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• The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

  Robert Bly

  Love Is, Horror

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• The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what is empty turns its face to us and whispers: 'I am not empty, I am open'.

  Tomas Transtromer

  Prayer, Wall, Taken

  Tomas Transtromer (2017). “The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems”, p.126, Graywolf Press

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• I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by nothing, lonelier and colder than the space between the stars. It was more frightening than being dead.

  Peter Carey

  Stars, Loneliness, Space

  FaceBook post by Peter Carey from May 23, 2013

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• I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.

  Edith Wharton

  Lonely, Children, Night

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.136, Xist Publishing

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• A person dies, or something you had identified with completely is gone. Your home goes up in flames. There is extreme pain at first. But whenever a form dissolves, which is called "death," what remains is an opening into emptiness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Home, Flames

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!

  Amy Lowell

  Rooms, Tick, Empty

  Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (2002). “Selected Poems of Amy Lowell”, p.52, Rutgers University Press

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• Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not 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

  Motivation, Inspiration, Using Your Talents

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• All the little emptiness of love!

  Rupert Brooke

  Love, Heart, Littles

  New Numbers no. 4 (1914) "Peace"

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• If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Empty, Ifs

  "The Sign and Its Children". Book by Dejan Stojanovic, "The Sign and Emptiness" (p. 9), 2000.

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• The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder. All the good and all the evil, the very best and the very worst, the upright and the degenerate- each and all are radically perfect manifestations of Spirit precisely as they are. There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.

  Ken Wilber

  Dust, Evil, Perfect

  Ken Wilber (2001). “The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad”, p.290, Shambhala Publications

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• An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Funny, Education

  "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 49), 1973.

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• Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

  Lorrie Moore

  Numbness, Done, World

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Oct 29, 2012

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• Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

  Edward Blishen

  Education, Philosophy, Discipline

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• As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone is a stone. My beautiful fusion with the things of this world was over.

  Sylvia Plath

  Beautiful, Stars, Wall

  Sylvia Plath (1994). “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams”

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• Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

  Louis L'Amour

  Revenge, Men, Stealing

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Comstock Lode”, p.58, Bantam

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• 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  Advice, Solitude, World

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company

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• An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

  Thomas Traherne

  Book, Reading, Soul

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Objects obey quantum laws- they spread in possibility following the equation discovered by Erwin Schodinger- but the equation is not codified within the objects. Likewise, appropriate non-linear equations govern the dynamical response of bodies that have gone through the conditioning of quantum memory, although this memory is not recorded in them. Whereas classical memory is recorded in objects like a tape, quantum memory is truly the analog of what the ancients call Akashic memory, memory written in Akasha, Emptiness- nowhere.

  Amit Goswami

  Memories, Law, Unity

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• Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.

  Jean Kilbourne

  Addiction, Addicts In Recovery, Addiction Recovery

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• When I talk to some of the younger filmmakers, they are so worried about their films that, eventually, this state of being worried reflects itself in and helps the final work. Whereas, with projects that are meticulously planned, you look at the end result and it is full of emptiness.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Finals, Looks, Helping

  "INTERVIEW: Films Without Borders: Abbas Kiarostami Talks About “ABC Africa” and Poetic Cinema". Interview with Scott Foundas, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2002.

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

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Growth, Surrender

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• The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

  Saint Augustine

  Falling In Love, Honor, Puff

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• 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

  Breathing, Consciousness, States

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.244, Shambhala Publications

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• Being chosen doesn't come out of a state of fullness, it comes out of a state of emptiness.

  Edward F Edinger

  Humility, States, Fullness

  Edward F. Edinger (1992). “Transformation of the God-image: An Elucidation of Jung's Answer to Job”

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• Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Dream, Real, Simple

  Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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