Welcome to OneLife Ministries, an online, interspiritual-integral ministry of Arem Nahariim-Samadhi and Love Light Fellowship. This site is here to lead you into a heart experience of Divine Presence, Who is Love. We recognize that of the Sacred in each one and celebrate the diversity of expressions of our Oneness in Grace. We are for peace and nonviolence, and equal rights and justice for all. I hope persons of varied wisdom paths will find inspiration here. Welcome!
Blessings, Arem Nahariim-Samadhi, MDiv, MFT, PhD
Vowed Contemplative, Greenbough House of Prayer Interspiritual Teacher, Author, Chaplain, Spiritual Counselor-Healer
You are invited to join Arem at Love Light Fellowship on Facebook.
We are each a Lovely Flower, in the Garden of Grace...
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We affirm that of G-D in everyone; we reverence the Light in all persons.... We draw near to ourselves the Light, to be nourished by the Light, that we might be persons of Grace and Peace in our world...
We Share One Life, We Are One Life
Faith Affirmation of Love Light Fellowship
An Interspiritual-Interfaith-Integral Life Community
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We do not fight for Peace; fighting leads to fighting... We can only be and seek Peace... When war no longer reigns in the hearts of men and women, there will be no more wars on earth...
There was never a good war...
*Benjamin Franklin
"You are Treasured, You are Sacred ... You are Beautiful"
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Entering the Inner Sanctuary
Enter this sanctuary time by settling down, becoming quiet, and breathing deeply a few breaths. Remind yourself you are in the Presence of Love. This place you are entering, within, is the inner Temple. Here, you are One with Spirit and all persons, and Nature. You may use a mantra, or prayer phrase, follow the breathing in-and-out, or witness the arising and falling of all around you as the manifestation of universal-Grace. Enjoy these moments of Quiet and come out when you are ready. The following video is provided, for those who would like meditative music to accompany your Quiet contemplation:
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"You are the answer blowin' in the wind" ... You are the answer for Peace...
We are one, after all, you and I: together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other.
*Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Once upon a time, there was a blind man who did not know what the Sun is. He asked persons to explain. One man spoke, “The Sun is shaped like a copper plate.” The blind man felt the contours of a copper plate. Later, when he felt other objects shaped like a copper plate, he would think, “This must be like the Sun.” Another man answered, "The Sun gives out warm light just like a candle." So, the blind man held a candle to feel its warm heat. Anytime he got near warm light, he would muse, “This must be like the Sun.” This process he did with any comparison offered him as a sign of the Sun.
In the midst of the great chapter on Love, I Corinthians 13, in the Christian Bible, we are given these words:
11It's like this: When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me now. (NLT)
Elsewhere, St. Paul describes a visionary experience:
1This boasting is all so foolish, but let me go on. Let me tell about the visions and revelations I received from the Lord. 2I was caught up into the third heaven fourteen years ago. 3Whether my body was there or just my spirit, I don't know; only God knows. 4But I do know that I was caught up into paradise and heard things so astounding that they cannot be told. (II Corinthians 12, NLT)
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We live in a world of Shadows. Everything is relative in that each creature is a glorious and particularized expression of the Divine, a Divine that flows into Creation, continuously. The Divine flows through the Word; in that Word inheres every potential in its form of unity, before the manifestation of particularity in space and time. However, even the Idea of particularity itself must inhere in the Divine, for nothing can exists positively in space and time apart from it being in Being, the Divine, outside space and time.
However, does this mean that the relative is unimportant? Does it mean that in our spirituality we are to seek to escape the relative? Transcend the relative?
Part of the mystical message of the Gospel of Jesus, and through the teaching of the Incarnation, is that in the relative we experience the Absolute. This is seen in the inner Meanings of the Trinity. ... We fall in Love with the Absolute by falling in Love with the world, and vice versa. Every creature is a theophany - manifestation of the Divine. Every moment is an epiphany. This means we fall in Love with the Father-Mother, or Source, by means of the Son, or Wisdom or Word. We do this through the Spirit, the enabling Grace, or Light Presence, within creation, within us each.
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The Essence of Mysticism is to look "within," to find there the Light of G-D That is in Everyone...
Every idea of Him we form, He must in mercy shatter. The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking "But I never knew before. I never dreamed ..."
*C.S. Lewis. Letters to Malcom: Chiefly on Prayer
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My the longtime sun shine upon you, all love surround you, and the sweet light within you guide your way on.
*Traditional Blessing
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The Sacred in Me bows to the Sacred in You
*Photo, Angelito De Luz
*Arem Nahariim-Samadhi and Love Light Ministries. 04/04/11
