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William Shakespeare: "To be, or not to be: that is the question."

We all want to exist, and we dread the alternative. But when we explore the meaning of the word “exist,” we find that it derives from the Latin existere, combining ex (“out of”) and sistere (“to stand” or “to place”). To exist, then, most literally means to stand out from.

But the obvious question follows: out from what?

The answer is the void: nothingness itself.

Existence is only possible through distinction. Something can appear only against the backdrop of what withdraws. That which allows you to stand out cannot itself stand out in the same way; it must recede. The most life-giving force, then, would not be the one that asserts itself most aggressively, but the one capable of standing back completely into nothingness so that existence itself may emerge. 

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