Emptiness Quotes - Page 7

• Nature abhors a vacuum.

  Francois Rabelais

  Nature, Hate, Science

  "Gargantua", Chapter V, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 544-48, 1922.

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• To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.

  Adyashanti

  Mystery, Empty, Source

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• In an utter emptiness anything can take place.

  John Cage

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

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• Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Expression, Who We Are

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• A warrior has no confusion in his mind...This is true emptiness.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Warrior, Confusion, Mind

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• Emptiness is the track on which the centered person moves.

  Je Tsongkhapa

  Moving, Journey, Hiking

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• As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Numbness, Long

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• London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.

  China Mieville

  London, Angle, Endless

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• I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.

  Haruki Murakami

  Ocean, Night, Numbness

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 09, 2013

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• Anger is a passion, so it makes people feel alive and makes them feel they matter and are in charge of their lives. So people often need to renew their anger a long time after the cause of it has died, because it is a protection against helplessness and emptiness just like howling in the night. And it makes them feel less vulnerable for a little while.

  Merle Shain

  Anger, Passion, Night

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• There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my dreams. I feel my typewriters, my table, my chair to have that assurance of a solid world, where things take up space, where is not the endless emptiness of insubstantial thought that leads to nowhere but itself. My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Dream, Memories, Typewriters

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• Healthy mysticism praises acts of letting go, of being emptied, of getting in touch with the space inside and expanding this until it merges with the space outside. Space meeting space; empty pouring into empty. Births happen from that encounter with emptiness, nothingness. . . . Let us not fight emptiness and nothingness, but allow it to penetrate us even as we penetrate it.

  Matthew Fox

  Letting Go, Fighting, Space

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• Enlightenment is a timeless void. It's an emptiness that's filled with the most excellent light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Void

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• There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sadness, Passion, Men

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• Quantum events have a way of just happening, without any cause, as when a radioactive atom decays at a random time. Even the quantum vacuum is not an inert void, but is boiling with quantum fluctuations. In our macroscopic world, we are used to energy conservation, but in the quantum realm this holds only on average. Energy fluctuations out of nothing create short-lived particle-antiparticle pairs, which is why the vacuum is not emptiness but a sea of transient particles. An uncaused beginning, even out of nothing, for spacetime is no great leap of the imagination.

  Taner Edis

  Average, Sea, Imagination

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• Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Passion, Heart, Sadness

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Here is just emptiness. There is no getting my ego out of the way, and all that stuff. There is just the seeing, shining in great brilliance and clarity.

  Douglas Harding

  Shining, Ego, Stuff

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• 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.

  Rajneesh

  Single Mom, Cups, Scared

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• When you attain to an egoless emptiness great creativity happens.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Happens

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• Objective art is just the opposite. The man has nothing to throw, he is utterly empty, absolutely clean. Out of this silence, out of this emptiness, arises love, compassion, and out of this silence a possibility for creativity. This silence, this love, this compassion, these are the qualities of meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Creativity, Men

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• The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does not die; it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place.

  Khalil Gibran

  Strong, Heart, Tree

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• In the heart of a human being,
  emptiness becomes love.
  When we touch that Source,
  instantly the love is present.
  Literally, the divine becomes human
  and the human becomes divine.

  Adyashanti

  Heart, Love Is, Divine

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• Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.

  Gautama Buddha

  Causes, Empty, Said

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• Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Joy, Free Yourself

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• If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Space, Sun

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