Emptying Quotes
42 quotes by 38 authors
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In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Meditation means you start changing your inner world. You start removing dust from the inner world, you start removing all that is unnecessary in the…
— Rajneesh
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We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our…
— Natalie Goldberg
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The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.
— Evan Esar
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I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice,…
— Katrina Kenison
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Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free who can look and understand immediately.…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Humility is a priceless virtue; however, it takes a lot of self-emptying to cultivate it.
— Michael Ugwu Eneja
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In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.
— Christopher West
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Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed…
— Frank Muir
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The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.
— Laozi
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The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.
— Laozi
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There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return the sense of…
— Sam Keen
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently…
— Sam Keen
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To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when it is not…
— Yasmin Mogahed
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The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to keep emptying and…
— Mark Nepo
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If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling…
— Laozi
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Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name.
— Rumi
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We must be like the fountain or spring that is continually emptying itself of all that it has and is continually being refilled from an…
— Shoghi Effendi
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It is not enough to know the Son of God in the Father's nature only, unless we acknowledge Him in what is ours without withdrawal…
— Pope Leo I
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The death of Jesus was the opening and the emptying of the full heart of God; it was the outgushing of that ocean of infinite…
— Octavius Winslow
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