Archive for the ‘Oneness’ Category

Pondering about Meaning

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
 
A golden stepping stone to the awareness of wholeness comes from living a meaningful life.  Carl G. Jung said, "the ultimate essence of a universe in which man has a conscious existence is meaning."  Everything in life has the potential to develop special significance when we participate in all that happens around us.  Our choices make a difference.

Through experience we develop greater sensitivity to relationships with all that exists, a deeper sentiment for life's purpose and a penetrating understanding of people and situations we encounter.  Each moment is filled with unsuspected meaning.

I would like to share with you some related affirmations, as a springboard to create positive statements that are significant at this stage of your own inner process:
  • I recognize an added overtone of significance in all that comes to me.
  • Each experience has a deeper meaning awaiting to be discovered.
  • Each situation and event has a divine purpose.

An African Story of Oneness

Wednesday, February 6th, 2013

                A musical performance of  “The Spirit of Togetherness” in a London theatre came to mind today and my memories went to the joyful harmony and sense of oneness I experienced while witnessing through that play the incredible ways in which African people connect with each other through the beauty of intense African music.
 
This day I wish to share with you a story recently heard: 

“An anthropologist proposed a game to children of an African Tribe.  He put a basket of fruit near a tree and told the kids that the first one to reach the fruit would win them all.  When he told them to run they all took each other’s hands and ran together, then sat together enjoying the fruit.  When asked why they ran like that, as one could have taken all the fruit for oneself, they say, “Ubuntu, how can one of us be happy if all the others are sad?”

UBUNTU”, is a significant word reflecting the philosophy of African tribes which symbolizes, “I am because we are.”

Song of Light

Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

           On this occasion I would like to come back to another note where I shared some reflections about the Oneness of All: "’All souls are one.  Each is a spark of the original soul, and this soul is inherent in all souls.’  Hassidic Saying.  In the context of the oneness of all, this session was an opportunity to talk about the power of the wisdom that arises from within as a meaningful golden stepping stone to wholeness.  When we allow the rush and pressure of our days to fall away, we are more able to discern the essential truth of what lies before us.  Peace Pilgrim said, "Each of us is a cell in the body of humanity, and has the potential to make a special contribution.”


            This sparkled additional sharing from those receiving Musings, bringing plussage in the light of our broader understanding.  Here’s a sample of the beautiful spectrum of light that came alive.

            New Mansions for New Men~The song of light~ by Dane Rudhyar inspires Carol Zengara, “I chose to center into the aspect of One or Oneness.  This song of light is a universal song; but each living being sings it with his own tone color.  Because each one of the gongs which throb under the divine melody is made of an alloy the composition of which varies; because each object that reflects the light is made up as yet of unregenerate and diversified past, there need be many types of being.  One Light, but so many lamps; one Sound, yet so many tones.  Illumination comes to those who hear the song of Light unchanged, unflickering, eternal–Light that is one though the lamps be many.”

            For Virginia Garcia, mission in life means, “a renewal of mind and soul, accomplishing a healthy approach in life for those I love by seeking interconnection with others for all well-being.”

            From Italy, Claudia Biacchi shares, “this is true, because I feel good inside when I picture myself as well as other people as sparks.  It is then my ego that separates everything.  My ego is so strong! :-(   But I want to make a smile too, because I am a human being :-)

            Sherry Carroll was inspired by “How lovely – meaningful golden stepping stones to wholeness.”

            Peace Pilgrim touches Stan Carnarius, “I was very pleased to see that quote from Peace Pilgrim.  It is a solid example of the kind of thinking that is beginning to grow as there is a movement away from the scientism approach to a more biological approach to the understanding of man's place in the universe.”

            Sensing his soul, Brian Donley comments, “My SOUL is IGNITED and SHINING BRIGHT!!!”

Harmonious and Joyful Living

Thursday, November 15th, 2012
 
One of the Peace Pilgrim Beatitudes has made a major impact in a person with whom I have corresponded for many years: “Blessed are they who love and trust their fellow beings, for they shall reach the good in people and receive a loving response."  

The Merriam-Webster’s dictionary equates ‘harmony’ with a sense of internal calm or tranquility.  Related words include compatibility, integration, oneness, togetherness, unity.  One of my favorite analogies is like listening to a magnificent classical music masterpiece, each note spontaneously vibrating in a most pleasing arrangement and concordance with all the parts that integrate the whole creating a sense of profound interconnectedness and unity with all that is.

Peace Pilgrim’s Beatitude inspired my correspondent to consider what Peace meant when she talked about being ‘in harmony’.  She has been wondering how she can be in harmony with an out of harmony situation, person, or internal feeling of her own.  And she finally thought about a simple tuning fork.  In her own words, “Let's say I need to be attuned to myself first, aligned to my inner beliefs and principles and living up to the highest light I have at the moment, then I can resonate or be in harmony with other people and situations.  Like sounding one strong, clear, free of conflict, unconfused note. A resonant gong, rather than a loud and jarring alarm clock.”

After a couple of months, she is still feeling very much as she did when she wrote to me then.  She adds, “This feeling of inner harmony or resonance has been very strong and I am so happy and thankful.  It's been such a great gift.  I feel it on all levels of my being: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual; a great sense of clarity and well-being.  I think that's what Peace Pilgrim meant about being ‘in harmony.’  Congruent.  Whole.  A feeling of personal power and of effortless ease that comes from living with integrity with your own deepest aspirations and deeply held beliefs.  I guess it would be the "mind-set" and in addition the equally important, "heart-set" being aligned or attuned.  Resonant.  Consonant.  As a result, JOYFUL!”
           
