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Nature and the Absolute
What do we really know about the universe we inhabit?
Nature hides in plain sight. Truth is, it doesn’t hide at all. We are simply incapable of fully comprehending it. But that doesn’t stop us from trying. As abstract-thinking creatures, it is our nature to do so.
All sciences, philosophies and religions are attempts to make sense of What-Is, to better understand the world in which we find ourselves — the natural world.
Nature is the universe and everything in it.
What we call the Absolute is simply the driving force of nature, that which gives it order. If all were chaos, there would be nothing for us to say. There would be no words for either you or me to utter. There would be nothing for us to think about.
So Full of Ourselves
What am I? When I look in a mirror, I see my reflection but not my essence. I am a complex biological entity, the result of millions, billions of years of evolution. I am an animal, which is to say a part of nature. I have a mind capable of abstraction, of considering possibilities and impossibilities. I am self-aware yet incapable of fully comprehending myself.
If I truly knew myself — my own nature through and through — I would know all nature, as well. Then the Absolute…
