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We Are One With God

August 9, 2026

“We are one with God” can refer to several powerful concepts across different spiritual and religious traditions. Depending on the exact context you are looking for, here are the most famous quotes and passages:

1. In Christianity (Union with God) – The idea of oneness with God is central to Christian teachings, emphasizing a deep spiritual union and connection:

1 Corinthians 6:17 (ESV): “But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.”

John 17:21 (NLT): “I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you.”

The 13th-century German theologian and mystic Meister Eckhart: “The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye.”  This quote is one of the most profound expressions of non-dualism in Western Christian mysticism.

It points to the ultimate dissolution of the boundary between the human and the divine. Instead of viewing God as a distant entity ‘out there’ to be observed, Eckhart suggests that when we look upon God, it is actually God experiencing Himself through us. Our consciousness and God’s consciousness become a single, unified act of knowing and loving. 
Historically, this radical idea of direct, unmediated union challenged the orthodox religious structures of his time. It led to some of his teachings being controversially labeled as suspect or heretical by Pope John XXII.  Today, however, it remains a heavily studied concept that draws fascinating parallels with Eastern philosophies like Advaita Vedanta and Zen.

2. In New Thought and Unity Philosophy – This movement often teaches that the divine presence is actively within everyone: Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE.”

Christian D. Larson: “Believe in your own power, your own divinity, and your own oneness with Infinite Life.”

3. In Hindu Vedanta and Nonduality (Advaita) – These philosophies teach that the individual soul (Atman) and the ultimate reality (Brahman) are ultimately one:  The Upanishads (Tat Tvam Asi): “Thou art That” (You are fundamentally one with the ultimate divine truth).

Swami Vivekananda: “Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal.”

4. In Islamic Sufism – Sufi mystics emphasize the total annihilation of the ego to realize one’s oneness with the divine:  Jalal al-Din Rumi: “I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.”

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