I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience… — Holly Goldberg Sloan Copy Share Image
A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding… — Alexandra Ripley Copy Share Image
When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“The emptiness is so intense, that anything which enters it leaves a trace, something of it remains in space: in the silence,… — Marie Darrieussecq Copy Share Image
When all the faces have been rejected and emptiness is left, you have found the original face. Emptiness is the original face.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Master Nathaniel looked at him. The fixed stare, the slightly-open mouth, the rigid motionless body, fettered by a misery too profound for… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
“According to the teachings of the Buddha and the Indian commentaries, however, such direct seeing of emptiness is precisely what happens in… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“We are like waves in the ocean, each with a unique character and quality on the surface, but deep down we are… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
One of the manifestations of depression for me is that I lose my will. And I thereby lose my ability to focus.… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
“I endured all our hardships as if they had been luxuries: I made light of scurvy, banqueted off train-oil, and met that… — Harriet Prescott Spofford Copy Share Image
“Have you ever had a dream that you were certain was real, only to wake up and realize that everyone and everything… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
At last the cold crept up my spine; at last it filled me from foot to head; at last I grew so… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
Although we have no actual written communications from the world of emptiness, we have some hints or suggestions about what is going… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Why is man the being who won in the world of emptiness, dethroning all animal species? For he is closest to the… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
In Paris ... I achieved a freer attitude towards anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
I could see that everything I had identified as really me, was not really me, but was just a pattern of strategies… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
You have to begin to trust that your experience of emptiness is not the final experience,that beyond it is a place where… — Regina Malabago Copy Share Image
I was stuck on the side of a mountain in Scotland. I was looking down on emptiness. I lay on my back… — Ivor Cutler Copy Share Image
Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
... when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
I think that Mr. Obama is not just inexperienced; he is also hampered by a distinct inner emptiness - not an emptiness… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
...even after you've just won the Super Bowl -- especially after you've just won the Super Bowl -- there's always next year.… — Tom Landry Copy Share Image
Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ironically, the more we crave to possess and dominate the world and others, the deeper and more unbearable becomes the chasm of… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them. — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
Emptiness is in fact form when we forget the self. There's nothing in the universe *other* than ourself. Nothing to compare, name,… — Taizan Maezumi Copy Share Image
“The field of boundless emptiness is what exists from the very beginning. You must purify, cure, grind down, or brush away all… — Yi Wu Taigen Leighton Copy Share Image
How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“The victorious ones have said That emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. For whomever emptiness is a view, That one has… — Nāgārjuna Copy Share Image