They say in my Buddhism, that emptiness and compassion are like the two wings of the great bird.


And when you have two wings you can soar and you can float on the air.


But really the two things are one wing.


When you can appreciate the flavor of emptiness on the tongue. You know immediately without any mediation to it that love is the only thing that exists emptiness actually is love.


That’s really what emptiness means


and what a great thing to hold in your mind all problems.


All joys, all living, all dying, all the tragedies of the world


are all, however much they don’t seem to be, expressions of this love.

— Norman Fischer