Saying For Today: As our heart-mind expands through communion with Love, our heart-mind naturally expands to a wider, fuller embrace of the World.
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
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We are each a Lovely Flower, in the Garden of Grace...
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We affirm, as One Sacred Communion of Life, the Wonderful Presence in everyone; we reverence the Light in all persons.... We respect that persons have diverse ways to relate with the Divine and receive Grace for living and serving...
We Share One Life, We Are One Life
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An Interspiritual-Interfaith-Integral Life Community
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Living with a Tender-Heart, Acting with Graciousness toward All
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You are Treasured, You are Sacred ... You are Beautiful. You...
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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No one excluded; Everyone included... We are a beautiful, sacred tapestry of Love... We each are a sparkle of Light in One Sun of G-D...
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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"Prisoner at the bar", said the Grand Inquisitor, "you have been charged with encouraging people to break with the laws, traditions and customs of our holy religion. How do you plead?" "Guilty, Your Honour."
"And with frequenting the company of heretics, prostitutes, public sinners, the extortionist tax-collectors, the colonial conquerors of our nation - in short, the ex-communicated. How do you plead?" "Guilty, Your Honour."
"Finally, you are charged with revising, correcting, calling into question the sacred tenets of our faith. How do you plead?" "Guilty, Your Honour."
"What is your name, prisoner?" "Jesus Christ, Your Honour."
Some people are just as alarmed to see their religion practised as they are to hear it doubted.
*Story and comment by Anthony de Mello.
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"Religiosity" I define as an unhealthy attachment to the form, and forms, of religion, whereby a group so identifies with the religion that it becomes an institution that discourages growth spiritually and excludes those who are unlike the group from full sharing. All those who disagree with the group are heretics.
Most religion in my country, the United States, is of this form of institutional faith. Religion, which is meant to be a means to higher, more embracing aspects of Grace, becomes a deterrent to such emergence in Spirit and world-community.
Such fundamentalism is grounded in fear. The answer to religiosity, or religious fundamentalism, is Love. As our heart-mind expands through communion with Love, our heart-mind naturally expands to a wider, fuller embrace of the World.
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I tell you, unless you are more in communion with the Spirit than the teachers of the religious Law and the proud religious Law-keepers, you will never enjoy experience of the heavenly Presence of Grace.
*Jesus. Matthew 5.20
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The Essence of Mysticism is to look "within," to find there the Light of G-D That is in Everyone...
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May you stand each new day Seeing the opening of a new doorway Awaiting what is to come Daring to be fully alive Open-Minded for Truth to learn Open-Hearted to embrace the beauty of existence Open-Armed to the world Learning the Grace of Love
*by Arem Nahariim-Samadhi
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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. 04/09/11
