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title: "3 Experience Nothingness Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [“It is not true that you feel something when you are in an accident. There is no feeling, no thought. You do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavenka-drakuli/it-is-not-true-that-you-feel-something-when-you-are-in-an-accident/)

[Slavenka Drakulić](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavenka-drakuli/)

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> [Like the hollow nothingness within the seed of a tree, which contains the potential of the entire tree, the experience of nothingness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maharishi-mahesh-yogi/like-the-hollow-nothingness-within-the-seed-of-a-tree-which-contains/)

[Maharishi Mahesh Yogi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maharishi-mahesh-yogi/)

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> [What does it mean to know and experience my own “nothingness?” It is not enough to turn away in disgust from my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-merton/what-does-it-mean-to-know-and-experience-my-own-nothingness-it-is-not/)

[Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-merton/)

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