All of our sense of lack, separation, limitation and sorrow is based on the idea that we are a person inside of a body inside of a world.
The sense of being a person is founded on the sense of location, as in “I am over here, and the world is over there.”
The sense of location is because of the act of Seeing, or perceiving. Without perceiving or seeing form, there would be no sense of location, and thus no me at the center of perception.
If you drop or dis-identify completely from any and all forms of Seeing, Awareness will drop inward into pure Being devoid of a body, mind, location and world. Bliss, Clarity and Peace reign supreme here. This is Self-Realization.
Then when you drop or dis-identify from even this pure Being, by realizing that even this Beingness appears to YOU, a great void will open up which is the gateway, tunnel, or bridge into realizing the Absolute. Continue to recede. Not this, not this. (Neti-Neti)
The distance that is generated between the Great I Am, or Pure Being (God)–which is the formless essence of All That Is–may generate this sense of void or nothingness, which is in and of itself not the goal. Its only real use is to function as a space that can show the difference between the Great I Am and yourself as the Absolute.
Like the space between your body and the mirror which reflects the body; it is not helpful to become too enamored with the space in between if your intention is to learn about your reflection. Rather, look in the mirror and Realize that your real face is not in the mirror.
In the same way, use pure, thoughtless, wordless Beingness as this mirror to realize the Faceless Absolute which cannot ever appear: You. You have never appeared and shall never appear. Awareness appears to you, you do not appear to Awareness. Not even God knows you, God appears unto you.
The true you is older than God, older than Awareness. Older than Beingness. Older than timeless Presence.
Nothingness is merely the ocean between Beingness and the Absolute. You want to realize the Absolute, not merely drown in Nothingness. You are beyond/free from even Nothingness/the Void.
