Dejan Stojanovic

“Get close to grass and you’ll see a star.”

“Everything or anything before the Big Bang does not obey the laws of physics and is not necessarily compatible with our understanding and views of the world. We do not mean that there is nothing before the Big Bang, but that we can hardly understand what is hidden before it (we can only use our abstract thoughts to imagine it). As we explained in other parts of this book, we cannot look at time in the same way from the perspective of the “physical” world as from the perspective of an immaterial world. Neither space nor time exists in the nonmaterial world. Space and time are categories we deal with only in the “physical” world.”

“There can be no time before the Big Bang, but time and space are logical consequences of our Universe appearing after the Big Bang (or a different event) or any other universe.”

“They grew; they did not talk about growing.”

“Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.”

“You are not what you are;”

“Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.”

“From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.”

“To hear never-heard sounds,”

“There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.”

“Teaching others, he corrected himself.”

“Even if we naively try to explain the immeasurable spaces, energies, and galaxies of the Universe with the so-called dark matter and dark energy, it is hard to comprehend, regardless of all possible physical laws and laws of compression or contraction that such waste energies can fit into a tiny “spot.” If energy is indestructible, this beginning will prove the opposite based on its smallness. If something can disappear into nothing, it must be “destructible,” regardless of our conceptions.”

“Another force, which is not a force at all but is equally important, is the "force" of the Nonbeing, the force of the Nothing, the force of Emptiness, or the absolute vacuum. Without this “force,” space and time would not be possible. We must also state that time is impossible without space. In this sense, we treat time as a feature or property of space.”

“Tunnel from the absolute realm into the relative realm of the world and vice versa. Without one, there is no other. This point could also be the nucleus of a black hole at the point of its absolute density where everything sank into One without any space. That is the Zero point. This point is the gateway to new life. At this point, a black hole either “explodes” or disappears.”

“Victory over the infinite space of zero is the birth of space.”

“The night is still waiting.”

“Dream by making and make by dreaming.”

“To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.”

“You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.”

“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”

“There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.”

“Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.”

“To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.”

“A journey itself is beauty: space, journey, is the hope and joy of the world. Nothingness is the most important “dimension” of the Absolute or God; he doesn’t have dimensions without emptiness. Without Nothing, he is Nothing. Without the Nothing, there is no world and ultimately no space; if there is no space, there is nothing to be curved. However, if there is something, that something can exist as the world, only with the Nothing or in the Nothing or the Nothing can exist within it. Nothingness cannot be curved; only the Being can have curvature. The curvature of the Being is only its “physical” appearance and not the actual curvature of space, which is nothing and cannot be curved. As manifested in the world, the Being is many and One simultaneously. It is divided into a multitude yet stays One. There is only one Universe containing plurality—micro shapes, micro-universes, particles, waves, whatever we call all the elements of existence.”

“Life is only a flicker of melted ice.”

“What causes the illusion of the curvature of space is the limitation of language, thought, understanding, and the application of our limited language and beliefs to reality. We cannot change reality, but we can try to accommodate our thoughts and language in what appears to be a reality. Since the Nothing is “not” space, we are sure we can legitimately say that space can be curved. Nevertheless, we must first answer what space is. If we cannot precisely answer what space is, we cannot speculate that an absolute vacuum is not space. In other words, we cannot base our thoughts and language on consequences and conclusions rather than causes and premises.”

“The main question is if there can be any space without space, although this sounds absurd, for it is evident that there can be no space without space. However, if there can be no space without space, how can there be the curvature of space if there is no space? Then, we may answer that there is space and engage in circular reasoning. On a superficial level, some “obvious axioms” lead us to accept that there is space as it is without questioning how that is, how it is possible, and what creates this space. Then, we may answer that, based on laws of physics, nature works in such ways and that there are four main forces, and that based on all our knowledge and theories confirmed by experiments, we conclude and state, based on a “fact,” that there is a curvature of space.”

“We are still too far from the true definition of space and a true definition of fact. To prove that there is a curvature of space, we must undeniably prove and show that we know and understand what space is and that we know and understand what a fact is philosophically, linguistically, and physically. Consequently, we may say we have considered and know all this, but the “fact” remains the “fact.” It is not whether we say we understand all this and have considered all that but if we have genuinely and undeniably proved and understood what we declare.”

“Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.”

“We may argue that since nothing is just nothing, it cannot be space, and since it is not space, space is, in other words, what we see or think space is. However, what we see or think about space does not mean we have proved that what we see as space is real space. What is curved is only the Being, presented to us as something we call matter and energy, not space. Although Being envelopes space or is enveloped by space, it does not mean that space curves, only the Being. Since space is undetectable, passive, and nonexistent except concerning the Being, it does not contain any property or feature and, therefore, cannot be curved. There must be something to be curved.”

“We still can insist that space is what we say because nothing, or an absolute vacuum, is not space. Then, we must prove how space can exist without this nothing or absolute vacuum. But we cannot prove that space is possible without nothing. Since we cannot prove that there is space or curvature of space without nothing, we will establish the opposite: without the absolute vacuum, the Nothing (void, emptiness), there is no space. When we become convinced that there can be no space without the Nothing or an absolute vacuum, we must answer precisely what space is and how it becomes space. The only actual space is nothing or an absolute vacuum; we have already stated that this space cannot be curved.”

“The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.”

“We may still insist that space, although mainly emptiness, is completely “contaminated” by all the forces in the Universe—particles, waves, and so on. Still, based on this deduction or inference, we cannot prove that what is curved is space since nothing remains nothing and cannot be transformed into something based on the laws of physics. If the Nothing does not convert into something, the curvature of space is impossible. To prove the curvature of nothing (space), we must prove that nothing can transform itself into something based on the laws of physics.”

“They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.”

“Since the immaterial Being envelopes the Nothing, this nothing, in “cooperation” with the Universal Being (Mind), becomes space as we experience and describe it. The “fabric” of this created space, with the help of nothingness, is curved. But all this is the product of the transformation of the Being into its different forms, modes, and interdependent qualities of reality. The “material” world is only a symphony of “materialized” qualities of the Universal Being,” not matter per se because matter per se does not exist. What we see as space is a “materialized” program of the Universal Mind. What appears to us as dimensions is the underlying nothingness holding the illusion of Reality, making it appear material. The Primordial Primary Quality is the Primary Ultimate Force, or Source, that powers all we see, experience, and measure. Everything is related to Everything else and is affected and conditioned by Everything else. Everything within the Universe is a message, information, and code to everything else. Energy and matter are the messages of the Universal Mind sent into nothingness to fertilize it. Relationships and communication among the myriad beings are the life of one organism. All the features of matter we experience are real in the sense that we experience the spacetime continuum, but all that is the result of programming and conditioning rather than energy and matter as physical realities per se. Everything was One and became a multitude, yet Everything stayed One on the most basic level. The story of One is the story of All. Every sense, every pain, and everything we feel are the messages of existence, messages of the Universal Mind in action, interconnecting the Web of the Universe into One Family. Absolute is the Ultimate uniting force of Everything. To be one and only is death. That’s why creating is needed. Without creating, there is no life. The Universe is the life of the Absolute. Something and Nothing are the Father and the Mother of the World. From One Absolute, there is an almost endless family dispersed through space in search of life and meaning, which is what we call existence.”

“The whole past, the present, and the future are in the world as potential. Without space, there is no growth and time. Growth and development are possible only in the multitude, which implies distances and is not accidental. Even if the beginning was accidental, and it was not, growth and development are not. A compressed idea, the primordial Universal Mind, contains the Way and every dimension. Time is the measure of distance; time beats from its heart and records the motion of its bloodstream; time turns the pages of the Way and epitomizes the unmistakable memory of the Being-God. Time is the Being’s device with which it deceives the emptiness within itself. Time records and glorifies the glory of the Being-God.”

“Since both past and present are in the Primordial Being, he has already walked his way; he will not arrive at any other time or have more or less time. He will return to the same “place” simultaneously, beyond time. He swims outside time and seeks and offers the purpose through the artifice of time. No particle is aware of its most profound memory. However, every particle rushes through time in its unmistakable walk, and every mistake is part of this unmistakable walk, part of its perfection.”

