There was a time when I rejected the very notion that infinity could equal one. It sounded absurd—like trying to fold the stars into a thimble or pour the ocean into a teacup. My younger mind, trained in duality and logic, labeled it nonsense. After all, one is singular, defined, limited. Infinity is vast, immeasurable, eternal. How could they possibly be the same?
What’s remarkable is that this very formula—∞ = 1—was given to me long before I had the capacity to understand it. It came as an inspired thought, whispered quietly into my consciousness. At the time, I didn’t even understand what “inspiration” really was. I thought inspiration was a creative urge, a flash of emotion, or maybe something artists talked about when they ran out of paint. But this thought wasn’t emotional or artistic. It was mathematical. Precise. Unshakable. And it refused to leave me alone.
Still, I resisted. My ego insisted it was nonsense. My training told me it was impossible. But the thought lingered, quietly persistent. Patient. Waiting for me to grow.
Today, closer to the final chapters of this earthly life, I see that the equation ∞ = 1 is not only possible—it is profoundly true.
From the perspective of Spirit, everything we call infinite—eternal love, unending life, boundless joy—is not spread out into many parts but unified in essence. A Course in Miracles teaches, “What is one cannot be divided, and what is whole cannot have missing parts.” (T-30.III.7:3) The Course goes further to say that only oneness is real, and all seeming separation is illusion.
Mary Baker Eddy, in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, echoes this same truth: “All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all.” (p. 468) She teaches that man is not separate from God but is the reflection—part of the one whole that is infinite Love. There is no outside to God, no pieces in the divine. Just oneness, indivisible, and eternal.
But spiritual truth is not only spoken through scripture. It sings in nature.
Look at a tree. Countless leaves, each unique, fluttering in the wind. And yet—they are not many trees. They are one tree. Each leaf receives life from a single source. The leaf is not isolated; it is a perfect expression of the whole.
Wander into a forest and witness an even greater mystery: billions of leaves, thousands of branches, hundreds of trunks. Still—one forest. A single, living system breathing together, connected in soil, air, and purpose. It is a mirror of divine intelligence, reflecting the truth that we are not many souls wandering alone—we are one life expressing itself in countless forms.
Infinity is not quantity. It is quality. It is not the number of parts but the depth of presence. To say “infinity equals one” is to say that beneath every appearance of separation lies a unifying truth: there is only God. And everything that exists, exists within God—not as separate beings but as expressions of the same loving Source.
So what does this mean for you and me?
It means the stranger is not strange. The enemy is not other. The hurting, the hungry, the hopeful—they are you. And you are them. The self you think you are is a leaf. The Self you truly are is the tree.
Next time you pass by a tree, stop. Touch a leaf. See its shape, its detail, its quiet beauty. That leaf is you.
Then step back and see the tree. That too, is you.
Because infinity equals one.
And that one…is Love.
