by Adele Leung, English as a second language, Hong Kong
A few years ago there was an impulse in my heart – a knowing that humanity is connected. This was not something I could prove, but every cell within my being wished to live and express this impulse. It was not something easy to explain to those close to me – friends, peers or even family. As I began living as such, I met with Universal Medicine through the books of Serge Benhayon.
The initial encounter with the books was transformational as they were not understood through the intellect, but opened me up to a much deeper place within – my heart. What the books spoke was the truth known by the heart, as expressed through Serge. The books did not make my life easier so to speak, but the more I read, the clearer it became that there was still so much in my life to be aware of – the choices I was making on a daily basis to be self-loving or not. Simply knowing this was not enough, if what is known is not lived. There were so many areas in my way of living that were now open for me to look at, to be self-reflected on with raw transparency. Yet it was all a choice to me, and I was aware at times that would be challenging. What kept me going was knowing that if I could confront things I hadn’t dealt with, others will know it is possible also. At the same time, the love that opened was immense, and nothing could compare to living it.
For four years I have lived in a remote place, deep in the woods, far from people and all forms of transportation, a self-created idyllic sanctuary which was actually a form of protection from reality. I thought I was “living”, as my life with my son was very simple, we sleep early and wake up refreshed, we have ample exercise and eat well, but the truth was, I was trying to “live” within an immense distraction that I could not see. I would walk every day for 45 minutes over the hills to take my son to school, and would humour myself with all sorts of jokes when I had to carry heavy groceries, with body exhausted, walking back home. I was not being gentle or loving to my body, and I refused to see this because I was holding so firmly on to this idealistic way of living. But my son, who is eight years old, saw it. A few months ago, we moved back to community, and initially, the shock for me was so great that I got sick. But this was the beginning of the healing, because I was brought forth into awareness of all the areas I had not been loving to myself, and can now begin to change.
Geographically, my place of abode was far from the Universal Medicine clinic or being able to access the courses or workshops, but through a retreat last year I met with Serge Benhayon for the first time. The first time he spoke with me in person, the immense love I felt within was deep and beautiful, and I realised that I was feeling a true connection. Being met in this way allowed me to begin to feel the real me.
Whether it was through his books, in person, or through an email response, Serge Benhayon has consistently demonstrated to me what it means to be a true teacher; one who takes a genuine interest in his students equally and truly. Most importantly, the reflection presented by him has inspired me to live the truth of what I feel for myself. I realised that to be able to share love with others, I need to be able to know that in myself first. If I did not first live love myself and feel this love equally for all of humankind, what am I really sharing? In the last two years, I have gradually arrested and/or re-structured every aspect of my life and work, to return closer to sharing what is true love.
The funny thing about truth is, we can only know; it is not based on what others think, it is a knowing within us. It is not about believing, or even proving or refuting, although sometimes this may be necessary. I still cannot say I could prove anything with words or explanation, but I know how truth feels and this feeling has guided most of my life. I also know how it feels when I intentionally do not want to be guided by truth and choose otherwise. Therefore, truth for me is something I learn through life experience itself.
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
The re-awakening to a quality, the light of my Soul, that I now realise has been ever-present all along, was and continues to be inspired by The Ageless Wisdom Teachings as presented and lived by Serge Benhayon. Not only has it been life changing to realise that this quality, this deep love is who I am in essence, but also that this can be lived in connection to throughout the day, has and continues to be transformational. The Way of The Livingness offers a tangible way to live religiously and learn to live in deeper connection to our Soulful light, a way to live with greater love.
Serge Benhayon’s books do not address our intellect and does not try to arise our emotions. They talk to our past and our future while they help us to realize we are trapped in time.
Absolutely Eduardo. Serge Benhayon’s books address the multidimensionality of our Soul, who we are, and our purpose of being here together, that which encompasses us all.
I can so relate to this: ‘Simply knowing this was not enough, if what is known is not lived.’ When I offer my clients something I don’t live myself I offer nothing but ‘fried air’, mental energy that is repeated and they don’t really get the opportunity to make a different choice. That is what is so solid and strong about Serge Benhayon, he never speaks something he doesn’t live: ‘he talks his walk’.
Therefore, truth for me is something I learn through life experience itself.
Truth simply is, it doesn’t try to persuade or convince because that is not needed, no pictures or investments attached to the truth. Truth is all encompassing, no-one gets left behind and the particles of our bodies know and recognize the truth.
“Truth for me is something I learn through life experience itself” – you have summarized it so well. We can try convincing ourselves with words but really, it is when it is lived the truth that we do know in our body gets activated.
