“Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
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Context: Until you realise the true Way, whether in Buddhism or in common sense, you may think that things are correct and in order. However, if we look at things objectively, from the viewpoint of laws of the world, we see various doctrines departing from the true Way. Know well this spirit, and with forthrightness as the foundation and the true spirit as the Way. Enact strategy broadly, correctly and openly.
Then you will come to think of things in a wide sense and, taking the void as the Way, you will see the Way as void.
In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer
said the Master.
Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 109
