21 levels of Self-Deception: THIRD EDITION by Tom Wallace - HTML preview

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friends or colleagues. The time spent just doing ‘nothing’. It seems to me that these are all necessary counterpoints to the ‘somethings’ that we are busily seeking or creating in the world. Letting go of ‘somethings’ allows a space from which new ideas and new forms can be created. Letting go of ‘somethings’ allows us to appreciate the many ‘nothings’ we encounter in daily life and, of course — based on what I’ve said in this chapter — are not nothings at all, they are moments of formlessness.

Formlessness then is far from being empty — in fact formlessness is ever ripe with potential. We make the mistake of seeing ‘nothingness’ as a negative — an absence of stuff — rather than as a potential for birth and the underlying essence of all that is. Order out of chaos, form out of formlessness.

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