Middle way Quote by Nāgārjuna

“Emptiness does not imply non-existence; emptiness implies the emptiness of intrinsic existence, which necessarily implies dependent origination. Dependence and interdependence is the nature of…

— Thupten Jinpa

“It's all interdependent, everything depends on everything else to exist, nothing is separate from this”

— Brian E. Miller

“There can be no independence without a large share of self-dependance, and this virtue cannot be bestowed. It must be developed from within.”

— Frederick Douglass

“All things arise because of their interdependence, and that is why nothing has a separate, independent identity.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“All things originate dependently. Because all things originate dependently, one can observe cause and effect. Cause and effect are only possible in a world…

— Thupten Jinpa

“those of little merit would not even have doubts about this doctrine of emptiness. even suspicion that objects are empty wrecks the seeds of…

— aryadeva

“Universal emptiness is mere concept. The fact is, there was never emptiness.”

— Toba Beta

“We’re all really dependent in nearly everything, and we all make a fuss about being independent in something.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Properly understanding emptiness means realizing how we must rely on cause and effect.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“All phenomena—causes and effects, agents and actions, good and bad—merely exist conventionally; they are dependent-arisings. Because phenomena depend upon other factors for their existence,…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Everyone really is an independent person. When we become a dependent person, we lose our independence. A good part of our work is to…

— Art Hochberg

“So-called entities are conceptions. Lack of conceptions is emptiness. Wherever conceptions appear, How could there be emptiness?”

— Karl Brunnholzl