"Forgetting...is...an active...positive faculty of repression, that is responsible for the fact that what we experience and absorb enters our consciousness as little while we are digest it...as does the thousandfold process...To close the doors and windows of consciousness for a time; to remain undisturbed by the noise and struggle of our underworld of utility organs working with and against one another; a little quietness...to make room for new things...for regulation, foresight, premeditation..." (Nietzsche 57).

After reading this passage I couldn't help but think right back to the time I tried to empty myself according to Tao's teachings. Nietzsche is expressing the importance of emptiness here. Through emptiness, possibility emerges. A window for opportunity opens. It is hard to let yourself become detached from the world around you. It is also relaxing and cleansing. I think the ten minutes I spent trying to empty myself were the most relaxing ten minutes I have had since I have been to school.