You Are Divine.
Lessons learned from a party in Bel Air
Nearly a decade ago I found myself at a very fancy party in Bel Air. A friend was hosting a foreign dignitary, and the crowd was incredibly good looking and incredibly rich.
I was a bit out of place and out of sorts. Having just experienced the unexpected end of my marriage, I was lost, wandering. This party was a distraction and something fun to do in Los Angeles where I had moved just two years prior, before life as I knew it came to an end.
I didn’t really have anything in common with anyone at this party, so I was wandering around striking up small talk with whoever was interested.
But there was one gentleman who stood out from the crowd. Average height, he was wearing eyeliner, a fedora and had a bit of a casual vibe like I did. Amidst the sea of perfect suits and cocktail dresses this guy was a fascinating character study.
I brought my Aunt with me to this party as she was a socialite and as a small gesture of thanks for her allowing me to crash in one of her guest bedrooms while I figured out how to survive the trauma of divorce. She wasted no time starting conversations with strangers. It’s always been a party trick of hers and she approached this particular stranger with a very direct question: “Hello what do you do?” Very Hollywood.
His answer was anything but.
”I celebrate.” He said.
My aunt seemed confused . I asked him politely intrigued, what do you celebrate? He said, “the divinity within me and all around me.”
“I celebrate the Divinity within me and all around me.” A powerful statement from a man who, turns out, was a spiritual advisor to Hollywood and corporate elites.
That simple line has stuck with me for 10 years, and I’m finally starting to understand it.
Having grown up under the umbrella of conservative Judaism, I used to pray in bed at night that God would write me into the book of life, as if God was out there some bearded dude in the sky, keeping a record of everything I ever did. I lost connection to that… and my faith in that God by the time I left college, and it would be almost another 10 years before I started to look for some connection to God again through the spiritual studies I mentioned.
But for most of the last 10 years, I never understood what Divinity really meant. Even after an ALS diagnosis in 2022 it would take another two years of deep spiritual work and transformation and AWAKENING before the simplicity of that line started to resonate in my body.
You learn a lot when you’re on a quest to save your own life. I have learned who/what God is. God is source energy. Pure joy, pure love. Infinite. Beyond time and space. This is hardly my revelation, but the experienced truth of having read over 100 books on healing and listened to dozens of near death experiences like Anita Moorjanis.
People who have died and come back all come back with a similar story that God is pure love and pure joy, and there’s nothing to be afraid of.
Our minds tell us otherwise. the incessant mental chatter it’s like static preventing the Divine to be seen, heard, felt and experienced.
We create patterns and patterns and more patterns of a practiced personality/ego identity that prevents us from even connecting with the Divinity within us and all around us let alone celebrating it!
That source of energy that’s all around us, is also us. Like Hamlet is a part of Shakespeare, we are part of this infinite ocean of love and light joy. We are a piece of it, a wave in an infinite ocean of waves, but all of us part of the same infinite ocean.
This is the divinity within me and all around me. The very same that’s in you and all around you.
You are divine. You are a piece of God. This means that together with God, you are God. we all are. Thank you Jesus. Moses. Buddha. Once you discover that YOU are Divine, you begin to understand how and why the impossible is possible.