This sentence, to me, includes it all....literally
It is an very powerful statement, very clear and confusing in the same time....
When you look at it at an superficial level it might come across as a bombastic, egocentric quote, like saying that you are the centre of the universe. For the reader this can evoke a sense of resistance because it seems that all the rest of us are being dismissed, this goes against our deepest feeling of being, and our own experience that we, ourselves, are the centre of the universe....
So this statement is seemingly full of contradiction....but is it really?
How can we read it?
I can read it like:
without me being present, nothing will be in existence (like when you are in dreamless sleep?)
or
when I die all of existence will cease
or
without "a me" (being the concept of a person) no other thing will be conceptualised and therefore will not come into existence
or I can read it like this:
without “a me” no-thing gets room to come into existence (meaning it does comes into existence)
So it’s about “me”, “no-thing” and “existence”….
These 3 words, with their seemingly different meaning, make me happy and laughing with a big smile….hahaha what a joke, these 3 words are in fact 1 and the same!
Me, being no-thing in existence…..
I can’t get closer to truth then this <3
