"I need not to be afraid of the void. The void is part of my person. I need to enter consciously into it. To try to escape from it is to try to live a lie. It is also to cease to be. My acceptance of despair and emptiness constitutes my being; to have the courage to accept despair is to be."

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Source : Michael Novak (1970). “The Experience of Nothingness”, p.67, Transaction Publishers

Michael Novak

#Lying Quotes #Acceptance Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I have read some of [the Lisbon Treaty] but not all of it.”
“But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury's, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.”
“Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.”
“The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
“When we sit down to meditate, we connect with something unconditional - a state of mind, a basic environment that does not grasp or reject anything. Meditation is probably the only activity that doesn't add anything to the picture. Everything is allowed to come and go without further embellishment. Meditation is a totally nonviolent, non aggressive occupation. Not filling the space, allowing for the possibility of connecting with unconditional openness - this provides the basis for real change.”
“I work hard to let my wife know how much I love her. I try to do that every day.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.”
“Autumn rain, autumn wind, they make one die of sorrow.”

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