I was lying in bed last nigh thinking about the words "hole" and "whole" and how interesting it is that they sound the same but are so different in meaning. Being "whole" represents a feeling or state of contentment and completeness...a perfection of sorts. It needs no thing. It lacks only craving. It is peace. However, feeling like there is a "hole" in our lives, suggests that something is missing, that we are incomplete or imperfect. It needs some thing. It is overrun with craving. It is unrest.    We vacillate between these two states in life. Feeling as though there is a "hole" in our lives or within our selves, we search for something to fill it up. We search for something to fill the "hole" to make us feel "whole." We find a t...

Language is both a gateway and a hindrance to truth.  Take the word 'nothing'. It may sound like nothing, but the very nature of the thing it is, which is 'no thing' is a complex concept.  For things to exist, there must be a space in between, which is the 'no-thing'.  It is the no-thing that enables the thing to exist.  You cannot have one without the other.  In meditation, to clear all mind noise and find the void, the 'no-thing' is peace.  It is in the 'no-thing' that God exists.  Does this mean God is no-thing, or the everything that holds the thing? Check out http://eckharttolle.com/the_power_of_now