I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!

Emily Dickinson

If you have spent your whole life becoming somebody and having something, the beginning of awakening requires you to turn around and start the journey in the other direction, towards becoming nothing, becoming nobody, and having nothing. ⁣

Ram Das

Within us is the potential to be a somebody. The game of life asks us to be a somebody. Once we are somebody and choose to wake up, there are two potentials within you: the potential to become a new somebody, or the potential to become a nobody.

What does it mean to be a nobody? Nobody knows.

Can you be a somebody and a nobody? To that I would ask: Does the sun rise and set every day? The universe is composed of dual forces, yin and yang. Empty darkness and fiery matter. Nothing and something, all at the same time.

Aren’t we the same?