Emptiness Quotes - Page 2

• Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Mindfulness, Edges

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• Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

  Eileen Caddy

  Life, Rooms, Empty

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• Become totally empty
  Quiet the restlessness of the mind
  Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Mind, Quiet

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

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Empty

  "Men Who Have Walked with God". Book by Sheldon Cheney, 1992.

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• When the mind soars in pursuit of the things conceived in space...it pursues emptiness; but when man dives deep within himself, he experiences the fullness of existence.

  Meher Baba

  Men, Space, Mind

  Meher Baba (1977). “The Mastery of Consciousness: An Introduction and Guide to Practical Mysticism and Methods of Spiritual Development”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

  Edwin Markham

  Hoe, Age, World

  'The Man with the Hoe' (1899)

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• What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.

  Rumi

  Life, God, Relief

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• Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Player, Games, Chess Game

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• Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

  Anne Lamott

  Faith, Light, Return

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.257, Penguin

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• 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.

  Anthony de Mello

  Mean, Identity, Void

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• Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Nothingness

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• Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.

  Merle Shain

  Inspirational, Fear, Unrequited Love

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Life, Future

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• Evolution occurs in the world of time and space and form, whereas Spirit's primordial nature is finally timeless and Formless, prior to the of evolution but not other to it. We do not find Spirit or Emptiness by reaching some evolutionary Omega point in time, but rather by stepping off the cycle of time and evolution altogether (or ceasing to contract into it).

  Ken Wilber

  Time, Space, World

  Ken Wilber (2001). “The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad”, p.252, Shambhala Publications

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• There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.

  Heinz Pagels

  Stars, Profound, Here And There

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• When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.

  Max Lucado

  Feeling Empty, Full Of Yourself, Vessel

  Max Lucado (2012). “Life to the Full”, p.88, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

  Tom Hooper

  Thinking, Silence, Ifs

  "Director Tom Hooper Exclusive Interview THE KING’S SPEECH". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. November 26, 2010.

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• Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here.

  Karl Rahner

  Eerie, Names, Silence

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• One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.

  Emile Durkheim

  Names, Long, Doe

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.243, Routledge

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• I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.

  Anne Carson

  God, Would Be, Humans

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• Don't wait to find solid ground. Dance in emptiness.

  Surya Das

  Dance, Waiting

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• The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.... That’s why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Media, Squinting, Inability

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• When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Silence, Mind, Looks

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• Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

  Virginia Woolf

  Numbness, People, Soul

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2280, Delphi Classics

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• You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fear, Heart, Sadness

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