I Am Thee & Thou Art Me

If the voice you hear is your own, it’s still divine. Follow it.

That’s what I often tell my clients, but sometimes I need to take my own advice.

In a recent meditation, I received direction and answers. Then, when the voice started to sound like my own, I wondered, “Is it you or is it me?”

My answer came clearly: “I Am Thee & Thou Art Me.”

I thought of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260 – 1328), a philosopher, mystic, and theologian, who said, “The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love.”

I thought of Rumi, who said, “I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.”

I thought of Christ, who prayed that we “all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us” (John 17:21).

Inspired souls anthropomorphize God, not because they see God as less than infinite and divine, but because they innately sense their own divinity. They feel that portion of God that is in them.

I’m grateful for the experiences and insights of inspired teachers. And I’m profoundly grateful for a kind, patient, Divine Mentor who reminded me, “I am thee and thou art me.”