Emptiness Quotes

Living Empty means we release the things that are no longer in alignment with who we are becoming. The release itself tells us who that is. The emptiness shows us the way.

Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own reality.

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied.

The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.

all nothing's only our hugest home; the most who die, the more we live

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.

Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.

In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .

Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.

Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.

The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They are competing against emptiness.

By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.

In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness.

When you realize your own emptiness, that will be something, won't it?

Meditation is not emptiness. That is a way of trying to talk about something that is impossible to put into words. It is a world of fullness, if anything.

Meditation is a refocusing on symbols. It's not emptiness. We are using symbols, doorways to step from one world to another, from darkness into light, from death to immortality.

You can't just sit in emptiness. Even the enlightened don't sit in emptiness. We call it emptiness - but we move our mind into a world of light.

In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.

Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to interact with.

There won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion.

But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.

To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial. It is to immure him in emptiness.

This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along.

It's only through form that we can realize emptiness

Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.

I feel emptiness, and he probably won't be able to close his eyes for two or three days.

In an utter emptiness anything can take place.

A cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others.

I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.

You will reach a point where you can finally go for an hour, or a day, or a week without painful reminders of absence and emptiness. Look for new awakenings. Be open to rebirth.

A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.

She'd lost her fury, somewhere, as they'd talked. She didn't feel it anymore. She wished she did, because she preferred it to the emptiness that had settled in its place.

The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.

The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.

There is something more important than the place being left. It's that swell of crushing emptiness that makes the insignificant seem anything but.

It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.

This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do.

Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.

You can’t have two worlds in your hands and choose emptiness.

Bridge is nowhere; over the bridge, you feel an emptiness inside you. Bridge is nowhere.

When you jump onto the emptiness of the loneliness, the best parachute to land you safely will be the books!

She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings.

I felt totally myself, nothing like the emptiness and horrible feeling I had then [pulling out the Olympics] - no dizziness.

A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.

When you attain to an egoless emptiness great creativity happens.

Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.

Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.

Life is an empty dream.