Sentences with phrase «pure nothingness»

Not only is the mutable world separated from its divine principle — the One — by intervals of emanation that descend in ever greater alienation from their source, but because the highest truth is the secret identity between the human mind and the One, the labor of philosophy is one of escape: all multiplicity, change, particularity, every feature of the living world, is not only accidental to this formless identity, but a kind of falsehood, and to recover the truth that dwells within, one must detach oneself from what lies without, including the sundry incidentals of one's individual existence; truth is oblivion of the flesh, a pure nothingness, to attain which one must sacrifice the world.

«Lord, lock me up within you»: yes indeed I believe — and this belief is so strong that it has become one of the supports of nay inner life — that an «exterior darkness» which was wholly outside you would be pure nothingness.

Indeed, I have described above a Whiteheadian account of empty space to supersede an idea of pure nothingness as preceding the Big Bang.

You say «it is illogical to think the universe sprang into existence on its [own] out of pure nothingness.»

It is illogical to think the universe sprang into existence on its out of pure nothingness - and yet what other «natural» altneratives are there?

Not exact matches

Few can match Job for pure misery, a man who went from immense personal wealth and happiness to utter nothingness in a matter of days, and fewer can match him for stony faith — a resolute, steely trust that God had an answer, even if that answer didn't really make sense from an earthly perspective.

The idea is that evil, in its purest form, is a state of nothingness, and what we see as evil and label as evil in our common experience is really a sort of entropy: reality breaking down and falling apart in both relational and physical ways, a movement toward nothingness?

So the Nirvana experience of Nothingness indicates not the unreality of Brahman or Brahman consciousness but rather «something beyond the last term to which we can reduce our purest conception and our most abstract or subtle experience of actual being as we know or conceive it while in this universe.