Between the Human and the Divine

AI-assisted translation from the Greek. Greek original

There is a place where the human and the divine are not two different things, but one and the same, in two states of awareness. The person who knows sees. The person who does not know waits. And while waiting, they place the divine far away, outside themselves, outside everyday life, outside the simplicity of presence.

The in-between is not distance. It is unawareness of what already exists. The human is already divine, but human beings have forgotten this. And because they have forgotten, they seek it as something outside themselves.

They do not recognize themselves as divine, because they learned to see the divine as something greater, something demanding worship, something beyond perishability, beyond the body, beyond the world.

But the divine is not far away. It is the very gaze that holds steady and does not turn away.

When someone looks at you and sees not merely your form, but your existence—there is the divine. When a person stands before the grandeur of the world and does not bow their head in fear—there is the divine.

The human and the divine are not separated by distance. They are separated by a forgetting—the amnesia of their own truth.

If they remembered, they would not pray in waiting. They would pray as already existing within it. They would live in a way that asked no questions, but was itself the answer.

And then the in-between would cease to exist. There would be nothing to bridge. Because the divine was already here. And the human was already whole.