Oneness (concept) is related to Enlightenment and is referring to the experience of oneness and nonduality. The concept appears in multiple religious and mystical belief systems/philosophy. Oneness is an attribute of the Christian deity in contradistinction to trinitarianism. Oneness is that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are all fully divine (in contrast with the lesser status of Son and Spirit associated with some beliefs), but are expressions of the one God, and not separate persons. Oneness Pentecostalism is a specific sect of Pentecostalism, although others who are not Pentecostals also believe in the 'oneness ...

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oneness: Quality or state of being one. Unity, identity, especially in spite of appearances to the contrary - e.g., the oneness of soul and God.

See: monism.

(See also: Oneness, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

At the Baba Budan Hills in Karnataka, Muslims revere the shrine as their saint's, while Hindus revere him as Lord Dattatreya. The shrine's manager is Muslim. The Haji Malang shrine near Mumbai is managed by Hindus.

Asia is the fusion of many cultures. Great periods of human history are marked by widespread access of spiritual vitality derived from the fusion of national cultures with foreign influences. So intertwined are our faiths that it is a terrible travesty when violence is carried out in the name of any one faith.

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Information is often tailored to fit preconceived notions and stereotypes. In wartime, we repeatedly air scenes of "our side" coming under attack - scenes of the hellish misery inflicted on the citizens of the other country are rarely broadcast.

Dialogue that creates peace with others must first start with an open and earnest "inner dialogue".

It is vital to ask ourselves: Do I accept without question the images provided to me? Ceasing to introspect, we become self-righteous and dogmatic and discourse becomes a one-way street: Unable to hear others, real dialogue becomes impossible.

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Neither the body nor the senses are real - these are only instruments of varied expressions and actions associated with the temporal world of Atman , the Divine Self.

It is on realising the Atman that we become aware that we are essentially a fragmented part of the Universal Soul.

The individual consciousness though infinite and one, is manifested in finitude of body and mind. The goal of human life is attaining oneness with the infinite.

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Oneness: For the Good of the World

The Bhagavad Gita lays utmost emphasis on the good of the world or lokasamgraha. Work done for lokasamgraha not only prevents destruction of the world; it also contributes towards social efficiency.

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Hardship Throws Up A Million Saviours

When we run for cover as the sky opens up and the rain comes thundering down to the accompaniment of a million kettle-drums; when in the middle of the night, our bed dances across the floor of our room in the arms of a mighty earthquake, we exclaim: "Please, God, help me out of this!" - no matter in what language we've muttered the words, no matter what age we are living in, or where. Then there is one God, the protector of all humanity.

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Oneness: Rise Above Dogma, Realise The Truth

When I pass by the neighbourhood mosque, I bow my head in respect just as I do when I pass by the temple. The mullah's call to the faithful turns me towards prayer and God. I go through the same upsurge of emotions when I visit a church or gurdwara. When I bow my head in humility to Christ and the Guru Granth Sahib, I see in them my beloved Lord Krishna. Similarly, when I hear the Buddhist chant: ''Buddham Sharanam Gachchhami'', it continues to reverberate within me for long after, giving me the same sense of peace I experience when I say my usual prayers.

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The realization of oneness in all existences, manifested and unmanifested, is the goal of human life.

From "Easy Steps to Yoga" by Sri Swami Sivananda.

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Thirty years ago the historian Arnold Toynbee and Daisaku Ikeda, head of the Japanese Buddhist Soka Gokkai International, discussed at length various pertinent issues, trying to discern the future direction that our world must take if it is to survive these "times of the end".
Toynbee remarks, "...The question of mankind's future religion arises because all the current religions have proved unsatisfactory... A future religion that is to bring into being, and to keep in being, a new civilisation will have to be one that will enable mankind to contend with, and to overcome, the evils that are serious present threats to human survival."

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The Dark One is the primary antagonist of The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. His true name is Shai'tan. Verin says the Dark One is the "embodiment of paradox and chaos, destroyer of reason and logic, breaker of balance, the unmasker of order". Shai'tan is the godlike figure of the creatures of darkness. (Dragon 188) Sheriam tells Egwene that the ability to channel confers a weakness, that those who can channe ...

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Common One is an album by Irish musician Van Morrison, released in 1980. In contrast to many of his previous albums, Common One ventures more into the realms of free jazz than the usual Van Morrison R&B, with the sax playing of Pee Wee Ellis coming to the fore. The songs are also somewhat longer than on his previous albums. The album was generally not well received upon release, although some critics have descr ...

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Oneness University is not a university in the normal academic sense, but an India-based spiritual organisation, centred on the teachings of Sri Kalki Bhagavan and his wife Sri Padmavathi Amma. The organisation's world headquarters are at Batthalavallam, Andhra Pradesh , seventy kilometres from the city of Chennai. All the Oneness University "campuses", and the Oneness Temple are based here. The organisation has no particular history or lineage before its founding in 2002 and, though it has adopted many Hindu cultural elements, it cannot ...

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link Robert Christgau (*) link Rolling Stone RS 933 Want One is Rufus Wainwright's third album, released on Sept. 23, 2003, and produced by Marius deVries. Superb as his previous record was, the acclaimed Poses, 2003's Want One saw Wainwright's flowering as a contemporary artist of true maturity and depth. The release also records a personal journey from the dread darkness of drug addiction to the daylight of recovery. His period as a habitué of the foetid underb ...

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Bank One, based in Chicago, Illinois, was the sixth-largest bank in the United States. It traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock symbol ONE. The company was acquired by J.P. Morgan Chase on July 1, 2004. The bank traces its roots to First Bancgroup of Ohio, founded as a holding company for City National Bank of Columbus, Ohio and several other banks in that state, all of which were renamed "Bank One" when the holding company was renamed Banc One Corporation. With the beginning of interstate banking they sp ...

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Old One is a fictional term used in numerous fantasy and horror series. Old One - Cthulhu mythos. In H.P. Lovecraft's fiction, the term "Old Ones" is used in different contexts. In his short story "The Call of Cthulhu", Lovecraft used "Old Ones" to refer to Cthulhu's spawn[1]. Lovecraft also referenced the "Old Ones" in "The Dunwich Horror", naming them as mysterious entities associated with the Outer God Yog-Sothoth. In " ...

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BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the oldest television station in the world. It is the primary channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and first broadcast as the 'BBC Television Service' on November 2, 1936, although the BBC had been broadcasting experimental and test transmissions in a variety of formats since 1929. The station held a complete monopoly on television broadcasting in the UK until ITV was launched in 1955. BBC One - History. Baird Television Ltd. made Brit ...

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The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: كتاب ألف ليلة و ليلة Kitāb 'Alf Layla wa-Layla, Persian: هزار و یک شب Hazâr-o Yak Šab) is a piece of medieval Middle-Eastern literature in the style of a frame tale. The nucleus of these stories is formed by an old Persian book called Hazâr Afsâna ('Thousand Myths', Persian: هزارافسانه). The later compiler and translator into Arabic is reputedly storyteller Abu abd-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar in the 9th century. The fra ...

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