Experiencing a sense of community contributes to a feeling of wholeness in living.  I love this website which invites us to Light a Candle for Peace!

More than eight million people have lit candles in our global virtual community.  In this embrace of a common ideal we are all One.

Blessings and Love to You in the joy of inner peace.

Joseph Bernard wrote on his ‘Come Explore’ blog about his passion about inner peace and the spread of consciousness.

Here are some extracts of what Joseph says:

“We need a major paradigm shift or at least really new models of thinking and feeling. Does it seem to you the world in run by an ever-increasing sense of fear? What is all this fear about? . . . These times are about stepping past the past, seeking solutions for the now, and long term planning for the good of all of humanity. This planning has to include educating people… toward being a conscious human being in touch with our own inner peace and higher knowing.

“Inner Peace, hope, compassion, kindness and gratitude are all more powerful human states than fear, blame and distrust. Yes lately fear, blame and distrust are dominating the news headlines as if they are the only voices. How often are the voices of hope, compassion and positive solutions even given a chance to be heard?”

I wish to share with you my recent response to Joseph:

I enjoyed your blog and wish to make a couple of comments: There is always HOPE! : ) And speaking about compassion, this beautiful feeling allows us to enter into the pain of others, their happiness, their own frames of reference, their own values and ideals. To feel it, requires a willingness to open our hearts to life and to all that is and to listen attentively – profound listening – being receptive and letting go of expectations, to the call of all hearts.

In the joy of inner peace I greet you this day.

I have a dear friend in Holland who is a talented artist and through her poems expresses her understanding about the experience of oneness.

“In my air, my face, my eyes,

In my voice and actions

One can find the finest Light

Of my inner being.

So your inner being

Will shine in my awareness

And in all this clarity

You and I are One.”

Poem and Music © Maria Talis

- sheet-music and audio: www.angelaprodeo.org/en_peace.html

- sung by Angela Andáy, zither played by Maria Talis.

- composer: www.angelaprodeo.org/en_maria_talis.html

- email: maria.talis(a)angelaprodeo.org

Listen to “You And I Are One”

Lord,

In our eternal and joyous fellowship
Make me an instrument of Thy Faith and Love and Peace
where all my thoughts, feelings and acts
reflect the highest of human values
As I become part of the whole
in profound communion with You
and with all human beings
in the embracing totality of immortal
and perfect assimilation.

Wholeness in Living is an experience that comes from the soul and “Namaste”, a word derived from Sanskrit, employed as a common spoken or silent salutation in Indian and Nepali cultures, captures my own interpretation of Oneness. In yoga circles it means: “The light within me honors the light within you.” (more…)