“It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher. And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.” MindLittlesRealProcessMeditationEmptySurpriseDisappearWitnessGapsRootedAlchemyLittle TimeWatchersMeditation Mind Author:Rajneesh
“The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing market or theory, but to generate entirely new markets or theories. . .They stand before a canvas as empty as any painter's; a page as blank as any poet's.” RolesPoetTheoryKeysPagesEmptyScientistEntrepreneurPainterGapsCrucialBlankCanvas Book:The Spirit of Enterprise Source: The Spirit of Enterprise
“The biggest empty space, the biggest gap in what should be a premier and always vibrant food scene in America is that we don't have hawker centers like they do in Singapore, basically food courts where mom and pop specialists can set up shop in fairly hygienic little stalls all up to health code making one dish they've been doing forever and ever.” ShouldLittlesAmericaSpaceForeverMomSceneEmptyCourtPopsCodeShopsGapsDishesSingaporeSpecialistsEmpty SpaceHawkers Author:Anthony Bourdain
“Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.” PeopleLoveFeelsTryingPastSpaceWalksDeserveEmptyEmptinessGapsDetachmentEmpty SpaceNumbnessDeserve Love Author:Jon Krakauer
“The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer.” NeedsFeelsTryingFormSpaceAnswersAirMissingMouthsEmptyTongueGapsSensationsFilling Book:The Last Time I Saw Mother Source: The Last Time I Saw Mother
“Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain.” TryingMayDoeWould BePainAliveCostEmptyGrievingNonsenseGapsCommunionThose We Love Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer