In the beginning — indeed, before the beginning — God's luminous essence filled the pleroma, the stuff of nothingness that was everywhere.
Socially, financially, and emotionally things in London were bad, but that was nothing compared to the total nothingness that was my career.
It's nothingness that is the mystical state rather than everythingness.
So I saved it for the chasm of nothingness that is this meal.
The article "Before the Big Bang, There Was... What?" (May 22) says, "One of the earliest attempts to imagine the nothingness that is the source of everything came in 1965".
But if you can just stop the mind from broadcasting its peculiar mix of propaganda, impression, recollection, projection, apprehension and sedition, you invite in a nothingness that is a close cousin of sleep.
Or, as he asks, "If there was no law, how did the universe appear?" One of the earliest attempts to imagine the nothingness that is the source of everything came in 1965 when Dr. John Wheeler and Dr. Bryce DeWitt, now at the University of Texas, wrote down an equation that combined general relativity and quantum theory.
Dark meat embodies all the menace of dissolution into the nothingness that is the slimy ground of being itself!
Nonetheless, she begins by noticing a sort of willful denial that is pre-linguistic and "speechless" (the contrariness of an infant), and she ends with the nothingness that is void of all language and everything else.
Then, later in his career, Nishida paradoxically formed concepts of the limits of such knowledge and formulated his philosophy of absolute nothingness that is ultimately mirrored in self-awareness.
To emphasize its non-objectifiable character, Nishida later will place consciousness "in" nothingness, that is, consider it a "form" of nothingness, and will eventually consider this a form of relative or oppositional nothingness, a non-being with respect to beings.
