by Esther Andras, Stuttgart, Germany
When I first came to Universal Medicine I felt the way Harry Potter must have felt when he first came to Hogwarts. I didn’t feel abnormal any more and life started to make sense.
I always (had):
- felt that there is more to life than meets the eye
- sensed that we feel a lot and do not only rely on our five senses
- had a deep yearning of loving everyone, and equally so
- had a distant knowing within me that life is about harmony, not fighting and competition
- felt that we are in fact one big brotherhood, not billions of individuals fighting for their own cause.
But only when I came to Universal Medicine did I start to allow myself to pay closer attention to this part of me.
The more I let this part of me open up, the more I could see that we are all longing for a more harmonious and loving world: but I could also see that we do not acknowledge that, and thus do not live that way.
Instead I realised that we rather choose to drag, push and beat ourselves through life and have a million excuses why we have to live the way we do. Our overall assumption: the world is that way (hard, cruel, demanding, loveless…), hence we do not have a choice but to follow the rules expected of us.
But then the question strikes me – “isn’t the world made up of us living in it and making it the way it is?”
As I have observed, it is definitely not the animal or plant kingdom asking us to live the way we do. Quite the contrary, they patiently endure our irresponsible way of living and consistently continue on their evolutionary path despite the havoc we, the human race, create around them.
Or have you ever encountered a tree lashing out at you because you are entering its space or because it dislikes what you are doing? I haven’t. Whenever I go for a walk I find every single tree just standing there in its own beauty reflecting back our beauty, regardless of the weather conditions or the mood I am in.
So to me it seems it comes back to us. It is us who make the world as it is. Thus we can make a world to our liking. And why not make it a world that is full of love, joy and harmony, something we are all longing for?
I know that it is not that easy as the world is as it is and we often get caught up in it, falling back into our familiar patterns. But the fact is, if we don’t make more loving choices the world will stay as it is… and most likely only get worse.
As for me, I have over the past years focused on the quality I am in everything I do: with people, with things, with myself. And I have learned the more loving I am with myself, the more loving I will be with others, and in everything I do.
And the most beautiful thing I discovered is that there is a true beauty and loveliness in all of us, despite the rough and often tall walls we have build around us in order to protect us from the world.
And I can see now that the harshness I see in the world is only an outer layer – and that I tended to just see that outer layer instead of focusing on the true beauty in each of us.
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We need to learn to live and be in the world where we see everything for what it is: the wars, the bullying, the greed, corruption and destruction – while at the same time knowing that this is not who we are, and that ultimately, underneath it all, we are all the same. We are absolutely responsible and accountable for all of our choices and their consequences. But until we see one another as absolute equals, then we will keep perpetuating the us and them, the me and her/him, the wars, the hatred, the separation and divisiveness.
..and it starts with us: do I see myself as an absolute equal to everyone else on the entire planet? Or do I calibrate and moderate myself according to who I’m talking to and how I think they need me to be? Perhaps it starts with acceptance: the more we accept ourselves, and the responsibility of who we are and what we’re here to bring, the more we naturally start to express this with everyone in a more equal way.
The power of who you are is the opposite power we have often endured in life.. hence the world is quiet the opposite of the power we know truly to be, and it has become rather a force. So, we must become aware of the reality of what we have created by not living our power.
Thank you Esther, it’s true that we often “see that outer layer instead of focusing on the true beauty in each of us.” Reconnecting to that beauty within is a great way to begin meeting that same quality in others, and knowing we are all equal by virtue of our essence.
“But the fact is, if we don’t make more loving choices the world will stay as it is… and most likely only get worse.” This is so true and we still need to grasp this, that it is every single one of us who brings the change to the world we are longing for. Let us not give up on the truth we know deep down and allow ourselves to live this consistently, one step at a time, bringing back the love we all so fully deserve.
So true – we make the world what it is. No one is going to change it for us, it is each and every one of us. I can feel how I have recoiled from love in my hurt and reaction, and that is exactly how lovelessness gets multiplied.
Exposed it is that our focus is key. We can distract ourselves with another set of keys so to speak, meaning that when we replace our true focus for another we can pretend we are doing a good job. Hence, when our focus is chosen to be one of truth, nothing will wander off, as it is and keeping its focus on its core – truth.
