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Someone who perceives the world as a manifestation of the infinite already lives in the presence of the divine.

William Blake · Căsătoria Cerului cu Infernul · 1793 · Argumentul (Argument)1 minute readpublic domain
He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.William Blake · Căsătoria Cerului cu Infernul · 1793 · Argumentul (Argument)

God is not a place you reach, but a way of seeing what is already before you.

Blake does not look for God in a separate realm but in a way of seeing. The same object can be merely a thing or a window onto the boundless, depending on the attention brought to it. A paving stone can stay a stone or can speak of the order and vastness of the world. Vision changes nothing in things and everything in seeing. The divine becomes a quality of perception, not a theological possession.

Why it mattersIt helps someone searching for meaning outside daily life to look for it inside it, instead of postponing spiritual experience to another time or place.

plain thingattentive seeingwindow to infinity
The same object, between two poles, moved only by seeing

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