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• Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

  Jon Krakauer

  Love, Past, Numbness

  "Into the Wild". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• 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.

  Adyashanti

  Letting Go, Zero, Thinking

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.186, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness.  Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mistake, Reality, Thinking

  "Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen". Book by Shunryū Suzuki. Chapter: "Letters From Emptiness", p. 33, 2002.

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• When you have achieved a state of calmness and readiness, then you are ready to know, ready to understand in a deep way the dance between emptiness and appearance. Once you catch a glimpse of that dance, don't hang on to it. Just let it go, like your first glimpse of essence love.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Love, Dance, Essence

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche (2012). “Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation”, p.228, Random House

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• Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Loneliness, Passion, Men

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• And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it would not fill his emptiness.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  World, Given, Persons

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• If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Looks, Rage, Empty

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• By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Filled Up, Moveable Feast, Good And Bad

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Long, Mind, Doe

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.66, Open Court Publishing

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• How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?

  Ray Bradbury

  Numbness, Detachment, Empty

  Ray Bradbury (2015). “Ray Bradbury 3-Book Collection: Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man”, p.48, HarperCollins UK

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• As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Independent, Space, Atmosphere

  "The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul". Book by John Desmond Bernal, 1929.

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• Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.

  Rumi

  Book, Heart, Illumination

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.58, Lulu.com

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• What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.

  George Martin

  War, Thinking, Land

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• I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Life, Depressing, Real

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.390, Penguin UK

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

  Shunryu Suzuki

  People, Able, Problem

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.71, Shambhala Publications

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• You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going

  Anish Kapoor

  Feelings, Knows

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• Emptiness is in fact form when we forget the self. There's nothing in the universe *other* than ourself. Nothing to compare, name, or identify. When it's the only thing there is, how can we talk about it?

  Taizan Maezumi

  Self, Names, Facts

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• Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

  Eric Hoffer

  Trust, Beauty, Math

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

  Merle Shain

  Love, Fear, Heart

  "Some Men are More Perfect Than Others". Book by Merle Shain, 1973.

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• 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.

  Jack Kornfield

  Individuality, Void, Mysterious

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• The second means of attraction which He used is Emptiness, as we see when we place one end of a hollow pipe in water, and draw up it by suction; the water runs up the stem to the mouth, because the emptiness of the pipe, from which the air has been drawn, draws the water to itself.

  Meister Eckhart

  Running, Mean, Air

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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• God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? "To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.

  Ann Voskamp

  Giving, Making Love, Skins

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.217, Zondervan

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• Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.

  Rumi

  Soul, World, Disease

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• It’s often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Lucky, Imagine, Hopelessness

  "The Struggle to Overcome Depression" by Susan Polis Schutz, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2010.

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• Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Smile, Profound, Shining

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.34, Verso

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