“You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years experience in craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience–twenty times. And never resent the advantage of experience your elders have. Recall that they have paid for this experience in the coin of life, and have emptied a purse that cannot be refilled.” IfsYearsFactsFallGainsAdvantageEmptyPaidTwentiesErrorsCarefulCraftsRecallsCoinsBoastEldersPursesResentArtisansYears Of ExperienceRedundancy Author:Trevanian
“The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.” WayMindLongFallLosesAwarenessEmptyAppearanceMortalsClinging Author:Bodhidharma
“Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.” PersonsStillsWisdomFallEvilDarknessHellWiseEmptyDeedsKarmaEndlessCommitReleaseEmptinessSinnerConceptionNo HopeBad Karma Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“This world has suns, but they are overcast;This world has sweets, but they're of ling'ring bloom;Life still expects, and empty falls at last;Warm Hope on tiptoe drops into the tomb.” WorldStillsLastsFallSunThis WorldSweetEmptyWarmRingsTombsTiptoesOvercast Book:The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems Source: The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems
“What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without dense matter between them? Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain? and Whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world? To what end are comets? and Whence is it that planets move all one and the same way in orbs concentrick, while comets move all manner of ways in orbs very excentrick? and What hinders the fixed stars from falling upon one another?” WorldWayEndsMatterMovingOrderFallStarsSunPlanetsEmptyAriseVainFixedHinderDenseCometsOrbs Author:Isaac Newton
“The average person's short-term memory can hold only five to seven bits of data at any one moment. If you put more items in, others fall out. The older you are, the more you have crammed into those memory circuits. Twenty-five-year-olds can remember things because they still have empty space. Some of us take our children to the supermarket in the hope they will remember why we are there.” IfsYearsChildrenPersonsStillsMomentsRememberFallBitsTermMemoriesSpaceFiveEmptyTwentiesOur ChildrenSevenAverageDataFive YearsItemsShort TermTwenty FiveCircuitsSupermarketsAverage PersonEmpty SpaceFive Year OldsShort Term Memory Book:Thinking In The Future Tense Source: Thinking In The Future Tense
“Approaching the stove, she would don a voluminous apron, toss some meat on a platter, empty a skillet of its perfectly cooked a point vegetables, sprinkle a handful of chopped parsley over all, and then, like a proficient striptease artist, remove the apron, allowing it to fall to the floor with a shake of her hips.” ArtistFallFoodEmptyCookingHipsMeatShakesRemoveCulinaryAllowingVegetablesHandfulTossStovesSprinklesApronsParsley Author:Bert Greene
“Each time I saw a cliff, I wondered whether I could free solo it. My life shaped itself around the understanding that falling means I die. To break the paradigm I had to empty out my essence, rummaging for fundamentals I thought were gone forever.” MeanDiesFallUnderstandingBreakGoneForeverSawsEmptyEssenceFundamentalsSoloCliffsParadigm Author:Dean Potter
“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.” WorldHeartEnoughPainJoyFallIdentityBirthOceanEmptyEmbraceBirth And DeathRise And FallJoy And Pain Author:Jack Kornfield
“There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of self-oblivionorself-contempt. That's calmly to turn away from everything, to say, "Enough!" and, folding one's useless arms across one's empty breast, to retain the ultimate, the sole attainable virtue, the virtue of recognizing one's own insignificance.” WaySelfEnoughTurnsFallIndividualVirtuePiecesArmsEmptyUltimateOne WayUselessBreastsPessimismContemptSoleRecognizingRenunciationInsignificanceFolding Author:Ivan Turgenev
“The clothes in themselves are empty. But what they throw off and what clothes mean as signifiers is incredibly interesting - to see what people do with it. That's more interesting to me than flipping through a magazine or seeing the fall look.” PeopleLooksMeanFallInterestingSeeingClothesEmptyMagazines Author:Kim Gordon