Nothingness Quotes

350 quotes by 234 authors

We can carve time out of thin air, or we can fill up even infinite stretches of time with nothingness. These are our choices. — Eric Maisel
Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia;… — Edgar Quinet
None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge. — Frederick Lenz
Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination. — Frederick Lenz
We were never there to begin with. What we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception. — Frederick Lenz
We are everything and we are nothing. We are a forgotten moment. We don't even exist, which is the freeing part. We just think we… — Frederick Lenz
There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are "empty," yet they have Buddha nature. — Frederick Lenz
You're a part of me. I'm a part of you and we are all a part of this great nothingness. — Frederick Lenz
The way you become happy is by realizing that there is no self. No self at all, not a silly millimeter of self. You don't… — Frederick Lenz
Some types of nothing are more fun than other types of nothing. — Frederick Lenz
Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew. — Frederick Lenz
You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of… — Frederick Lenz
When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim it. — Frederick Lenz
Qualityless simply means there is no way to discuss it. There is no way to pin it down. It could be anything at any given… — Frederick Lenz
There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no… — Frederick Lenz
The world is always ending and always beginning at every moment. — Frederick Lenz
How do you know you're even here right now? Perhaps you're not. Perhaps you're far, far away and this is just a dream. — Frederick Lenz
Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses. I don't necessarily believe in linear time. Everything happens all at once forever. — Frederick Lenz
There is no deterioration and there is no creation. There are projections, moments of existence. Each moment is perfect. — Frederick Lenz
The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit… — Frederick Lenz

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