Empty Quotes - Page 38

• A deep inner emptiness is needed; that inner emptiness becomes the womb. So I`m not saying stop doing, stop action; I`m not saying that. I am saying that whatsoever you are doing, let it be just an outside activity. Inside become feminine, silent, doors opened, empty, waiting.

  Rajneesh

  Doors, Waiting, Action

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• My whole effort is to help you to disappear. My whole effort is to help you to be so empty: anatta - non-being. Because if you are, you will remain in trouble. If you are, you will remain limited. If you are, there will be a definition to your being - and you will never be overflowing. Only emptiness can be overflowing, only emptiness can be at ease. Only emptiness can be life abundant. To be, the way passes through non-being. If you really want to be, you will have to drop all concepts of your being. You will have to disappear, by and by. You will have to melt into nothingness.

  Rajneesh

  Effort, Way, Ease

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• Authentic gratitude is much more rare and precious than expressions of gratitude which are often empty courtesies or simply tactical ploys to encourage further gifts or kindnesses.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Kindness, Expression

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• Just by being aware, thoughts start disappearing. There is no need to fight. Your awareness is enough to destroy them. And when the mind is empty, the temple is ready. And inside the temple the only god worth placing is silence. So those three words you have to remember: relaxation, thoughtlessness, silence. And if these three words are no more words to you but become experiences, your life will be transformed.

  Rajneesh

  Fighting, Silence, Relaxation

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• Objective art is just the opposite. The man has nothing to throw, he is utterly empty, absolutely clean. Out of this silence, out of this emptiness, arises love, compassion, and out of this silence a possibility for creativity. This silence, this love, this compassion, these are the qualities of meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Creativity, Men

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• Ordinarily all desires exist in the second state of consciousness, the dreaming state. Desire is a dream and to work for a dream is doomed from the very beginning, because a dream can never become real. Even if sometimes you feel it has become almost real, it never becomes real - a dream by nature is empty. It has no substance in it.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Real, Desire

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• Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.

  George Gilder

  Males, Female, Levels

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• We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

  Robert H. Shaffer

  Teacher, Teaching, Views

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• Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beach, Pain, Lying

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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• If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any field, and historical research becomes an idle, empty activity.

  Justus von Liebig

  Science, Judging, Historical

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• The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and any attempt at proof is logically absurd.

  George H. Smith

  Religion, Atheism, Doe

  George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.30, Prometheus Books

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• When words are most empty, tears are most apt.

  Max Lucado

  Funeral, Eulogy, Tears

  Max Lucado (2010). “Chronicles of the Cross Collection”, p.56, Harper Collins

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• 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.

  Bernard Williams

  Optimistic, Optimism, Emptiness

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• Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Misery, Canvas

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• Assuming the universe came from nothing, it is empty to begin with... Only by the constant action of an agent outside the universe, such as God, could a state of nothingness be maintained. The fact that we have something is just what we would expect if there is no God.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Religion, Atheism, Agents

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• Citizenship has not delivered Indigenous Australians the same quality of life other Australians expect. Basic human rights involve health, housing, education, employment, economic opportunity, and equality before the law, and respect for cultural identity and cultural diversity. These human rights must be capable of being enjoyed otherwise they are empty gestures.

  Jackie Huggins

  Life, Opportunity, Law

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• I think I get used to, even addicted to, the feelings associated with the end of a long training run. I love feeling empty, clean, worn out, starving, and sweat-purged. I love the good ache of muscles that have done me proud. I love the way a cold beer tastes later that afternoon. I love the way my body feels light and sinewy.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Beer, Thinking

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• I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Lying, Self

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.158, Penguin UK

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• To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Religious, Men

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• What is it to be a fool for Christ? It is to control one's thoughts when they stray out of line. It is to make the mind empty and free.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Spiritual, Free Spirit, Mind

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• The whole point of all these conversations is to leave your mind empty, not full. If you go away with learning, you have missed the opportunity

  Mooji

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Opportunity

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• The empty tomb stands, a veritable rock, as an essential element in the evidence for the resurrection. To suggest that it was not in fact empty at all, as some have done, seems to me ridiculous.

  Norman Anderson

  Easter, Rocks, Essentials

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• The simple fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus' resurrection, came into existence and flourished in the very city where he was executed and buried is powerful evidence for the historicity of the empty tomb.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

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• Let all men know how empty and powerless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth and sea obey

  Cnut the Great

  Kings, Ignorance, Men

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• The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability to make people understand Him, in the desertion of His apostles, in the hatred of His persecutors, in all the terrible suffering and death of His Passion, and now in His permanent state of humility in the tabernacle, where He has reduced Himself to such a small particle of bread that the priest can hold Him with two fingers. The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Passion, Humility

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