As much as we may try to avoid it, we cannot escape the fact that we are responsible for the way the world currently is, through what we it we are choosing to live as a result of what energy we are choosing to align to. When we are willing to embrace our responsibility, it is then that we are willing to see the great effects of what we are choosing has on everything.
If we focus on the outer layers then we completely blind ourselves to any form of true beauty, even in the most awful situations there is something to be aware of and learn about the love that we are. It’s choosing to repeatedly focus on the beauty that is what I am finding a challenge at the moment. But choosing to feel the effects of focusing on both (love and not love) I am supported to keep coming back to love.
To live our love is our greatest gift we can give ourselves and each other — for it is our expression of that love that we are so familiar with, even if we haven’t expressed it for (so) long.. Coming back to this expression is simply coming back to who we are. Equally so. That is why it is important that we make love our living principled way.
Beautifully said Danna – ‘…our expression of that love that we are so familiar with…’. So very true as it is love that unifies us all, representing who we all innately are, the great source we have all originated from, and hence will return to.
The Hogwarts analogy is perfect, it does feel like, finally, we can be ourselves and there is space to breath and understand why things are the way they are. Yet there is a responsibility with that because the world is as it is because we let it be so. As you say, time to look below the surface and stop reacting to what we don’t want to see and live what we know is our truth. Live the love that we are.
If we do not see and appreciate the beauty in ourselves we will not be able to see it fully in another.
It is so important to really appreciate the beauty and divinity in others and ourselves, rather than simply focusing on the unloving behaviours or patterns and imperfections.
Esther you sum up so well the ridiculousness of the disharmony we have made to be our normal way of life… in your words “have you ever encountered a tree lashing out at you….?” We act less than nature but claim ourselves to be superior.
What a difference it makes to the way we view the world and the way we are in it , when we see our part in it. The fact that every choice we make in our lives affects everyone else!
It is true, we are the creators of the world we live in and cannot blame nature or anything else for the less than love-filled world we have. Hence it is up to us to change it all for the true better rather than giving in and passing our ills onto the next generation as has occurred many times before.
“And why not make it a world that is full of love, joy and harmony, something we are all longing for?” when we look at the state the world is in today this sentence looks like an impossibility as we look from the outside, but when we have reflected to us a more loving way of living as Serge reflected to me I knew and could feel in the moment of meeting my own love being reflected to me, this is what the world is destitute of by not knowing that love, joy and harmony lives deep within them, by us living with this loving responsibility we provide a reflection for others to feel and be inspired by, so that one day the whole world will live this way.
When you talk about the outer layer and the reminder of seeing our inner layer instead – I am reminded of the loveliness that we each all have inside us and that we need to give this our full attention and appreciation.. For from this we will grow and expand our future within.
The more I started opening up to myself, the more I realised how hard we are on ourselves too, as soon as we start to be more loving with our everyday choices the more we are able to feel the love in our own body and at the same time feel and see love in another too.
I have been one of those people who has wanted to change the world, I was someone who knew the world could be so much more, but how to go about it? As I have matured and aged I can see that it needs to start with each person, and that this can come about by the inspiration of someone truly living in brotherhood, and in love, joy, and harmony. We have almost given up on this possibility because invariably the role models we have had have failed, disappointed, or have been killed. Or they have been deified and made out of reach. Serge Benhayon has made living in love, joy, brotherhood and harmony the new normal, entirely possible, and available to all equally. And this is because it’s who we actually are, a return to our true being.
Wow, I only chose to see the outer layer – that last line really struck me because it really gives us an out to feel so hurt and horrified by what we see that we have an excuse to throw up our hands and give up. It gives us an out to just go with the flow feeling we cannot change anything. Yet, as you say, “isn’t the world made up of us living in it and making it the way it is?” Yes it is! So let’s roll up our sleeves and get to work to be more responsible in what we are reflecting to each other.
Not one single person in the world does not have a quality within that is borne of love.
‘But the fact is, if we don’t make more loving choices the world will stay as it is… and most likely only get worse.’ A great point to highlight Esther and remind ourselves that our loving choices send a ripple effect into the world to ignite and inspire others to also make choices that are more loving and true.
