Saying For Today: Now, one senses union with Love that is shared with others more through Silent Presence, through simple Being Itself, than previously.
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!
Arem lives and trains in the tradition of Nondual Contemplation.
Vowed Contemplative, Greenbough House of Prayer Interspiritual Teacher, Author, Chaplain, Spiritual Counselor-Healer
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The more wants we have, the further we are from the Divine, and the nearer we approach that One, the better can we dispense with everything that is not God's Self.
*Madame Jeanne Guyon. b. 1648. Christian Nondual-Contemplative Mystic.
We Share One Life, We Are One Life
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An Interspiritual-Interfaith Cosmic Christ Life Community For Worship, Friendship, Spiritual Guidance, and Training in Living the Way of the Heart
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Tell me where's the Love that knows no boundaries... Open Arms, We Need To Be, Open Arms
And think not you can guide the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course.
*Kahlil Gibran
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A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without Love.
*Francis de Sales. b. 1567. Christian Teacher on the Devotional Life.
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In the spiritual Life, we progress from what Madame Jeanne Guyon called, in The Way of Union with God, “love passivity.” We, through Grace and aided to this point by Grace, have exhausted our passion for active devotion to Spirit. We are to simply rest in Spirit, quietly. This does not mean one cannot do external devotions, but that there is a major shift in the sensed satisfaction these bring, and a shift in the time given to the external. If we cling to the external, this will hinder the inner Work Grace has prepared us for.
Grace is doing a deeper Work within us. We surrender our desire for satisfaction in active devotion, and some may even choose to surrender all external devotions for a time. This is for opening to receive the Deeper Work, a deeper Gracing than the external.
This further transforms us, bringing us more deeply in touch with the Divine, Who is also our True Self in Grace. In the dryness that can arise in withdrawal of Grace for active devotion, there is a deeper, more subtle purification of ego-centeredness. Grace works a more subtle cleansing of even our religious and spiritual selfishness, our felt-neediness in relationship with the Divine.
We are being prepared for a fuller expression of Love. This measure of Divine Love feels less need to be active in expressing Love, though that does not cease. Now, one senses union with Love that is shared with others more through Silent Presence, through simple Being Itself, than previously.
During this transition and, possibly afterward, one may sense an inner calling to apartness and outer solitude. Here, one engages his or her practice of Simplicity, to remove persons, sharing, things, … that would hinder the inner Life. So, to live this Contemplation, one has to be more wise in whom and how much to associate with others. This will differ from person to person, and time to time. Some will be called to a more active life, while being Contemplative, others to a less active life.
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You are as you are. You are That now.
*Mooji
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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 Fellowship (4.15.11). Arem is available to respond to requests pertaining to seeking a Spiritual Director, his speaking, doing classes, workshops, or retreats for groups. For questions pertaining to these ministries, or other matters you wish to write Arem about, see Arem on Facebook at Arem Nahariim-Samadhi. To contact Arem, write briankwilcox@yahoo.com or go to his Facebook page.
