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People fear nothingness. However in zen, we are taught to value emptiness as a source of potential and creativity. Think of it as an empty garden or an empty canvas. We have to let go to be empty, and it is in that emptiness where we can start cultivating again.

Winnie Lim • what is there when there is nothing

We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to stand

outside things and run them, that way. It just doesn't work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.

Ursula K. Le Guin • The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel

björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw

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