Nothingness Quotes - Page 4

• To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.

  Laozi

  Attachment, Mind, Spiritual Transformation

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking, Moments, My Thoughts

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1998). “Nausea: The Wall and Other Stories : Two Volumes in One”, Fine Communications

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• One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment takes you away from your real being; you become focused on the thing to which you are attached. Your awareness gets lost in things, in money, in people, in power. And there are a thousand and one things, the whole thick jungle around you, to be lost in. Remember, non-attachment is the secret of finding yourself, then awareness can turn inwards because you don't have anything outside to catch hold of. It is free, and in this freedom you can know your self-nature.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Attachment, Self

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• You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of seeing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fighting, Creating, Ideas

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• To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.

  Maurice Blondel

  Humanity, Deceit, Instinct

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• Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

  George MacDonald

  Ideas, Existence

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.13002, Delphi Classics

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• Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight of the intolerable universe. I shall erase the pyramids, the medallions, the continents and faces. I shall erase the accumulated past. I shall make dust of history, dust of dust. Now I am looking on the final sunset. I am hearing the last bird. I bequeath nothingness to no one.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Stars, Sunset, Past

  Jorge Luis Borges, Alastair Reid (1977). “The Gold of the Tigers: Selected Later Poems : a Bilingual Edition”, Dutton Adult

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• None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Acceptance, Self

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• How do you know you're even here right now? Perhaps you're not. Perhaps you're far, far away and this is just a dream.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Far Away, Right Now

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• The Void is both the source of nothingness and, at the very same time, the source of everythingness. In short, the void is the limitless context in which your entire world is both appearing and disappearing.

  Chuck Hillig

  World, Void, Limitless

  Chuck Hillig (2007). “Looking for God: Seeing the Whole in One”, p.104, Sentient Publications

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• The way you become happy is by realizing that there is no self. No self at all, not a silly millimeter of self. You don't exist. When you know this, you will be happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Silly, Self, Way

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• I humbly believe our life is to learn our nothingness and His being everything; when we agree with Him that we are nothing and not astonished at our evil nature breaking forth, when we are willing for the last to be first, when we are willing to be the least in Heaven that every one we know should be higher than ourselves, then, I think, our lesson is learnt. If we are annoyed at any disparaging remark or conduct of our fellows, it is because we are not yet fully aware of our being nothing.

  Charles George Gordon

  Believe, Thinking, Evil

  Charles George Gordon (1888). “Letters of General C.G. Gordon to His Sister, M.A. Gordon”, London ; New York : Macmillan

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• Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.

  John Zerzan

  Everyday Routine, Void, Anarchy

  "Elements of Refusal". Book by John Zerzan, 1988.

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• You cannot be present in an abstract way. Presence is not about disappearing into nothingness. You can only be present with something that is actually here.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Awakening, Way, Abstract

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• Nirvana is a very exclusive club - no one is in it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Clubs, Exclusive

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• The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Babe, are therefore the only ones who will ever understand the reason of His visitation. He came to this poor earth of ours to carry on an exchange; to say to us, as only the Good God could say: 'you give me your humanity, and I will give you my Divinity; you give me your time, and I will give you My eternity; you give me your broken heart, and I will give you Love; you give me your nothingness, and I will give you My all.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Love You, Heart, Humble

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• Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.

  Rumi

  Power, Looks, World

  "Stephen Hawking’s Grand Book - Where Is the Design?" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2010.

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• This is simple meditation, nothingness and everythingness, the color and the form, death and the void, the end and the beginning, a beginningless end with an endless beginning, Pretty clever if you ask me.

  Frederick Lenz

  Clever, Buddhism, Simple

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• Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror, and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all, and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core of nothingness, and yet not nothing.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Stars, Night, Darkness

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• Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence, without you moving, slicing the noon like a blue flower, without you walking later through the fog and the cobbles, without the light you carry in your hand, golden, which maybe others will not see, which maybe no one knew was growing like the red beginnings of a rose. In short, without your presence: without your coming suddenly, incitingly, to know my life, gust of a rosebush, wheat of wind: since then I am because you are, since then you are, I am, we are, and through love I will be, you will be, we will be.

  Pablo Neruda

  Flower, Moving, Light

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• The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

  Philip James Bailey

  Nature, Courses, Whole

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• Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

  Heinz Pagels

  Science, Vacuums, Study

  Heinz R. Pagels (2012). “The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature”, p.279, Courier Corporation

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• That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nihilism, Form, Extremes

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• There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certainty, really, of loneliness, and nothingness, and so experiences life in that hurried, worthless way one experiences a mistake–he could no longer get at.

  Tao Lin

  Mistake, Loneliness, Long

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• The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.

  Quentin Crisp

  Blessing, Atheism, Looks

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