Quotes About Sunyata

#1. 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

#2. People do not lose respect for a man when he's down. They lose it when he refuses to get up.

Robert Benson

#3. Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and combining as he pleases, each man reads his own peculiar lesson according to his own peculiar mind and mood.

Herman Melville

#4. Out here, due process is a bullet.

John Wayne

#5. To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.

Jane Jacobs

#6. The central signified, the original or transcendental signified, is never absolutely present outside a system of differences. The absence of the transcendental signified extends the domain and the interplay of signification ad infinitum.

Jacques Derrida

#7. I loved my country, and I hated him.

Lord Byron

#8. A true friend is not angry when you insult. Instead they think of more insulting words to you.

Sphencer Perales