No amount of money, no amount of pleasure, no amount of play can cover the feeling that behind it all and behind it all is emptiness.
Stand alone at night in the silent darkness and realize that nothing can cover that emptiness.
Comfort can be made, yes; sometimes emptiness can be muted. But the void, the death, the depth… Everything material is essentially only temporary, vainly empty, a game, a trick…
But there is the spiritual and it lives, the great ideas and the rational, the spiritual is that which opens the understanding of emptiness.
Not all great ideas are reasonable and accurate, however, religions close the feeling of emptiness but also close the emptiness itself, that is in essence a kind of drug that closes off all feeling. There should be some field of emptiness left for better understanding for maneuvering of consciousness…