“People think loneliness is absence. It isn't. It's a filling up, a rising, spilling tide that crashes into every gully and chasm… — Sheila Turner Johnston Copy Share Image
“Elliott was disarmingly bright, according to everyone who knew him, an avid reader of Dostoevsky, Kafka, Beckett, Stendhal, Freud, the Buddha, all… — William Todd Schultz Copy Share Image
“What’s also missing is a sense of relationship. People suffer in isolation from one another. In a world without purpose, without meaningful… — Michael E. Gerber Copy Share Image
He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The most important thing that is happening in the world right now is the emerging of the new man. Since the monkeys,… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“You’ll still need leaders, and stimulus, and a world symbol.” (That’s the basic emptiness in us today: we haven’t found a symbol.… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
If you expect anything out of love, or meditation, you will get only frustration, and negative emptiness will happen. If you love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Your arms ache to hold someone -- you move in slow motion from one hug to the next so you won't jostle… — Sarah Tregay Copy Share Image
Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“In 1988, a cave explorer named Véronique Le Guen volunteered for an extreme experiment: to live alone in an underground cavern in… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“The presence of the inner feeling of emptiness directs our attention to a past experience of guilt and to our inner feeling… — Martha Char Love Copy Share Image
And so I am feeling numb. It's a curious feeling, and I get it all the time. My attention to the world… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“God has only to give you what you want to make you feel the emptiness of it!...You will generally notice that when… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The more desires you have, the more misery you will create for yourself. Misery is a consequence of desiring - and you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you have friends, don’t expect your friends to fill your emptiness. When you get married, don’t expect your spouse to fulfill… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
“The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“For many who are alone, because their partner has died or they have separated from them, a sudden, unfamiliar emptiness is the… — Janett Menzel Copy Share Image
Truly in the heart there is a void that can not be removed except with the company of Allah. And in it… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
An emptiness rules at its core, a rottenness, a silence when one of you retires to bed without saying good night, when… — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
“Back then I didn't know that I -- or anyone-- could make a life out of boyfriends and literature. As far as… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“Love has the power to create an inviting space in the lives of people. But if daily routine kills dreamy or passionate… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
My whole effort is to help you to disappear. My whole effort is to help you to be so empty: anatta -… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“There are people in the world, who are just wrong, and then there are the masses of population that are right, or… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
So it is a good idea to start simple, I think, and be very careful. There is a spiritual opening in the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“But somewhere in America, between the freeways and the Food-4-Less, between the filling stations and the 5-o-'clock news, behind the blue blinking… — Andrea Portes Copy Share Image
“I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Some people think they can find satisfaction in good food, fine clothes, lively music, and sexual pleasure. However, when they have all… — Liezi Copy Share Image
A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The source of stillness is in emptiness. All things and the changes they go through are but temporary conditions, which finally return… — Chen Kaiguo Copy Share Image
When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of him. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
“Q: Why is it we all so desperately want to be loved? Krishnamurti: Because we are so desperately empty, lonely. Q: But… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If a tablet is not wiped clean of it's figures, nothing can be written upon it. A single heart cannot serve as… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
