When men achieve the fruits of their material success, they often become aware of an emptiness--an incompleteness--in their lives;the hollowness of having,… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
“A sense of deficient emptiness pervades our entire culture. The drug addict is more painfully conscious of this void than most people… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the… — Laozi 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Jehovah, the Christian name for God derived from the Hebrew Yahweh, (from the letters YHWH), is translated as "I AM." YOU ARE… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Mencheres slid through the water toward her, drawn by the same inexorable compulsion that led moths to dance with flames. He'd had… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
