Thursday, May 31, 2012

June 5


If we say that the outer world exists only as we see it, we deny that there are other beings, with senses different from our own.

When I cast my gaze on objects, I try to correlate their outlines with ideas that already exist in my head. I will see white on the horizon, and I will think, There is a white church in the distance. Do we not give everything we see in this world a preexisting form from our imagination, brought by us from our previous life?

We can see that all of the world’s objects exist in two ways: in relation to their place and time — by understanding that they exist in God and were created by the same Divine Nature which every spiritual thing in this world bears in relation to eternity.
— Benedictus Spinoza

In reality, the outer world in itself is not as we see it, and thus everything material in this world is insignificant. What is important then? That thing which exists everywhere, at all times, and for all people: the divine spark, the spiritual root of our lives.

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