[The politicians] become nothingness and they don't do the job that they got elected to do. And it happens time and time again.
But you need to have lived years in nothingness to understand how a person can suddenly become frightened by a possibility.
The world is always ending and always beginning at every moment.
I humbly believe our life is to learn our nothingness and His being everything; when we agree with Him that we are nothing and not astonished at our evil nature breaking forth, when we are willing for the last to be first, when we are willing to be the least in Heaven that every one we know should be higher than ourselves, then, I think, our lesson is learnt. If we are annoyed at any disparaging remark or conduct of our fellows, it is because we are not yet fully aware of our being nothing.
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world
I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.
If a tree fell in the forest, and you were the only one there to hear it; if its fall to the ground didn’t make a sound, would you panic in fear that you didn’t exist, or would you bask in the bliss of your nothingness?
Some types of nothing are more fun than other types of nothing.
Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness.
Nothingness haunts Being.
The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.
I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness
What if we're all like that? Like ghosts. . . in someone's mind. . . gradually fading. . . fading. . . until finally. . . one day. . . we just disappear. . . drift into nothingness. Wouldn't that be sad?
The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness. . . If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.
It is better to have a little than nothing.
Nirvana is a very exclusive club - no one is in it.
In the eye of the universe, man is nothing! And man's hardest job is to be able to get rid of this nothingness!