everywhereness

“So much of the game, and the spirit of the game, is the everywhereness. It is the local rink in Etobicoke or in Domain, but it is the game as it is played where no rink has any chance to exist.”

Even the way we talk about it speaks to its inherent everywhereness and nothingness — it's all "wireless" this, "in the cloud" that.

This momentous error has arisen from the inevitable tendency of the human mind to conceive of God after the type of an earthly king, as an enthroned local Presence; from the rooted incapacity of popular thought to grasp the idea that God is an equal and undivided Everywhereness.

We look up every little while from doing the things ourselves that he gets done for him by his subconscious machinery, and we wonder at him, we wonder at the strange, the mighty feats he does, at his thousand-leagued boots, at his apparent everywhereness.