As for people who can see the Truth,  the Gap — that everything is empty space. Doesn’t it make a person uninterested in continuing to  live in this material world anymore (our illusory world)?

I can’t control my desire to eat, I always prone to eat until my stomach hurts. I can’t stop indulging myself of tasting food and chewing, it seems like nothing will ever enough. What should I do?

My five year old son is absolutely fascinated with God. Sometimes I find it challenging to find the right words to explain profound, and abstract ideas while trying not to limit his perceptions. I do not want him to grow up thinking, that God is a punishing “man” who is beyond his reach.

I am a survivor of child sexual abuse and have been trying to heal myself ever since. I am a healthy looking 27 year old but with serious issues in managing relationships. Only a couple of my very close friends know about my past. Over the years I have been trying to accept what happened to me and move on. I have many friends who have helped me a lot to move away from my painful situation without knowing my past. I love spending time with my family and friends, and have become quite balanced.
I have always given a lot of importance to what I think and have always viewed every situation emotionally. The idea was to give myself the caress that I have always been looking for. But now I have become a person who thinks she is always right as she has been through the difficult times and I try to justify all my actions even if it hurts few people. I expect everyone to handle their problems the way I do – by expressing myself openly to my friends or by actions.
But recently I have been proven wrong. A very close friend of mine has had a difficult life because his mother is very possessive about him and has been living a life in suffocation. But he has accepted the situation and found his solace in his writings and music. He does not express himself openly and has very few friends. I am very disturbed with his situation. He did consider me as a friend who understands him very well (though he is not aware of my own problematic childhood). I have been trying to tell him that he needs to express himself openly to his friends in order to heal himself.
But he says that he does express himself, but through his writings and his music. I argued with him about this saying he should not limit himself to these inanimate things and find solution to his problems by expressing himself to his friends. But he got angry and upset saying that he is happy with his life now and that I did not understand him at all. He is not willing to talk to me now. I have hurt him and
I would never want to hurt him. What should I do? I am not sure if he will accept my apology and it would be very difficult explaining to him, why I always think that everyone should handle problems my way. Now I very well understand that every person deploys his own method to manage problems, but how do I explain that to him without letting my problem known to him. Please help me.

At times before I sleep or on waking up my mind seems to conjure up personifications of people. I can see every detail, color and characterization. I have at times tried to silently ask what is the purpose of their visit, but somehow I find it very difficult to keep focus to be able to get any results. How do I go about it?