Elahi Ghomshei; Scholar, philosopher and author with his family

Its beauty—that is, its potential to be experienced as beautiful—exists whether or not the work of art is momentarily being appreciated as beautiful. Similarly, the physical circumstances that are used to define the physical laws of motion exist whether or not any objects happen to instantiate them at a particular time. Analogously, the spiritual exists, and can even be known to be spiritual, whether or not it is momentarily being appreciated as numinous.