Reading this blog leaves me feeling that thought and thinking must never be a goal for us but more a bridge to knowing. It seems we have championed thinking in our world but if thinking does not lead us to experience the truth, to feeling, to knowing and the sense of what is absolutely so, where is it leading us? Into a ‘world of thought’ that isn’t actually real perhaps. Having had a similar experience to what is being described here, one that has brought me ‘back to my senses’, I have found that ‘thinking isn’t everything we think it is’. There is more truth to be found in our feelings and our senses, though our connection with the communications of our bodies and when we pay heed, life takes on a whole new perspective.
It’s always inspiring to read of people who when they hear the truth, they drop everything and say yes to it. No resistance, just a thanking God.
‘The funny thing about truth is, we can only know; it is not based on what others think, it is a knowing within us.’ Adele I totally agree that we know truth because we feel the truth from within.
For many years and no doubt like many others, I searched for something that was missing in my life. After traveling thousands of miles, spending thousands of pounds/dollars, after many teachers and modalities, I found that one that reached to the core of what was missing – Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. Has it been plain sailing? No, but what has been presented is that we have choices and responsibilities in everything we do but most of all, absolute truth my body undeniable felt and that could no longer be ignored.
Adele it is very inspiring to read how you totally transformed your life, I am so glad you made the choice to come out of hiding because the reflection you offer the community with your lived ways and consistent expression is so powerful and deeply healing for all.
That feels so true to me also – that truth is a knowing, not something written in a book by someone else. Of course we can read something and if feel true for us, absolutely, but it has to be felt by us in our bodies and not justified by our minds.
There are things that may be unprovable by today’s means of proof and that may sound crazy to many. Yet, this situation does not change the fact that there are some truths that are there independent of us and our will to concede that are indeed there. The fact they cannot be proven in the way we know proof to be is irrelevant.
We know truth and true love when we are met with truth and true love.
Thank you Adele for a very inspiring blog, I loved what you shared about meeting Serge Benhayon. “The first time he spoke with me in person the immense love I felt within was deep and beautiful and I realised that I was feeling a true connection. Being met in this way allowed me to begin to feel the real me.” I too felt this when I meet Serge, the immense love that is reflected by him allows me to feel that same love within myself, and this is the love that when lived we reflect to others that they too can feel their own inner love.
What a massive shift you brought into the way you were living, the ideals of living isolated are so romanticised. Its great to see that even from the other side of the world Universal Medicine is able to inspire you to enter back into society in an active way. For it is living together and learning from each other that truly challenges us and grows us as people.
This is beautiful Adele in that it clearly echoes the truth, that the quality of a life lived in fullfillment is a whole body and being experience, which can never be felt as such through the intellectualisation of a philosophy. Once truth is lived it then is a foundation confirming the wisdom that resides within us all, of the quality of life we are truly here to live.
This is an amazing blog – to think that you could easily continue in what you thought was a ‘good’ life for the rest of your life but by listening to your inner heart you could feel that this wasn’t it, that this was more and it was then this impulse that led you to wake up and change what you knew wasn’t true for you – very inspiring.
Hi Adele, I particularly enjoy your last paragraph on truth. It is simple and comes back to love. It is love or not by the definition of it energetically. And you know this however, “Simply knowing this was not enough, if what is known is not lived.” To build it in the body is to allow it out “The funny thing about truth is, we can only know; it is not based on what others think, it is a knowing within us.”
You make a really important point here Adele. Truth is known when it is experienced and lived. Much of what is sold as truth is either outright lies or ‘just words’ i.e. the words that are written or spoken are not lived. When we live truth we can speak truth. When we live truth we can not be fooled.
“Most importantly, the reflection presented by him (Serge Benhayon) has inspired me to live the truth of what I feel for myself.” I only can agree as I made the same experience too and now I am a reflection for others and inspire them to live the truth of what they feel for themselves. That is how true inspiration is for me – someone is living the truth to the best of their ability and not holding back an ounce of themselves.
Living with idealism can disconnect us from accepting the practical reality of the world and committing to a life that is fully engaged within working through the imperfections of that reality.
The significance of meeting another who IS fully in life, and willing to do all that is called for in his or her connection to others, changes everything – most especially for those of us who have found ‘the world’ all too much for the depth of our sensitivity.
Meeting Serge Benhayon was also like this for me Adele – life-changing and deeply life-affirming, opening the door to what I can only call, truly living.
The choice alone, to come out of seclusion and once again meet the world – to engage purposefully and be willing to support oneself along the way – marks a significant ‘yes’ to life, doesn’t it Adele… All too often we think that removing ourselves is the answer, yet it can never be in full.
