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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