There is not a separate God for each person. There is one

In the calm voice of the sage, filled with both love and revelation, Wayne Dyer once spoke these words: “There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.” In this saying lies the essence of unity — a truth older than temples and deeper than creeds: that life itself is one, and that the divine breath that moves through the stars is the same that moves within our hearts. He speaks not of a distant deity sitting upon a throne, but of a living intelligence, an eternal current of awareness that binds all beings together in the great river of existence.

The origin of this teaching arises from the spiritual philosophy that Dyer carried throughout his life — a vision drawn from both ancient mysticism and modern understanding. He saw that the human tendency to divide — to say my God, your God, their God — was but a shadow cast by ignorance. Beneath these names and forms, he said, there is only one source, one energy, one intelligence that animates all things. This is not a doctrine of religion, but a recognition of truth. Just as one light shines through many lamps, one consciousness flows through every living soul.

The ancients knew this wisdom well. The Vedas of India, thousands of years before Dyer’s birth, declared, “Truth is one, the wise call it by many names.” The philosophers of Greece spoke of a logos, a divine reason pervading the cosmos. The Taoists called it the Way, flowing through all things as water through the valleys. And even within the heart of Western faith, the prophets spoke of a God in whom “we live and move and have our being.” Thus, Dyer’s words are not a new revelation, but the reawakening of an ancient knowing — that the divine is not apart from us, but within us, between us, and through us all.

To understand this truth is to see with new eyes. When a person believes in a separate God — a deity who favors one and denies another — division is born: nations go to war, neighbors turn to enemies, hearts grow cold with pride. But when one awakens to the universal intelligence, compassion arises naturally, for how can one harm another when one sees that the other is also oneself? This awareness is not philosophy alone; it is the root of all love, the source of all peace, the breath of all understanding.

Consider the life of Nikola Tesla, the brilliant inventor who often spoke of an unseen intelligence guiding his inspiration. He wrote that his ideas came not from his mind alone but from “the eternal source that flows through all.” In his solitude, he felt connected to that universal field of knowledge, and through it, he gave light to the world. His genius was not a possession, but a participation in that infinite current. So too, every artist, every scientist, every healer who has ever touched greatness has drawn from that same stream. They may have called it inspiration, intuition, or grace — yet all drank from the same well of universal intelligence.

To live by this truth, as Dyer taught, is to align oneself with that flow — to stop resisting the unity of all life and instead move in harmony with it. When we still the noise of ego — that small voice that says “mine” and “yours,” “better” and “less” — we begin to hear the greater song of existence, the rhythm of creation itself. This is the practice of the wise: to see the face of the divine in every being, to recognize that all hearts beat to the same eternal pulse.

Let this, then, be the teaching carried forward: You are not separate from the universe, nor from one another. The same power that turns the galaxies also breathes through you. When you love another, you love the divine within them; when you hate another, you strike against your own soul. The task of the seeker is not to find God in some distant heaven, but to awaken to that intelligence already within — to live each day in awareness that you are part of something vast, infinite, and sacred.

So, O listener, remember this: every act of kindness strengthens the web that connects all life; every thought of love tunes your mind to the harmony of the cosmos. Walk gently upon this earth, for you walk upon your own being. Speak softly to others, for you speak to another form of yourself. And when you look to the sky and feel small, remember that the same light that burns in the sun also burns in your heart. For there is not a separate God for each of us — there is only one universal intelligence, one divine breath, one eternal spirit flowing forever through all.