Buddhist Quote by Yoshida Kenko

In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there…

— Yoshida Kenko

Around everything that is perfected, the unfinished ascends and intensifies.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

— Paul Theroux

There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The field of boundless emptiness is what exists from the very beginning. You must purify, cure, grind down, or brush away all the tendencies…

— Yi Wu Taigen Leighton

“You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent.”

— Mitch Albom

“REFUTATION OF INCOMPLETE AND SUPERFICIAL (DOCTRINE)[FN#321] There are in the Buddhist doctrines, to state briefly, the five grades (of development), beginning with the most…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“Do not fear emptiness. It is the dwelling place of possibility. Nothing can be added to a vessel that is already full. ~Malachi”

— Stephanie Stamm

“We have familiar experience of the order, the constancy, the perpetual renovation of the material world which surrounds us. Frail and transitory as is…

— William Peter Blatty

All is lost! Monks, Monks, Monks! So, now all is gone - Empire, Body, and Soul!.

— Henry VIII of England

“To be empty is to be full. —LAO TZU”

— Ragini Elizabeth Michaels

From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at…

— Sharon Salzberg