Top 100 Emptiness Is Quotes
#1. The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#2. 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
#3. If a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
Agnes Repplier
#4. Emptiness is not the opposite of existence. It is not nothingness or annihilation.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#6. Form is emptiness, emptiness is form states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.
Eckhart Tolle
#7. I think about that 'empty' space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.
Meredith Monk
#8. If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness.
Dejan Stojanovic
#9. The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.
Lewis H. Lapham
#10. Change of state is not the point; recognizing the Changeless is the point, recognizing primordial Emptiness is the point, and if you are breathing and vaguely awake, that state of consciousness will do just fine.
Ken Wilber
#11. I am not me, I am not a human being.
I am empty.
Infinite emptiness dwells in me.
I am the spirit.
Emptiness is me.
Debasish Mridha
#12. Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs. But many of us fear emptiness. We prefer to remain ... surrounded by things ... we imagine are subject to our control.
Wayne Muller
#13. Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized.
Masao Abe
#14. The theory of emptiness ... is the deep recognition that there is a fundamental disparity between the way we perceive the world, including our own existence in it, and the way things actually are.
Dalai Lama XIV
#15. 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
#16. Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase, "Form is emptiness." That all things are provided for by nothingness is the meaning of the phrase, "Emptiness is form." One should not think that these are two seperate things.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#17. Are you mourning over your own weakness? Take courage, for there must be a consciousness of weakness before the Lord will give you victory. Your emptiness - is but the preparation for your being filled; and your casting down - is but the making ready for your lifting up!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#18. Emptiness is filling me To the point of agony/ Growing darkness taking dawn/
I was me but now he's gone/
Metallica
#19. When all the faces have been rejected and emptiness is left, you have found the original face. Emptiness is the original face. Zero is the ultimate experience. Nothingness - or more accurately NO-THINGNESS - is your original face.
Rajneesh
#20. If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?
Dejan Stojanovic
#21. Self-help and those stupid proverbs, they do nothing. Soul food? It's like trying to cure starvation with a sugar cube. It might taste sweet on the lips but once it dissolves, the emptiness is still there.
C. Sean McGee
#22. I have lived my life growing up with emptiness in hope that I would someday find you. That emptiness is now a broken Heart
Duane Henderson
#23. In the Lotus Sutra, it is said everything is emptiness - this world is empty, hell is empty, heaven is empty, God is empty, everything is emptiness. Emptiness is the nature of all things, nothingness, so be attuned to nothingness and you will achieve.
Rajneesh
#24. Petty human squabbles over borders and oil and creed vanish in the knowledge that this living marble surrounded by infinite emptiness is our shared home, and more, a home we share with, and owe to, the most wonderful inventions of life.
Nick Lane
#25. The emptiness is so intense, that anything which enters it leaves a trace, something of it remains in space: in the silence, in the whiteness, nothingness becomes peopled, too.
Marie Darrieussecq
#26. Perception through emptiness is existential, as the transience of all phenomena affirms the indivisibility of existence itself, before, within and behind all manifestation.
Georgi Y. Johnson
#27. My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born
Mary Martin
#28. Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million?
Grigori Perelman
#29. 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
#30. What does it mean to be me? I don't know. Maybe that's just it. Maybe it doesn't mean anything. Maybe that's the answer. Maybe all I am is emptiness, is nothing.
Katherine Ewell
#31. Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
Dogen
#32. To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.
Adyashanti
#33. Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.
Maxwell Maltz
#34. Emptiness is no fullfilment : No Real Happiness.
P.C.M. Hermans
September 17, 2016
Petra Hermans
#35. Death isn't empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom ... Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, fear of death. I say we break those chains.
Pierce Brown
#36. I take medication that makes me feel absolutely nothing. Medication that scoops out my insides and leaves me hollow. Sometimes I take it because that emptiness is the only way to keep my heart from crumbling to pieces.
Kelley York
#37. I almost try to explain another untranslatable word--sunyata--to Jonas. The idea has Buddhist roots and several meanings, depending on context. I think emptiness is the closest word, but, in English, we infer emptiness as a void, a lack. Sunyata is open with possibility, a meditative space.
Emery Lord
#38. No words, phrases, or sentences are capable of describing or naming the Way, because once it is named, it is a false name and has to be eliminated. Once it is eliminated, only emptiness is left. When the false is abandoned, the true emerges.
Henry Chang
#39. We see, at least with intellect, that beyond both true and false is truth; that there is beauty beyond our present views on the beautiful and ugly; that pleasure-pain can now alike be transcended, and that some day we shall truly see that 'form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form'.
Christmas Humphreys
#40. No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself.
Liu Cixin
#41. Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.
Brother Lawrence
#42. When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
Adyashanti
#43. The uncreated is a vast, empty space. This emptiness is so scary that most hold on to what they know, making minor adjustments to what they understand, unable to move on to something unknown.
Ed Catmull
#44. As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, - Listen and do not hear - the tongue moves but does not speak ... I want you to pray for me - that I let Him have free hand.
Mother Teresa
#45. There won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion.
Frederick Lenz
#46. Don't be afraid of emptiness. Emptiness is divine. Let the divine fill up the space in a way that is truly right for you. Trying to fill it up too soon blocks your gifts.
Renae A. Sauter
#47. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, of death. I say we break those chains. Break the chains of fear and you break the chains that bind us
Pierce Brown
#48. 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
#49. The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance.
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
#50. Emptiness is like air. It floats around unseen but you know it's there.
PureDragonWolf
#51. The victorious ones have said
That emptiness is the relinquishing of all views.
For whomever emptiness is a view,
That one has achieved nothing.