“Life has no meaning without the past and future; the present, without the past and the future, is the frozen moment. We all fight for the present, but if anything exists in time, that is the past and the future. Is it possible to measure the present? How long does it last? The present second is not the present: before we think about it, it becomes the future; when we think about it, it becomes the past, and the future becomes the past in the exact second. (This is a good argument about particles and waves since we cannot determine a particle’s exact position and momentum.) What time is there in the present? Only the Absolute is in the absolute present because the absolute present is timeless and spaceless. The present is eternity, and eternity is nothing.”

“The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.”

“If we divide the second, every fraction becomes the past faster than the speed of thought and every fraction of every fraction. We would need to step down to the Zero Point of time to measure the present; we would need to divide the smallest number by the infinite number of numbers and look for the past in the infinity of the second. The whole matter is smaller than the numberless “number” of infinity. Infinity is endless.”

“Even endless knowledge of the Universal Mind cannot sustain infinity as actuality. The Universal Mind cannot transform into an absolute plurality of infinity. Its purpose is to transform from one into many and to exist meaningfully. The meaning and the purpose of the Universal Mind are saved based on this limit imposed by something without any limit, the infinity.”

“He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.”

“Real endlessness, absolute multitude, and variance imply an accident or the impossibility of an accident, which boils down to the same. Absolute multitude and endlessness can exist only in emptiness. The Home of endlessness and the multitude is Zero. We have to reach the bottom of a second, the bottom of time, to pass through the whole multitude and “infinity” to catch the present. Nevertheless, it is impossible to catch the present because it is Zero. Over time, the future becomes the past at the edge of Zero. The present is the annihilation of life; the present does not exist, but Everything is the presence of an organism that remembers and breathes according to its program—the present is the eternity it tries to avoid. All the rest implies some motion or illusion; it resembles eternity because it has eternal life.”

“Zero is the enslaved time, enslaved past, and future in the present of Zero. Zero is the end of recording: the time that contains all time and an absolute multitude within itself. Time, an eternity, is smaller than a moment, than a second, than a fraction of a second; it is not measurable. Time does not exist. Eternity does not have measure; its only measure is Zero, into which it goes to sleep. That is why an instant is longer than an eternity: an instant has a duration.”

“Zero enslaves space and time when a compressed idea, the Universal Mind, explodes into itself through emptiness; when a compressed idea, the mind converts and irrupts into countless ideas (messages). Creation of space is the classification and ordering of ideas (information), not division or motion but development, birth, and happening, the life of an idea, and development of the musical scale. Space is the trembling of emptiness: the life of a mind that listens to itself.”

“There is no time and space. Motion is a Sisyphus’ stone, and space is emptiness, which is nothing. Zero enslaves the space within itself, leaving emptiness without space out of itself. Zero frees the space from the condensed idea, offering the emptiness to spread within the compressed mind. The enslavement of emptiness is the birth of space. Freedom of emptiness is her slavery. Emptiness becomes the slave and the master; obeying God, the vacuum gives him birth, in a way, by providing space for plurality, but simultaneously enlivens itself.”

“God is Sisyphus, and existence (life) is the stone. The accomplishment of purpose is the saddest point. Sisyphus is happiest without the total accomplishment of the purpose, while he persistently works and aims at the top. The accomplishment of the purpose is Sisyphus’ fall, so he forgets his achievement quickly. Voyage contains his whole hope and beauty; the voyage is the purpose of the stone—purpose to itself alone. He always arrives in the same place but chooses voyage instead of the target. The purpose and target were always there. Voyage is always new because it is fed from oblivion by unaware memory, with infinite possibilities stemming from the nature of the absolute through “free” will and unincidental accidents or errors. Voyage is the ultimate goal or purpose because it hides an infinite multitude within itself; the infinity of the finite through endless possibilities. The beauty of infinity is always new; the voyage is the sum of happenings on the scale. Every experience or adventure is new. Beauty shines from experience.”

“One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.”

