Emptiness Quotes

634 Emptiness quotes by 456 unique authors

I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility… — Franz Kafka
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form — Gautama Buddha
The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
The greatest crisis of our lives is neither economic, intellectual, nor even what we usually call religious. It is a crisis of imagination. We get… — Marc Gafni
The important thing is to know why we want to dance. We dance a solitude that we have inside us and cannot occupy with anything.… — Carlos Gavito
When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love. — Adyashanti
Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness. — Peter Kreeft
Just as eagles soar through the vast expanse of the sky without meeting any obstructions, needing only minimal effort to maintain their flight, so advanced… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to the highly sophisticated… — Hubertus Strughold
The Moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I… — D. H. Lawrence
Then I felt that every inflection of my voice, every word in my mouth, was a lie, a play whose sole purpose was to cover… — Ingmar Bergman
Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness. — Richard Sibbes
I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere — W S Merwin
There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my dreams. I feel… — E L Doctorow
Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping.… — Rajneesh
Reality is neither subjective nor objective, neither mind nor matter, neither time nor space. These divisions need somebody to happen to, a conscious separate center.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Dolby stereo increases the possibility of emptiness in film sound at the same time that it enlarges the space that can be filled. It's this… — Michel Chion
The first thing you discover is a kind of emptiness, a silence, a presence which doesn't seem to have content to it, like looking up… — Arjuna Ardagh
People are beginning to realize that self-knowledge is not an end in itself. It's for the purpose of better relationships, so that we can give… — Jennifer James
Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings of worthlessness, sinfulness,… — Kenneth Wapnick
I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work… — Rabindranath Tagore
The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in… — Wallace Stevens
Living Empty means we release the things that are no longer in alignment with who we are becoming. The release itself tells us who that… — Christine Kane
What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a… — Bertrand Russell
When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness.… — Mary E. DeMuth

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