Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

Nothingness haunts Being.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

If there is existence, there must be non-existence. And if there was a time when nothing existed, there must have been a time before that - when even nothing did not exist. Suddenly, when nothing came into existence, could one really say whether it belonged to the category of existence or non-existence?

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

Being is born of not being.

Nothing is more real than nothing.

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.

Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.

Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

I think, therefore I am.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Being is the great explainer.