you are all things...in potential?

[xise]

I understand the perspective that we are all things in potential.

However, rather than describe us as all things in potential, I would describe us as being all things in veiled actuality. We are actually all things, but limited in our ability to perceive this due to veiling (veiling as a concept inherent in the first distortion of free will, not just due to the "veil").

I see our journey through creation is one that is self-discovery through illusion rather than self-empowerment of or self-growth into potential, though both are related in practice. To me, potential conjures images of a seed not yet a tree - we are all things in potential- and while that kind of makes sense, a better analogy for me would be the blind KKK Dave Chapel skit (a blind black man leading the KKK because he doesn't perceive he is black, hilarious btw) -we are all things in veiled actuality.