Emptiness Quotes
634 Emptiness quotes by 456 unique authors
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The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.
— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.
— Michael Shannon
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I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point?
— Kenneth Williams
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The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.
— Bruce Lee
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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
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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
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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
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O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!
— Gary Snyder
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have.
— Thom Jones
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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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