noun
definition
State of being one or undivided; unity.
definition
The product of being one or undivided.
Examples of oneness in a Sentence
They also claim oneness with a long line of Christians, for in every age there have been men who have ignored the dogma and the ritual of the Church, and in contemplation and retirement have sought to know God immediately in their own experience.
These in turn split into two principal groups - the Adoptianists and the Modalists - the former holding Christ to be the man chosen of God, on whom the Holy Spirit rested in a quite unique sense, and who after toil and suffering, through His oneness of will with God, became divine, the latter maintaining Christ to be a manifestation of God Himself.
This inner life constitutes the oneness of believers and forms the true Church which is invisible.
Persecution from without Morgan regards as the influence which mainly forced the antagonistic parties into the oneness of the catholic and orthodox church.
By this means the very name of this god expressed the essential oneness of his nature with that of the divine spirit as whose manifestation he was to be considered.
If rationality is absolute oneness, freedom is irrational.
It implies the necessary interdependence of all that is - that ultimate Oneness which underlies and sustains all phenomenal diversity, whether inwardly or outwardly, whether individual or universal.
Such an end is accomplished either by means of pure thought or by a oneness of pure feeling, giving as results the theological or philosophical construction of the concept God, or a mystical ecstasy which is itself at once immediate, inexplicable and indescribable.
In all this the Church shows its essential oneness with other organizations of society, the government, the family, which are at once deeply rooted in the past, and yet subject to the influences of the present.
While agreeing with the Eleatics as to the eternal sameness of Being (nothing can arise out of nothing; nothing can be reduced to nothing), Democritus followed the physicists in denying its oneness and immobility.
It is above all the substance of religious feeling, which is the immediate consciousness of the unity of the world, of the absolute oneness behind the infinite multiplicity of contrasts; indeed, it is the religious conviction of the unity which is the best guarantee of the truth of the suppositions of philosophy.
For a long moment they held each other, lost in a sweet moment of oneness.
Oneness means the absolute negation of the very concept of association.
Trying to understand oneness is as futile as trying to fall in love with an inch.
James began to feel a tremendous oneness with the whole world.
Massage for those seeking karmic oneness.
To ride a vehicle implies achieving a oneness with it, operating the controls by reflex rather than through conscious thought.
There is no culture of experiencing oneness with the natural world.
It means breaking down the barriers between God and Nature and establishing their essential oneness.
And yet perfect oneness, nothing to mar or interrupt pure fellowship.
The illusion or Maya of separateness from divine oneness is a trick of the mind.
For the advaitin the ' endgame ' is to experience the mystical underlying oneness of the individual soul and the supreme Brahman.
Thus, advaita Vedanta has no desire to claim an illusory " oneness " in the realm of vyavahAra.
Schleiermacher applies the phrase " the immortality of religion " to the religious emotion of oneness, amid finitude, with the infinite and, amid time, with the eternal; denies any necessary connexion between the belief in the continuance of personal existence and the consciousness of God; and rests his faith on immortality altogether on Christ's promise of living fellowship with His followers, as presupposing their as well as His personal immortality.
Thus, advaita vedAnta has no desire to claim an illusory " oneness " in the realm of vyavahAra.
Members of the community practice meditation and chanting to ultimately attain spiritual contemplation and oneness with God.
Many raw foodists practice yoga and are engaged with the yoga philosophy of a oneness with the earth.
According to Hinduism, each lifetime is an opportunity to experience situations and events that bring you to a higher astral level where your soul moves closer to the nirvana of enlightenment and oneness with God.
There's also the general oneness and connectivity that yoga provides.
Identifying himself with the Christian circle from the 2nd century on, a man became a member of a society existing in all quarters of the empire, every part conscious of its oneness with the larger whole and all compactly organized to do the common work.
Salvation is the comprehension of this fact, and in the apprehension of our essential oneness with the absolute.
All the Prophets preached monotheism, the Belief in the Oneness of Allah, the Glorious, the Elevated.