Quotes About Emptying

God can't fill you when you are already full of yourself.

When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.

We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full.

Cuando se quiere agregar agua a un vaso que está totalmente lleno, primero es necesario vaciarlo. Así una mente llena de opiniones y especulaciones no puede aprender, debemos vaciarla para que se de una condición de apertura

All the emptying out is only for the sake of a Great Outpouring.

All the emptying out is only for the sake of a Great Outpouring. God, like nature, abhors all vacuums, and rushes to fill them.

Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.

Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and empty, His glory and power flow in to exalt and to bless.

The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be all. Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the diving glory.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

Sin embargo, igual que esta taza, tú pareces estar lleno de ideas propias. ¿Cómo van a entrar más, si no vacías primero tu taza?

And the Christian life has suffered loss, where believers have not been distinctly guided to see that, even in our relation as creatures, nothing is more natural and beautiful and blessed than to be nothing, that God may be all;

A vessel must be empty if it is to be filled, and if we are to be filled with the life of God we must be utterly empty of self.

Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the divine glory.

had voided itself.

Every time I'd be thinking, "I have to keep," I'd remember, "No, you gotta give away instead." When I started going regularly to meetings, one of the principles I learned was that the way to maintain your own sobriety is to give it to another suffering alcoholic. Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.

The soft-spoken words fell off the side of the bed, emptying to the floor like powder.

She attempted to explain. I—when ... It was sitting in the snow, and— The spoft-spoken words fell off the side of the bed, emptying to the floor like powder.

There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment. I

Meditation is, to begin with, a practice of emptying the mind of this conceit that our own edited version of reality is the only unbiased and therefore valid one. It is a matter of recognizing that we are always, more or less, caught up in the reels of karmic editing.

You have to understand before you can respect, and you have to respect before you can fully love. This is a tremendously spiritually therapeutic process, an emptying of myself so I can grow more in my love for others.

This is a tremendously spiritually therapeutic process, an emptying of myself so I can grow more in my love for others.

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