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“Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Moving Values Emotional Capacity Empty Machines Fuel Contradiction Drivers You Choose Motor Wrecks Transmission

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence”

Mind Heart Dream Eye Running Sleep Silence Gone Listening My Heart Shadow Empty Wide Awake Dry Signals Rims Wide Awake Beehives

Book:Antonio Machado

Source: Antonio Machado

“... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.”

Thinking Mind Soul Philosophy Capacity Empty Contemplation Stimulus Menace Incessant Fabrication Receptivity

Author:Josef Pieper

“I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn off the television. Just click it off and immediately empty my mind of all these images and worrying thoughts. And simply leave a blank screen. Or if I could just remove my head and put it on the bedside table and forget about it until morning. And then attach it again when I needed it.”

Ifs Way Mind Kind Turns Forget Brain Morning Worry Television Needed Empty Tables Screens If I Could Remove Blank Clicks Turn Off

Author:Marian Keyes

“Empty your mind, stop thinking about anything, simply be.”

Thinking Mind Empty

Author:Paulo Coelho

“To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.”

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“Mayfield said, "You asked what I was thinking. Well, I will tell you. I was thinking that a man like myself, after suffering such a blow as you men have struck on this day, has two distinct paths he might travel in his life. He might walk out into the world with a wounded heart, intent on sharing his mad hatred with every person he passes; or, he might start out anew with an empty heart, and he should take care to fill it up with only proud things from then on, so as to nourish his desolate mind-set and cultivate something positive or new.”

Source: The Sisters Brothers

“Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius with all their media, and your host of elementals and ghosts of your dead loves — are there! They need no light by which to see, no words to speak, no motive to enact except through your own purely formed desire.”

Needs Mind Stills Light Desire Speak Rooms Company Doors Media Genius Empty Ghost Motive Host Elementals Your Room Great Company

Author:Austin Osman Spare

“Abby must have been the one who found the safe house, because Townsend didn't like it. "The building across the street is under construction," he snarled as soon as we'd carried our bags inside. "The elevator has key card access, and I've hacked into the surveillance cameras from every system on the block," Abby argued. "We have a three-hundred-sixty-degree visual." "Excellent." Townsend dropped his bag. "Now the circle can see us from every angle." "Don't mind Agent Townsend, girls," Abby told us. "He's a glass-half-empty kind of spy." "Also known as the good kind," he countered. Abby huffed.”

“He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

Ifs World Mind Might House Bits Poor Study Pieces Broken Needed Empty Shoes Treasure Cinema Interfere Furniture Palaces Rubbish Bits And Pieces Empty Mind Sweepstakes

Author:Frank McCourt

“I, however, like black. It is a color that makes me comfortable and the color with which I have the most experience. In the darkest darkness, all is black. In the deepest hole, all is black. In the terror of my Addicted mind, all is black. In the empty periods of my lost memory, all is black. I like black, goddammit, and I am going to give it its due.”

Giving Mind Lost Black Memories Darkness Color Periods Comfortable Empty Terror Dues Holes

Book:A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating secrets. I don't trust that smell. It hooks us somewhere deeper than reason or civilization, in the fragments of our cells that rocked in oceans before we had minds, and it pulls till we follow mindlessly as rutting animals....It lures us to leap off high cliffs, fling ourselves on towering waves, leaves behind everyone we love and face into thousands of miles of open water for the sake of what might be on the far shore.”

“On bended knee is no way to be free lifting up an empty cup I ask silently that all my destinations will accept the one that's me so I can breath Circles they grow and they swallow people whole half their lives they say goodnight to wive's they'll never know got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul so it goes.”

People Knows Way Mind I Can Soul Whole Asks Grows Half Accepting Teacher Empty Breaths Circles My Soul Cups Knees Destination Lifting Lifting Up Empty Cup Saying Goodnight

Author:Eddie Vedder

“I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential”

Want Mind Soul White Rooms Empty Letters Your Soul Love Letter

Author:Jeffrey McDaniel

“Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.”

Mind Body Hands Simple Sun Gone Fire Happened Sky Husband Empty Filled West Setting Settings Heat Indifferent Empty Life

Book:The Antelope Wife: A Novel

Source: The Antelope Wife: A Novel

“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.”

“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

“Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.”

Way Mind Stills Self Fall Grows Nature Animal Watches Source Return Thousand Ten Empty Stillness Rise And Fall

Book:Tao Te Ching

Source: Tao Te Ching

“As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude and subtle forms of snobbishness and the worship of authority. Thus we become more and more externalized and inwardly empty. The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is never quiet, that is not capable of deep search and discovery.”