Nagarjuna
#52. Rough work with a soul will always be open to all, including condemnation & reviling, while fine work housing emptiness is closed to all insults & is easily ivied over with paid praises
Richard Flanagan
#53. Everything's alright, form is emptiness and emptiness is form, and we're here forever, in one form or another, which is empty. Everything's alright, we're not here, there, or anywhere.
Jack Kerouac
#54. Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.
Rick Warren
#55. Obedience is a knife that cuts the cord of bondage.
Silence is a hammer that shatters the walls of speech.
Stillness is strength; pain a soft bed.
Put down your basin; emptiness is the only vessel.
Brian Staveley
#56. Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because this is closer to reality.
Dalai Lama
#57. From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters.
Sharon Salzberg
#58. Emptiness is the worlds greatest discovery
Sorin Cerin
#59. 'Emptiness' means empty of a separate self. It is full of everything, full of life. The word emptiness should not scare us. It is a wonderful word. To be empty does not mean non-existent. Emptiness is the ground of everything. Thanks to emptiness, everything is possible.
Nhat Hanh
#60. You said. Or maybe it's ourselves.
This emptiness is sucking something out of us.
Here where there's only death, maybe our life
Is terrifying. Maybe it's the life
In us
Frightening the earth, and frightening us.
Ted Hughes
#61. The feeling of emptiness is a pre-existing condition. Jargon forces intimacy.
Rae Armantrout
#63. Emptiness is not a great loss. It creates a great opportunity to fill yourself again and again with great love.
Debasish Mridha
#64. The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.
Elisabeth Elliot
#65. Our churches must be fully centered on Jesus and His work, or else death and emptiness is certain, regardless of the worship style or sermon series. Without the gospel, everything in a church is meaningless. And dead.
Matt Chandler
#66. How do you describe emptiness? Is it the air inside a bubble, the darkness in a pocket, snow? I think, yes, I was six when or seven when I first felt it, the dwindling that is depression.
Lauren Slater
#67. You ever feel the emptiness? You ever feel an emptiness so bad, you've got to fill it or you'll die, but you don't know where the emptiness is or what in the name of God you're supposed to fill it WITH?
Dean Koontz
#68. Emptiness is life without freedom, Darrow. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, of death.
Pierce Brown
#69. Universal emptiness is mere concept.
The fact is, there was never emptiness.
Toba Beta
#71. A personal brand should not be elevated if there is nothing underneath the label.
Ryan Lilly
#72. Attain complete emptiness,
Hold fast to stillness.
Understanding the ordinary:
Mind opens.
Mind opening leads to compassion,
Compassion to nobility,
Nobility to heavenliness,
Heavenliness to TAO.
TAO endures.
Your body dies.
There is no danger.
Lao-Tzu
#73. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds
whatever we want.
Lao-Tzu
#74. These things don't fill me completely, but they remind me that it is not my job to fill myself. It's just my job to notice my emptiness and find graceful ways to live as a broken, unfilled human - and maybe to help myself and others feel a teeny bit better.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#75. Any anger I feel vanishes. What is left cannot be described. It is guilt piled onto emptiness and set afire.
Bryan Reardon
#77. Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.
Maeve Brennan
#78. They tell you that space is emptiness, nothingness - the void. They suggest that space, empty space, is something negative. I found out that it's not! Space lives, Scott. Nothingness, emptiness, has a life all its own.
Nicholas Fisk
#79. Too much alleged 'fantasy' is just empty sugar, life with the crusts cut off.
Terry Pratchett
#80. His pictures of this region summarize the soulful emptiness of a country where, as Gertrude Stein observed, 'there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is.
Sarah Vowell
#81. On a more everyday level, our point is simply that when a person feels himself inwardly empty, as is the case with so many modern people, he experiences nature around him also as empty, dried up, dead. The two experiences of emptiness are two sides of the same state of impoverished relation to life.
Rollo May
#82. Why are people so afraid of thinking? Why don't they ever leave time to reflect? There's nothing wrong with tranquility; nor emptiness, vertigo, or even unhappiness. I think that these things are the first steps to precede the birth of a new thought. This is why I like to read.
Almudena Solana
#83. The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis
only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the reality before which we must justify our existence. For this is the truth we must reach to live, that everything is and we just in it.
Dag Hammarskjold
#84. A lot of my work is helping people to find their own life's purpose and then follow it. I find that when people are not working on their life's purpose there is a sense of emptiness and anxiety.
Doreen Virtue
#85. Our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness
Samuel Johnson
#86. I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well.
Pat Conroy
#87. Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.
Margaret Mitchell
#88. Bridge is nowhere; over the bridge, you feel an emptiness inside you. Bridge is nowhere.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. Emptiness the starting point. - In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.
Bruce Lee
#90. When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#91. Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own reality.
Daniel H. Wilson
#92. We try to find something to fill our void. But it is only God who can fill the void.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#93. Everything is much easier in the half-blind and half-deaf world of modern giants that seduce processions of the blind into the world of great emptiness. In their sky the stars shine and their names live in the parallel and independently of their work.
Dejan Stojanovic
#94. When you rest in quietness and
your image of yourself fades, and
your image of the world fades, and
your ideas of others fade, what's left?
A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are
Adyashanti
#95. For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
Alain Badiou
#96. Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings of worthlessness, sinfulness, inferiority, incompetence, failure, or emptiness. The feeling that there are things in us that are lacking or missing or incomplete.
Kenneth Wapnick
#98. You think it's a game?
Unintelligible? Ha!
Envision no spoons.
This is serious.
It is a matter of joy
versus emptiness.
Kristen Henderson
#99. The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and wings.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#100. There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.
W.G. Sebald
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