NGC 4605, located around 16 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear)*
nothing doesn’t change, and nothing depends on nothing
believing in nothing is believing in what is empty of everything but the potential for anything
Shunryu Suzuki: “I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing.”
A foreword by Aldous Huxley to The First and Last Freedom, a 1954 book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, ends with this:
Choiceless self-awareness will bring us to the creative Reality which underlies all our destructive make-believes, to the tranquil wisdom which is always there, in spite of ignorance, in spite of the knowledge which is merely ignorance in another form. Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, to the uncovering of the self from moment to moment. A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom “shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.”*
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