We Are the Spark of the Divine

Seeing divinity in nature and in everyone can be a way of being connected to the divine, and it is the way that the divine connects with us. If I see divinity in the lowliest ant or the tallest mountain, it is the same divinity. If I see the spark of divinity in my own eyes, then I see it in the eyes of everyone, for we are all made of the same stuff.

As humans, we are accustomed to seeing through the eyes of the patriarchal hierarchy. We name this one thing more valuable than another thing, this one person more valuable than another. However, if we can let go of the ego and begin to see divinity in nature and in humanity, we can let go of judgment and open our hearts with empathy and compassion. Every person is equally valuable; every plant and animal is worthy of existence.

The trouble comes, I think, when we cannot see divinity in our own selves. Then it is easy to denigrate and make ourselves less than. We perpetuate the hierarchical system in which we find ourselves to day. We project our own shadow self, that which we do not see as divine, onto others. We judge and destroy. We do not see kinship, but rather otherness. That goes for other humans as well as the natural world. Whatever is “other” is not divine; therefore, we can conquer the other, destroy it, judge it as less than, or kill it. Because the “other” is an “it,” it is not divine. It is not worthy of existence.

If I truly begin to see myself as a divine being, I look at the world with different eyes. I begin to see the spark of divinity in everything. I begin to look at the world with love and compassion because I am filled with love and compassion for my own self. I begin to see that everything and everyone is connected by that divine spark of love. I begin to understand that truly, we are all one, we are all connected, and we are all divine.