Thinking Knows Giving Mind Form Quiet Authority Worship Capable Discovery Concerned Empty Arise Subtle Gossip Sensations Distraction Anxious Crude Deep Sea Snobbishness

Book:Commentaries on Living 2

Source: Commentaries on Living 2

“An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.”

Mind May Book Soul Reading Wonder Written Capable All Things Empty Emptiness Infant Profitable

Book:Centuries of Meditations

Source: Centuries of Meditations

“Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.”

Thinking Men Mind Real States Philosophy Shows Happiness Evil Left Differences Doubt Greatness Empty Aim Checks No Doubt Emptiness

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Meditation gives you an opportunity to come to know your invisible self. It allows you to empty yourself of the endless hyperactivity of your mind, and to attain calmness. It teaches you to be peaceful, to remove stress, to receive answers where confusion previously reigned.”

Knows Giving Mind Self Opportunity Answers Teach Meditation Empty Stress Inner Peace Endless Invisible Confusion Peaceful Remove Calmness Hyperactivity

Author:Wayne Dyer

“When your witnessing is ninety percent, your mind is reduced to ten percent. And when your witnessing is one hundred percent - total, absolute - the screen is empty, the film has disappeared. This is the state of meditation: when there are no thoughts, no feelings - nothing moves, everything stops. There is tremendous serenity. Out of this serenity, silence, peace, a new kind of experience arises, new flowers blossom.”

Mind Kind States Feelings Film Moving Silence Meditation Flower Ten Percent Hundred Empty Absolutes Screens Arise Serenity Ninety Flower Blossom

Author:Rajneesh

“In samadhi, in the highest form of meditation, the same thing happens: the mind stops functioning... but you are conscious. That is the only difference, but the difference that makes the difference. One is fully alert, luminous. One is there witnessing, watching, but there is no cloud of thought. The sky is utterly empty: as far as you can see you cannot see any content.”

Mind Happens Form Differences Meditation Sky Highest Conscious Empty Clouds Things Happen Luminous Samadhi

Author:Rajneesh

“Because of watching your breath and thoughts you have come to know now that you are neither thoughts nor your breath, you are the watcher, the witness. This is awareness. This is what I call meditation. Once you have known this awareness you are unidentified with your body, with your mind. Now you experience a vastness inside you, in one sense utterly empty and in another sense overflowingly full. Because of its emptiness you will remain calm and quiet. And because of its overflowing fullness you will be creative.”

Knows Mind Body Known Creative Meditation Awareness Quiet Empty Breaths Calm Your Body Witness Emptiness Call Me Be Creative Fullness Vastness Watchers

Author:Rajneesh

“The mind has to be empty to see clearly.”

Love Life Mind Truth Meditation Empty

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Only no-mind can be without any duality, because it is empty. The no-mind is choicelessness. The no-mind is pure awareness. It is just the empty sky.”

Mind Sky Awareness Pure Empty Duality

Author:Rajneesh

“Just by being aware, thoughts start disappearing. There is no need to fight. Your awareness is enough to destroy them. And when the mind is empty, the temple is ready. And inside the temple the only god worth placing is silence. So those three words you have to remember: relaxation, thoughtlessness, silence. And if these three words are no more words to you but become experiences, your life will be transformed.”

Ifs Needs Mind Enough Remember Fighting Three Silence Awareness Ready Empty Disappear Temples Transformed Relaxation Three Words Thoughtlessness

Author:Rajneesh

“What is it to be a fool for Christ? It is to control one's thoughts when they stray out of line. It is to make the mind empty and free.”

Mind Spiritual Christ Lines Fool Empty Free Spirit

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“The whole point of all these conversations is to leave your mind empty, not full. If you go away with learning, you have missed the opportunity”

Ifs Mind Whole Wisdom Spiritual Opportunity Conversation Empty Going Away

Author:Mooji

“We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.”

Needs Mind Hands Letting Go Empty Grasping Learn To Let Go Letting Go Of Anger

Author:Leo Buscaglia

“Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?”

Knows Mind Facts Law My Own Atheism Shadow Empty Positive Atheism Throwing

Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind.”

Mind Body Water Realizing Moon Empty Calm Warrior Martial Arts Reflecting Brilliance Samurai Way Of The Warrior Empty Mind

Author:Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi

“Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat. Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the time, and nobody more relentlessly than I.”

