273 Quotes About Nothingness

He stared at the blank page, unmarked and white as a slate, but as he moved his face closer and tilted the book towards the light, he noticed that any particular spot of a blank page contains divots, like micrometer mountains, perhaps from the printing factory, or the fact that nothing exists without a fiber of substance waiting for you.

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

Whatever you want in life - spiritual knowledge or materialistic things - the outside world can only give you a recycled version of what you already have.If you want something new, the seed has to come from within you. That seed then becomes the things you want.

[T]here is now a void at the heart of everything. But then there is so much more of everything now!

I don't know how to describe the sound of a world crashing. Maybe there is no sound, just a great emptiness, an enveloping sorrow, a creeping nothingness that coils itself around you like a stiff wire.

Instead of looking at the things, look into the blank space around and within them... Acknowledge the blank surface on which words are written... acknowledge the nothingness that contains everything. Soon you will start experiencing the silence amidst all the noise.

If materialistic world is noise, spirituality or religion is music. Most people just keep shuttling between noise and music. To discover the eternal silence, you have to realize that the music is just refined noise.

No sane person fears nothingness.

The Time gives you subscription packages. If you get fed up of materialistic packages, it gives you spiritual or religious packages. The idea is to keep you hooked to one thing or the other.