The human pre-understanding of the nothingness resident at the very heart of the conception of evil in existence is one of the primary problems that all philosophy and theology must grapple with. It is at the origin of creation stories universally. My proposal here, however, is to seek to demonstrate that this nothingness is not a negative (in the literal sense of the word) concept, but, is, rather, the ‘obverse’ of fulness – experiential, ontological, metaphysical, and mystical - and that the path to the latter must pass through the former; a path manifested philosophically as apophasis and, in the ethical dimension, as kenosis; and that culminates, finally, in a realization of the non-dual nature of reality. Cutting across time and traditions, therefore, through a textual exegesis of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad on one hand and Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling on the other, I seek to delineate how both these texts lead us from nothingness to a non-dual fulness. I formulate this hypothesis in the form of the following paradox: ‘Nothingness will save us from nothingness.’