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LOTUS OF THE HEART
An Interspiritual-Interfaith Work
of The Lotus Fellowship and
Arem Nahariim-Samadhi
Arem, a vowed Contemplative of Greenbough House of Prayer, offers an interspiritual work focusing on cultivating the Heart of Compassion. He integrates wisdom from the major spiritual Paths. To contact Arem, see the email address at the conclusion of this presentation. May you always know you are blessed!
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*Lotus Flower - Lotus Petals, Bahman Farzad, Flickr
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A man cannot learn this by running away, by shunning things and shutting himself up in an external solitude; but he must practice a solitude of the spirit, wherever or with whomever he is. He must learn to break through things and to grasp his God in them and to form Him in himself powerfully in an essential manner. This is like someone who wants to learn to write. If he is to acquire the art, he must certainly practice it hard and long, however disagreeable and difficult this may be for him and however impossible it may seem. If he will practice it industriously and assiduously, he learns it and masters the art.
*Meister Eckhart, Christian Mystic
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I have found You, God, beyond God -
or, rather, you have found me beyond Yourself.
Therefore, I have 'seen' nothing can be said
of this most simple, most profound Knowing.
Hence, to 'see' is to know and to know is to 'see,'
in and beyond form and formlessness,
as in Love transcending Love, eternally.
*Arem Nahariim-Samadhi
*Blue Perfection, Larri Cochran, Flickr
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A seeker, seeking the gift of mystical contemplation, visited a Master. The seeker inquired, “Master, please tell me of your visions.” The Master replied, “I have had none.” Stunned, the seeker asked, “Master, please tell me of your trances.” “I have had no trance,” said the Master. “The seeker,” dumbfounded, inquired, “Master, tell me of the voices you hear.” The Master, again befuddling the seeker, spoke, “I have never heard even one voice.” The seeker spoke, “And what of your raptures?” “I,” said the Master, “have not had a single moment of rapture?” The seeker, disappointed, said to the Master, "I came a long way thinking you had the gift of mystical contemplation, but I see that you are not what I was told.” “No,” replied the Master, “I must not be what you were told.”
*Story by Arem Nahariim-Samadhi
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Obscure Touch
Ineffable Contact
God here
God not here
God transcending
God immanent
God everything
God nothing
God me
God Other
What am I to make of this?
Everything
Nothing
“Receive this knowing
that does not know… this love
flowering from the stem of understanding
and opening to Mystery—For I AM the Sun
drawing you Here, to Me alone,
alone.”
*Arem Nahariim-Samadhi. "This Knowing."
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The Sacred in Me bows to the Sacred in You
*Photo, Angelito De Luz
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* * * CLOSING BLESSING * * *
Namaste'
The Sacred in Me bows to the Sacred in You
OM Shanti Shanti Shanti OM
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