digging into this a little further shows up in a timely fashion for me:

margot adler: http://www.beliefnet.com/story/1/story_122.html

essentially:
to anticipate
see and expect him in everything

then this absolute gem:

One of the quotations I have struggled with is the one on religion by Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the people." Most of us think of Marx as militantly anti-religion, a total materialist. But very few people in America are familiar with the whole passage, fewer have spent any time pondering its meaning. Marx wrote:

Religion is the sigh of the hard pressed, the heart of a heartless world, the opiate of the people. Religion is the flowers with which man's chains are decked. Criticism of religion disillusions man, not so that he may wear his chains without the comfort of illusions, but so that he may break the chains and pluck the living flower.

Since this passage was written by Marx in his younger and more humanistic phase, I have wondered what he meant by "living flowers." Was he, in fact, struggling to reconcile spirit with matter before he lost heart? Sometimes I imagine that what he was really trying to say was that there is a distinction between real spirituality and the oppressive religions of church and state. Perhaps the "living flowers" represent the deep spirituality that can exist when there is no longer a split between the world of matter and the world of spirit.