Emptiness Quotes - Page 4

Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.

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.

Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.

When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard.

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

Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.

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.

It’s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God’s will. It’s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you’re not supposed to have emptiness.

The primordial purity of the ground completely transcends words, concepts, and formulations.

There is no greater method for experiencing peace of mind and happiness than to understand and meditate on Emptiness.

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.

I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.

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

Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.

Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

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