We change our disposition, our attitudes and our unloving ways and our whole outlook on the world changes and we do see . . . ” . . . that there is a true beauty and loveliness in all of us, despite the rough and often tall walls we have build around us in order to protect us from the world.”
The ways of the world will not change unless we take responsibility for changing the way we are with ourselves first. We can complain and blame ‘society’ all we like, but it won’t help changing anything because we are part of society and true change starts with us.
“And why not make it a world that is full of love, joy and harmony” This is one of the magic messages of the Ageless Wisdom that when we feel the love and harmony that is the essence of everyone of us we realise that the harsh conflict and aggressive exterior is a misplaced protective barrier that is keeping us away from the beauty of being a One humanity with a shared purpose to return to love, joy and harmony that we naturally are.
I can so relate to the Harry Potter analogy as I too lived so much of my life feeling abnormal, the square peg sitting uncomfortably in the round hole and always on the outer of any group, but all the time longing to belong. And like you “it was only when I came to Universal Medicine” that I finally began to see that I was not in the least abnormal because all around me were so many wonderful and loving people who had grown up feeling exactly same. And from the teachings of Serge Benhayon what had at times felt so overwhelmingly abnormal has slowly been exposed as actually being totally normal.
Hi Ingrid, I appreciate what you have shared here as it’s helped me realise that feeling of being odd or abnormal still prevents me from letting out in full the truth I know and can live deep inside.
It is on us to change the world and I love it what you have shared as this is a wonderful way to start this change immediately: “And I have learned the more loving I am with myself, the more loving I will be with others, and in everything I do.”
If we can’t stand how life is and the world we live in… why aren’t we asking the question, “How do I contribute to how it is?”, “What am I doing that either supports it staying the same or supports it changing?”. What great questions to ask Esther: how is my every thought, word and deed affecting not only myself but people, the world, and the planet we live on? What a huge responsibility we have in the quality of our day to day livingness.
Esther, it’s so easy to see that outer harsh layer you mention here and not understand that life indeed is about us living it, and in fact we can choose how we choose to live it. Underneath everyone is so much more than we often let show, but if we choose to live in a way that allows us to connect to that life is very different.
When we focus on the external layers and emotions of ourselves and others, we miss the true beauty that is there underneath: it’s the same depth and quality that is in everyone, in equal measure, and expressed in many different ways outwardly.
I have attended Universal Medicine events, presentations and courses for over 10 years now and you can tangibly feel when in a room of sometimes well over 150 people that everyone has the same goal which is to truly make it about love including the choices we each make every single moment. This is not goofy or gushy or looking outside for answers and there is no trying. It just is. And each moment and day this is built on with all in everyday lives. The solid and loving foundation this has created for humanity is pretty awesome and I have not known anything like this in my life before, but as you shared it was very much something I could feel growing up, knowing that how we were/are living currently in the world did not match to the truth of our essence within. However thanks to Universal Medicine and the students of Universal Medicine this is now changing.
Beautifully said Vicky and very true, Universal Medicine has supported thousands of people to re-connect to their essence and to build a solid and loving foundation – this is something to deeply appreciate and celebrate.
I see many people during the day in very close proximity and I love to look them in the eyes and greet every single one of them. It is most beautiful to see someone in their beauty without being distracted by their looks or behaviour.
It is so often the case that we see only the layers of protection, the hurt and loveless behaviours in each other and forget that within we are all deeply loving beings, equally Soulful in essence. In exploring our connection to our love within we discover that this is and our natural way of being, a quality that represents who we all are, and our responsibility in life is to reflect this innate quality in the world.
Looking back to my first Universal Medicine workshop I can feel that it was definitely a “Harry Potter” moment, when suddenly I no longer felt like the square peg trying to fit into a round hole and that I no longer felt “abnormal” as all around me there were many others who had lived feeling exactly the same way. That was one big ‘aha’ moment for me followed by the next incredible moment when I suddenly felt throughout my whole body that I had finally returned home.
Yes, me too Ingrid! I smiled as I feel like we are remembering a magic that is available to every single one of us. It simply lies waiting for us to reconnect to it and plays with us, dropping in little moments of playfulness to keep the tension of not re-connecting to that magic aka love close enough to the surface that we don’t completely forget we are, actually, from that!
