*ABSOLUTE - see GOD, INFINITE, ETERNAL
Antonyms: HUMAN, FINITE, MORTAL, RELATIVE
The Absolue "binds" the Universe with love. (p301) Percieve the twofold apprehension of an Absolute at once humble and omnipotent, personal and transcendent - the unimaginable synthesis of "unspeakable power" and "deep humily." (p302) (Mysticism)
The idea that everything we observe is relative is found in Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity which proposes that space and time are not absolute. The space‑time continuum, like matter and energy, are interchangeable and not absolute entities. (TM, p102)
A thing cannot exist without its opposite, except in the world of the absolute. Yet the realm of the absolute was not sufficient because there is no experience, only knowing. Knowing is divine state, yet the grandest joy is in being which is achieved only after experience. (Conversations, p29-30)
In the absolute world a thing could be both right and wrong, but in the relative world things are one or the other. For example, I created all of this in the blink of an eye and it came about through a process of evolution taking billions of years. (Conversations, p194-5)
The absolute seems objective, rather than subjective. (????)
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
God alone is absolute. All else is relative. (ThemesOT, p77)
The perfectly peaceful Absolute is not different from the playful relative [dual] universe. (Wisdom, Hinduism, p45)