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When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.
Shams Tabrizi
'When all strive to be something, remain unencumbered.Let void embrace you.'
2.
You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.
Charles Spurgeon
You will never comprehend the profundity of Jesus until you understand the insignificance of all but Him.
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And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it would not fill his emptiness.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
If someone were to possess the entirety of the universe and all its contents, it would not suffice to fill their void.
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When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness. Human should be like a pot. As the pot is hold by its emptiness inside, human is hold by the awareness of his nothingness.
Shams Tabrizi
"When all are striving to attain something, strive for nothingness. Roam with vacancy. People should be like a container; as the vessel is held by its void within, mankind is kept up by the recognition of his hollowness."
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Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.
D.T. Suzuki
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Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.
Jean Kilbourne
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We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.
M. Scott Peck
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Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.
Jacques Maritain
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the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
Matsuo Basho
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To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God.
Meister Eckhart
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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
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There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.
Haruki Murakami
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What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.
Karl Jaspers
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Across the downs a hummingbird Came dipping through the bowers, He pivoted on emptiness To scrutinize the flowers.
Nathalia Crane
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Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.
Maxwell Maltz
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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
Robert Bly
18.
The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.
Bruce Lee
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Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.
Laozi
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When you have friends, don’t expect your friends to fill your emptiness. When you get married, don’t expect your spouse to fulfill your every need. When you’re an activist, don’t put your hope in the results. When you’re in trouble don’t depend on yourself. Don’t depend on people. Depend on God.
Yasmin Mogahed
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Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
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Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly
James Herriot
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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
Dogen
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Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.
Johnny Cash
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When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.
Max Lucado
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
Simone Weil
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It’s often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.
Susan Polis Schutz
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I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point?
Kenneth Williams
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I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere
W. S. Merwin
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There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live.
Octavian Paler
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
Billie Joe Armstrong
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A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.
Leo Buscaglia
40.
Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
Chogyam Trungpa
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To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.
John Daido Loori
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The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.
Sam Shepard
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By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.
Ernest Hemingway
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I wanted to make pictures that contradicted themselves. I wanted to put one picture on top of another so that there were times when both pictures disappear and other times when they were both manifest. That vibration is basically what the work was about for me - that space in the middle where there is no picture, rather an emptiness, an oblivion.
Sherrie Levine
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Don't be fooled by your emptiness,
there's so much more room for happiness.
Kaskade
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Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.
Isabelle Adjani
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How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?
Ray Bradbury
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Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere.
Walker Percy