So true – we often talk about the world as if that is something separate to us, out there – but every single one of us is in it, the world is simply reflecting back the sum total of how we all have been living. This makes me realise that being self-loving is actually not selfish, but it is actually responsibility/power we should be claiming.
This is a gorgeous and wise blog Esther, with so much said here. The last few lines struck me strongly this morning, and the responsibility we have around this: “I can see now that the harshness I see in the world is only an outer layer – and that I tended to just see that outer layer instead of focusing on the true beauty in each of us.”
I’m realising how irresponsible it is to focus on the user layer – there is a grandness beyond words within each one of us, and the choice to see this regardless of their behaviours is always there. This choice is one of love or not – when we choose to focus on the outer layer only, we choose to reduce the human being to so much less than it actually is.
Well said Katerina. And we must ask, if that is all we are choosing to see (a reductionist view of what is stupendously whole and amazing…), in what light are we actually holding ourselves?
The true light of divinity can only be seen in another when it is acknowledged within – and my how our view of life changes, the deeper we go in our reclaiming of the true beauty that we are.
This is very beautiful Esther, and so very wise… With your every word, I can’t but feel the re-igniting of the fire, the joy, the love and the life within you.
That we need not give up in this world, in the face of all its hardness, abuse, pain and corruption – but that the love of which you speak is what’s is so desperately needed, that we may, yes, turn this ship around. It will take every one of us.
Beautifully said Victoria, the wisdom of true prophecy — how it will eventually be.
Esther, beautiful. If we focus on the outer layer we will miss the gold underneath and it’s there in all of us, no matter how hidden.
We are so used to complaining about how things are and still need to grasp how our every move contributes to the all that we then live in.
This question has come to me too Esther “isn’t the world made up of us living in it and making it the way it is?” and therefore the responsibility that each one of us has to make our living one of absolute responsibility for the quality of all that we bring in all that we do.
Esther, my whole body smiled when reading this blog. I just loved it, thank you. I felt all my particles in my body tingle and a strong knowing that I was connecting with the truth. I particularly loved this line – “but then the question strikes me – “isn’t the world made up of us living in it and making it the way it is?”…. so so so true, and it is up to each and everyone one of us as to what reflection we offer the world.
We all lose the moment we become individual and only worry about ourselves.
These are great observations Esther – it is us who make our world how it is. Of course we can not make people and systems around us change but we can change how we are in it and we can also change if we accept things or don’t.
Esther , I love your first paragraph as I too felt a home coming when I attended my first Universal Medicine event. I felt it so powerful yet completely natural to be there.
This outer layer of protection your mentioned Esther is only a thin layer sitting on top of what is truly magnificent, absolute beauty and love waiting to be shared and expressed.
The power of our choices and our movements play an integral role in our life. When we look at the state of the world today we can give up on harmony and connection, because we see how the world is in such disarray, but if we bring it back to simplicity and that even our simple daily movements can not only bring change to our lives, can it also offer more to the world too? What if these small movements can actually hold more power than we truly knew possible? What if the way we opened doors or got into our cars showed us a reflection of not only how we are living but the world was living too?
When we are sold a picture that harmony is something far from us and impossible to really achieve for all, we give up. Not only do we give up on the big picture, we also give up on our part in it. A similar example is when we don’t think we can afford what is truly supportive for us, then we just give up on saving money and rather just spend what we have on what we can afford but not really want or need. This is then a guarantee that we will not have what we know is true.
If we wait for the world to change we can wait forever, as how can it change when everybody is waiting and not changing their way of living instead contributing to a world we do not want. It does start with every single one of us living the truth we deep down know, step by step, to then bringing back the truth so it can be lived every day more.
Absolutely Esther – well said. The world does begin to change the instant we embrace our responsibility to live and be moved by the love we are, and surrender our bodies to express the light of our Soul. This is the power we all hold within, and with everyday lived we have the opportunity to reflect and remind the world of the truth, of who we all are, and the love we are here to live.
Beautifully shared Esther, it has to start with each person being the love and harmony we know this world can be.
I’m starting to really appreciate those around me who are consistent in the quality they choose to live life with and just how much this has supported me to start to trust that it is safe to live in a loving way – I don’t have to live by the rules the majority live by in the belief that to survive life one has to be tough or harsh and defensive. I’m realising I can be consistent too and not drop below a level that isn’t open and warm and keep building this foundation with others. Life is so much more fun this way.
