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Welcome to OneLife Ministries. This site is designed to lead you prayerfully into a heart experience of Divine Presence, Who is Love. I hope persons of varied wisdom paths will find inspiration here.
Blessings,
Brian Kenneth Wilcox
MDiv, MFT, PhD
Interspiritual Teacher, Author
You are invited to join Brian at his fellowship group on Facebook - OneLife Ministries – A Contemplative Interspiritual Fellowship.
Words, words, words
Theories, theories, theories
I think, I think, I think
And, And, And
Like a tangled web
If you're not careful
They'll strangle the life
out of you and leave
you dead
*Brian Kenneth Wilcox
I can almost get sick off all the spirituality-talk. Like this becomes another huge, diversionary fascination, that must be another big project, and a complicated one at that. Now the big deal is enlightenment. Then, too, we see persons who pay costly sums to go to the traditional and modern "guru." And, here we are, walking now on a street of Gold! When will we get it? I, as a writer and teacher, sometimes wonder if I am part of the problem, too. Maybe, one day, I'll start saying Nothing, and just smile at all these spirituality games we play.
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There was a group of elderly gentlemen in Japan who would meet to exchange news and drink tea. One of their diversions was to search for costly varieties of tea and create new blends that would delight the palate.
When it was the turn of the oldest member of the group to entertain the others, he served tea with the greatest ceremony, measuring out the leaves from a golden container. Everyone had the highest praise for the tea and demanded to know by what particular combination he had arrived at this exquisite blend.
The old man smiled and said, "Gentlemen, the tea that you find so delightful is the one that is drunk by the peasants on my farm. The finest things in life are neither costly nor hard to find."
*Anthony de Mello. The Heart of the Enlightened.
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Somehow, we have come to think that life, love, work, and spirituality must be complicated. We tend to flee simplicity. Is this pride? Is this ignorance? Whatever, seek the simple. Seek the uncostly. And why seek for an enlightenment, a salvation, a Love that has never said to you “Seek me,” but always, “I've never left”?
©Brian Wilcox, and OneLife Ministries. 03/21/2010
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*OneLife Ministries is a ministry of Brian Kenneth Wilcox, SW Florida. Brian lives a vowed life and with his two dogs, Bandit Ty and St. Francis. Brian is a member of United Communities of Spirit: A Global Interfaith Initiative, for advancing the cause of understanding and peace among persons of different faiths and beliefs. OneLife Ministries seek to share this spirit of unity among all peoples of faith and humanity as a whole.
*Brian welcomes responses to his writings at briankwilcox@yahoo.com . Also, Brian is on Facebook: search Brian Kenneth Wilcox.
*You can order his book An Ache for Union from major booksellers.
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