"Why is there anything at all, and not simply nothing?

The Miracle of a little grain of Sand

TEST IT for yourself. Try for a moment to imagine "nothing" --in other words, absolute nothingness, not even a kind of darkness or a great emptiness--no: really, absolutely, nothing. Nothing, nothing! Not even thinkly. Simply nothing.

Bet you don't succeed! The philosopher Leibniz once said that there is only one great question in the world:

"Why is there anything at all, and not simply nothing?

The fact is, the one thing we actually simply cannot imagine--namely, nothing--is the one thing that should be self evident. The normal thing to assume would be that there is simply nothing, and there's an end to it.

But in fact there is something. We know this with absolute certainty. And even if there were only a single tiny grain of sand and nothing else--even that would be an incredible miracle. For one single tiny grain of sand alone would destroy "nothingness".

There must be someone there who has uttered his great "Yes" to everything that exists, who has willed that "something" should exist and not "nothing" instead.