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Without God, the universe is an empty space, and emptiness is the most terrible feeling you can have." – Ernesto.

Without your pain you are nothing but a spiritual embryo.

Without the pieces there can be no whole and without the whole the pieces have no place. What the hell does that mean? Did you know that it requires the time and effort of approximately 10,000 individuals to get the coffee from the plant to your coffee pot each and every morning? That's just your morning cup of coffee! Expand that outwards to all the other products you pick up from your grocery store, to the water, sewage, and power systems hooked up to your house. In order for you to maintain your lifestyle, it requires the efforts of millions of individuals you don't even know exist. Suddenly the concept of independence sounds kind of absurd! If you are special, it's not because of you as an individual, it's because of your compatibility within the whole. Become a source of dysfunction within the whole and suddenly your importance wanes, folks try to avoid you. This is the philosophy of sunyata which some refer to as the theory of emptiness but which I choose to think of as the theory of the pieces and the whole.

Wszystko, co czułam, to głód. Straszny głód, który mogłabym nazwać brakiem, potrzebą, bezsilnością, frustracją, pustką; prześladował mnie, zżerał, a wkrótce miał żarłocznie połknąć.

Yeah, I'm just here for - " I stop for a second, because I'm not sure how to finish the line out loud. To see if I can ever be happy, or even remotely human, again. Would you happen to have the magic cure?

Yet something else trickles in between the cracks of this despairing thought. The hope of something to fill that emptiness. The hope that, perhaps, I have found it already. And suddenly hope is a thing alive, soaring in me. Its wings beat against my ribs, wild with the promise of joy.

You are just as connected to the Universe as a finger is to a hand, or as a branch is to a tree. The entire cosmos is expressing itself through your being.

You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself.

You are not a small and unimportant creature confined to the form of this physical body, contrary to popular belief. At the core of your being you are pure awareness, and this awareness is the same source from which everything in the Universe arises, exists as, and returns to. Consciousness is the dimension of yourself that you have forgotten you are, and of which you long to return to.

You hold an absence at your center, as if it were a life.

You do not have an existence independent of your environment, but rather you are your environment, and your environment is you.

You have the eyes of a wolf-girl whose heart has never once been moved. When I press my ear to your chest, I hear only wind and emptiness.

You can only become the observer of life, if you can perceive the world with the mind and not with the sensory organs.

You will desperately realise the necessity of casting anchor to somewhere or being chained to someone or something when you are drifting in the emptiness of life!

Your arms ache to hold someone -- you move in slow motion from one hug to the next so you won't jostle the warm feeling off your shoulders before the next hug comes your way. Your heart feels hollow -- that emptiness screams like an addiction to be filled even if it means doing hurtful, selfish things to get a fix. "I understand," I tell him. "Because I've been lonely, too.

You see, until then I'd been driven. I'd had a true quest, a purpose beyond my function - and then suddenly, the quest was over. I felt... drained. Disappointed. Let down. Does that make sense? I had been sure that as soon as I had everything back I'd feel good. But inside I felt worse than when I stared.

You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you.

All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.

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

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

All life has emptiness at its core; it is the quiet hollow reed through which the wind of God blows and makes the music that is our life.

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.

Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.

Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly

As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers

And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness.

Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.

A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.

A warrior has no confusion in his mind...This is true emptiness.

Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.

Being chosen doesn't come out of a state of fullness, it comes out of a state of emptiness.

Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.

Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.

Confidence without skill is just emptiness.

Don't be fooled by your emptiness, there's so much more room for happiness.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs. But many of us fear emptiness. We prefer to remain...surrounded by things...we imagine are subject to our control.

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

Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.

Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take.

Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized.

Enlightenment is a timeless void. It's an emptiness that's filled with the most excellent light.

Get yourself empty in the Eastern sense. Not in the Western sense. In the Western sense when we feel empty we feel lonely, miserable, but in the Eastern sense - "I'm so empty, because I'm filled with everything, and I'm connected to everything." It's very energizing. You want that kind of emptiness, whatever you have to do to get yourself quiet.

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

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.

For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.