“New eyes awaken. I send Love's name into the world with wings And songs grow up around me like a jungle. Choirs… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Everyone in the Lotus Eaters is so concerned with appearances, but there's an emptiness under the surface that they're trying to ignore.… — Alexandra McGuinness Copy Share Image
To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Desire is insatiable not because the goods of the world are too few, too uniform, or too bland. Desire burns through the… — Wendy Farley Copy Share Image
“What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy! And what have kings, that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to… — Hubertus Strughold Copy Share Image
“...she imagines her body curled in the narrow monk's bed, knees to chin, her own irrefutable geography, but she sees the blood… — Michelle Latiolais Copy Share Image
She turned to Skulduggery and held out her arms. “Come here, you.” He tilted his head. “My hugs are for special occasions… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
“But to think there was meaning, a scheme to things, well, that was quite beyond her philosophical reach. She feared as she… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
First, the desert is the country of madness. Second, it is the refuge of the devil, thrown out into the "wilderness of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Rejoice, Micayon. Yours is a prophet’s dream. The Great Nostalgia has made your world too small, and made you a stranger in… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
“You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled - not… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Raindrops are beating, a large puddle is forming, there on the balcony. It all floats in Emptiness, in purest Transparency, with no… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“The feeling of emptiness is usually a sign that we have put our trust in something that can’t sustain us. It reminds… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
When we talk about Orientalist painting, we're talking about painting generally from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and some would say… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“Are you sometimes scared, or happy, just like that, out of the blue, apropos of nothing? You hurry out on some stupid… — Max Frei Copy Share Image
Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
‗In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease—where there is only us and Allah. There… — Umera Ahmed Copy Share Image
“Apathy is passionless living. It is sitting in front of the television night after night and living your life from one moment… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Then I felt that every inflection of my voice, every word in my mouth, was a lie, a play whose sole purpose… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when i am alone out there, or even here in my house, it seems almost possible that i might lose myself:… — Thomas F. Monteleone Copy Share Image
It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr.), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations… — African Spir Copy Share Image
“Buddhist philosophy points out that the true nature of all forms is essentially formless. Forms do not have an existence of their… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“We sat in silence for a while. I gazed through the window at the night sky, wondering idly at all that space,… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
“She'd said that revenge was not sweet, that it was bloody. She was wrong. It *was* sweet. For one fleeting, glorious moment… — Sunny Copy Share Image
It was a lot to carry out of a childhood--all those textured layers of thwarted dreams rumbling under the fifties patina--but a… — Anne Taylor Fleming Copy Share Image
“Meditation,” said his teacher, “hasn’t got a damn thing to do with anything, ‘cause all it has to do with is nothing.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That's all! And then you… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
You know you sick of lookin', you sick of chasin' I think you know the truth, you just don't wanna face it… — Rachel Copy Share Image
Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“When compared to the fact that he might very well be dead by this time tomorrow, whether he was courageous or not… — James Jones Copy Share Image
The first thing you discover is a kind of emptiness, a silence, a presence which doesn't seem to have content to it,… — Arjuna Ardagh Copy Share Image
“But at that moment—the moment of realization that life as I’d been living it would have to end—I felt devastation unlike any… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
You are so addicted and you have become so habituated that you cannot allow the cup to be empty even for a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is time that we allow the Word of God, not the glamorized lies of Hollywood to become the cornerstone of our… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
Once I realized the emptiness of life apart from knowing God, when I embraced God and the truth of the gospel and… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
