Saying For Today: Every person who desires can become aware of the Presence of the Divine as a daily way of living in Love, with Love.
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're reaching, We're praying, for the Higher Love...
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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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At the heart of Thomas Merton’s works is contemplation. Merton wrote, in New Seeds of Contemplation, that contemplation is “the union of the simple light of God with the simple light of our spirit, in love.”
In 1940 Merton had an experience that was formative for his teaching and experience of contemplation, and which he wrote of in Seven Storey Mountain. During a visit to Cuba, one Sunday while attending Mass in Havana, he heard children at the front of the church cry out the creed in glad unison. Merton was struck with a sudden awareness of God’s Presence. He later wrote, “It was a light that was so bright that it had no relation to any visible light and so profound and so intimate that it seemed like a neutralization of every lesser experience.”
His first clear thought was, “Heaven is right here in front of me: Heaven, Heaven!” Still, Merton was clear that this light was in fact ordinary and available to everyone.
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Obscure touch Ineffable contact God here God not here God transcending God immanent God everything God nothing God me God Other What am I to make of this? Everything Nothing “Receive this knowing that does not know… this love flowering from the stem of understanding and opening to Mystery—For I AM the Sun drawing you Here, to Me alone, alone.”
*Arem Nahariim-Samadhi. Obscure Touch.
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Mystical contemplation is not only for a certain disposition of persons or a spiritual elite. Every person who desires can become aware of the Presence of the Divine as a daily way of living in Love, with Love.
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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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I am one with my father and the universe. I am one with mother earth. I am one with everyone within the reach of my voice. And, in this togetherness, we ask the divine intelligence to eradicate all negatives from our hearts, from our minds, from our words, and from our actions. And, so be it.
babatunde olatunji - 1927-2003
Babatunde Olatunji was a Nigerian drummer, educator, social activist, and recording artist
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The Sacred in Me bows to the Sacred in You
*Arem Nahariim-Samadhi and Love Light Ministries. 04/16/11
