Saying For Today: Sated by the body of religion, one is led to and beyond the edge, to an inner glow that manifests in a brightness of face and flesh.
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 Share One Life, We Are One Life
Faith Affirmation of Love Light Fellowship
An Interspiritual-Interfaith Life Community For Worship, Friendship, Spiritual Guidance, and Training in Living the Way of the Heart
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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... There is ONE LOVE that never fails...
*See below video for translation of Hindi into English
Everything Comprises of you You are evident to me In every direction
In my mornings As well as nights There is your mention And your shadow
If you hold my hand, Then this world means nothing to me
You are everywhere You are the reason for me being alive
You are light You are moonlight You are tree As well as it's shade
You are the path As well as the journey As well as my destination
Whoever get's your company At any moment, The thorns on his path Meet him like flowers
I am under your intoxication Searching for you is my life
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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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But those who possess not only the faculties of sensation and intellection, but have also obtained spiritual and supernatural grace, do not gain knowledge only through created beings, but also know spiritually, in a manner beyond sense and intelligence, that God is spirit, for they have become entirely God, and know God in God.
*St. Gregory Palamas, Discourses (b. 1296)
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Sharon Olds (b. 1942), poet laureate 1998-2000, in “The Knowing,” tells of lovemaking beyond lovemaking.
When I wake again, he is still looking at me, As if he is eternal. For an hour We wake and doze, and slowly I know That though we are sated, though we are hardly Touching, this is the coming the other Coming brought us to the edge of—we are entering, Deeper and deeper, gaze by gaze, This place beyond the other places, Beyond the body itself, we are making Love.
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Prayer leads us to the Unknowing. This is a fulfillment of the first coming of prayer, the prayer that opens the veil that has led us to believe there is only this world now for us. Jesus, intent to lead us beyond the first comings of religion to the other coming, says, "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets (i.e., the Hebrew Scriptures); I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them" (Matthew 5.17, ESV).
This “place beyond the other places” is an intensely inner journey. Says St. Dmitri of Rostov (18th Century, Eastern Orthodox):
To kindle in the heart such a divine love, to unite with the Divine in an inseparable union of love, it is necessary to pray often, raising the mind to Spirit. Far as a flame increases when it is constantly fed, so prayer, made often, with the mind dwelling ever more deeply in Spirit, arouses divine love in the heart. And the heart, set on fire, will warm all the inner person, will enlighten and teach such a one, revealing all its unknown and hidden wisdom, and making one like a flaming seraph-angel, always standing before the Mystery within one's own spirit, always looking at the Presence within the mind, and drawing from this vision the sweetness of spiritual joy.
*Inclusive Language Rendition
The consummation of this inner conjugal union, Spirit in spirit, spirit in Spirit, is “sweetness of spiritual joy.” Sated by the body of religion, one is led to and beyond the edge, to an inner glow that manifests in a brightness of face and flesh. The body is being, now, transformed by Grace, as the Light arises from the inner spirit and permeates the flesh. So, the journey is from flesh to spirit, then, from spirit to flesh.
For the mature contemplative mystic, trained years in this inward Grace, he or she lives in the lovemaking day and night. And mind does not have to participate knowingly-and usually does not-, for mind participates by being drawn into the heart.
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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
*Arem Nahariim-Samadhi and Love Light Ministries. 04/12/11
