486 Quotes About Emptiness

We are 100 percent individual and 100 percent a member of the community.

Even though I must approve my identification as a scientist and philosopher for the convenience of the people, in reality, I am nameless, formless and timeless.

In emptiness lies wholeness.

It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.

The crowns trap our selves. They carve us off from the world. But what is the self? There are pieces of me in all of you, and pieces of you in me. We are all empty of inherent form. Trace the threads of each of us, and you find not just the others, but the entire universe. And what crown could bind the whole universe?

Yet something else trickles in between the cracks of this despairing thought. The hope of something to fill that emptiness. The hope that, perhaps, I have found it already. And suddenly hope is a thing alive, soaring in me. Its wings beat against my ribs, wild with the promise of joy.

Pursuing happiness comes with being pursued by unhappiness.

True Love is when you are able to see yourself in another, when you recognize that there is no separation between you and any other Being in the Universe.

All of Nature follows perfectly geometric laws. The Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Peruvian, Mayan, and Chinese cultures were well aware of this, as Phi—known as the Golden Ratio or Golden Mean—was used in the constructions of their sculptures and architecture.