Emptiness Quotes

634 Emptiness quotes by 456 unique authors

The gorgeous breathlessness and thrilling pulse -- those are sensations that the years have layered on top of the initial emptiness, like sheet after sheet… — Unknown Author
You're nothing but a product. And what's this product called? Emptiness, dude, that's what it's called. And for the rest of your life, they sell… — Tim Tharp
There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come forth. When the… — Unknown Author
No person, possession, profession, or position ever fills the cup of a wounded, empty heart. It's an emptiness only God can fill. — Lysa TerKeurst
Truly in the heart there is a void that can not be removed except with the company of Allah. And in it there is a… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it would not fill his emptiness. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus. Those who accept His offer of salvation are set free… — Pope Francis
You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ. — Charles Spurgeon
Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose?… — Ray Romano
The primordial purity of the ground completely transcends words, concepts, and formulations. — Unknown Author
I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft. — Unknown Author
Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with an… — Pema Chodron
Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase, "Form is emptiness." That… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
..The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Ideas are easy to come by, they spring effortlessly out of the vacuity of the mind and cost nothing. When they are held and projected… — Unknown Author
Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled. — Ted Nelson
Change of state is not the point; recognizing the Changeless is the point, recognizing primordial Emptiness is the point, and if you are breathing and… — Ken Wilber
The Big Bang has made Idealists out of almost anybody who thinks. First there was absolutely nothing, then Bang! Something. This is beyond weird. Out… — Ken Wilber
And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
In Japan we have the phrase, "Shoshin," which means "beginner's mind." Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich and sufficient within… — Shunryu Suzuki
A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. — Laozi
If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river… — Laozi
We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We… — Laozi
'THIS ROOM HAS MYSTERY LIKE A TRANCE' This room has mystery like a trance Of wine ; forget-me-nots of you Are chair and couch, the… — Kenneth Patchen
As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its… — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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