Quotes About Emptiness

This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.

Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

...a discontinuity, like a vacuum, is abhorred by nature.

Can a broken cistern hold water?

There are 200, 000 species of fly alone. So the void, the emptiness, must be in you.

in these shitty plastic days ...

Home at that moment was a starless night, a steady wind, not a human to be seen.

Usually, we hate the noise but sometimes we feel empty without that noise!

...a man's blood soon runs cold where there is no one around to warm it up.

The day stared back an empty gray, with not a speck of white to give character to the lifeless sky.

Simplicity is all but nothing that's there.

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.

By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.

And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly

Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.

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

We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.

When your mind is tranquil and at peace with the universe, when it has become void of all thought - you become meditation.