Best 483 quotes in «emptiness quotes» category

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.

Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.

Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life.

My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born

My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence... Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions? Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.

Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.

No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!

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.

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.

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

Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

Pain is always preferable to numbness.

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

Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

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.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

Put bluntly, the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. All Forms are not other than Emptiness, including the form of the ego. It is not necessary to get rid of the ego, but simply to live with it a certain exuberance.

She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be.

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.

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.

Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.

So all in all there wasn't anything really wrong with my life. Except that, like most everyone else's I knew about, it had a big gaping hole in it, an enormous emptiness, and I didn't know how to fill it or even know what belonged there.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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