Emptiness Quotes

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.

From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.

Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the ultimate heart of the body, at the heart of the world, there is no solidity. Once again, there is only the dance.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.

When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.

All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.

Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.

Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.

We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness.

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going

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. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.

Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.

Don't wait to find solid ground. Dance in emptiness.

People who know the state of emptiness will always be able to dissolve their problems by constancy.

We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now. And tried to reach beyond the emptiness, but neither one knew how.

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

And so you're afraid of the emptiness of your friend's life. But there's no emptiness in the life of a man of knowledge, I tell you. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal.

Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine.

I'm a reader, so when I go to bookstores I need (stuff) that's going to help me. There a big emptiness there and I want to help fill that through song.

It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.

If you have not linked yourself to true emptiness, you will never understand the art of peace.

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.

The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard.

Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.

I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.

Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.

There is no greater method for experiencing peace of mind and happiness than to understand and meditate on Emptiness.

The primordial purity of the ground completely transcends words, concepts, and formulations.

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.

From the point of view of emptiness, there is neither being nor non-being, but we're not on the point of view of emptiness, we're on the point of view of our relative being.

It’s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God’s will. It’s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you’re not supposed to have emptiness.

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.

Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises

Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you.

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.