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Oliver James Psychologist
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"I would guess that the typical profile of a 'follower' is someone who is young and who feels marginalised, empty and pointless. They don't have an inner life."

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
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"Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty."

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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
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"You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves."

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Meister Eckhart Theologian, Philosopher
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"For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces"

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"We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly."

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Gustave Flaubert Novelist
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"… Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like this, in line, always identical, innumerable, bringing nothing!"

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