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Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my life flows

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj : Gaia Explorer
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Nothing is good. And so, I want nothing.

Alison Mackie
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But when nothing is valued for what it is, everything is destined to be wasted. Once the values of things refer only to their future usefulness, then an infinite withdrawal of value from the living present has begun. Nothing (and nobody) can then exist that is not theoretically replaceable by something (or somebody) more valuable. The country that we (or some of us) had thought to make our home becomes instead 'a nation rich in natural resources'; the good bounty of the land begins its mechanical metamorphosis into junk, garbage, silt, poison, and other forms of 'waste.' "The inevitable result of such an economy is that no farm or any other usable property can safely be regarded by anyone as a home, no home is ultimately worthy of our loyalty, nothing is ultimately worth doing, and no place or task or person is worth a lifetime's devotion. 'Waste,' in such an economy, must eventually include several categories of humans--the unborn, the old, 'disinvested' farmers, the unemployed, the 'unemployable.' Indeed, once our homeland, our source, is regarded as a resource, we are all sliding downward toward the ashheap or the dump.

Wendell Berry (1934 - )
Source: Home Economics, 1995
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A warm breeze blew through my window like a gentle wave lapping the sandy shore in summer at low tide, and as I took in a breath of air that blanketed my body like tall grass in a field I felt for just that moment in time, like I did when I was a child. I felt that I had not one worry, not one burden, nothing was on my mind accept that breeze that made the curtains swell like balloons.

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Since everything you do is something, it's impossible to be doing nothing.

Mr. Prophet
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Nothing is infinite.

Edward Morrison
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Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving.

Bernadette Roberts
Source: The path to no self: Life at the centre by Bernadette Roberts P5
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But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I saw, stopped me in my tracks. Instead of the usual unlocalized centre of myself, there was nothing there, it was empty, and at the moment of seeing this there was a flood of quiet joy and I knew, finally I knew what was missing-it was my "self".

Bernadette Roberts
Source: The experience of no self: A contemplative journey by Bernadette Roberts. p23
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This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and revelation as it gradually comes upon "that" which remains when there is no self. this is not a journey for those who expect love and bliss, rather, it is for the hardy who have been tried by fire and have come to rest in a tough, immovable trust in "that" which lies beyond the known, beyond the self, beyond union and even beyond love and trust itself

Bernadette Roberts
Source: The experience of no self: A contemplative journey by Bernadette Roberts. P13-14
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There is the feeling of being finished. The end. The attention is held right here, in the body, in the moment, with no-one and no-thing. The depth of feeling and connection at the eyes when open and closed is no longer here. There is no internal centre. There is no feeling at all other than the senses operating. It is as if all of the doors to the mind have been shut. Nothing scary, nothing monstrous, just nothing here.

julie sarah powell
Source: http://www.beyondselfnow.com/diary.html
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Our true nature is the nothing which the something arises out of.

julie sarah powell
Source: Beyond the dimension of self how to ebook by Julie Sarah Powell: http://www.beyondselfnow.com/ebook.html
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Duality:
We are always talking about two 'things', until there is only silence on a momentary basis. These two things are:-

a. The 'no-thing' which is our true nature or the Divine.

b. The 'some-thing' which is not.

The nothing we will call our true nature, because that is exactly what it is.

The something or mindbody package will be referred to as the Self. (This includes the conscious-self, unconscious-self, ego-self, feeling-self, true-self, knowing -self and all the rest of the ideas of the chattering mind.)

The self is also the entire package of the person which we know as me/myself/I.

julie sarah powell
Source: Beyond the dimension of self how to ebook by Julie Sarah Powell: http://www.beyondselfnow.com/ebook.html Page 1
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If you turn the pages and look inside, there is nothing of me I feel that I have to hide.

Melanie Chisholm
Source: "You'll Get Yours" (2005) off of "Beautiful Intentions"
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"If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking." "You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming." "When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream."

Eckhart Tolle : Gaia Child
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Nothing tried, nothing done.  If you do nothing then you will get nothing in return. If the fear of failing stops you from doing what you want to then you loose. Never knowing is much worst than knowing you tried and failed. What if is never a good question to ask when regarding to a  past  action that was not made.

S.C

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing thst is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde : Irish writer, & playwright
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
 
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There is nothing to hide and everything to seek.
There is nothing to find and everything to be.

~ Darina Stoyanova ~

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As you learn to leave alone the activity of unconsciously trying to be the mindbody that you think that you are - the mindbody that this "you" is currently flowing through - and you learn to move as this one that you truly are - this "you" of you; the very heart of existence - steadily, consciously and momentarily, the continuity of the ever deepening of this innermost as it keeps on entering its manifestation, through this mindbody that you find yourself flowing through, allows you to simply bubble in the sheer joy, pleasure, peace, delightfulness and stillness that this "you" of you is.

Elysha
Source: http://www.elysha.org
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The Thing of Everything

Anything is many things*.

Each and every thing — everything — is something else, so nothing is anything exclusively.

Including everything is the Thing of Everything.

* The scope of “things” is all-inclusive, including all words and all meanings, all thoughts and all theories, from philosophy to physics, from politics to spirituality.

Cheers!
~ Tom

Tom Yeshe
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Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.

Robert Benchley
 
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
Source: The Quotations Page
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
Source: The Quotations Page
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The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.

L. Ron Hubbard
Source: Dianetics The Problems of Work
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It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.

Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962)
 
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But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

Carl Gustav Jung : Swiss psychiatrist, student of Freud & founder analytic psychology
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
 
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Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the world, and everything within it, arising from some primordial argument between the deity and nothing whatsoever. And then, by some inscrutable incandescent insight, Leibniz came to see that what is crucial in what he had written is the alternation between God and Nothingness. And for this, the numbers 0 and 1 suffice.

David Berlinski
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If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

Epictetus : Roman Stoic philosopher, former slave & tutor of Marcus Aurelius
Epictetus (c. 50 - 120)
Source: Enchiridion, Page: 18
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Are you there, or there but not really you?
Because if you are, there is nothing I can do...

Domus Ulixes : Some Kid
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One creates from nothing.  If you try to create from something you're just changing something.  So in order to create something you first have to be able to create nothing.

Werner Erhard
Source: http://www.famous-quotes-and-inspirational-quotes.com/quotations/nothing-quotes.htm
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The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.

Leo Buscaglia
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