"I believe that
the universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same
energy, and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of
one organic whole. (This is physics, I believe, as well as
religion.) The parts change and pass, or die, people and races and rocks
and stars; none of them seems to me important it itself, but only the
whole. The whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me
to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it, and to think of
it as divine. It seems to me that this whole alone is worthy of the deeper
sort of love; and that there is peace, freedom, I might say a kind of salvation,
in turning one's affections outward toward this one God, rather than inwards
on one's self, or on humanity, or on human imaginations and
abstractions ... the world of the spirits." - Robinson
Jeffers
[except I'd say the outward is the inward too - the boundaries are arbitrary constructs if we immerse in whole]
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