Emptiness Quotes - Page 4

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Preparation, Casting, Lifting Up

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.189, Barbour Publishing

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• Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness.'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

  Ray Romano

  Attitude, Oysters, Identity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When one begins to purposefully perform acts of kindness, the spirit changes and soon doing good deeds becomes a focal point for our life; doing good begins to be the same as feeling good. The periods of emptiness when we search for the "meaning of it all" begin to fill with acts of kindness.

  Gary Blair

  Life, Kindness, Feel Good

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• It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

  Julian Schnabel

  Art, Jobs, Luxury

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• Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises

  Rumi

  Hurt, Grief, Finding Love

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

  Rumi

  Practice, Crafts, Said

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.49, Lulu.com

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• Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hurt, Pain, Numbness

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle”, Treasure Press

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• The first thing you discover is a kind of emptiness, a silence, a presence which doesn't seem to have content to it, like looking up at a limitless sky. That boundary-less place inside you is your own consciousness, your awareness. When you relax into it, you realize that it's also full - it is everything. You realize this presence is what you really are: Love.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Wisdom, Sky, Silence

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• The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Flower, Heart, Dust

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• From the point of view of emptiness, there is neither being nor non-being, but we're not on the point of view of emptiness, we're on the point of view of our relative being.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Views, Point Of View, Relative

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• You keep running after the love of the people, but you’ll never get it. And what you do get, will never be enough. The hole inside you is too big. You see, it was made by God, for God. How could anything less fill it?

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Love, Inspirational, God

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• I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn't worked.

  Janet Fitch

  Numbness, Broken, Way

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.174, Hachette UK

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• My worship is of a very strange kind.
  In this, Ganga water is not required.
  No special utensils are necessary.
  Even flowers are redundant.
  In this puja all gods have disappeared.
  And emptiness has emerged with euphoria.

  Lahiri Mahasaya

  Flower, Water, Special

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• The Big Bang has made Idealists out of almost anybody who thinks. First there was absolutely nothing, then Bang! Something. This is beyond weird. Out of sheerest Emptiness, manifestation arises.

  Ken Wilber

  Thinking, Bangs, Firsts

  Ken Wilber (2007). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.36, Shambhala Publications

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• 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

  Reality, Hands, Noses

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• I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me.

  Franz Kafka

  Way, Improvement, Possibility

  Franz Kafka (1970). “The Trial”

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• His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

  Edith Wharton

  Men, Saws, Figures

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2107, Delphi Classics

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• One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness - the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.

  Norman Mailer

  Weed, War, Marijuana

  Interview in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Third Series" edited by George Plimpton, 1967.

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• Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.

  Edvard Munch

  Memories, Eye, Artist

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• 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

  Spring, Void, Imagine

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• It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.

  Anton Chekhov

  Psychics, Boredom, Evil

  "My Life". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1896.

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• I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.

  Margaret Atwood

  Depression, Lying, Stupid

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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• Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you.

  Sun Tzu

  Doe, Void, Bypass

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• There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Sports, Disappointment, Careers

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• All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit
  is to stop seeking something more or better or different,
  and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

  Adyashanti

  Meditation Practice, Meditation And Yoga, Silence

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