I’m observing how there are people I know who have this idea of why they are being ostracised when actually it’s their disrespectful behaviour that alienates them; and then there are others who are different from the norm but because they are open hearted and warm have warm interactions with others. How we are does make a huge difference to how the world is.
I remember always feeling there was more to things, more to the world but I just couldn’t grab hold of it fully. The feeling always sat there but was faded back into the distance and very rarely stood tall at the front. The great thing about Universal Medicine was it supported me to be able to listen to those feelings that were already there. It was like there was a thousand things going on in my head at times and not knowing which one was the one. Within a few group presentations I was already starting to be able to grasp more of what I knew, it was like it was being pulled to the front. Life I could say never made sense and often I would find myself on a road and look around and say to myself, “come on there has to be more then this”. Universal Medicine supported me to make sense of what is already there. The world I was living made it so I couldn’t truly touch what I was feeling. So it was simple really, choose to live another way and then it feel like everything was in my reach.
The world we see is a reflection of our inner-world. There is much beauty to appreciate and be in wonder of. It is in and all around us, if we choose to see.
There is so much every single one of us can contribute to the world, we are not aware of it and we are also not told but our every move has a ripple effect and this shows that the quality we choose to be in is most important and worth putting our attention to.
I love this Esther! If we can’t stand how life is and the world we live in… why aren’t we asking the question, “How do I contribute to how it is?”, “What am I doing that either supports it staying the same or supports it changing?”. It’s amazing how subtle the changes can be when we start living with more awareness, understanding and love but on an energetic and consciousness level, the changes are huge and can be felt by all.
One of the best blogs I’ve read Esther. I love what you are sharing here. This means that what is destroying the world the most is us being emotional. If you take away all the emotional reactions in people would there be any war? Just like you say would a tree lash out at you? Definitely not but as humans we have made it normal to think bad of people, hate people, treat people in loveless manners. Would we do that if we were to just observe life and Respond accordingly, like nature does with us? I don’t think so, but it’s hard to turn this around when being emotional has been mainstream these days. We don’t have to be emotional, we can start to feel instead and we will see that there is a life beyond the emotional life of ups and downs. Some people say that that is what life’s about, the ups and downs but that is just a sad excuse for not really knowing how to live life otherwise. Detach from all of that and it’s actually possible to observe life and not get caught up in it. Doesn’t mean you become a robot but you can be in life much more present and there for people in a much clearer way. You know what they say you cannot help someone unless you’ve first helped yourself. In other words you cannot be a clear reflection for others if you are still caught up in the problem you see before you. So nature provides a very solid reflection here, it’s just for us to actually see the gold of it.
Thank you Matts, you describe so clearly how emotions literally stand in our way of being truly with each other there for each other. We have, as you say, so much bought into emotions that we cannot imagine a life without them or think we will be heartless then, but this is not true, there is another way, a way of feeling and responding as opposed to emotion and reaction.
Well said. It isn’t about being a robot, it is about not feeding an energy that is harming us all and offering a moment to regather, observe and respond accordingly.
It’s interesting how plants and animals have the capacity to live in our environment as well as us coming into theirs, and yet have little tolerance for them and go to their place without consideration of the effects that we have on them. Certainly makes me wonder who is the more intelligent? We are only just starting to observe the effects that we have had on our natural environment. But are we looking at how we live and whether there are things we ourselves can change or not? The reflection the natural world is providing is showing us loud and clear that our everyday choices and living way makes a difference, but the kind of difference we make is up to us.
Beautiful reflection Ester, if we are prepared to see our self from inside out, from the love that we innately are, we can then appreciate this in others rather than getting bogged down in the ‘what is not’ the outer protections many have in place.
I love this blog because it brings an honesty we cannot deny. Nature and animals do not make the world as it is – we do and we have to face that stark reality. We also have the potential to contribute or not. “But the fact is, if we don’t make more loving choices the world will stay as it is… and most likely only get worse.” So I believe and live whole-heartedly that we have to be the change we want to see in this world and we will contribute to the whole. The more people who live this way contribute to that same whole till we tip the balance in favour of love, harmony, joy…a world with responsibility and accountability.
