Nothingness Quotes

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  To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen" by Elbert Hubbard, (p. 370), 1898.

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• Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.

  Hugh Jackman

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Sleep

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June 2006.

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• Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Spiritual, Mindfulness, Found

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci".

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• Touch your inner space, which is nothingness, as silent and empty as the sky; it is your inner sky. Once you settle down in your inner sky, you have come home, and a great maturity arises in your actions, in your behavior. Then whatever you do has grace in it. Then whatever you do is a poetry in itself. You live poetry; your walking becomes dancing, your silence becomes music.

  Rajneesh

  Home, Maturity, Space

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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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• We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Stars, Dust

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• Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.

  Adyashanti

  Infinite, Empty, Boxes

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• Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  True Joy, Moments, Joy Of Life

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• Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Home, Existence, Exile

  "Tears and Saints". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1937.

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• The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, World, Cyclones

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• Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Consciousness, Conscious

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.225, Open Road Media

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• The physical universe that you see is all in your mind. When you turn your mind off, or become unconscious, the physical universe, for you, disappears. Then, when you awaken your consciousness, the universe reappears magically. Quite simple really - no thoughts on your part, no physical world. As Walt Whitman succinctly stated: "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You." Without your mind to process it, the universe simply disappears into nothingness.

  Wayne Dyer

  Simple, Mind, World

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• To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.

  Laozi

  Attachment, Mind, Spiritual Transformation

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

  Blaise Pascal

  Life, Time, Nature

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, (Section II: The Misery of Man without God), 1669.

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• Nothing happens until something moves.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Moving, Inspiration

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• When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Space, Meditation

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• Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the world, and everything within it, arising from some primordial argument between the deity and nothing whatsoever. And then, by some inscrutable incandescent insight, Leibniz came to see that what is crucial in what he had written is the alternation between God and Nothingness. And for this, the numbers 0 and 1 suffice.

  David Berlinski

  Simple, Two, Numbers

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

  Paul Valery

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Drinking

  "Mauvaises Pensées et Autres". Book by Paul Valery, 1941.

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• I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness

  Henry de Montherlant

  Ocean, Ideas, Made

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• In nothingness, there is everything, energy. The ending is a beginning.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Energy

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• Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Joy, Spirit

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our life, which is inaccessable to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us.

  Thomas Merton

  God, Spiritual, Truth

  Thomas Merton (2012). “On Christian Contemplation”, p.41, New Directions Publishing

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• Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Passing Away, Existence, Non Existence

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IV, 4,

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• Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Giving Up, Self, Effort

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• Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Quiet, Language

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