Emptiness Quotes
634 Emptiness quotes by 456 unique authors
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The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we have all manner…
— Laura Bush
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It’s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God’s will. It’s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when…
— Miriam Toews
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So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you will find there…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies…
— Ken Wilber
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The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder.…
— Ken Wilber
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Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and…
— Walker Percy
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The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.
— Laozi
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I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint…
— John Austin Baker
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When I talk to people who feel this emptiness and lack of fulfillment, I recommend they find a source of balance in their lives. I…
— Harold S. Kushner
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Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.
— Laozi
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Search for love, for it is the most important ingredient of life. Without it, you life will echo emptiness. With it, your life will vibrate with warmth…
— Nikita Koloff
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I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience the hollow feeling…
— Holly Goldberg Sloan
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One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to instill some sort…
— Hjalmar Söderberg
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An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I…
— Sebastian Horsley
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The gift moves towards the empty place. As it turns in its circle it turns towards him who has been empty-handed the longest, and if…
— Lewis Hyde
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To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial.…
— George Steiner
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There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music....…
— Unknown Author
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The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.
— Bruce Lee
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You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget…
— Sarah Kay
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I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.
— Juliet Marillier
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Make your will one! Don't listen with your ears, listen with your mind. No, don't listen with your mind, but listen with your spirit. Listening…
— Zhuangzi
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I need not to be afraid of the void. The void is part of my person. I need to enter consciously into it. To try…
— Michael Novak
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When one begins to purposefully perform acts of kindness, the spirit changes and soon doing good deeds becomes a focal point for our life; doing…
— Gary Blair
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Put bluntly, the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. All Forms are not other than Emptiness, including the…
— Ken Wilber
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The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
— Adyashanti
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