Quotes About Empty

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation.

his endearment fell on deaf ears like a stone dropping into an empty well.

Leaving would imply suitcases and empty drawers, and late birthday cards with ten-dollar bills stuffed inside.

Some people can be so generous when they give nothing away!

But it would be like going to Heaven and not finding any of your friends there. Her life would go all beatific and empty in the eyes.

Thoughts in the past are clear and empty and leave no traces behind. Thoughts in the future are fresh and unconditioned by anything. And in the present moment, when (your mind) remains in its own condition without constructing anything, Awareness at that moment in itself is quite ordinary.

empty things for empty men.

Do not seek to empty your cup as a way to avoid sin, but rather seek to fill it up with the Spirit of life, so there is no longer room for sin.

On the other hand, emotion without truth produces empty frenzy and cultivates shallow people who refuse the discipline of rigorous thought.

When the heart is far from God, worship is vain, empty, and nonexistent, no matter how proper the forms are. The experience of the heart is the defining, vital, indispensable essence of worship.

And so there was a chair which no one ever sat in standing in the bay window of the living-room. And it was understood that the chair would remain empty until a dog was born at Brookfield who could lie in it without shame.

Draw your own moral from this, Sparky. And remember at the center of the cult of personality called stardom there is just a big empty hole. Awards don't matter. Acclaim doesn't matter. Only your craft matters.

The Empire was falling, the Barbarians were on the move.... What was to be done, except to escape the age? Happy moment, when there is still somewhere to go, when the empty places were accessible and welcoming! We have been dispossessed of everything, even the desert.

Peace and acceptance suddenly fell into my hands. Like a patch of rich soil that had soaked up plenty of sun mounding gently up into an empty space, I felt something akin to an answer settle in me.

Maggots from meat,'" quoted John, "'weevils from rye, dragons from stars in an empty sky.

Empty minds are abhorred by thought as vacuums are by nature.

I should point out that the Gospels do not indicate on which day Jesus was raised. The women go to the tomb on the third day, and they find it empty. But none of the Gospels indicates that Jesus arose that morning before the women showed up. He could just as well have arisen the day before or even the day before that—just an hour, say, after he had been buried. The Gospels simply don't say.

Entirety exists within me as exuberance. Only in empty longing, only in an unlucky desire to be consumed simply be the desire to burn with desire, is entirety wholly what it is.

Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.

For they knew nothing, absolutely nothing—nothing, nothing, nothing, like the Dadaists.

hello to her?" "Oh, yes," the children said. The Game Spot was located right in the middle of the mall, between Lake's Jewelry Store and an empty storefront. There was a drugstore at one end of the mall, a coffee shop at the other, and

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.