A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y

 

Effort
Ego
Ego Activity

Ego Alien
Ego Death
Ego Defense
Ego Deficiency
Ego Development
Ego Functions
Ego "I"
Ego Ideal
Ego Identity
Ego Life
Ego Metabolism
Ego Structures
Embodiment
Emotional States
Emotions
Emptiness
Energies
Enlightenment
Enlightenment Factors
Essence
Essential Development
Essential Experience
Essential Identity

Essential Love
Essential Qualities
Essential Realization
Essential Retrieval
Essential Self

Essential Truth
Evil
Evolutionary Force
Existence
Experience

Existence

We see that the nature of the absolute is really the absence of being, the annihilation of presence. This discovery is actually not surprising, for all presence is nothing but the being of the manifest world. Presence emerges as the flow of the logos, as the outflow of being, whose field is patterned by the forms of the universe. And since being is conscious presence that emerges from the absolute, the absolute must be prior to being and its contrasting background. Being, in other words emerges out of nonbeing. The source is a mysterious nonbeing, a nonbeing that is not simply an ordinary nothing, but a metaphysical nonbeing that holds the potential of all possibilities of existence and experience. It is a breathtaking truth: the source and ultimate nature of all existence is nonexistence. Being, with all of its richness and variety, is born out of nonbeing. We begin here to understand the mysteries of Reality; we see that it does not correspond with the apparently obvious, normal perception of things. We begin to appreciate the stupendous mystery that is Reality, and the subtlety of truth, which can quicken the passionate love of the heart to inquire into the mysteries of Being. (Inner Journey Home, pg 384)