"Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue."
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"It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself."
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"I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft."
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"When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard."
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"His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen."
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"I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life."
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"Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled."
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"Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness."
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"I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart."
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"In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other."
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"How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!"
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"To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness."
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"Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness."
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"Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality."
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"And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells."
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"Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long."
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"Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose."
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"The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness."
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"Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness."
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"Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging."
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