Oneness Experiences

After some dwelling with your question I like to share an experience I had 33 years or so go. I was not in spirituality, just working as a teacher in a hospital to train nurses.

One day I was in front of the group of students. (We used to arrange the students in U form.) So I stood or sat there and the students were doing some task and it was quiet and I looked at every student beginning at my left hand side and with every single one of them a thought came up: a speciality of each of them, and with that a total seeing of their so to say ‘value’. No one was left out!

They all had their contribution to make in the group. I just never forgot it. So, it must have been an uplifting experience. A taste of what is real in us. A taste of accepting every person for what they are. A taste of togetherness.

When it came up I thought that it was not ‘big’ but after some time it came to mind that oneness is just that. These small everyday things where we see that every one is included, no one is left out.

For me, oneness is the foundation of my life, the solid ground on which I stand. It is the essential substance of life, as well as the medium through which life is experienced. It is an ever-present opportunity to participate in the way life comes into existence. Oneness is not a grand ideal to be strived for but never reached. It is as simple as a breath of air and even more necessary. My life can be likened to the strands of a spider web, with oneness being the space between and around the threads, the space that gives shape and meaning to every fiber of my existence in relation to the greater web of which I am a part.(read more...)

Years ago I was living in a near impossible situation. Despite all my efforts, I could find no way to improve or change my life. I was sad, lonely, and feeling hopeless. Life held little meaning. During the night while my family slept, I would sit in the darkness and cry. One night my inner pain became unbearable. In total despair, I begged, “Where are you? God, where are you? Please, where are you?” As I closed my eyes I was filled with an intense energy. There, in my inner field of vision, appeared an Eye. A stillness and peace unlike anything I had ever felt before came over me. As I gazed directly into this Eye, I could hear the steady rhythm of each in breath and out breath of my own breathing. This Eye was a part of me and yet it was separate. I knew then with absolute certainty that there was a Presence deep inside me that was Real. I was not alone. I had never been alone. In those moments, I had been graced with a glimpse of Oneness.