“Only the possibility of a journey creates space because space, before and after, becomes (is) the same; only the Way on a journey creates time, and the idea of the goal gives birth to time. Time does not measure time but the length of a passed road. The journey is space since nothing journeys (travels) from one to another or apart from one another. Nothing is ever separated; rather, all travel with all; all looks for itself within and in the other, and every path is the idea of the Being that finds itself on its journey because it is the Way.”

“The World is the Way because there is nothing outside, and through nothing, there is no way: The World travels through itself and within itself. Time is the measure of its Way, and since the world is the Way, the Way travels, not the world. The Way is the only measure, the only time and space. World-God is the Way.”

“Back and forward or in any direction, we can measure no space except nothingness. Within the coordinates of the Being, we measure the “space,” but that which we call space is only the appearance of the immaterial Being presented to us, or sensed by us, as material. Yet, the only “volume” of this “space” is Nothingness.”

“Nothing can be in the Nothing. Nothing can be only in the Something. Without the Nothing in the Being, there can be no Being, the Universe, in the sense we experience the World, and there can be no space. Whole Space is Nothingness contaminated by the “illusion” of the Being transformed into Something we call Universe.”

“In the way we understand space, there is no real void, but in the way I described the void in the previous sections of this book, the real void is always present. What we see and experience as space is an illusion. It is impossible to transform a void into energy or matter and curve it. The real void is uncurvable. What is curved is the “immaterial” Universe in the form we experience as space, energy, and matter based on the realities predicated by the Ultimate Primary Quality of Reality and based on secondary and tertiary qualities we have already described.”

“The real void is the medium for the Being to “create space” or the appearance of space with the help of the real void. Without the real void, there would be no volume; without volume, there would be no space. Although passively, the Real Void “participates” equally with the Being in creating the Universe. The passivity and nothingness of the void are its biggest “asset” and “force.”

“Our idea of the birth of the Universe through the Big Bang is only our limited idea about the Universe and not a real explanation of the Universe itself as it may be and not as we think it is. Therefore, we would have to define, in the first place, what a real Universe is. We have to determine whether we can always use our ideas about the Universe as a basis for understanding the Universe. But, if we are not sure we understand, or know with certainty, or at least to a high degree, what a real Universe is, in its totality, known and unknown to us, then we must think about it more hypothetically.”

“Can we go beyond the existing Universe to establish some scientific truths? However abstract this may sound, we may question relations and influences. For example, if there were other universes anywhere before the Big Bang of our Universe, how could that have affected our Universe, and would these effects be measurable or if there were any? Many other questions relating to impact and influence may indirectly lead to latent potential answers.”

“Then, we must be sure we understand what creation and recreation are. According to atheists, the world is accidental. But is that possible? I firmly believe that science can prove and will prove that matter can't come into existence just of itself or be always there just like that. It is almost inconceivable that matter, if it did not possess any information enabling it to function, would be able to evolve, in some instances, to the point of awareness of itself and the world around. It is almost impossible that matter, or energy, as such, originated just of themselves or always existed.”

“When the small is so small that it almost touches the farthest possible end of “infinity,” it becomes uncatchable. It is the point that we freely choose to call the “point” of “absolute speed” when the smallest, or near the smallest, when looked at, appears to be a particle and, when not looked at, seems to be a wave. The smallest must be the trembling of “matter” near the point of zero. It has nowhere to go except into the bigger. The life of the small is the life of the big.”

“Time is not possible without space. Everything beyond the “physical” world is either endless or eternal. Absolute void is endless and, therefore, nonexistent. Absolute void is space without space. In absolute space, every point is the same point. Absolute space is pointless and spaceless. A pointless point is out of space or place.”

“Only in the created world is life and evolution possible in a real sense. Space creates distances and relations, and time is another type of measure. In this sense, the world would not be possible without space and time. The World beyond its “physical” realm is not measurable. Only things with form can exist, coexist, relate to one another, and have a duration.”

“According to Einstein, gravity is not a force but the shape of space curvature in the spacetime continuum. If gravity is not a force, and it is not, but the effect of the curvature of space, then the curvature of space is the effect of motion. This spacetime continuum and, consequently, the curvature of space would not be possible without spaceless space and timeless time. Spaceless space is infinity, and timeless time is eternity. Spaceless and timeless are the basis for space and time. Universal Mind is the basis for creation. This creation is the creation of the World (“matter”), space with curvatures, and time that can be “measured.” Without an absolute void, there would be no space, and there would be no time. Without space, time, in its real sense, is not possible.”

