Welcome to OneLife Ministries, an online, interspiritual ministry of Arem Nahariim-Samadhi and Lotus of the Heart. This site is here to lead you into a heart experience of Divine Presence. We recognize that of the Sacred in each one and celebrate the diversity of expressions of Oneness in Grace. We are for peace and nonviolence, and equal rights and justice. May persons of varied wisdom paths find inspiration here. Welcome!
Vowed Contemplative, Greenbough House of Prayer Interspiritual Teacher, Author, Chaplain, Spiritual Counselor-Healer
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If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist. If the cloud is not here, the sheet of paper cannot be here either. So we can say that the cloud and the paper inter-are. “Interbeing” is a word that is not in the dictionary yet, but if we combine the prefix "inter-" with the verb "to be," we have a new verb, inter-be.
*Thich Nhat Hanh. Heart of Understanding.
A Sunflower consists of a flower head (also known as a composite flower) of numerous florets, (small flowers) crowded together. The florets inside the circular head are called disc florets, which mature into seeds.
It is perfect Geometry...! The seeds in the middle of a Sunflower are arranged in spiral form with ultimate precision. Typically each floret is oriented toward the next by approximately the golden angle, 137.5°. In scientific language, a number of left & right Logarithmic Spirals corresponding to Fibonacci number. They strictly adhere to the laws of Mathematics. This pattern produces the most efficient packing of seeds within the flower head.
*Into the Orbit of SUN(flower), Gopan G. Nair, Flickr
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The spiritual search is meant to fail. And, yet, some of you may continue to struggle to make it work. But its working is seen in that moment which you say, "I am ready to let go to Nothing. I'm tired of trying to create something as an additive to the life I've been resisting. And, then, you find Life there."
