“While everyone in this world is striving to get somewhere and become someone, only to leave it all behind after death,
you aim for the supreme stage of nothingness.
Live this life as light and empty as the number zero.
We are no different from a pot.
It is not the decorations outside but the emptiness inside that holds us upright.
Just so, it is not what we aspire to reach but the consciousness of nothingness that keeps us going.”
— Elif Shafak, “The Forty Rules of Love”
