Top 1200 Empty Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

For the unified mind in accord with the Way all self-centered striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is possible. With a single stroke we are freed from bondage; nothing clings to us and we hold nothing. All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind's power.

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

I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart.

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.

When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.

Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been empty too long.

Thirty spokes meet in the hub, but the empty space between them is the essence of the wheel. Pots are formed from clay, but the empty space within it is the essence of the pot. Walls with windows and doors form the house, but the empty space within it is the essence of the home.

He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.

An open mind isn't the same thing as an empty head.

I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." "They're not empty now.

Usually when I draw, I try to be in a contemplative mood. I try to keep my mind as empty, vacant and tranquil as possible. The outer mind is like the surface of the sea. On the surface, the sea is full of waves and surges; it is all restlessness. But when we dive deep below, the same sea is all peace, calmness and quiet, and there we find the source of creativity.

Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness

What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any star. Venus, or Mars. Get hold of it and leave it empty. Man needs an empty space somewhere for his spirit to rest in.

Walk in the narrow streets after midnight under moonlight! Tranquillity is like a sugar for the mind; you think better in the silence of empty spaces!

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind... life would have seemed to me empty.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation.

No one would want to pay a penny for an empty canvas by me. But it would be quite another if the empty canvas were signed by a great artist. I would be surprised if an empty canvas by Picasso or Matisse signed and inscribed with the words, 'I wanted to paint such and such on this canvas, but did not do so,' would not fetch thousands... After all, with an empty canvas, the possibilities are limitless, and so perhaps is the cash.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities.

The mind of the Buddha is perfect because it is empty and yet it contains all things.

I like to empty my mind and focus on developing my abilities in training.

I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.

Make your will one! Don't listen with your ears, listen with your mind. No, don't listen with your mind, but listen with your spirit. Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty- and waits on all things. The Way gathers in emptiness alone. Emptiness is the fasting of the mind.

Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full.

Michael nodded tersely, eyeing a table across the room. It was empty. So empty. So joyfully, blessedly empty. He could picture himself a very happy man at that table. "Not feeling very conversational this evening, are we?" Colin asked, breaking into his (admittedly tame) fantasies.

Born empty handed, Die empty handed. I witnessed life at its fullest, Empty handed.

As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.

I salute my desires with a bow. were it not for them to come and play mind would be empty just like me.

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.

Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see;For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.

Look...it's empty...as empty as a politician's promise!

The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.

The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.

Nakata's empty inside... Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That's what scares me the most

When I fight I try to empty my mind... I only see that moment, nothing else matters.

I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.

Before a fight I empty my mind. Every fighter is able to lose. It is not a big thing. You have to accept what comes and remain calm.

Being in an empty mind increases my intuition, my sense of energy.

Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.

Live in the Moment", "Empty Your Mind of the Trash" Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge

Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

... my mind lay limp in an empty world.

Think only about what is holy. Empty your mind.

In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.

The vestiges of the bicameral mind do not exist in any empty psychological space.

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