God, the Eternal I
Regardless of the name we use—YHVH, Allah, Christ, Mother, the Trinity, Krishna, Vishnu, Shiva, Kali, Quetzalcoatl, Ahura Mazda, or the rest—when we talk about God, we make God an object. Even the Perennial Wisdom notion that God is the Happening happening as all happening at this moment perpetuates God as object. But there are no objects, no things, no its, and insisting otherwise is the stuff of maya. The truest name of God, the only name that doesn’t make God into an it, is “I.”
I am the Alpha and the Omega. The First and the Last. The Beginning and the End (Jesus Christ, in Revelation 22:13).
I am the First and the Last. Apart from me there is nothing else (YHVH, in Isaiah 44:6).
I am the Truth (Mansur Al-Hallaj).
I am the One, the Many, the All-pervading, the All-encompassing (Krishna, in the Bhagavad Gita 9:13).
Tell them I sent you (Exodus 3:14).
When we look into God’s eyes, we say, “Thou.” When we look through God’s eyes, we say only, “I.”
This pure I AM state is not hard to achieve and impossible to escape. . . . You can never run from Spirit, because Spirit is the runner. . . . Why on earth do you keep looking for God when God is actually the looker?
KEN WILBER, The Simple Feeling of Being