Quote of the Week 400 - The Experience of Divinity

Quote of the Week 400 - The Experience of Divinity

The self-awareness that we are without beginning or end is, precisely, the experience of Divinity.

--Raimon Panikkar, The Experience of God; Icons of the Mystery

Quote of the Week 399 - The Nondual Essence of Divinity

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The essence of divinity is found in every single thing – nothing but it exists. Since it causes every thing to be, no thing can live by anything else. It enlivens them; its existence exists in each existent.

Do not attribute duality to God. Let God be solely God. If you suppose that Ein Soph emanates until a certain point, and that from that point on is outside of it, you have dualized. Realize, rather, that Ein Sof exists in each existent. Do not say, “This is a stone and not God.” Rather, all existence is God, and the stone is a thing pervaded by divinity.

Before anything emanated, there was only Ein Soph. Ein Soph was all that existed. Similarly, after it brought into being that which exists, there is nothing but it. You cannot find anything that exists apart from it. There is nothing that is not pervaded by the power of divinity. If there were, Ein Soph would be limited, subject to duality. Rather, God is everything that exists, though everything that exists is not God. It is present in everything, and everything comes into being from it. Nothing is devoid of its divinity. Everything is within it; it is within everything and outside of everything. There is nothing but it.

--Moses Cordovero, Shi’ur Qomah and Elima Rabbati, translated by Daniel C. Matt in The Essential Kabbalah, The Heart of Jewish Mysticism