Well, I'll leave an excerpt from a book I wrote once on this very subject. I got a headache writing this particular point in the story...see if you can keep up. I know I couldn't. It is about a "higher being" trying to explain the nature of Something and Nothing to a group of "lesser" beings:
6. Looking not at it, hearing not it speak, Ray still knew before him and his companions stood a being that existed just as any other creature in this Sphere.
7. Who was this? This being answered in accordance as if it knew their curiosity firsthand:
8. "(I) says (I) am, always has (I) been! (I) says you are not (I). (I) knows you are you alone...understand? (I) is the only (I): no one else is (I), this is true."
9. Duvall diligently tries to scratch the itch of confusion that was the bothersome crawling of curiosity across his brow, now tickling his scalp. He steps forward, eyes straining and lips cocked. In his awkwardness, Duvall asks:
10. "I am confused, noble one, as to why one would be so obsessed with a name?"
11. The creature laughs without laughing:
12. "(I) smiles as (I) likes to do when (I) finds pleasure in simple Something humor.
13. You Somethings place much value in the highest on titles and references to call unto yourselves. Is that not right, Simon? Or is it Duvall?
14. King this and Lord that, God Be and God Be-Not. You have quarreled: spilled blood, strangled wealth from others in the name of what?
15. A name. And a name alone! Then why, oh why, (I) asks (I), does this simple Something or Another question (I)'s desire to retain (I)'s own soon-to-be identity? Shall (I) be misunderstood always and forevermore because none shall accept that there is only one (I) in this universe? Does (I) even care?"
16. Simon dared not ask more... but does anyway, biting his lip:
17. "If (I) is (I), that must make Simon, Simon? Simon clearly is not (I). Yet I...I mean...Simon means Simon wants to ask (I): what is a Something?
18. Is not everything a 'something' in some way or another?"
19. (I) answers without answering from the Beyond beyond the Beyond:
20. "Exactly, says (I). It is this way because it has been made into Something, by another Something, that was made by another Something.
21. Life is a Something, so is Death. You be skin and bone: solid and tangible is every bit a Something as an untouchable thought or ideal. Even the hollowness of the Void in all its emptiness is a Something. Even Nothing is a Something."
22. Ciphera ponders the meaning of it all aloud:
23. "Then what, if Ciphera may ask of (I): what was the first Something to place value upon Something? Was it a Creator, the source of Life? Was that not-being not a Something itself?"
24. (I) continues:
25. "(I) cannot tell you of this source, for even (I) is below it if it even exists. (I) pretends not to know this answer like all Somethings do. All (I) knows is, it is the Source of the Source of Creation: greater than Creation and Creator Itself. For the Creator has a Creator who has a Creator, you see.
26. Would one believe that even the Creating Source has to even be a Something within Itself? Does it really? No, this Source does not create Somethings: It has no need to! Somethings form from it, little thieves!