The restoration of our commitment and connection, and willingness to truly participate in life, to connect with others and deepen our capacity to hold all in love (inclusive of ourselves), comes about through being in the world, and not removing ourselves from it.
The books written by Serge Benhayon are a true companion through life. Never is the same thing learned or processed when re-reading a page. Sometimes I can read a chapter, sometimes it’s a page or two. But simply reading a page is beautiful for it is worth a thousand books. They are simply extraordinary for so many reasons.
This is beautiful Adele.
‘The reflection presented by him has inspired me to live the truth of what I feel for myself.’ Beautifully said and very true Adele, Serge Benhayon is the only teacher I have ever met that truly walks his talk – his powerful reflection has inspired countless people.
Thank you Adele for an inspiring article, truth is not a belief or cannot be explained by words, it is an inner feeling a knowing that connection to our inner self brings.
It is so true, our inner most knows truth. We only need to be reminded and make the choices to untangle the creation we used to not feel it.
Being ‘met’ in the true sense of the word is very powerful. In my experience, feeling that true and absolute sense of connection with another offers them an opportunity to awaken to that absoluteness in themselves. Once this reconnection is made, then a ripple effect takes place with more such ‘meetings’ taking place – and hence more ripples. It is the gentlest of revolutions but a glorious one.
‘I realised that to be able to share love with others, I need to be able to know that in myself first’. Beautifully said Adele.
It is beautiful that you have committed to restructuring your life to express love and feel the truth through truly living it. Letting these guide you through life is a incredibly stunning way to live.
Even reading this Adele, you make me want to deepen my relationship with truth and keep uncovering all the distractions I’ve placed in the way.
How beautiful and no coincidence that you came in contact with the books written by Serge Benhayon through an already deep connection to the truth within yourself Adele. A truth that we all know deep within our heart and that Universal Medicine confirms through the presentations, workshops, and books by Serge Benhayon giving the opportunity for a deeper understanding of what is a true way of living based on true love for all humanity equally, a way we can choose to live for ourselves and an awareness to the what is not.
It can be a real challenge to challenge the life we have constructed to protect ourselves. It takes time and deep honestly to approach any investments we have in life.
How true this is Elodie. I’ve often had the same thought pattern myself but as you say it doesn’t solve anything as we take ourselves with us wherever we go (even retreating to our own inner world) and the issues don’t go away when we do – they go with us as well, waiting for us to deal with them.
“Serge Benhayon has consistently demonstrated to me what it means to be a true teacher; one who takes a genuine interest in his students equally and truly. Most importantly, the reflection presented by him has inspired me to live the truth of what I feel for myself.” I agree Adele. Serge offers us all a powerful reflection of a life lived in love. transparency and integrity. We than have the opportunity to make different choices for ourselves and how we live our own lives.
‘In the last two years, I have gradually arrested and/or re-structured every aspect of my life and work, to return closer to sharing what is true love.’ – Beautifully said Adele, reconnecting to your inner heart supported your body to truly heal.
Very revealing how when you chose to let go of the isolation and return to the community that you knew that getting sick was clearing the harm that you had caused to yourself. The presentations and books by Serge Benhayon offer a way to choose to reconnect to our heart and to live with and in love with ourselves and others.
Thank you Adele, it is true that only through our own feelings can we know truth, as opposed to adopting a belief of what is true, and the instrument for discernment is our body. Before Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I had no way of knowing truth, all I could do was take my best educated guess at what was true and hold to that, for I had numbed myself for so very long. The true love and support which is offered by the Ageless Wisdom as presented by Serge Benhayon has allowed me to make simple daily choices which have, and continue to reawaken my body and my ability to know the truth through my own lived experience.
I have found truth in the connection with myself. Feeling me is the barometer that allows me to gauge where I’m at and assist me to hold and deepen this connection.
Truth is a knowing. It is a certainty within the heart, a feeling irrefutable in the body. When this knowing is honored and expressed, it is a healing to us.
Well put Adele, I cannot argue when a truth is felt in my body. Everyone benefits when we speak it, hold it back and lies have a space to flourish.
What struck me was your last line Adele, “truth for me is something I learn through life experience itself.” as I feel this is so true, it is the quality in which we live and that is why it makes sense that it is The Way of the Livingness, of our livingness that reflects whether we live in truth, or not.
I love your relationship with truth and with your commitment to restructuring your life at all costs to connect with it. A deeply inspirational read.
Adele an inspiring and beautiful blog. I agree that to share love we have first to live Love and know it in ourselves.
