Debate without understanding, polemic without insight: why are they so much in fashion? Because they are so much easier than the arduous but rewarding task of understanding, which would change our lives and our behaviour. Because they are spectator sports like boxing. We are there for the thrill of the knockout and the blood on …
Monthly Archives: December 2012
I am nothing
The claim “I am nothing” is perhaps the most arrogant claim of all, for there is that “I am” even if it is followed by “nothing”. It is like the abstemiousness of those who give up “things”. There may be nothing in the hand, but take a look at what is in the heart.
Nothing
Can someone who is nothing come to know One Who is no thing?