Nothingness Quotes - Page 11

• I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of nothingness that will carry over onto the golf course. If I can get that feeling of quiet and obliviousness within myself, I feel I can't lose.

  Jane Blalock

  Golf, Peaceful, Feelings

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• Zero is powerful because it is infinity’s twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and
  yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling. The biggest questions in science
  and religion are about nothingness and eternity, the void and the infinite, zero and
  infinity. The clashes over zero were the battles that shook the foundations of philosophy,
  of science, of mathematics, and of religion. Underneath every revolution lay a
  zero – and an infinity.

  Charles Seife

  Zero, Powerful, Philosophy

  Charles Seife (2000). “Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea”, p.2, Penguin

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• We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust...
  The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance.

  Rumi

  Stars, Dust, Circles

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• All incarnations are lived at once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're in the vortex of time and space, when your consciousness is fixated in a body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Space, Doe

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• To go beyond karma you have to end the structure of self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Self, Structure

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• Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses. I don't necessarily believe in linear time. Everything happens all at once forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Believe, Forever

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• It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to love in a way which, without Him, would be absolutely impossible.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Would Be, Way, Impossible

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• The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit them, are unchangeable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Cities, Sea, People

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• Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall. The ground is where humility lives. Take it. Learn it. Breathe it in. And then come back stronger, humbler and more aware of your need for Him. Come back having seen your own nothingness and His greatness.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fall, Humility, Greatness

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• We were never there to begin with. What we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perception

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• It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.

  Mother Teresa

  Emptiness, Realizing, Silence Of The Heart

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.8, New World Library

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• When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Baggage, Claims, Existence

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• There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ideas, Evil, Perfection

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• Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Said, Happens

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• The world is always ending and always beginning at every moment.

  Frederick Lenz

  World, Moments

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• Qualityless simply means there is no way to discuss it. There is no way to pin it down. It could be anything at any given moment since infinity is not bound even by itself, nor the words that human beings choose to try and talk around it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Trying, Infinity

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• Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Easy, Paint, Application

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Clive Giboire (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: the complete correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

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• Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Emptiness

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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, Emptiness

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

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• When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Laughing

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• But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily,every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Causes, Problem, Made

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• There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Revenge, Dust, Oblivion

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• There is no deterioration and there is no creation. There are projections, moments of existence. Each moment is perfect.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Perfect, Deterioration

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• We can only conceive of changing the self-reflection in response to our concept of self-reflection, which is predicated on our concept of self, which is a self-reflection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reflection, Self, Response

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• The world wasn't created. It is created anew at every moment by mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, World, Moments

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