Giving Meaning to the Infinite

So much of our experience is finite, endlessly dividing our sense data into categories and identities. But what of the whole? In my philosophy the whole is a duality, it is separated into a spectrum of different levels, at either end is the infinite and in-between is the eternal cycle of energy, birth and death. But why do we need the whole? There is something ideal about the infinite, the fact that it can't change, that it connects everything together and that it is the boundary around creation and destruction. To understand the finite it is best to be looking in from outside and the only thing that has nothing outside it is the infinite. In my mind, every division made upon experience and reality, must come from the idea that everything belongs to the same force. It has often been expressed that if all the causes were traced back to their beginnings then it would always be God, or nature, for every cause. The infinite is the first cause of everything, because it hasn't been created and can't be destroyed.

There have been many people try and give meaning to the infinite and create an eternal truth, but it's all speculation. You can discover the infinite in you daily thoughts, but it depends on what you are looking for. For me it's the power struggle, everywhere in existence I experience I see the duality of the infinite, expressed in the creation and destruction of the visible universe. To my mind there are two eternal causes that are in conflict with each other. Mostly I see that having just one first cause, means that it had to create itself, however having a duality means that the one acts upon the other, in order to create and destroy. The is a dual extension of mind into matter, and matter into mind, but like I say it is all speculation, which ever way you approach the infinite, giving it some meaning is the most important part.

Imagine if we could use the infinite to idealise all of our judgments, to be able to consider all our desires and divisions in terms the ideal humanity. There are choices made that are better or worse than other choices, but with comparison to the whole, to every possible decision, we may be able to choose the best. What i wish to get across is the notion of potential and actual, the way we judge the actual is through division and finiteness, picking out bits and pieces to attach belief. When really with should start with the potential, it's only through understanding potential that we can imagine our ideals, and in my book the ideal is achieved via the infinite. Only through negotiating all possible realities do we fall upon the perfect, the ideal and for me that is the meaning of the infinite. That it is the part of the understanding that places a boundary around change, it limits the limitless potential, it is the very start of being able to say, 'I know the finite nature of this experience'. Without having a knowledge beyond the finite how can we experience the meaning of each finite attachment.