There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“The horns of a rabbit do not inherently exist because they do not exist at all. The mere realization of their non-existence… — Jeffrey Hopkins Copy Share Image
Let your tears fall because of sin; but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Just for future reference, don't use words like "love" anymore. It's a very sensitive word and it wears out quickly. Romeo barely… — Peter Craig Copy Share Image
“You are not a small and unimportant creature confined to the form of this physical body, contrary to popular belief. At the… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“When you come to the ultimate experience in meditation, when you come to your deepest core, you are no one. You are… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“When we perceive the stars, the stars are the object of our perception—they exist within us. When we perceive the ocean, the… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
You wear nice clothes, you seek respect, you make a lot of money, but what's the point? It's all pointless. Of course,… — Koushun Takami Copy Share Image
“Better to work for one's self alone. The public is so stupid. Who reads? And what do they read? And what do… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings… — Kenneth Wapnick Copy Share Image
“I lie stretched out, inert; all I see is emptiness, all I live on is emptiness, all I move in is emptiness.… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The uniqueness of zazen lies in this: that the mind is freed from bondage to all thought forms, visions, objects, and imaginings,… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
“I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead. We are apt to fancy that we shall… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Breath (from the book Blue Bridge) Whispering to myself With every step I take, Trying out names, for I know There is… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase, "Form… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and… — Maeve Brennan Copy Share Image
“We fail to see the oneness of all things, and because of this, we unknowingly cause a lot of harm to ourselves.… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“He just wanted to stop thinking. It was easier that way. The numbness hadn't left him; if anything it was spreading. When… — Jeyn Roberts Copy Share Image
“We are suffering, all of us, because of the emptiness that surrounds us, that infiltrates between us, that penetrates through us. We… — Bill Hopkins Copy Share Image
The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
There ARE people who won't customarily eat an entire row of cookies, or hear food calling their name from other rooms, or… — Sark Copy Share Image
Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they'll leave you, sure. There's no return to what was and no way back.… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“If I scan the expanse of my heart and find it empty of everything except emptiness, it is because I ‘poured’ the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I can begin to give God attributes. He's a counselor. He's a healer. He's a friend that sits closer than a brother.… — Paula White Copy Share Image
“There is a certain kind of man who is forever searching. He wanders from place to place, he looks hard into the… — Tara Conklin Copy Share Image
My Father... He was there when I didn't understand, he was there when I was wrong, he was there when I cried,… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
“As I do my best to haggle down the prices further, Mr. Williams responds with a pained expression on his face, “Oh… — Simon Brass Copy Share Image
“in the universal womb that is boundless space all forms of matter and energy occur as flux of the four elements, but… — longchenpa Copy Share Image
“And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything. Little words that broke up the thought and dismembered it said nothing.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd… — Vladimir Bartol Copy Share Image
“In the lives of emperors there is a moment which follows pride in the boundless extension of the territories we have conquered,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
