An Interspiritual-Interfaith Work of Arem Nahariim-Samadhi
All is Welcome Here
Living in Love beyond Beliefs
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An aged man, an Abba who had served God many years in the desert, prayed, "Lord, let me know if I have pleased you." He saw an angel. The angel spoke, "You have not become like the gardener in the city." The Abba marvelled, saying, "I will go off to the city to see both him and what it is that he does that surpasses all my work and toil of all these years."
He walked to the city and asked the gardener about his way of life. When they were getting ready to eat in the evening, the Abba heard people singing in the streets disreputable songs. He asked the gardener, "Brother, wanting as you do to live as pleases God, how do you remain in this place and not be troubled when you hear them singing these songs?"
The gardener replied, "I tell you, Abba, I have never been troubled or scandalized." When he heard this, the aged Abba spoke, "What, then, do you think in your heart when you hear these things?" He replied, "That they are all going into the Kingdom of God."
When the Abba heard this, he marveled. The Abba said, "This is the spiritual practice surpassing my labour of all these years."
*AREM . "The Best Spiritual Practice." Dec 7.2007.
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All aspects of love can coexist with the personality, and the identity can be maintained, except in the presence of one particular aspect of love. This is called universal love, Christ love, or Divine love. When our beingness manifests as universal love there is no personality. It is this love that spiritual teachers refer to when they say that as long as there is ego, there is no love. They are talking about universal love.
