Abundance is not what you hold in your hand. Rather, it's what you have in your heart. And until we realize this, both will feel empty.

Although I am convinced otherwise, what I ‘want’ empties me of all that I could ever need, while what I ‘need’ fills me with all that I could ever want. It’s just that I tend to have that all backwards most of the time, so I am empty all of the time.

Silence is never empty.

The woods invite me into themselves so that I might be drawn out of myself. And if I have never engaged in such an exchange, I will find myself a man so full of myself that I am nothing but myself. And that is a terribly small thing to be.

If I continually focus on what I don’t have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it’s completely full.

If it’s about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I’m sitting in.

Whatever the item is that I have chosen to give you, it is nothing more than the receptacle within which I have placed the whole of myself. If it is empty, it is not a gift.

I am emptier for having lost you, but I became fuller by realizing that losing someone leaves you space to be more of someone yourself.

God allows us to believe that we do not have a soul, because it is in living in the emptiness that we are ‘not’ that we become convinced of the fullness that we ‘are.