From the standpoint of the Self there is no confrontation between a Principle and a manifestation, there is nothing but the Self alone, the pure and absolute Subject which is its own Object. But, it will be asked, what then becomes of the world that we still cannot help perceiving? . . . The world is Atma, the Self, in the guise of Maya; more especially it is Maya insofar as the latter is distinct from Atma, that goes without saying, for otherwise the verbal distinction would not exist; but while being Maya, it is implicitly, and necessarily, Atma, in rather the same way that ice is water or is “not other” than water. [GTUFS: LogicT, The Servant and Union]

The world is a movement which already bears within itself the principle of its own exhaustion, a deployment which displays at every point the stigmata of its limitations and in which Life and the Spirit have gone astray, not by some absurd chance but because this encounter between inert Existence and living Consciousness is a possibility and thus something which cannot but be, something posited by the very infinitude of the Absolute. [GTUFS: UIslam, The Path]

The world is divine through its character as a divine manifestation, or by way of the metaphysical marvel of its existence. [GTUFS: LightAW, Dialogue Between Hellenists and Christians]