There is much said about the topic and experience of Oneness. Perhaps it can be defined as ‘bliss.’ Emily Dickinson put it this way in her quote: “Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” —Emily Dickinson.

Oneness may be defined as feeling united with God presence through an overwhelming feeling of peace, love, comfort, joy and wellness. Oneness is being unified with a loving presence.

Or, Oneness can also be experienced as feeling or sensing the grief, pain and happiness of another. To be one with something or someone equates to understanding beyond the physical.

Then, how do we experience oneness? First of all in this writing I tend to be using Oneness and bliss as synonymous, meaning they are very similar in experience. It’s as if oneness and bliss are twins—they coexist together, act and feel close to the same. 

Further, bliss is evident in simple things such as taking in the beauty of a gardenia flower and aroma. We’ve perhaps all experienced a cool spring day and engulfed by the beauty of everything green as one is struck by the awe and lushness encircling wherever they look.

I remember my husband hopeful he was getting close to retirement, coming home excited about an idea he received for investing. “I know how we can retire.” “How honey?” “By owning dividend stocks, he replied.” I promptly added, “that’s terrific honey.”

Simultaneously, I was happy, joyful for his enthusiasm and had a good feeling about the investment idea he believed would bring in income when retirement came. I do not know if it was bliss; perhaps almost blissful. Yet I felt content and secure that our needs would be met even in our retirement years.

Bliss is a spiritual feeling and experience. We are surely meshed with the goodness and secure love of God and goodness. There is no doubt or fear. It is a divine sense and feeling which has love through in and through out a blissful experience, feeling and comprehension.

In addition, it is when we have no needs, all is well. We are one with a high level vibration when there is only well-being, glowing goodness and peacefulness in and about us. We are one with our God-nature.

Bliss can be experienced as euphoria, heaven, blessedness, and of course joyousness. Certainly, the receptive thief on the cross listening to Jesus say ‘today you will be with me in paradise’ felt blissful even under the duress of hanging on a cross. Hence, bliss is a transcendent feeling and experience.

Therefore, the remedy for depression, feeling poor, downhearted, misery, sadness, upset, and worry is to rise within and become receptive to the Divine in our (your) midst.

Begin your prayer practice of uniting by divine words that uplift, create an opening in your mind, body and entire consciousness for God, a blessed unity and experience.

Turn from the uncomfortable into the grace of steadiness on all that encompasses divinity: Love, compassion, safe-care, carefree, deserving, open hearted to be filled with the components of God and the stillness to receive the pure essence of Spirit divine which equals bliss, Amen. “Find a place inside where there’s joy, and joy will burn out the pain.” –Joseph Campbell.