Poplars

Richard Herold, Poplars

Oskar Kaubisch-Cavertitz, Pappelallee am Weg nach Schöna, um 1930

 

The Singular Substance

Spinoza believed that there is only one substance to reality, and that this singlular Substance is God/Nature, the immanent, not the transitive cause of all things’ and ‘absolutely infinite’.

Indian Advaita philosophy also posits that God and the world are one and the same. The Western mind has difficulty with the concept that God is immanent and not separate from world and Self, but Spinoza's Substance Monism gives Monotheism its true meaning: there is no being but God.

Baruch Spinoza

"The more you struggle to live, the less you live. 

Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. 

Instead, surrender to what is real within you,
for that alone is sure….
you are above everything distressing."

- Baruch Spinoza