Being there for one another, the Way of Love, the Path of Life... The Universal Way... to Joy and World Peace...

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:

Musings of a Modern Day Contemplative Mystic

One night in June 2007, I read Thomas Merton's words, "We must become like ourselves, and stop living 'beside' ourselves." Sometimes we read some words that speak to our core. They become a transformative Word to us and shape our lives for a time or always. Such was the power of those words of Merton.

I feel, know inwardly in an embodied way, that I am growing into those words. They are Word to me, by Grace. I am coming to realize wonderfully, incarnationally, sacramentally ~ my own flesh being the offering to the Eternal-Godhead ~ that the only way to G-D is through the person that persons call by my name, Arem.... That man is a gift to this world, in all his apparent and subtle particulars - as is, not as an ideal of what he should or could be.

Then, a few days later in 2007, I read Gerald G. May begin his book The Awakened Heart with words that impressed on me Merton's words, words the Holy Spirit is working into my being. May quotes from the classic The Cloud of Unknowing: "In the interior life we must never take our experiences as the norm for everyone else."

I embrace and celebrate freedom to experience G-D in a way that fits Arem, even as I celebrate the many ways I see others know G-D. This moving into myself, body, mind, soul, spirit, is a deeply-felt sacramental grace. To accept myself fully and celebrate all I am may be the greatest offering I can give back to G-D, as well as the most gracious gift I can give to those who live around me. Possibly, by sacramental movement into the particularity of my life, I will be an invitation for them to do the same.

In what ways do you need to grow into who you are? To live with yourself, not beside yourself?

Are there parts of yourself or your life you have rejected, for they do not fit the norm? Explain. Do you need to pray about that?

The Essence of LOVE-Mysticism is to look "within," to find there the Light of G-D That is in Everyone...

* * * CLOSING BLESSING * * *

The Sacred in Me bows to the Sacred in You

*Arem Nahariim-Samadhi and Love Light Ministries. For contacting Love Light Ministries write 77Ahavah77@gmail.com or message at Arem Nahariim-Samadhi on Facebook :04/25/11

Wisdom Quote

"We must become like ourselves,
and stop living 'beside' ourselves."

*Thomas Merton

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*The Merton quote is from A Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from His Journals. Ed. Jonathan Montaldo. The quote from the Cloud of Unknowing derives from The Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy Counseling. Trans. William Johnston.