Emptiness Quotations | Page 2

Pain is always preferable to numbness.

No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

The master is already merged into existence. Merging into the master you are really merging with existence itself. The master functions only as a door, and a door is an emptiness; you pass through it. The master is the door to the beyond.

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.

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.

You are so addicted and you have become so habituated that you cannot allow the cup to be empty even for a single moment. The moment you see emptiness anywhere you start filling it. You are so scared of emptiness, you are so afraid.: emptiness appears like death. You will fill it with anything, but you will fill it.

Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.

Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

The elephant in the living room for us is the huge number of seats and the emptiness for great concerts. ... The symphony has to look out for itself. That's what we the trustees are there for. Right now, our first line of defense is a renovation with reduction of seating.

If you have not linked yourself to true emptiness, you will never understand the art of peace.

Know emptiness, Be compassionate.

I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ...

In an utter emptiness anything can take place.

We cannot fill up our emptiness with objects, possessions or people.

We cannot fill up our emptiness with objects, possessions or people. We have to go deeper into that emptiness, then we will find beneath nothingness the flame of love to warm us.

Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

A cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others.

…it's so dreadful to have nothing to love — life is so empty — and there's nothing worse than emptiness…

Don't be fooled by your emptiness, there's so much more room for happiness.

From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.

The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.

I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.

What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

I felt totally myself, nothing like the emptiness and horrible feeling I had then [pulling out the Olympics] - no dizziness.

Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.

From True Emptiness The Wondrous Being Appears

People who know the state of emptiness will always be able to dissolve their problems by constancy.

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

Jill felt an emptiness open inside of her as she lifted her arm, a sense that something vital was being subtracted from her life. It was always like that when somebody you cared about went away, even when you knew it was inevitable, and it probably wasn't your fault. (341)

I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.

When you are so full that there is no emptiness in you, that you have started feeling the significance of the ordinary, day-to-day existence, when moment to moment you live totally, intensely, passionately, then God is available.

When you attain to an egoless emptiness great creativity happens.

When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard.

All the little emptiness of love!

Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.

Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.

Get yourself empty in the Eastern sense. Not in the Western sense. In the Western sense when we feel empty we feel lonely, miserable, but in the Eastern sense - "I'm so empty, because I'm filled with everything, and I'm connected to everything." It's very energizing. You want that kind of emptiness, whatever you have to do to get yourself quiet.

There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere.

Thoughts that deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an inner emptiness of life; this inner unreality and emptiness are experienced as torment, as disharmony.

I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere

There is no emptiness of soul ever for those whose life is devoted to God.

I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.

Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.

Physicists have determined that even the most solid and heavy mass of matter we see is mostly empty space. But at the submicroscopic level, specks of matter scattered through a vast emptiness have such incredible density and weight, and are linked to one another by such powerful forces, that together they produce all the properties of concrete, cast iron and solid rock. In much the same way, specks of knowledge are scattered through a vast emptiness of ignorance, and everything depends upon how solid the individual specks of knowledge are, and on how powerfully linked and coordinated they are with one another.

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.

The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

So few that live have life ...

A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.

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

I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.

There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music.... When you're full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should....

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.

There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness.

To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.

Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.