Saying For Today: The Passion demonstrates the passion; agape is erotic.
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 Islands in One Stream... All Loving arises from this Stream, living in each of us, living in everyone... Let us awaken, all, to this Stream and Love, and Love, and Love...
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I Am a citizen of the world, with no more allegiance to one nation than another. The Heart belongs to All, It can never be divided...
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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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LISTENING TO THE SCRIPTURES
33But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 34But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. 35 He who saw it has borne witness — his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth — that you also may believe.
*John 19.33-35 (ESV)
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Someone said, "Would You like a drink?" My eyes Grew wings and flew Inside.
Religion Did not teach us This. "I did!"
My friend, there Are gardens you have Never seen growing inside That oneness.
"I am the teardrop, My cheek The way to Your heart."
Why sit, sad, With folded hands? Fan the wordless longing Into a shouting flame.
Descend in the smoke And write all over This sky, "I Love You!"
Shout in the mountains, And the word returns. Love echoes Love-So, speak!
The Beloved will Withdraw Presence just To pull from your throat Pining for more.
Here, in this Bed of Love, Words are a pretext for the Breath that takes Our breath away.
Before wordlessness, Listen deeply to the sounds, And they will reveal mysteries That will court you into Silence.
What is that cooking? Never mind. Lovers' Anticipation is the Real thing.
I saw you In a Mirror. I laughed. What a relief!
When those lips Move across our bodies, Our thoughts surrender, thoughtless, To Your embrace.
Someone says, "This Love talk is not Spiritual." But the Beloved's Face Transforms the oak outside Into a Jerusalem Temple!
Cling to spiritual And you cling to Unspiritual. Enjoy Just This!
Amazing, how many Stand outside, fearing The Night that pours the Moon upon the world.
Let the Moon Pour itself into your mouth. You'll never again Be afraid of Love.
I thought I saw the Sun dancing outside, Blowing a kiss in Here To the stars: What flirting Silence brings!
There are many Ways to knock at the door: Cry, scream, moan, sign, sing, chant - Whatever. Just knock! But Get ready to lose everything!
A snowflake fell Into this Fire. The Son of God Ascended, clothed like Mt. Carmel plush green.
A candle melted In the Flame, I was Warming beside - "Only the Beloved left Now!"
Joseph says, "Alone In that well, I fell In Love, Forever."
... remember the Christ...
Betrayal can Place a seal on Your noblest Dreams.
But Love can Grow a paradise Of lasting Friendship.
Don't stop here, Keep going, After all, "What have you got To lose?"
*Brian K. Wilcox
We speak of the Passion of Christ. This word reminds us of the erotic Quality of Divine Love. Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis, in Love's Sacred Order, writes of a necessity of divine eros in the Christ:
Not only are divine love and human passion not incompatible; there is no truly Christian faith and experience that does not have passionate love at its center, love in the image of Christ's own. Christianity, therefore, is not primarily a set of philosophical propositions appealing to the mind and looking there for assent, or a social project to realize an earthly utopia. All Christian truth ... ultimately derives from the Heart of God as a burning furnace of love:...
Leiva-Merikakas sees in Luke 12.49 a reference to the inner passion of Christ, which can be poured out: ""I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled!" (ESV) Certainly, heat is associated with erotic passion, and, as well, an expenditure of that heat onto and within another. Even youth have a saying, "She has the hots for you." What is true physiologically among humans is true spiritually within the Godhead.
The liturgy of the Catholic church refers to the Sacred Heart being a "burning furnace of charity," notes Leiva-Merikakas. And: "Yes, the depths of God's being - and hence of being as such - begin truly to be revealed much closer to home ... in the stream gushing from the pierced side of the Man hanging on Golgotha."
Therefore, since Complete Love must enclose and distribute all loves, romantic love is within God, is God. The Divine romancing us - wooing us - is entailed in the Passion of Christ. The Passion demonstrates the passion; agape is erotic.
The Divine loves us, not just cerebrally, but heartfully, zealously. This One longs for a conjugal union with us, which is mystical oneness. And, thereby, the physical union of two persons is a resemblance to Divine aspiration for God to become more whole - by including us in His-Her wholeness - in union with us and our longing to lose our separation in intercourse with God and in heart with one another, as Islands in One Stream.
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The Essence of LOVE-Mysticism is to look "within," to find there the Light of G-D That is in Everyone...
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The Sacred in Me bows to the Sacred in You
*Arem Nahariim-Samadhi and Love Light Ministries. 04/22/11
