. . . I do not believe I am God. There is a great difference between saying I am God and saying God is me. Ice is water. All ice is water, but not all water is ice. So we might say of the life of humanity: All of the life of humanity is some of the life of God; some of the life of God is all of the life of humanity, but humanity is not all of the life of God. It is my conviction that whatever my life is, is God. There is no difference between my life and God in essence; the difference is in degree. Consequently, if that infinite I Am in me and in all of us is God, it accounts for the fact that in moments of illumination we are able to see that Thing that includes all of us. That infinite Thing knows me at the level of my ability to know it. Its self-knowingness is me and my self-knowingness is it. Ernest Holmes
