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Welcome to OneLife Ministries. This site is designed to lead you prayerfully into a heart experience of Divine Presence, Who is Love. I hope persons of varied wisdom paths will find inspiration here.
Blessings,
Brian Kenneth Wilcox
MDiv, MFT, PhD
Interspiritual Teacher, Author
You are invited to join Brian at his fellowship group on Facebook – Inspirations for Living – Love, Joy, Peace.
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Enter this sanctuary time by settling down, becoming quiet, and breathing deeply some breaths. Remind yourself you are in the Presence of Love. This place you are entering, within, is the inner Temple, where you are One with God. You may wish to use a mantra, or prayer phrase, follow the breathing in-and-out, or witness the arising and falling of all around you as the manifestation of universal-Life. Enjoy these moments of quietly settling and come out when you are ready.
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In a certain sense, to gaze into the face of another is to gaze into the depth and entirety of his life.
*John O'Donohue. Anam Ċara.
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An icon is an artwork, a painting, one gazes into to go within and through and meet the Essence implied by the icon. If, for example, the icon is of Jesus, one seeks to connect to Jesus in spirit, through gazing into the sacred representation. This is why icons are painted with prayerful mindfulness.
Yet, each person we meet is an icon, an opening to a world of Mystery and Wonderment. We each are a world meeting another world, when we come face-to-face. We each have a sacral interiority, individual to each one, somewhat unique.
John O'Donohue, in Anam Ċara, tells a story of meeting the sacred World inside the other.
In South America, a journalist friend of mine met an old Indian chief whom he would have loved to interview. The chief agreed, on the condition that they could have some time together beforehand. The journalist presumed that they would meet and just have a normal conversation. Instead, the chief took him aside and looked directly into his eyes in silence for a long time. Initially, this terrified my friend; he felt his life was totally exposed to the gaze and silence of this stranger. After a while, the journalist began to deepen his own gaze. Each continued this silent gazing for more than two hours. After this time, it seemed as if they had known each other all of their lives. There was no longer any need for the interview.
Today, practice seeking to remain open to the presence of Life alive within each person you meet. Look into eyes intently – not so much as to intimidate with the gaze, but enough to share a glimpse of the Holy within you each.
©Brian Wilcox, and OneLife Ministries. 04/22/2010
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*OneLife Ministries is a ministry of Brian Kenneth Wilcox, SW Florida. Brian lives a vowed life, as an Associate of Greenbough House of Prayer.
*Brian welcomes responses to his writings at briankwilcox@yahoo.com . Also, Brian is on Facebook: search Brian Kenneth Wilcox.
*You can order his book An Ache for Union from major booksellers.
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