Emptiness Quotes
Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because this is closer to reality.
How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time.
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.
I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.
It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.
The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.
Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.
All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?
His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.
Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.
I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.
I shattered that memory by going back there. Without realizing it until it was too late, I replaced that memory with the emptiness of that day.
The emptiness of play is when there is no self present. There is no one playing - there is only play itself taking place, perfect fluid motion.
Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.
Teamwork - everything is one. You can connect with the emptiness of all things. All things are empty.
Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.
With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.
A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.
The resurrection proclamation could not have been maintained in Jerusalem for a single day, for a single hour, if the emptiness of the tomb had not been established as a fact.
There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.
Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not the other way around.
Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.
I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me.
In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.
A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventfulthen, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.
Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.
My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born
We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.
Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on.