Emptiness Quotes

634 Emptiness quotes by 456 unique authors

When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's… — Adyashanti
Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said… — Gautama Buddha
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of… — Emile Durkheim
I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent still linger in… — Libba Bray
Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as a space full… — Doris Grumbach
In Paris ... I achieved a freer attitude towards anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all I recognise the… — Theodor Herzl
There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so. One must simply… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to… — Julian Schnabel
Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct… — Zhuangzi
The Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing.… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If… — E F Schumacher
If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration of that which… — Mark Epstein
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to… — Jimmy Carter
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease,… — Ayn Rand
Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life. — Guy Debord
I am an emptiness for Thee to fill; my soul a cavern for Thy sea — George MacDonald
Although we have no actual written communications from the world of emptiness, we have some hints or suggestions about what is going on in that… — Shunryu Suzuki
All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake. — Shunryu Suzuki
The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That's what we're… — Pema Chodron
Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky. — Chogyam Trungpa
Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness. — Michelangelo Antonioni
Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our… — Steven Pressfield
One of the manifestations of depression for me is that I lose my will. And I thereby lose my ability to focus. I don't think… — Rachel Maddow
You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it… — Anish Kapoor
Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness. — Cornel West

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