Analect 07

God is all. God is nothing.  For hopeless conceptualists such as ourselves this is hard to believe, but that’s the way it was in that golden age before language and theology.

Of the “nothingness” of God, nothing of course can be said. So nothing meaningful has ever been said about it, though many have tried (John Cage and Lao Tze in particular).

Commentary: The mind, it seems, compelled to negotiate chaos on stepping stones of nouns, verbs, and other symbols, has not been geared to articulate this void. So, cavorting in the mundane we choose to avoid it (no pun intended), or, out of desperate need to chase our tail, invent religions. This amounts to the same thing.”Which just about says it all …or nothing.