Emptiness Quotes

634 Emptiness quotes by 456 unique authors

The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still… — Andrea Dworkin
It's a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love… — Mariah Carey
Thoughts that deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an inner emptiness of life; this inner unreality and emptiness are… — Rudolf Steiner
Let your tears fall because of sin; but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man lifted up,… — Charles Spurgeon
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or you are not… — Maxwell Maltz
Throughout history there have been many men and women who have chosen to imitate Jesus as he withdraws into the desert... To pass time in… — Raniero Cantalamessa
I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and… — Jack Kerouac
Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. — Michael Shannon
I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point? — Kenneth Williams
The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction. — Bruce Lee
Emptiness the starting point. — In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived… — Bruce Lee
Emptiness is in fact form when we forget the self. There's nothing in the universe *other* than ourself. Nothing to compare, name, or identify. When… — Taizan Maezumi
Here is just emptiness. There is no getting my ego out of the way, and all that stuff. There is just the seeing, shining in… — Douglas Harding
O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion! — Gary Snyder
I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by… — Peter Carey
For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is… — Alain Badiou
Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of earth, to the… — Edward McKendree Bounds
There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad… — Stephen Fry
Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and fly an invisible… — Gautama Buddha
They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space… — Yasmin Mogahed
First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you… — Gautama Buddha
I could see that everything I had identified as really me, was not really me, but was just a pattern of strategies to avoid some… — Gangaji
Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have. — Thom Jones
Set boundaries and keep them. People will drown you with their need, and demonize you for not filling their emptiness. — Colleen Doran

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