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“The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.”

Universe Sky Painting Birth Enlightenment Empty Phenomenal Birth And Death

Author:Dogen

“To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness. If moonlight does not flood the empty night sky and reflect in every drop of water, on every blade of grass, then you are only looking at your own empty dream.”

Ifs Doe Dream Night Water Views Vision Sky Birth Empty Absolutes Profound Point Of View Grass Fixed Emptiness Flood Blades Moonlight Duality Night Sky Drop Of Water Blades Of Grass

Author:Adyashanti

“Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.”

Men Seems Earth Space Sea Cold Birth Devil Empty Hot Wave Iron Caves Hacks Deep Sea

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.”

Use History Birth Tradition Empty Vessel Empty Vessels

Book:The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

“When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all.”

World Heart Enough Pain Joy Fall Identity Birth Ocean Empty Embrace Birth And Death Rise And Fall Joy And Pain

Author:Jack Kornfield

“Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.”

Heart Children Earth Spirit Mother Waiting Water Morning Creation Birth Empty Moved Filled Silent Breathing Cradle Like A Mother Breathing Life

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“Healthy mysticism praises acts of letting go, of being emptied, of getting in touch with the space inside and expanding this until it merges with the space outside. Space meeting space; empty pouring into empty. Births happen from that encounter with emptiness, nothingness. . . . Let us not fight emptiness and nothingness, but allow it to penetrate us even as we penetrate it.”

Happens Fighting Space Birth Healthy Letting Go Empty Praise Meetings Encounters Emptiness Mysticism Nothingness Expanding Penetrate Pouring

Author:Matthew Fox

“But if you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up. But no matter how much money you make or how famous you become, you will still feel empty. What you are really searching for is unconditional love, unqualified acceptance. And that was the one thing that was denied to you at birth.”

Ifs World Feels Stills Matter Memories One Thing Acceptance Birth Empty Unconditional Love Denied Unconditional Being Loved Unqualified

Author:Michael Jackson

“The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.”

World Ideas Grows Love Is Birth Solitude Empty

Book:Catherine-Paris

Source: Catherine-Paris

“This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.”

Ifs Should Soul Form Birth Ego Empty Rejects

Author:Bodhidharma

“The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners. The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand. Hold on to the center.”

Giving Use Evil Sides Produce Masters Birth Capable Empty Saint Good And Evil Sinner Tao Tao Ching Saints And Sinners

Author:Laozi

“I would argue that the truth of Easter does not depend on whether there was an empty tomb, or whether anything happened to the body of Jesus. ... I do not see the Christian tradition as exclusively true, or the Bible as the unique and infallible revelation of God. ... It makes no historical sense to say, 'Jesus was killed for the sins of the world.' ... I am one of those Christians who does not believe in the virgin birth, nor in the star of Bethlehem, nor in the journeys of the wisemen, nor in the shepherds coming to the manger, as facts of history.”

“Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with a noice like a wet kiss, and vanished instantly. With that instinct which prompts one, when depressed, to wallow in every circumstance of gloom, Peter leaned sadly against the hurdles and abandoned himself to a variety of shallow considerations upon (1) The vanity of human wishes; (2) Mutability; (3) First love; (4) The decay of idealism; (5) The aftermath of the Great war; (6) Birth-control; and (7) The fallacy of free-will.”

“Everything just feels so empty without her. She was more a parent to me than my birth parents were. She took me in, fed, dressed me, but most importantly, she treated me with respect. She taught me that my abilities were nothing to be ashamed of, nothing I should try so hard to deny. She convinced me that what I had was a gift-not a curse- and that I shouldn't let other people's narrow minds and fears determine how I love, what I do, or how I perceive myself in the world. She actually made me believe that in no way, shape, or form did their uninformed opinions make me a freak.”