“At the point of creation, two poles of the Absolute, Universal Mind (Something) and Absolute Void (Nothing) become creators of the world. The Universal Mind is the active “pole,” and the Absolute Void (Nothingness) is the passive “pole.” At the “moment” of creation, the Universal Mind envelops nothingness by the size of its program, but there is always nothingness “beyond” this nothingness unaffected by the creation. There can be many of these creations or universes. All of them together form the Universe. The Universe we live in is only a speck of the real Universe we cannot identify based on our current technology. It is a big question whether we will ever be able to glimpse the Absolute except through abstract thought and imagination, which are, in my opinion, legitimate methods not only of philosophical investigation but also scientific ones.”

“A dimension is a measure of something wrongly used as the property or feature of something, but space itself is not, in its essence, what we think it is. We imagine space, conceptually and linguistically, as something solid and conditionally emptiness if this emptiness is within something tangible as matter. In this way, all we measure is the measure of a shape that we see in the way we see it, not how it is. We can also measure distances between the shapes. This is how we form our idea of space. Even if there was no absolute vacuum, what gives space or dimensions to anything we measure or see as space in the “material universe” is this void or nothingness. We experience and measure all the physical qualities of reality, but they are only “coordinates” or informational, immaterial skeletons of Reality appearing in the forms we experience as “physical.” We measure this very void for, without it, space or our idea of space is impossible.”

“One factor that obstructs our understanding of the world is our insatiable desire to understand it at any cost. If we insist on understanding the world at any price, we will not understand it or will only partially understand it. Such an attitude is motivated more by self-promotion than a desire for fundamental understanding. If we freed ourselves from all possible chains, we would expand our views, and what we wanted to achieve at any cost could be achieved at a lower price.”

“Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.”

“If the Being, Universe, appears in the Nothing, or the Nothing appears in the Being, a point in space is created, and consequently, time. What makes the Nothing a real nothing is the lack of something, the lack of the Being. If the Being appears, nothing is not nothing anymore, for it becomes space.”

“Although primordial emptiness is nothing, there is no space without emptiness: emptiness has no dimension. Only the compressed idea, compressed knowledge of the Being, hides “dimensions” within itself, but in its compressed mode”

“After the voyage, every form comes to the same place despite being dispersed in myriad directions in conditional “separation” and dissolution. When forms completely dissolve, the emptiness separating forms or shapes becomes a primordial desert of nothingness without the shapes. This nothingness is the same everywhere; every “place or point” becomes the same “place,” a pointless point; the distance disappears. Since there is no time without space, the same applies to time. Real space is nothingness or an absolute vacuum; it is non-dimensional.”

“Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.”

“Without space, there is no time.”

“In a singularity, there is no space and time; time is a consequence of space. Space and time are only possible in plurality. The irruption of singularity into plurality is the cause of space and time as we perceive it.”

“In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.”

“As we see it, space is possible only when the primordial Being swallows emptiness. Space is born when the Being accepts emptiness, the Nonbeing, into itself. Thus, this condensed Being begins to dilute and spread out; emptiness starts making relations within it. Its life is impossible without emptiness: vacuum gives dimension to the Being, although without any dimension. Emptiness provides volume to the Being.”

“Atoms (electrons, neutrons, quarks, strings), all we can imagine, are only messages and sparks of condensed knowledge and reminiscence. Emptiness gives the power to “matter,” enabling it to transform and grow. The very fire of hydrogen is knowledge. The Universe is the purest in the moment of space-birth; its primordial fire glows from the first “element.” “Fire” cannot evolve into something different from its existing knowledge. Every new element is the evolution of an idea; every new element is born from condensed knowledge, from the only and the same One.”

“Every particle is born with the help of emptiness; every form of life and Everything from it is life; there is no life beyond it. Its vibrations make multitudes; there is no organic or nonorganic matter. These are our interpretations and linguistic definitions. Everything that is—it is life; Everything beyond it is nothing. The World is the imagined Perpetuum mobile, making Everything from “nothing” by “nothing.”

