Emptiness
It is supposed that there has been progress in the science of textual criticism, and the most frivolous pretender has learned to talk superciliously about “the old unscientific days”. The old unscientific days are everlasting; they are here and now; they are renewed perennially by the ear which takes formulas in, and the tongue which gives them out again, and the mind which meanwhile is empty of reflexion and stuffed with self-complacency.
Author: A. E. HousmanTopics: Acceptance, Emptiness, Empty, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Mind, mind of state, Mind-Controlling, Positive, Programming, Progress, reflecting, Reflexes, Reformation, Science, Scientific, Superior, superior leader, Superiors, Supernatural, Suppose
We for a certainty are not the first
Have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled
Their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed
Whatever brute and blackguard made the world.
Topics: Acceptance, Another self, Emptiness, Empty, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Hope, Hope for peace, Hopeful, Hopefully, Hopeless, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Poem, Poet, Poetic, Positive
The walk north was exactly the right distance to make me walk out of myself….If you walked out of yourself going north, what did you do on the return walk? Enjoyed my emptiness. Or sometimes just congratulated myself for escaping.
Author: Gail GodwinTopics: Congratulate, Emptiness, Enjoyed, Escaping, Famous, North, Right
The best way to imagine how big the emptiness of nature is, is to jam it with humanity
Author: A. A. GillTopics: Emptiness, Empty, Human souls, Human System, Humanities, Humanity, Image, Imaginary, Thankless, Thanksgiving, The best
The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Awaken, Buddhism, Chance, Clarity, Concept, Emptiness, Famous, Feelings, Idea, Meaningful, Penetrate, Removes, Reveals, Secret, Truth, Understanding
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.
Topics: Better, better decisions, Better-looking, Emptiness, Empty, Everything, Knowing, Knowing yourself, Knowledge, Self, Self Belief, Self Care, Something, Something for nothing, Stop, Stopped
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.
Author: Corrie Ten BoomTopics: Emptiness, Empty, Evil, Face, Faces challenges, Sorrow, Strength, Tomorrow, Trouble, Troublemaker, Worry
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
Author: Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Emptiness, Empty, Sorrow, Streets, Strength, Today, Together, Worry
Once I knew only darkness and stillness. My life was without past or future. But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Author: Helen KellerTopics: Darkness, Emptiness, Famous, Hearts, Hope, Inspirational, Life, Living
Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.
Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Casting, Emptiness, Empty, Preparation, Reading, Ready, Real, Up Bringing, Uplifting power
In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.
Author: Mother TeresaTopics: Emptiness, Famous, God, Heart, Meaningful, Prayer, Silence
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times
Author: Carl JungTopics: Emptiness, Empty, General, Good sense, Good thing, Lives, Living, Suffer, Suffering, Times, Times of difficulty
The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction
Author: Bruce LeeTopics: Achievement, Emptiness, Float, Forgetting, Knowing, Knowledge, Skill Development, Without
I know that my singing doesn’t make the moon rise, nor does it make the stars shine. But without my song, the night would seem empty and incomplete. There is more to daybreak than light, just as there is more to nighttime than darkness.
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerTopics: Darkness, Emptiness, Famous, Incomplete, Inspirational, Singing, Song