One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“You've gone mad. What's driven you to this nonsense?" "You have," he snarled. "You, with your pretty gray eyes and your smile… — Suzanne Enoch Copy Share Image
“Ice vs. fire; free choice vs. necessity; weight vs. lightness; emptiness vs. meaning...speaking of emptiness, there was a time today when my… — Sarah Emily Miano Copy Share Image
“I think of the emptiness of outer space, and the men in their little pods going up there alone, wives and girlfriends… — Barbara Gowdy Copy Share Image
“That day, I thought that I held something important and that my life would be changed. But nothing of this nature is… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“All infants and children require and deserve comfort in order to develop properly. Soft cooing voices, gentle touch, smiles, cleanliness, and wholesome… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. The innocence of the first inquiry—what am I?—is needed throughout Zen practice. The mind… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The emptiness I speak about is not the emptiness the mind imagines. It is not blank. Your body can continue expressing in… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Your circumstances will only change when you begin to question them. Change begins with a question. Revolutions start with a question. Revolutionize… — Mirtha Michelle Copy Share Image
People are beginning to realize that self-knowledge is not an end in itself. It's for the purpose of better relationships, so that… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I wonder how many people wake up each day to face or hide from emptiness. Emptiness in a job, relationship, pursuit and… — Trinity Chasara Copy Share Image
If we are not empty, we become a block of matter. We cannot breathe, we cannot think. To be empty means to… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most human beings are completely out of touch with their spiritual nature and with the inner dimensions that exist within themselves. They… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“As we see it, space is possible only when the primordial Being swallows emptiness. Space is born when the Being accepts emptiness,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Um um um um um. This business of—this business about marketing yourself, there’s nothing wrong with that. Unless we’re allowed to think… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“When we look at a tree, we do not see the tree for what it really is. We see how it appears… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“I pulled the blanket around my shoulders. The sky was dark and vast and empty and not even a plane disturbed that… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
“After Christian's death he'd just existed. He felt nothing, just a sense of emptiness. In some ways he welcomed that hollowness inside… — Deborah MacGillivray Copy Share Image
“Emptiness and the not-“I” is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Takizawa: something that was left in my care. give it back to Amon for me. see you, Goat's King. Kaneki: I'm not… — Sui Ishida Copy Share Image
What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The Savior desires to save us from our inadequacies as well as our sins. Inadequacy is not the same as being sinful… — Bruce C. Hafen Copy Share Image
When you're trying to create something and you need to hang out, in not knowing, in all the cracks and spaces where… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you… — Julian Schnabel 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
“When we say 'living without anything our hearts,' we do not mean emptiness in the sense of zero, but rather that the… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“I see that you’re about to leave, Rick. I just wanted to make sure that you didn’t miss the Thighmaster over there?… — Simon Brass Copy Share Image
I would like you to drop the ego, to dissolve, to disappear, because only then is there fulfillment. The ego knows only… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“In the emptiness that was all around me, I noticed an old tennis ball in the plantings; I picked it up and… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“The New Man means to develop all the three dimensions of being, all the three doors to God: the head, the dimension… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“No stone was laid upon· another with love or reverence; no street was laid for dance or joy. One thing has been… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness.… — Huineng Copy Share Image
