Empty Mind Quotes:

If you say you have an empty mind and you don't have an empty mind, you only know later that you have an empty mind. Because if you say you have empty mind, you don't have empty mind, because you're already thinking about it.

- Hamid Drake

source: Source: the-attic.net

topic: Thinking, Empty Mind, Ifs

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

- Rose Macaulay

source: Rose Macaulay (1922). “Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings”

topic: Thinking, Empty Mind, Prejudice

He says, You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can't make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor , your shoes might be broken , but your mind is a palace.

- Frank McCourt

source: "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir".

topic: Wisdom, Shoes, Empty Mind, Sweepstakes

I was born in the same town as Richard Burton, the actor, and I saw him, he used to come - he and his wife drove by in the car in my father's shop and Burton would come home from Hollywood and ask him for his autograph, and I thought, I want to be like him. And that's all I said to myself, I want to be like that. I want to get out of this environment of my own empty mind.

- Anthony Hopkins

source: "Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 27, 2011.

topic: Father, Home, Empty Mind

During the late nights, try to walk in the empty streets with an empty mind! Light of wisdom will soon accompany you!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Night, Empty Mind, Accompany You, Late Night, Empty Streets

Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat. Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the time, and nobody more relentlessly than I.

- Russell Baker

source: Russell Baker (1991). “There's a Country in My Cellar”, Avon Books

topic: Empty Mind, People, Brain, Empty Heads, Vacuity

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.

- Bruce Lee

source: "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Learning, Martial Arts Inspirational, Meditation Mind

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

- Bruce Lee

topic: Water, Mind, Empty, Dojo, Martial Arts Inspirational

Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.

- Tanya Huff

source: Tanya Huff (2012). “The Fire’s Stone”, p.134, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

topic: Silence, Mind, Speak, Empty Mind, Empty Words

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

- Frank McCourt

source: Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

topic: House, Mind, World, Empty Mind

Emptiness the starting point. — In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Order, Ideas, Water, Starting Point, Empty Cup

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

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Mind, Empty, Empty Mind

In Japan we have the phrase, "Shoshin," which means "beginner's mind." Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich and sufficient within itself. This does not mean a closed mind, but actually an empty mind and a ready mind. If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything. It is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

- Shunryu Suzuki

topic: Mean, Japan, Mind, Meditation Mind, Closed Mind

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

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Inspirational, Education, Travel, Math Education, Math Teacher

To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Add, Each Day, Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Wisdom

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

- Pindar

topic: Envy, Mind, Empty, Empty Mind

Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Art, Water, Flow, Martial Arts Inspirational, Meditation Mind

Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Art, Mind, Dying, Empty Mind

The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's an effulgence of the mind. It's a brightness that is truly sensitive and accepting. It's an ability to accept life as it is. When we accept life as it is, we can respond appropriately to the way we're experiencing it, rather than just reacting out of fear and aversion.

- Ajahn Sumedho

topic: Zero, Caring, Land, Empty Mind

When you have an empty mind, you are prepared for the next thing that happens. It's like to be part of a spiritual practice for me simply means that you are there now. Not waiting for the next moment, or not living in the moment before, but you're there now. And it's there now which can only be really breathed and lived if the mind is empty enough to receive it.

- George Ogilvie

topic: Spiritual, Mean, Practice, Empty Mind

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

- Rickson Gracie

topic: Mma, Intuition, Mind, Empty Mind

He who speaks from the lips chatters. He who speaks from an empty mind adds confusion to discord. He who speaks from a full mind feeds the minds of men. He who speaks from his heart wins the confidence of mankind. But he who speaks from his soul heals the heartbreaks of a world and feeds the hungry, starving souls of men. He can dry the tears of anguish and pain. He can bring light, for he will carry light.

- Annalee Skarin

topic: Pain, Heart, Winning, Chatter, Empty Mind

The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind.

- Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi

topic: Warrior, Moon, Water, Way Of The Warrior, Empty Mind

Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation

- Shiv Khera

source: FaceBook post by Shiv Khera from Jun 11, 2016

topic: Mind, Information, Transformation, Empty Mind

We are told that if you are not occupied with the mind all the time, then you will invite the devil. It is such a heightened misconception that people are going crazy just because of this. An empty mind is not the devil's home but an empty mind is the home of the Buddha.

- Anandmurti Gurumaa

topic: Crazy, Home, People, Going Crazy, Empty Mind