”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - Running After Stuff

About this episode

The episode discusses the futility of chasing material possessions and the emptiness that often follows.

Welcome to LifeTalk’s Thought for Life. We run after a lot of stuff. Our time, our energy, our finances, and much of our lives are spent chasing stuff. And when we catch that stuff, we typically find that it doesn’t do for us what we thought that it would do for us. Consider this “Thought for Life:” “The insanity of it all is that the search for that which will fill us incessantly drives us to pursue the very things that will empty us. Yet, the greater insanity is to find ourselves utterly perishing in our emptiness and yet declaring to our dying day that the emptying was the filling. And that is emptiness of the most chilling sort.” I hope that you ponder that thought today. Discover all of my daily quotes on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Linkedin and Instagram.

People in this episode

Host: Craig Lounsbrough

Topics covered

• pursuit of happiness
• emptiness
• self-reflection
• life choices
• spirituality

Keywords

• life talk
• thought for life
• chasing stuff
• emptiness
• spiritual reflection

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