Sometimes in life, we feel a sense of emptiness. Perhaps we give away too much of our energy or don’t get enough sleep, or just feel deeply disconnected from everything and everyone including ourselves. If you listen closely, this feeling of deep lack might say something like, ‘I'm missing out on life. I'm missing something. I'm not connected.’
It may not seem like it at the moment, yet this feeling of lack is the closest door you’ve got to freedom. Yes, this empty feeling we have inside is the doorway to the Divine. It's the entrance to the void, where we can experience a total vacation from life. In the void, your problems cease to exist because ‘you’ do not exist. Nothing exists in the void. This is the whole point.
We don’t always see it right away because we have judged this empty feeling as something not sacred or divine. We may think God cannot be present here in this negative lacking experience. Yet, there is nothing in this Universe that is void of divine supernatural intelligence. The God Source is deep inside all things, people, and experiences. The best part is that it always knows exactly what our spiritual journey needs at each moment.
“You need a spacious being inside you, totally empty, so empty that even you are not there, so silent that even the idea of 'I' has disappeared.” ~ Osho
If you’re getting trapped in feelings of lack, loss, or disconnection, it just means some part of your ego is overly attached to a thought that believes you are disconnected. The ego always thinks it’s not enough, and that it must do ABC and XYZ to become enough. It will never arrive because the truth is that the ego is not who we truly are. It is an amalgamation of ideas about ourselves and not the spiritual source itself.
When we fully surrender through the lacking ego and into the pure emptiness itself, we give everything up and let the Universe ‘reboot’ us. This is what the ever-intelligent Universe has been trying to do with us every time we feel empty inside. It keeps offering this door to enter the ultimate vacation, and you can only enter by shaking yourself free from this ego trip and coming back home to spiritual wholeness.
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