Empty Mind Quotes

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  Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Friends

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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• Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

  Bruce Lee

  Blank Mind, Water, Meditation

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.138, Tuttle Publishing

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• Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.

  Tanya Huff

  Silence, Speak, Empty Words

  Tanya Huff (2012). “The Fire’s Stone”, p.134, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

  Frank McCourt

  House, Ashes, World

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Learning, Order

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.2, Tuttle Publishing

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• I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Mind, Empty, I Can

  "B. K. S. Iyengar, Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West, Dies at 95". www.nytimes.com. August 20, 2014.

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• In Japan we have the phrase, "Shoshin," which means "beginner's mind." Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich and sufficient within itself. This does not mean a closed mind, but actually an empty mind and a ready mind. If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything. It is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mean, Japan, Experts

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• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

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• To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Philosophy

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• Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

  Pindar

  Envy, Mind, Empty

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• Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Water, Meditation

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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• Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Dying, Ambitious

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.25, Tuttle Publishing

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• The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's an effulgence of the mind. It's a brightness that is truly sensitive and accepting. It's an ability to accept life as it is. When we accept life as it is, we can respond appropriately to the way we're experiencing it, rather than just reacting out of fear and aversion.

  Ajahn Sumedho

  Zero, Caring, Land

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• When you have an empty mind, you are prepared for the next thing that happens. It's like to be part of a spiritual practice for me simply means that you are there now. Not waiting for the next moment, or not living in the moment before, but you're there now. And it's there now which can only be really breathed and lived if the mind is empty enough to receive it.

  George Ogilvie

  Spiritual, Mean, Practice

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• During the late nights, try to walk in the empty streets with an empty mind! Light of wisdom will soon accompany you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Night, Accompany You, Light

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• Being in an empty mind increases my intuition, my sense of energy.

  Rickson Gracie

  Mma, Intuition, Energy

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• He who speaks from the lips chatters. He who speaks from an empty mind adds confusion to discord. He who speaks from a full mind feeds the minds of men. He who speaks from his heart wins the confidence of mankind. But he who speaks from his soul heals the heartbreaks of a world and feeds the hungry, starving souls of men. He can dry the tears of anguish and pain. He can bring light, for he will carry light.

  Annalee Skarin

  Pain, Heart, Winning

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• The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind.

  Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi

  Warrior, Moon, Water

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• Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation

  Shiv Khera

  Information, Transformation, Open Mind

  FaceBook post by Shiv Khera from Jun 11, 2016

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• To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

  Rose Macaulay

  Thinking, Prejudice, Privilege

  Rose Macaulay (1922). “Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings”

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• We are told that if you are not occupied with the mind all the time, then you will invite the devil. It is such a heightened misconception that people are going crazy just because of this. An empty mind is not the devil's home but an empty mind is the home of the Buddha.

  Anandmurti Gurumaa

  Crazy, Home, People

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• If you say you have an empty mind and you don't have an empty mind, you only know later that you have an empty mind. Because if you say you have empty mind, you don't have empty mind, because you're already thinking about it.

  Hamid Drake

  Thinking, Ifs, Knows

  Source: the-attic.net

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• He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

  Frank McCourt

  Shoes, Broken, House

  "Angela's Ashes". Book by Frank McCourt, 1996.

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• I was born in the same town as Richard Burton, the actor, and I saw him, he used to come - he and his wife drove by in the car in my father's shop and Burton would come home from Hollywood and ask him for his autograph, and I thought, I want to be like him. And that's all I said to myself, I want to be like that. I want to get out of this environment of my own empty mind.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Father, Home, Wife

  "Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 27, 2011.

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• He says, You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can't make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor , your shoes might be broken , but your mind is a palace.

  Frank McCourt

  Wisdom, Shoes, Broken

  "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir".

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