Best 483 quotes in «emptiness quotes» category

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

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

The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

Teamwork - everything is one. You can connect with the emptiness of all things. All things are empty.

The emptiness where I used pain to fill the hole no longer controls me, no longer calls me because of you.

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

The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.

The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

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 master is already merged into existence. Merging into the master you are really merging with existence itself. The master functions only as a door, and a door is an emptiness; you pass through it. The master is the door to the beyond.

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

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

the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness.

The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that this question was possible: pain that turns finally into emptiness. The knowledge that the same equation applied to everything, more or less.

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

There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.

There is no emptiness of soul ever for those whose life is devoted to God.

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 is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

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

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

The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.

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

The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.

The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness.

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness

This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.

Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.

Thoughts that deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an inner emptiness of life; this inner unreality and emptiness are experienced as torment, as disharmony.

This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you think yourself to death?

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.

To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God.

To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.

To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That's all! And then you realize, "I'm here." Here is where thoughts aren't believed. Every time you come here, you are nothing. Radiantly nothing. Absolutely and eternally zero. Emptiness that is awake. Emptiness that is full. Emptiness that is everything.

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed.

Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

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

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

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

What is my identity ?" "Nothing," said the Master. "You mean that I am an emptiness and a void?" said the incredulous disciple. "Nothing that can be labeled." said the Master.

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

When all the faces have been rejected and emptiness is left, you have found the original face. Emptiness is the original face. Zero is the ultimate experience. Nothingness - or more accurately NO-THINGNESS - is your original face.

When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.