The Bottomless Pit, Holiness, and Open Space

The Bottomless Pit, Holiness, and Open Space

You understand, but the reality of it escapes you. Understanding is nothing. The eyes must be kept open, constantly. To open your eyes you must relax, not strain. Don’t be afraid of falling backwards into a bottomless pit. There is nothing to fall into, you’re in it and of it, and one day, if you persist, you will be it. I don’t say you will have it, please notice, because there’s nothing to possess. Neither are you to be possessed, remember that! You are to liberate your self. There are no exercises, physical or spiritual to practice. All such things are like incense – they awaken a feeling of holiness. We must be holy without holiness. We must be whole…complete. That’s being holy. Any other kind of holiness is false, a snare, and a delusion.

--Henry Miller, Plexus

It’s hard to face that open space.

--Neil Young