Yes… in the wonders of inner peace we resonate as a harmonious gong to all people and situations….
 
 

Tao and Meaning

Monday, October 15th, 2012
 
             Over the years a dear friend of mine, Sherry Carroll, used to keep Tao quotes that spoke to her, on her desk at work under a clear plastic pad.  Over the years she had to keep enlarging the pad and fortunately her desks kept getting bigger as she became fond of her collection.  She says it was surprising how many times, in the course of a day, she would glance down to her desk and read something that would either gave her a boost or pertain to the issue she was working on.
 
             Here’s one of her favorite quotes:
 
    “Once you understand the meaning you can forget the words.”
 
  

A Word about Compassion

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
 
Life experiences come to teach us something, to inspire us in deeper and wider levels of appreciation and also to open up opportunities to be of service to others.  The potential to serve others expands through a developing sense of compassion.

Anthea Mitchell, a friend in England, shared the core of her understanding: “Compassion is another component of love: of loving with empathy, with understanding, with wisdom, with the beauty of sharing another’s pain and of wanting to help because you know, you really know, what they are going through.”

Compassion is a virtue that adds significance to the experience of pain and suffering of others as if it were ours…  opening the gates for profound inner communion with our beloved fellow human beings.

            In compassion we experience completeness, wholeness in living.

 

  

Sharing about Life Purpose

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012

 

            In a presentation to the Congregation Keneseth Israel earlier this year I shared with the group the Hassidic Saying that captures the essence of my philosophy of life:

            “All souls are one.  Each is a spark
             of the original soul, and this soul is inherent
             in all souls.”
 
            In the context of the oneness of all, this session was an opportunity to talk about the power of the wisdom that arises from within as a meaningful golden stepping stone to wholeness.  When we allow the rush and pressure of our days to fall away, we are more able to discern the essential truth of what lies before us.  Peace Pilgrim said, “Each of us is a cell in the body of humanity, and has the potential to make a special contribution.  Alan Cohen, author of “Rising in Love – The Journey into Light” invites people to clarify their role by asking themselves: “Where does my passion call me?  How can I serve others in the highest way possible?  What tools can I offer that will bring them greater peace and aliveness?  Regardless of what I was told about how the world is supposed to work, what do I know, from inside out, about how life really works?”

            I look forward to hearing your thoughts about your own mission in life.

  

Light of Unity

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
 
            The beautiful gardens of the Chalice Well in Glastonbury, England, recently hosted the 2012 Unity Conference, where international speakers enthusiastically shared their understanding about a world where we can live in peace with each other and in Chalice Well, Glastonbury Somersetharmony with nature.
 
Today, I wish to invite you to meditate on a statement that became the Conference’s theme, in an embrace of this opportunity to develop existing ideas, share new ones and imagine what life would be like living in unity.
 
“So powerful is the light of
Unity that it can illuminate
the whole Earth.”
 
Bahá u’lláh
 
            And from Rumi:
 
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
 
 
  

Walking the Talk – Part Three

Friday, July 13th, 2012
 
A friend in Argentina, Neestor Hugo Almagro, represents the power of acting in harmony with the universe.  He was answering mail on a Sunday morning when he suddenly felt a strong desire to ascend with other people to the top of a 12,000 ft. mountain called “Lomas Blancas”.  With his backpack, equipment and companions ready, they climbed. 
 
25 years earlier he had said to himself: “I must prepare to practice medicine, even on a hilltop, doing without technology.”  Finally the opportunity had come.  Upon reaching the peak they found a man suffering a severe anxiety crisis, incapable of breathing.  He received a conscious breathing treatment from my friend.  Once out of the crisis, in about 15 minutes, he was astounded and said that such crises usually lasted 72 hours, handicapping him severely for work or the performance of even small duties.  As he was feeling better they all returned happily to the city.  
 
For my friend, this was a dramatization of what it means to live in the present doing what needs to be done and trusting the future will unfold in wondrous ways.
 
Works remain the proof of faith.
 
 
    

Group Harmony and Cooperation

Saturday, April 21st, 2012
 
Yesterday I had the joy to attend an event at the Center for Community Peacemaking in my hometown whose mission is to foster peacemaking and the resolution of conflict with others through the teaching and implementation of Restorative Justice values and principles. Their resources, within others, focus on group dynamics that support and encourage harmonious relationships.
           
And this morning, I wonder:

·      What is the value of harmony in a group?
·      What does it mean to me to engage in a cooperative effort?
·      How does harmony in a group relate with inner peace?

Inner peace comes when facing problems with an attitude that leads to solutions for ourselves and in our outreach to others. Following this path means more than being free of tensions, or escaping experiences that cause pain during difficult moments, as that would artificially divide life. It implies living in such a way that we continuously develop new resources to more effectively handle situations within ourselves and in our relationships with others. It is a state of dynamic harmony through which we explore and constantly realize our inner potential in expanded living.

“True harmony in a group is a vital thing,
the varying contributions of the members
achieving consonance through the co-
operative intent of each.”

                                    Helen Rentsch, Sabian student

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