A Human Strategy #509:

509

Nothingness does not approach the horror of somethingness.  Nothingness is an escape ... room for something-like-God.   With somethingness there is no door or vent.  One chokes on the air.  But we cannot hold one to the exclusion of the other.  To have the one in the foreground is to force the other into the background.  Neither absolute is possible.  Reality is not beyond comprehension; it precedes cognition.  There is a “difference” between perception and that unity inferred by perception.  It is the final difference before the experience of this unity.

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