Is there an intermediate state between existence and non-existence? Between something and nothing?
“You can’t assert an answer just because it’s not something else.” Isaac Asimov — sage of science, champion of creativity in education,
Is there an intermediate state between existence and non-existence? Between something and nothing?
I need the nothing where everything is.
I’m lost. So completely lost that I’m not even sure whether I should feel good or bad about it or nothing at all…
Compelled to speak, God says nothing.
Unable to say anything, man speaks.
Man is ignorant of the truth, but expounds on all fields of learning.
God is versed in all things, but expounds on nothing.
God takes no action, yet created all things.
Man does all things, yet creates nothing.
- Masanobu Fukuoka (Kami no Kakumei)
I will not fear
Fear is the mindkiller,
Fear is the little death
That brings total Oblivion
I will permit my fear to pass
Over me and through me
And where it has gone
I will turn the inner eye
Nothing will be there
Only I will remain.
- Frank Herbert
Quiet places, with nobody around, an adventure only between me and nothingness, to return to the peace I lost during the day and find again the palace within me.
The Zen Mind
And the bottom line clearly is that nothing can happen without love.
The Paradox now is that I have nothing to say but even so it oblies me to say something so that the idea of not having anything to say would be assured.