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quotes by topic Emptiness

" A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one. "

Matter , Emptiness , Empty

" Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities. "

Infinite , Emptiness , Facts

" Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness. "

Grief , Emptiness

" It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

Life , Emptiness

" I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

Longing , Emptiness

" Meditation,‚Äù said his teacher, ‚Äúhasn‚Äôt got a damn thing to do with anything, ‚Äòcause all it has to do with is nothing. Nothingness. Okay? It doesn‚Äôt develop the mind, it dissolves the mind. Self-improvement? Forget it, baby. It erases the self. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. What good is it? Good for nothing. Excellent for nothing. Yes, Lord, but when you get down to nothing, you get down to ultimate reality. It‚Äôs then and exactly then that you‚Äôre sensing the true nature of the universe, you‚Äôre linked up with the absolute Absolute, son, and unless you‚Äôre content with blowing smoke up your butt all your life, that there‚Äôs the only place to be. "

Emptiness