Where Nothing seems to be

Author(s): Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Hermann Kunh

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Hermann Kuhn
This doesn't seem like much, - yet is extremely precious. Being aware that something - previously unknown - actually exists makes it infinitely easier to really find it.
No one, - not our parents, not our teachers, friends, priests or anyone - ever told us about this, - or even knew about it. - 'It can't be seen, it can't be isolated in a testtube, thus it can't possibly exist,' my own mother, a medical doctor, instructed me when I was young. It took me years to get past this misleading early programming.
Sure it can't be analyzed materially, - simply because. it's not material, - as all our thoughts are non-material, - as all our feelings are non-material, as all our verve to do something, all our motivations, our love, our storehouse of knowledge within us are non-material. We can't 'see' any of this; can't isolate it in a test-tube, pin it to a wall, or buy in a supermarket, - but it certainly exists, - it provides the very drive that makes us experience life for fifty, eighty, hundred and more years.
Remember how you felt when falling in love the very first time, - and to your utter amazement discovered a dormant, unexplored dimension of fantastic feelings within you, - a world whose existence you couldn't even have guessed at before, a new dimension that promised unfathomable ecstatic joy, triggered vast, powerful motivations and made you venture into completely unknown avenues of life.
Now also a new dimension is waiting to be discovered, but here it helps to be aware that it exists to perceive it.