Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.
If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.
Nothing exists but atoms and the void.
Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space.
The majority of the world is empty space. Empty space, empty space, empty space. All that we see in the world, the life, the animals, plants, people - it's all empty space. That's amazing!
Leave a space and something will fill it.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Your absence has gone through me
Nothing is never nothing. It's always something.
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Space has no "existence." "To exist" literally means "to stand out." You cannot understand space because it doesn't stand out. Although in itself it has no existence, it enables everything else to exist. Silence has no existence either, nor does the unmanifested.
I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour
Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
At the center of President Obama's strategy for dealing with the Islamic State is an empty space. It's supposed be filled by a 'Sunni ground force,' but after more than a year of effort, it's still not there. Unless this gap is filled, Obama's plan won't work.
The whole material world. It doesn't actually exist. Matter is not material. It's made up of atoms that are moving at lightning speeds around huge empty spaces. So as you go beyond the appearance of molecules, you end up with a subatomic world, and if you go beyond that you end up with nothing. Nothing is the source of everything.
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.
On one side, the mass of a mountain. A life I know. On the other, the universe of the clouds, so full of unknown that it seems empty to us. Too much space.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.
The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.