People Ifs Mind Brain Empty Excuse Journalism Flats Invites Pauses Deadline Broadcasting Empty Mind Vacuity Empty Heads

Book:There's a Country in My Cellar

Source: There's a Country in My Cellar

“He who speaks from the lips chatters. He who speaks from an empty mind adds confusion to discord. He who speaks from a full mind feeds the minds of men. He who speaks from his heart wins the confidence of mankind. But he who speaks from his soul heals the heartbreaks of a world and feeds the hungry, starving souls of men. He can dry the tears of anguish and pain. He can bring light, for he will carry light.”

Men World Mind Heart Soul Light Pain Winning Speak Mankind Tears Empty Add Lips Hungry Heal Confusion Dry Anguish Starving Discord Chatter Empty Mind

Author:Annalee Skarin

“If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.”

Ifs Thinking Love Feels Writing Mind Pain Pleasure Personality Empty Mad Contrary Torture Composition

Author:Lord Byron

“Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.”

Ifs Should Mind Evil Break Empty Good Evil

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non animum mutant': they see new meridians, but the same men, and with heads as empty as their pockets.”

Men Mind Country Home Body Literature Nations Return Travel Empty Climate Pockets Customs Traveled Associates New Home Foreign Lands

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Meditation plays a big role in my life. Meditation fortifies my spirit, improves my focus, my desire. When I fight I try to empty my mind. It's called Mushin. When I don't see anything around me, I only see that moment. Nothing else matters. that was how I was taught to live.”

Trying Mind Matter Play Moments Bigs Spirit Desire Fighting Roles Focus Meditation Taught Empty That Moment Mma

Author:Lyoto Machida

“Once again your mind explodes with a searing pain. A floodgate of memories bursts wide. Yet it is her face that keeps haunting you. Always her face. Who is she? Then things begin to crystallize. You remember your funeral. Begging and pleading for someone to release you from the darkness. You're not dead. You can't be. Then you feel her presence. Warm, caring, soothing. But somewhere deep inside she feels empty now. She has no reason. No meaning. No soul. But your soul lives. While her's is dying.”

Life Feels Mind Soul Reason Pain Remember Faces Memories Darkness Dying Empty Caring Warm Wide Release Your Soul No Reason Funeral Haunting Begging Soothing Deep Inside Pleading Soul Life

Author:Todd McFarlane

“As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient times the two antagonistic streams, which one finds throughout in the estimates of dream life, were already noticeable. They distinguished between true and valuable dreams, sent to the dreamer to warn him or to foretell the future, and vain, fraudulent, and empty dreams, the object of which was to misguide or lead him to destruction.”

Knows Mind Two Dream Inspiration Objects Divine Products Empty Destruction Ancient Valuable Vain Streams Dreamer Distinguished Ancient Times Divine Inspiration

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free that can look and understand immediately. Freedom implies really, doesn't it, the total emptying of the mind. To completely empty the whole content of the mind — that is real freedom.”

“Kindness is the visible expression of a feeling and merciful heart; it is the going forth of a tender and susceptible mind; it claims kindred with the human race; it is all ear to listen-all heart to feel-all eye to examine and to weep-all hand and foot to relieve; it invites the sufferer with kind words, and sends him not empty away.”

Source: Christian charity explained; or, The influence of religion upon temper stated; in an exposition of the thirteenth chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians

“People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don't realize is that their own mind is the void.”

People Mind Wisdom Spiritual Realizing Meditation Empty Scared Void

Author:Huangbo Xiyun

“Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.”

Mind Home Suffering Space Silence Empty Silence Is Awakened Empty Space

Author:Gautama Buddha

“How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the way Beyond the world. Look within - The rising and the falling.”

World Way Feels Mind Looks Heart Joy Fall House Meditation Quiet Empty Rising Empty Houses

Author:Gautama Buddha

“To pray is, first of all, to let one's mind be empty. It is to cast aside for a while "the self" that has existed until now, letting only God live in one's heart.”

Mind Firsts Heart Self Praying Empty Casts

Author:Masahisa Goi

“See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God. Your rhyme is like an empty prison...a waste of bars.”

Mind Faces Waste Empty Prison Hip Hop Rap Bars Rhyme

Author:Lord Finesse

“Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different.”

World Mind Two Ideas Different Reality Christian Taken Meditation Concepts Empty Assuming Contemplation Eastern Worlds Apart

Book:Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline

Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline

“Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.”

Thinking Men Mind Speech Empty Uprising

Author:Sophocles