with what i need the next. I think we are just insatiable because for me forever hollow means that there is never any satisfaction with ones life while we can be satisfied with ones life we always seem to strive for more, it 's our basic primitive need to survive to out last, etc to seek out more to continue to need. =))))) hope you like this answer, it's my own personal view, it may not be the same as yours but thats what make things interesting. it's how we obtain higher learning. c u friend. have a great weekend and lots of smiles to you .p.s. you are getting a star for this question, i really love it.

Answer 3

Emptiness gets filled whether you want it to or not. Of course it doesn't always get filled with what you want but something always fills that void.

Nature abhors a vacuum. Its true in the physical sense as well as a metaphysical sense. A vacuum cleaner sucks up everything around it simply by virtue of the fact that it is empty inside. Meditation is clearing your mind of concious thought so that it can recieve the energy of the universe.

Dru makes a good point about the space between sub-atomic particles, but the space is filled with energy and in the end a full bowl is a full bowl.

Even if there is no perfect 'emptiness', we humans have to live in the world of imperfection. If you try to move around with that full bowl, then you will spill water everywhere and thats the reality that we have to live with.

Answer 4

There are two kinds of emptiness;
One caused by others,..The other, created by us.
We cared...loved...dreamed with someone who made us believe for a while that we 're immortal. And awaking from a shattered dream, love's gone,..and we're alone.
A hollow of memories is all that's left...
An emptiness caused by the very one we cherished.
Would we just let that hollow in there empty for all time?

When we’re given chance to find cure and refill this empty space, and we still choose to just lick our wounds and leave this hollow ever unfilled,..we’re denying ourselves the probability to be whole again.

We, and not anymore the one who left, is preserving this emptiness to grow much deeper...
when it can be filled, why not?; with a new dream that outlives the bad one...
with a new hope to put right what went wrong.
with a new love to dream with again.
Remember always: There’s no wound that can’t be healed by time.

Answer 5

Emptiness can be filled, but it must be filled with the right stuff. If I have a craving for a hot fudge sundae, and eat a cookie instead, my emptiness is not satisfied. It might suffice for a little while, but before long the void of not having the sundae will flair up again. We can always fill our emptiness with the wrong things, but we will never be satisfied until we are filled up and overflowing with just what we need. When we find THAT, our cup runneth over.

Answer 6

We all have different feelings, need and wants, and in this case most people have different meanings of thier ' emptyness.' Wheather that emptyness can be filled or not relies on the person and the way they handle it. People are put in different situations, and these situations lead us to different feelings and emotions, some of them good, and some of them leave people feeling Empty. These feelings of emptyness can be filled with the needs necessary to fill it, or it can be filled with a " substitue" that makes the person's emtyness lessen and soon be forgotten. People experience different types of emptyness, and sometimes those feelings of emptyness can never be correctly filled, just given a substitue to lessen the hollowness with in. But to be able to fill the emptyness correcty means that you have to first : discover what isn't there, what is missing. Once you know that, you have to find the perfect thing that completes you and fills the emptyness with what you needed. Sometime though, people have an emptyness, but it doesn't need to be filled. It just needs a little time and it will fade away.
^_^

Answer 7

i dont feel that anyone is ever empty, but that perhaps you have longings, or a hunger, often it seems, it takes multiple things to achieve a feeling of satisfaction, just as no matter how much water you drank each day or bread you ate, or a fine balanced meal you had, even if your body was full you would want variety, you probably have told yourself or been told that you need/should expect more then water to drink, more then eating the same meal every day,
so its all a matter of your mental concepts, deciding what will fill you up for today, for this week etc, and expect it to change, search for pleasant, enriching things to do, put things into your mind in little bits, and you wont fill empty, nor worry about it, or what it takes to fill you up, we constantly need refueling ! both mind and body

Answer 8

Nothing can be completely filled. Consider this physical analogy:

You have an empty bowl. You pour water into the bowl until the water reaches the rim of the bowl. The bowl appears to be full, but it is not; at a subatomic level, there is a great amount of empty space between particles.

If you extrapolate this physical truth to the spiritual realm, it implies that you can never completely fill your emptiness.

Answer 9

Kinda like Gandi would do fill someone elses empty cup and your cup will be filled too. Though life without a lover would only be a 10 minute coffee break then back to the emptiness.

Answer 10

The emptiness within is something that should never be topped off. Once the emptiness is gone you lose the desire to move forward in your life. You no longer have goals, desires and dreams. Without a little bit of emptiness in your life you would never know how to appreciate all the victories in your life.The motivation to become more than what you are today withers and dies, taking you with it in a slow and sleepy way.