The emptiness of fullness compared to the fullness of emptiness
By emptychair
@innertalks (23746)
Australia
April 7, 2020 12:07am CST
Rumi, that great Sufi poet, and mystic (1207 to 1273) profoundly stated,
"Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots."
But is he right?
Can we search in the wrong place, or can we find what we are looking for, even in this wrong place?
The empty is full of its emptiness, but the fullness is not full of its fullness.
This means that you must be empty to be full, and not full to be empty.
What does that mean?
If the fullness is not full of its fullness, what is it full of?
The fullness is full of empty ideas until it empties itself into emptyness, and finds fullness there.
Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, freeimages.com
Can anything but emptiness ever be found in our empty pockets?
Some things are never empty.
Our hearts are never empty of love.
Both its roots and its branches are there.
Searching for any part of love, finds, eventually, all of love.
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5 responses
@yoalldudes (35028)
• Philippines
7 Apr 20
This is lovely reflection. Love is in our hearts. We just have to access it.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
7 Apr 20
I agree, yes, love is always in our hearts.
We should never ignore the love there, but use it all we can.
By using love, and loving, we move ourselves closer to God too, I think, as well.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
8 Apr 20
It's a bit difficult to delve into the very essence of your wisdom on fullness and emptiness.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
9 Apr 20
Yes, the idea of my writing is to get people to start delving, though. We need to start delving and then delve in our own ways. I just like to whet people's appetites for delving.
@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
9 Apr 20
@Nakitakona Sorry, if it came across that way.
We reach into ourselves to reach past ourselves, and I use words as you use words to connect to others, but the connection withstands the connection only if understanding occurs on both sides.
I did not mean to cause any misunderstanding, and love lives in all, but humour does not, until seen from both sides, from the same love.
I was just writing in the style of my article, carrying it on in that way in my reply, with no other thought but that.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
9 Apr 20
@innertalks Are you exaggerating the word I used? Or are you indirectly insulting me? For me once is enough.
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@crossbones27 (53005)
• Mojave, California
7 Apr 20
Very deep there but damn that made my head explode. I like stuff like that but sometimes its to hard to comprehend.For me at at least
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
7 Apr 20
Well, real emptiness leads to fullness of truth, or love, because we are empty enough of our false selves of pride and untruth, to allow it in, but if we are full of only ourselves, in a prideful, me only, me first, selfish way, even our emptiness is too full to receive the real fullness then too.
We need to empty ourselves of our false fullness to fill ourselves with the real fullness.
Then we are emptied of ourselves, as our emptiness, only exists then within God's oneness.
The emptiness of ourselves in God's oneness gives us his fullness then, in us, then too.
Now, that's no clearer, is it, or is it? LOL
One person's clearness, is another person's blindness, sometimes, and vice versa.
We all must see truth in our own way, for it to be a comprehensible truth, as long as it is the real truth, it sets us free then for us to be the real us then in it, the real truth, too.
I love this double-talk...ha.ha..
@crossbones27 (53005)
• Mojave, California
7 Apr 20
@innertalks
Haha sure is funny I give you that but to be true makes you think all I ever asked of anyone. Well done sir. 

Haha sure is funny I give you that but to be true makes you think all I ever asked of anyone. Well done sir. 2 people like this
@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
7 Apr 20
@crossbones27 Ha, ha. thanks.
I like to turn things around, and see if the opposite is true too.
The empty is not empty until it is empty, but the full is not full until it is emptied of its fullness of fullness of its own emptiness.
None of it makes sense, but it sounds like it just might.
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@Shiva49 (28406)
• Singapore
7 Apr 20
Rumi left his mark and is ever relevant.
We should know what to look for and where but mostly we feel lost.
I always reminded myself to work for a living and not live for working all my life.
If we get our priorities wrong or have no agenda for life at all, we will leave empty with nothing to show for our years here. When we think and act driven by love then things fall in place and life becomes a cake walk even inspiring others along the way. We are then full with the right stuff - siva
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
8 Apr 20
Ha, ha, that is if the cake walk is filled with the right cakes, we will be full of the right stuff ... lol...
Yes, balance keeps us in line with love, so we do not go overboard too far on either side, in regards, to work, to obsession with sports, or even to striving for perfection, when we do not need to do any of these things, as long as we remain close to love, live from love, and do not move ourselves away from it, by following some unbalancing approach to life, instead of love's way for us.
@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
9 Apr 20
@Shiva49 That's well-said, siva.
Gratitude certainly helps to steady and to balance ourselves, in uncertain times.
@Shiva49 (28406)
• Singapore
8 Apr 20
@innertalks I steady myself in uncertain times by reaffirming my sense of deep gratitude for having been given time to savor and flavor life here. I get a feeling many are striving for that chance of a lifetime and trying hard to get here.
These uncertain times make us well aware how precious a normal life is and we should never take it for granted - siva
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@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
7 Apr 20
That clearly means that everything in life whether good or bad has its own importance
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
7 Apr 20
Yes, I agree, everything carries weight in the overall scheme of things. Everything plays its role.
Everything is important in its own way, or everything happens for a reason.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
7 Apr 20
@amitkokiladitya I agree again. Balance brings everything together in the right way.
@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
7 Apr 20
@innertalks yes...and things work the best when they are in a balanced combination
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