What causes emptiness? If you believe in a world of polar opposites where issues are either true or false or black or white, you cannot believe in our true nature, our Oneness with All That Is. This belief in polar opposites, or duality, is the true cause of ALL of humanity’s feelings of emotional emptiness.

So – I can only speak for myself and my beliefs on the subject. Here is my own experience of emptiness: My entire life I was aware of this emptiness, a huge missing part of me which fueled my relentless search for Truth. Even as a young kid I questioned “What’s the point of life? We’re born, go to school, do a career (or not), get married, raise kids, die and our kids repeat the cycle. But why? It’s so pointless!” None of these things that so many take for granted as ‘life’ came close to touching the emptiness, and I always knew they would never be able to.

Though, not understanding anything different, I searched and searched, in relationships, in experiences, in mystical places, in spiritual paths, but nothing came close to answering my questions, or filling the emptiness. Then… when I finally started finding answers to my big questions and I realized that it is all an illusion, NOTHING in this world is real, it’s all a big fat lie! I went into a profound emptiness so bleak and empty I didn’t think I was ever going to get out. There was NOTHING, and if nothing exists, then to some extent, neither do I as I currently understood myself to be.

But I had to go through that as part of my journey because when I really started understanding my Oneness with God, or All That Is, the joy that fills that emptiness is unexplainable. It is now about learning to be comfortable with the emptiness. It is being empty of the ‘world’ there are no wants / desires / beliefs / judgments to try to fill the emptiness so true Joy can take its place – not that I can stay in that space 100% of the time, far from it, but it is what I now strive for.