The Divine Nature of Existence

Baruch Spinoza got excommunicated from his Jewish community at twenty three years old.

They banned him so harshly that no one was allowed to speak to him, read his work,

or even stand within four feet of his body. His crime was thinking too deeply about

God. Spinoza believed that God and nature were the same thing. Not that God created

nature, but that God is nature. Every tree, every rock,

every person is a piece of the divine. There's no heaven, no hell, no afterlife where

you get rewarded or punished. This life, right now, is all there is.

And everything that happens is necessary. Nothing is random. You are not separate from the universe.