The Divine is for Everyone

If there’s any tendency which could be called human, it’s the tendency for us to divide everything into groups and decide some things are good or right and the rest is bad or wrong.

Really, the categories are what we want for ‘good’ and what we don’t want for ‘bad.’ Don’t get it twisted: even if you get stringently philosophical with your divisions, there comes a point where the category boils down to how you feel about it. Categorization and division are always and will always be messier than they should be, than the intellectual comfort they promise would suggest.

Ultimately, they are always a distraction from something, typically things that make us uncomfortable to think about.

You’d be amazed how often the thing people don’t want to think about is what they have in common with other people.

It’s sad when categorization and division happens between groups of people, but absolutely tragic when that happens during discussions of the divine. People can and do labor their whole lives with the idea that the divine isn’t for them, that they are somehow excluded from the divine. They will carry that assumption between lives, too—life after life, laboring under the idea that they are not good enough, not right enough, not the right kind, or any other artificial distinction they can come up with.

The divine is for everyone. Period.

There are an infinite number of paths to the divine, as many as there are things walking them. Everyone, everywhere, will walk them.

Reunion with the divine is inevitable, and you have all of eternity to get there.

Take comfort in this. You can never be and will never be excluded from the divine. Just remember no one else is, either.