AUGUST 1, 2025

AUGUST  2025  NEWSLETTER 

​Greetings! First of all, welcome to new subscribers. I’m so glad you are receiving my Daily Gratitude Reflections and once-a-month enewsletters. And I am very grateful for all who subscribe. I invite you to send me emails. I love to hear from each of you, and make sure to answer.
 
This enews is about ONENESS, really feeling our connection to Source Energy. Every single day, I enjoy my morning spiritual practice, and shore up my recognition that I am always connected,
supported and guided by a Higher Power which I call Spirit or the Divine Beloved. This power is not separate from me (or you). We can always be in connection, feeling our unity, and consciously raise our vibration if we’re just not feelin’ it at times. Here, I will share some tips and tools to permeate yourself with the oneness of the universe. If we are not feeling this, it is we who moved away. Spirit is closer to us than our hands and feet, nearer than the very breath we breathe as a passage in the Bible proclaims.
 
I completely believe that if we feel connected with the Divine, then gratitude comes very naturally. At least, it does for me.

“All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred.”
Thich Nat Hanh
TIPS AND TOOLS TO FEEL CONNECTION & ONENESS:

​Try Daily Meditation, even for just 5 minutes. And meditation can be done in different ways than you may think about: walking meditation, or even meditating while doing chores. There is no right or wrong, eventually extend the time longer if it feels good to you.
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Join a meditation group. I have felt many times the joined power of meditation is mighty.

Enjoy quiet nature walks. If you look around while in the silence, you can feel our sacred connection with plants, trees and all creatures of this earth.

Contemplative reading. Read inspiring passages about interconnection and harmony. Rumi, Mary Oliver, the Tao Te Ching are a few. Be sure to read slowly, and then take time to ponder their wisdom.

Read spiritual books, perhaps a few pages each day. Here are a few that are amazingly powerful. The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer,
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle and Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Listen to meditations on Oneness. Download a free app called Insight Timer or explore YouTube for thousands of choices.

Immerse yourself in spiritual music. Let it instill the feeling of Oneness in you. Look up sacred music on YouTube. Often I listen to Deep Theta by Steven Halpern when meditating.

Attend silent retreats, kirtan chanting, or sacred circles.
Gratitude Practice: Give thanks to the invisible web of support around you (sun, water, soil, sky).

Sacred Pause: At random moments, pause. Feel the moment. Let it be enough.
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Service: Helping others with compassion often brings a sense of unity.
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Feeling the oneness of life is not about transcending reality—it’s about entering it fully. The sacred is not distant; it pulses in your breath, the breeze on your skin, and the stillness behind your thoughts. Take time each day to appreciate the miracle of life.

Oneness Reflection
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“The wisdom and beauty of Infinite Love & Gratitude is all around you and within you, in the essence of your soul’s longing
to experience life.”
Darren Weissman
 
Everywhere I look is a part of me, and I am a part of everything too.
 
If I ever feel alone or lonely, I can take comfort in this fact, and shift to joy and peace.
 
I am thankful, so thankful, for connection,
for unity, for the vast and infinite Oneness that we are each an essential, precious, unique part of.
 
For me, it doesn’t get much better than realizing how true this is, and reminding myself through the power of constant appreciation.
 
Deborah Perdue

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Wishing you an amazing August filled with love and light, peace and joy!
Deborah, Gratitude Gal