Coming out spiritually means you show yourself, you show up fully for life, you stop hiding from being here, you even stop hiding behind religion or spirituality. Yet, neither do you put yourself on display, trying to impress, be impressive. You are so into Love, you do not have to say or do anything, even if you say or do something. You are like the Sun, naked. Does the Sun shout "Look at me!" Does a Sage prance around trying to get others' attention? Coming out means you go so into yourself that your self drops its dependence on being important to others. Ironically, in such self-transcendence, which is a going into and through the self, there is a beautiful and holy embrace of your self as the one Self. You now see your self as the expression of Life, and you find that you are lost in Love, not the feeling of Love or loving anyone or yourself or a deity somewhere separate from you, from life, or even being seen as successful at loving others - you are Love, and that is enough. Unclothe yourself of yourself, like the Sun shedding clouds. Die before you die, that is what the Sages, like Jesus and the Buddha, have been saying for eons. In an odd way, a holy person is all out, exposed, yet also, there is something totally secretive about him or her to others - the natural mind cannot understand this powerful, paradoxical authenticity, realness, Grace, ~ yes, Love.

I am
with You, My Love

like a bird in space
like a fish in water
like the root in earth

Such sweet
Communion, we share

Yet, sometimes,
there is this Something else

Where is this bird? Space?
Where is this fish? Where water?
Where is this root? And where earth?

Only this! ... Only this
Bliss ... Bliss!

Such sweet Ecstasy ~
Union, we share
we are

Neither You
Nor Me
No We...
One or Two, Not

Bliss! Bliss!
We share only This...

I have been burned up, thankfully,
inside Your Love, My Love

*Arem Nahariim-Samadhi, "Only This," May 20.2012.

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*Lotus of the Heart is a Work of Arem Nahariim-Samadhi ~ a Hospice Chaplain, interspiritual author, writer, poet, and bicyclist. He is someone in love with Life and inviting others to that same ecstasy of Love ~ and, by the way, herein is nothing he claims as his own.