1. Living with Divine Oneness Awaken to Presence Transform your life workshop series http://www.nurspirituality.org/ September 2012, Orlando

2. What is “living with divine oneness”? Unifying the Source (Tawhid) Witnessing/seeing the One in every thing… Teaching of the messengers of the One

3. Saying of Muhammad (p): “Oh Lord, show us things as they are.”

4. “How long will you be attached with the shape of the jug? Leave aside the jug’s shape: Go, seek water!” - Rumi

5. “Day and night, the Sea keeps on churning the foam. You behold the foam but not the Sea – how strange!” - Rumi

6. And in the Earth are signs for those who comprehend. And within yourselves; do you not see - Quran, 51:20-21

7. What do we see/witness? Living with divine oneness, we see/witness: –Not healers, only the One –Not sustainers, only the One –Not powerful sources, only the One –Not compassionate sources, only the One By observing the universe and ourselves, we witness: –Not deities, only the One. The motto of divine oneness… negation/affirmation

8. Superficial belief of divine oneness We say: “Almighty God is One, He has no partner or like. This universe is His.”

9. Living with Divine Oneness To see the attributes of the One in every thing. To open a window directly onto His light from every thing. To attain to perpetual awareness of the Divine presence.

10. Saying of Muhammad (p): “The best thing I and the messengers before me have said is: not deities, only One God.”

11. Two Ways to Experience Life Meaning Forms The choice is ours: Reality or Illusion

12. Abu Hurayra reported that Muhammad (p), said, “God says: I asked you for food and you did not feed Me. He (His servant) will say: Lord, how could I feed You when You did not ask me for food and You are the Lord of the universe? God will say: Do you not know that My servant so-and-so asked you for food and you did not feed him? Do you not know that if you had fed him, you would have found Me there?

13. Son of Adam, I asked you for water and you did not give Me water. The servant will reply: O Lord, how could I give you water when You are the Lord of the universe? He will say: My servant so-and-so asked you for water and you did not give him water. Do you not know that if you had given him water, you would have found Me there?

14. Son of Adam: I was sick and you did not visit Me. He will say: O Lord, how could I visit You when You are the Lord of the universe? He will say: Do you not know that My servant so-and-so was sick. If you had visited him you would have found Me there. (Muslim Hadith Collection)

15. “Dear One, look at the Painter! Why do you stare at the pictures on the wall?” “The picture derives its movement only from the Painter’s bush” - Rumi, Divan

16. How do we get there? By contemplation By contemplating the universe and ourselves with the guidance of divine Withdraw the heart into the arena of contemplation, nothing helps the heart more than that! -Sidi Ibn Ata’illah of Alexandria Pointers Inquiry

17. “In the face of meaning, what is form? Very distasteful. The meaning of the heavens keep them in place.” - Rumi

18. “Pass beyond form, escape from names! Flee titles and names toward meaning.” - Rumi