Emptiness Quotes

634 Emptiness quotes by 456 unique authors

She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be. — Francesca Lia Block
The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few… — Carson McCullers
Pain is always preferable to numbness. — Scott Anderson
Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest… — Sylvia Plath
Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone. — Tracy Chapman
Meditation is a refocusing on symbols. It's not emptiness. We are using symbols, doorways to step from one world to another, from darkness into light,… — Frederick Lenz
You can't just sit in emptiness. Even the enlightened don't sit in emptiness. We call it emptiness - but we move our mind into a… — Frederick Lenz
In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your… — Frederick Lenz
Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to interact… — Frederick Lenz
Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because… — Dalai Lama
But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness. — Gangaji
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. — Hosea Ballou
I felt totally myself, nothing like the emptiness and horrible feeling I had then [pulling out the Olympics] - no dizziness. — Paula Radcliffe
It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up.… — Joan D. Chittister
To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence. — Adyashanti
To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality.… — Adyashanti
We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness. — Jim Clemmer
There ARE people who won't customarily eat an entire row of cookies, or hear food calling their name from other rooms, or who don't grind… — Unknown Author
Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the gifts… — BrenÃ© Brown
There won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion. — Frederick Lenz
Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path… — Frederick Lenz
The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They are competing against… — Frederick Lenz
Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of… — Benjamin Hoff
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. — Saul Bellow
A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books,… — William Allingham

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