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“But what was there to say?Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely t...”
“Trees quiver in the wind,sailing on a sea of mistout of earshot.”
“Just for future reference, don't use words like "love" anymore. It's a very sensitive word and it wears out quickly. Romeo barely says it, but John Hinckley filled up a whole journal with it. To pu...”
“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
“I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden mysteries, man noting acoustic phenomena whose nature...”
“What had been quiet and restful was now silent and empty.”
“To me, you were more than just a person. You were a place where I finally felt at home.”
“Pour your heart out to me and fill my emptiness with your grief.”
“Takizawa: something that was left in my care. give it back to Amon for me. see you, Goat's King.Kaneki: I'm not taking It.Takizawa: Its just a small chain and yet It feels so heavy to me... fine wh...”
“Hope is for people who can't see the Truth.”
“But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.”
“His strike force stood around him, craning their necks, in awe of the massive emptiness all around. He was almost sorry to pull his attention back to the small, vaguely intimate necessities of viol...”
“You can only become the observer of life, if you can perceive the world with the mind and not with the sensory organs.”
“The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.”
“The theory of emptinessis the deep recognition that there is a fundamental disparity between the way we perceive the world, including our own existence in it, and the way things actually are.”
“When you come to the ultimate experience in meditation, when you come to your deepest core, you are no one. You are a vast emptiness.You can become afraid in meditation, because the deeper you go i...”
“His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world.”
“I've been living in the shadow of empty people for far too long. Now I need to find chests full of wild lilies, minds full of wonder, hearts full of light.”
“Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.”
“To die is more important than trying to be alive. When we try to be alive, we have trouble. Rather than trying to be alive or active, if we can be calm and die or fade away into emptiness, then nat...”
