In the common medium of the Mind of God everything is individualized but at the same time it is Universal. There is some part of us that appears to be everywhere present. We are both Universal and individual at the same time because that which is Universal is the Presence that animates us, making us what we are, God in us. That which is individual is the manifestation of God in us, as what we are.
We are normal, spontaneous, natural human beings in a process of unfolding by means of error and truth. There is something about us that is terrific and eternal now but dimly seen, poorly discerned. Now we see as through a glass, darkly but there is within each of us not only the eternal aspiration but the absolute necessity of the continual expansion of the self.
No matter how imperfect we appear to be, God knows us as perfect, complete, divine, and the joy and delight of God Himself is in our act. Therefore, there is a Self beyond the self we know, understand, believe in, or have experienced. No man shall ever set us up or drag us down but ourselves, nor can anything rob us of happiness or we would not be free. The Self will raise the self by the self. It will grovel in the dust of its own creation or sit exalted on the mountaintop of its own illumination and nothing shall stop it because we are individualizations of the Eternal.
It follows then that if God is peace we ought to be peaceful. If God is love, then we ought to experience that love and express it. If God is life, then there should be more of that life flowing through us. And if God is perfect, we ought to be more nearly perfect than we are. If there is hid within us a Divine incarnation of the living Spirit and if no two persons are alike, then there is another fascinating concept possible. Each can know; I am one with God, I am one with everybody and all life because God is one but without being separated from the rest I am enough different that there is something in me which, if I will develop it, need not subsidize or compete but will express itself.