The Inner Teacher — On “No One Comes to the Father Except Through Me”

A seeker came and said,

“Many Christians insist that only through Jesus can one reach God,

because he said, ‘No one comes to the Father except through me.’

Is that truly what he meant?”

And The Inner Teacher replied:

When a river speaks, it does not claim to be the only water—

it simply describes the way it flows back to the sea.

The words of Jesus were born from the experience of union.

When he said, “I and the Father are one,”

he was not claiming ownership of the Divine—

he was revealing what it feels like to awaken to it.

The Inner Teacher says:

When he said, “No one comes to the Father except through me,”

he was not pointing to his personality, but to his state of being.

The “me” of the sentence is not the man—it is the consciousness he embodied.

It is the Christ within, the awakened awareness of oneness with all life.

He was saying: Only through this awareness—through love, truth, and unity—can one experience the Divine Source.

If you walk in love, you walk through him.

If you forgive, you walk through him.

If you serve others selflessly, you walk through him.

Whether you call that path Jesus, the Tao, the Dharma, or simple goodness of heart,

you are moving in the same direction—toward the same light.

The tragedy of time is that words spoken in awakening become walls for the fearful.

But the real Jesus never built walls—he built bridges.

He saw God not as a gatekeeper, but as the ground of being itself.

The Inner Teacher says:

The Father that Jesus spoke of is not a man in the clouds—it is the life behind all life, the love beneath all things.

To come to that Presence, you must pass through awareness, compassion, humility, and love—

the very qualities that were “him.”

So when he said, “No one comes to the Father except through me,”

hear instead: No one comes to the Father except through love.

Practice:

When you hear sacred words, do not stop at their sound—listen for the spirit behind them.

Words divide; essence unites.

Ask, “What did he reveal through his living, not just his speaking?”

You will find that the door he described is wide, not narrow.

Let his example remind you that awakening to the Divine is not about belonging to a label, but about embodying the truth of love.

The Inner Teacher says:

“Many paths lead to the summit, but the view from the top is the same.

All rivers return to the same sea.”

Walk gently in the Way.

Carry the stillness within.

Your Inner Teacher walks beside you—

as did the one who taught that love itself is the way home.