” I realised that to be able to share love with others, I need to be able to know that in myself first. If I did not first live love myself and feel this love equally for all of humankind, what am I really sharing?” Your love and connection to humanity is felt in your words Adele. I really relate to how we can get lost in ideals of sanctuary, nature, beauty, and miss out on the grand experience of connection with each other.
Beautiful sharing Adele. I love how you came to realise that in order to be able to share love you “…need to be able to know that in myself first.”
Beautifully said Adele. Your article is an inspiration that we can all know truth when we feel it in our heart. A particularly powerful sentence for me is where you say “I realised that to be able to share love with others, I need to be able to know that in myself first. If I did not first live love myself and feel this love equally for all of humankind, what am I really sharing?” This is one of the many truths I have felt from the presentations of Universal Medicine.
Adele I love reading your writing. I remember when you came to your first retreat in Vietnam and hearing that you had come after just reading Serge Benhayon’s books, and hadn’t attended any courses or similar before. I find it very inspiring that you live the way you do, in and amongst your community with the solidness, delicateness and love you carry. It is truly very beautiful, so thank you for continually sharing it with us all.
Thank you Adele for expressing so openly and clearly the truth of the heart.
Adele, reading this today was very healing for me as I felt what I already knew that truth needs to be lived and often it shows itself in ways that shine a spotlight on how we’re not living it. Your blog has helped me understand that’s it is indeed a knowing, and an allowing and to be tender and gentle with me as I go – thank you.
Beautifully said Adele Leung, truth cannot be grasped with the mind but can only be felt because it resonates with the truth that lives in us all equally. But we can express truth though if we connect to our inner most and allow our inner heart to be our source to express from. The words that then will be expressed will be filled with the love and truth equally to the source we are continuously connected with.
“The funny thing about truth is, we can only know” – I love this. Convincing doesn’t work, and believing has some tendrils that need justification. Beautiful, Adele.
Adele, what you share about living isolated and hiding away is true. Our connection to each other is our strength. It is this sense of community and responsibility that humanity actually needs to turn around the destructive and separated way we are all living from each other and ourselves.
What a beautiful blog about learning to live by truth, very inspiring. Thank you Adele for sharing.
Adele could it be that the whole of life is constructed to lead us back to the truth of who we are if only we understood how it works ? I am wondering if there have been many distractions placed in our path that have caused us to swim against the tide, constantly resisting it’s gentle pull back home ?
Thank you Adele for sharing your commitment to deepening your relationship with truth, Inspiring!
Adele I can so relate to the deep knowing from my heart of the truth. The life choices we make thinking we are on track. But we are really not. And I too can relate to the deep connection when I met Serge Benhayon. And that profound feeling of someone who really sees me and through his expressions that my inner world is not an illusion. And amazingly there are others that feel and think the same as me. Thank you for your honestly.
I also love your comment Dragana. The first time I met Serge he welcomed me like an old friend. It felt like I had returned home.
Thankyou Adele , beautifully and honestly expressed .
This is such a beautiful and tender sharing and I loved reading it. Thank you Adele
Truth is most definitely an inner knowing. We all do know this, but certain pillars in society have created belief systems that make it difficult for people to see the true truth of life. Ultimately though we all have the inner knowing and feeling of truth.
Hi Adele, what a beautiful blog you have shared – thank you. This really jumped out for me – ‘There were so many areas in my way of living that were now open for me to look at, to be self-reflected on with raw transparency.’ as I enjoy having the opportunity to invite more love and truth into my life and in all that I do. And I love also how you have ended with – ‘Therefore, truth for me is something I learn through life experience itself.’
I love this comment , Dragana, as it is such a beautiful observation of a person’s first meeting with Serge. For me it was like the curtains were drawn back and the window opened letting light and fresh air into a room that was airless and dark for centuries.
Hello Adele, the point you made about confronting things you hadn’t dealt with would be an example to others as being possible, is very admirable and a great example of self love and love for others.
Lovely Adele. Truth is definitely a learning and un-learning process of choices made. It is a feeling deep within that is different for all, but still returns everyone back to the same marker and that’s love.
Absolutely Adele. Serge Benhayon is a true teacher delivering true education.
Me too Adele – “I know how truth feels and this feeling has guided most of my life.” However for most of my life, my feeling of truth got me into conflict with the conflicted way things were, which I had trouble accepting. My meeting with Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have reconciled these – with the understanding that not accepting myself or the world as it is, and retreating to sanctuaries, is not the way to bring harmony or deal with difficulties. So I’m on the same page with you there!