You Are That

"Everything Is a Facet of the One Thing

Think in terms of white light shining through a prism to reveal the full spectrum of color perceivable by the human eye: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Each of these colors is part of the original whole and cannot be separated from it— turn off the light source and the colors disappear. Now apply this metaphor to the world around and within you. Everything you see, think, feel, and imagine is a part of and never apart from the same Source. We call this Source by such names as God, Reality, Brahman, Allah, One, Krishna, the Absolute, and the Nondual. The list of names is long; the reality to which they all point is the same.

You Are That

Everything is a manifestation of God— everything. That means you. To know God is to know yourself; to know yourself is to know God. The quality of knowing I’m talking about isn’t knowledge about something other than yourself, because you cannot be other than God, the only being there is. Knowing God isn’t knowing through theological speculations about God but rather knowing God directly, the way a ray of sunlight knows the sun. When you know God directly, you know God as yourself. But— and this is a huge but— you do not imagine you alone are God. Knowing you are God is knowing everything else is God as well. Knowing that you and everything else are God is knowing that there is no you or anything else— only God.”

~ Rami Shapiro | Foreword by Richard Rohr, Perennial Wisdom for the Spiritually Independent