“The Absolute is a finite Being containing infinity as a potential. Without nothingness, there is no infinity. Nothingness is nonexistent and, therefore, the most finite thing. Without nothingness, there is no space. Without space, there is no time.”

“Eternity means Now. Everything contained in one pointless point is an eternal Now. Now, it is Nothing.”

“If we imagine only our Universe as space in the ocean of nothingness, all the physical, natural forces will not affect the rest of nothingness at a far enough distance from our universe. All this nothingness would just be nothingness.”

“Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.”

“Absolute Void”

“SPACE IN THE UNIVERSE”

“Emptiness, an absolute vacuum, cannot be curved, yet only emptiness makes space. Only matter, our idea of matter, can be curved; its curving is not a condensation of energy but the dilution of the energy of compressed “knowledge,” “mind,” idea,” “thought,” or “spirit.” Only this condensed essence, “immaterial substance,” can be curved in its expansion or “extension.” Neither the “real space” (absolute vacuum) has an actual dimension, nor does the universal essence, the “ultimate substance,” have it. The “immaterial substance,” Universal Mind, is the only authentic energy of the Being, existing in its knowledge and “memory.”

“Space, in its essence, does not exist and, therefore, cannot be curved. What exists is only an emanation of the Supreme Being transformed into reality. We measure the expression of the Absolute and not the absolute itself. We already elaborated on the manifestation of the Absolute as we see it. Therefore, the curvature of space is a curvature of the convention, as presented to our senses, the curvature of the emanation and manifestation of the Absolute Mind in the World.”

“Reaching the ultimate laws of physics requires distancing from the paradigms of science and the paradigm of how a human brain usually thinks or functions. To understand the ultimate laws of physics, the human mind must adjust to the requirements or logic of phenomena that seem paradoxical and absurd to us as humans.”

“Every dimension looks at itself through the eyes of other shapes in the Universe. Only in the senses, and through the senses, the joy is born and felt. The Universe's uppermost beauty, depth, knowledge, and potential shine on surfaces. The Universe puts on and changes many clothes, colors, shapes, and scents. Light is the robe of the Universe and is more important than its depth. Its whole nature shines from its face; its mystery seduces us with the smile of beauty; its depth is in the service of beauty. The most profound depth is sad and lonely at the bottom of itself and does not need knowledge, for it is in and of itself omnipotent knowledge and truth. That’s why the Being, in a creative dance with Emptiness, embraces her,”

“In trying to be perfect,”

“It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.”

“For a game, you don’t need a teacher.”

“There is no beginning and end without 'time.”

“I visited many places,”

“Since there is no real silence,”

“Only we pass through time, measuring our growth and observing our disappearance. Time does not pass. Time does not measure us; instead, we measure time and are the measure of time.”

“There is no time without space.”

“We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.”

“Without emptiness, there are no dimensions, distances, or lengths; without an extent, there is no distance, path, motion, or relationships.”

“Paradoxically, space creates time.”

“The exit of the Being is not in exiting itself but instead leaving on a voyage. Since there is nothing except the Being and Nonbeing (the Nothing, emptiness), it cannot go on a journey because a journey into the void has no meaning or purpose. Alone within itself, at the height of its power, it becomes the same as its opposite—Nothingness. The Being resolves this problem not by moving into emptiness but by moving into itself, by sucking up nothingness, or void, into itself.”

“I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.”

“Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.”

“Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.”

“Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success”

“Use the wings of the flying Universe,”

“Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.”

“To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.”

“The most complicated skill is to be simple.”

“Wherever I go, I meet myself.”

“Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.”

“He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.”

“There is only as much space, only as much time,”

“God is busy and has no time for you.”

“Total knowledge is annihilation”

“We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.”

“It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.”

“It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.”

“To jump over centuries”

“A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.”

“I imagined I was God for a millisecond”

“Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.”

“When the star dies,”

“To hear never-heard sounds,”

“Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.”

“He knows he will be born again,”

“Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.”

“Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.”

“A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.”

“Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.”

“Vandals listen only when others are stronger.”