Reveries into Oneness

You will find here all the posts from the category: ‘Reveries into Oneness’. They are short, playful texts and divagations ignited by a particular idea or situation. They are presented to you either in a blog list or individually for an easy browsing…

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Reveries into Oneness (in a blog list)

– Our Human Condition (how a person is made of knowing…)

– A Ghostly Thing (on how we only become what we are not…)

– The Immeasurable (on how our life is spent in immensity…)

– Salvation (on how salvation is in our very being…)

– The Word ‘God’ (on what God represents in our life…)

– Boundary (on a boundary between consciousness and the world…)

– The Treasure Within (how the sense I Am is a treasure within…)

– Intimacy (exploring intimacy as the nature of our being…)

– A Ceremony for Peace (on honouring our given essence…)

– Daily Calling (our spiritual calling is closer than we think…)

– On Desperation (on understanding the story of our desperation…)

– The Dream of a World (reflecting on the reality of the world…)

– On God’s Existence (on the presence or absence of god in our life…)

– Demons and Angels (on the prominence and qualities of thoughts…)

– Apocalypse (on the ‘three marks of existence’ of Buddhism…)

– Overflowing Questions (questions on an unsurpassable knowledge…)

– A Safe Harbour (on how our true nature has no special status…)

– Where is True Home (on discovering being to be our true home…)

– The Impossible Deed (on how our mind cannot know who we are…)

– Spiritual Wine (a poetical inquiry into the word ‘spiritual’…)

– On Courage (on how courage is found at the heart of ourself…)

– Meditation in a Nutshell (on what happens during meditation…)

– Vedantic Logic (on how our being stays untouched by experience…)

– The Religious Life (reflecting on how spirituality is an exaggeration…)

– Undivided Being (reflecting on what an individual truly is…)

– The Face of the Infinite (on the difficulty of knowing who we are…)

– A Chronicle of Thought (freeing ourself from thought’s pernicious ways…)

– The Story of It All (a journey from confusion to clarity of being…)

– The Distant Country (reflecting on the parable of the prodigal son…)

– A Treasure of Understanding (on the nature of understanding…)

– Twisted Rainbow (on the nature and reality of unhappiness…)

– The Frailty of Naming (reflecting on what can be named and what cannot…)

– Divine Presence (how presence is met both outwardly and inwardly…)

– The Reluctant Messiah (how our resistance can be made surrender…)

– An Abundance of Being (knowing yourself is god knowing you…) 

– Excessive Imagination (on our propensity to seek for an other…)

– The Voice in your Head (on the voice in ourself that mimics a self…)

– The Nature of Everything (how a thought is veiling reality…)

– A Holy Formula (on the sacred and holy natures of truth…)

– The Adventure of Thought (how thought has structured our sense of self…)

– A Gathering of Friends (on finding the right place of friendship…)

– Finding Relationship (enquiring into the nature of true relationship…)

– A Speck of Light (from consciousness being veiled to its being realised…)

– The Truth (an exploration into the nature and meaning of truth…)

– A Place of Leisure (the place of freedom and creativity in ourself…)

– The Impeded Buddhas (how everybody is a spiritual seeker…)

– Know Thyself (on the crucial importance of knowing oneself…)

– Unto the Ages of Ages (on how close we are to knowing our true self…)

– The Russian Dolls (reflecting on the false layers of the self…)

– The Harvest of Understanding (on soaking the person with being…)

– Cleansing the Temple (truth is not to be bought in the marketplace…)

– The Resting Place (where to find a resting place in ourself…)

– ‘Agnus Dei’ (what a choir piece by Samuel Barber evoked in me…)

– The Greatest Trick (reflecting on the question of the doer…)

– The Falling of a Feather (on the gentleness of the recognition process…)

– Turner’s Moon (reflecting on the evocative power of a painting…)

– Lectio Divina (the ‘Lectio Divina’ of a quote by Augustine of Hippo…)

– The Ardent Disciple (on the many temples of being around us…)

– Where Eternity Hides (the hiding place of our deepest being…)

– Meditation Time (on meditating without the meditator…)

– The Little Bud (on how awareness is nothing but the self…)

– The Glory of ‘I Am’ (a celebration of the purity of being…)

– Masters of Knowing (a praise to the intrinsic and evident nature of being…)

– A Tangible Now (on the tangible nature of the now…)

– The Direct Path (there is a way out of the maze of thought…)

– The Puzzled Self (on looking for happiness in the wrong place…)

– Imagine a Life (a text invoking a famous statement by J. Krishnamurti…)

– The State of Things (a reflexion on the true nature of our experience…)

– The Hypochondria of Being (on the nature of spiritual experience…)

– An Invitation from Silence (an exploration linking silence to pure being…)

– Evangelium (meditating on the ‘Good News’ advocated by Christianity…)

– Go Within (on how all spiritual traditions only point to ‘being’…)

– Hide-and-Seek (exploring the ‘hide-and-seek’ nature of self-inquiry…)

– Being Spiritual (an ode about not being spiritual…)

– A Story of Lack (a story on how the sense of lack can be our teacher…)

– The Substance of the World (a meditation on the beauty of the world…)

– A Mountain Walking (after an evening spent with Arthur Rubinstein…)

– A Thing of Beauty (a meditation that embraces the world…)

– The Virtues of Shopping (bringing presence to a simple experience…)

– An Unnoticed Pathology (some thoughts on our propensity for seeking…)

– Our Sacred Destination (a short reverie on the destiny of our self…)

– The Rightful King (a playful text about a container and its contents…)

– Churning the Ocean (divagating on a famous Indian myth…)

– Being Alone (meditating on the sense of aloneness…)

– A Vehicle for God (a playful text on the Hindu concept of vehicle…)

– Love Remains (a humorous divagation where the self is confronted…)

– One Rock-like Reality (finding truth standing like a rock…)

– The Navel of the World (a reverie on where lies the true centre…)

– A History of Veiling (a divagation into the question of veiling…)

– The Waiting Room (exploring the feeling of waiting within ourself…)

– The Never Ending Story (where wholeness is to be found…)

– God Wants it All (when God Himself is moving in…)

– Be Still And Know (unraveling the words of a song…)

– Benares my Love (a secret meeting with Benares…)

– The Cave (to retire into the cave: a short divagation…)

– A Silent Wind (a day spent in Amma’s presence and embrace…)

– Our Mother’s Lap (a divagation into the ways of the little child…)

– Unsubstantiality (a reverie that speaks of our unsubstantial nature…)

– The Fruitless Search (a tale that speaks of a lost being…)

– Promenade Parisienne (a poetical promenade in Paris…)

– Swift as a Bird (a short poetical reverie about a little bird…)

– The Secret (the revelation of a deeply hidden secret…)

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Photo by Elsebet Barner

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