Every breath alters the lens through which the divine is felt. The self you were a moment ago dissolves, replaced by a newer configuration of insight, memory, subtle conditioning, and awareness. That shifting identity means your encounter with the sacred is never static. It reshapes itself as you reshape yourself.
A glimpse of the Absolute may arrive with startling clarity; pure, unmistakable, worldless. Yet that moment is bound to the level of development available at that point in your evolution. Even the most luminous awakening is framed by the consciousness that receives it. You witness infinity through a doorway that keeps widening, and each step forward reveals the prior step as incomplete.
The paradox is that every revelation of the divine feels total while you are inside it. You genuinely sense the boundlessness of what you are. You feel the horizon dissolving. You feel yourself dissolving. Nothing is missing. Nothing could be larger. Until the next phase of your evolution ripens, and suddenly the previous fullness reveals itself as only one facet inside a far greater clarity.
This is not a failure of enlightenment; it is the nature of consciousness unfolding through time. Growth ensures that even the most profound realization will always be met again from a deeper vantage. Your life becomes a series of thresholds; each one a genuine opening, each one destined to be surpassed.
The ultimate cannot be contained by a lifespan. A finite arc cannot hold the infinite source of all perspectives. Even a direct encounter with the origin of being is filtered through the momentary structure of the one who encounters it. Divine recognition expands as you expand. It breathes when you breathe. It changes when you change.
That means the full truth of what you are can never be exhausted here. No lifetime can house the totality. No mystical breakthrough, no matter how absolute, can finalize what is without limit. Realization keeps moving, stretching, deepening, dissolving itself over and over again.
This insight doesn’t diminish enlightenment; it honours its living nature. What you truly are is not a conclusion but an unending revelation. The infinite doesn’t arrive once; it arrives continuously, refracted through your evolving capacity to meet it.
The divine is not something you master. It is something you grow into forever.
Morgan O. Smith
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