How true Esther. I fully agree that the things I have ‘learned’ through Universal Medicine are in fact things that were already known to me within. So there are revelations yes, but they are such that they are confirmations of that which I already am and not something I am becoming.
What a game changer when we begin to embrace life and connect more deeply with ourselves and with others – knowing that in each moment we have a choice brings a responsibility and a true purpose that supports us all.
Beautifully expressed Esther, when we are connected with to the love we are ourselves we cannot help but see the love that lies in the heart of every human being regardless of what their outer covering may be.
“It is us who make the world as it is. Thus we can make a world to our liking. And why not make it a world that is full of love, joy and harmony, something we are all longing for?” So true, we are responsible for the reality we live in and the world around us. It can be hard to accept this for there is so much evil in what we experience, but there is love too, so if we tune into that frequency instead of the rot, we will start to live in a very different way – one where appreciation is a frequent occurrence. When this happens we open to love – the love within and without – and then the magic happens.
I find when we are connected to ourselves more and more our awareness of the world around us expands and that is where we uncover the true beauty of the all.
It all begins with us and our responsibility to our beautiful connection to our bodies. It is from this connection that we can see just how much of an impact how we live effects the world and others around us. The quality in which we bring through our movements in the world is very cool and something to really appreciate.
“isn’t the world made up of us living in it and making it the way it is?” Absolutely, and how easy it is for us to judge others and not take responsibility to see what we are adding to the hardness, the competition etc. I know for myself how I have been blaming others and thus chose to separate as if I was not part of the game. And all what is of value is connecting with the truth and to feel we are all One.
Its interesting what you have shared Esther about all of us wanting a harmonious and loving world but we don’t live that for ourselves. This is very true. How can the world possibly change if we are not prepared look at ourselves and how we are within our own lives first. The torment we see in the world has to begin somewhere and it is that first rustle of disharmony within and separating from our own truth. With each of us coming back to this we won’t have a peaceful world – we will have a community where people come together in harmony.
I have found that when I truly connect to people, just being myself and sharing without reserve all the love that I am, that tough, harsh, or closed off outer layer just melts away in people. The power of loved shared is profound, people really feel it and they light up to it inside themselves. We can share our living way in everything we do, the truth and love we live is felt be everyone and the beauty is it’s equally in us all.
Great start of your blog Esther I really had to laugh but it’s true, life started to make sense and everyday it makes more sense. The more I see the world with eyes of the love that I am, the more I see that what you say too, it is only an outer layer, when we connect to what lives inside we get a whole different but true picture.
I love your sharing Esther, and agree that the more loving we are to ourselves then the more loving we will be to humanity as a whole. Beautiful!
You said it Esther, ‘a world that is full of love, joy and harmony, something we are all longing for’ will only come to life when we collectively support each other to let go of our hurts and unloving patterns, our expectations, ideals and beliefs and let the love that lies equally within us all flow in harmony.
Absolutely Suse, it is collectively supporting each other by being that change for ourselves in our own lives first so we can recognise how insidiously it lies within us and affects how we see and approach life. We can all be the change and contribute to the change.
Thank you Esther – it’s great to come back and read this blog again and get another dose of responsibility. The world will not change unless we make those changes within our lives first. I know many, and myself included in the past, who write off the world as an awful place that is pretty much done for and use this as an excuse to party and check out from life because ‘what’s the point’..? I don’t think like this anymore and understand that each of us play a very important role in the evolution of our planet and people and if one sits back with a ‘it’s too far gone’ attitude then everyone suffers as that piece of the puzzle can only be filled by that unique expression. Our purpose is strong and very real and connecting to that can bring back a commitment to life again (as I have experienced).
This blog is a beautiful testament to the power of self-loving choices. Not only do we benefit from making these choices to care for, nurture and honour ourselves in how we feel and what our body needs each day to support it’s livingness, but humanity too benefits from this, because we cannot help but pass it on and reflect these choices back to everyone else.
I really needed to hear this blog this morning. What I am taking from your beautiful words is this:
When we choose only to see the outer layer of our fellow brothers we may have taken a sideward step in the deep love and care for ourselves for the depth we see in others we must first have with ourselves.
So many see the lovelessness in the world and desperately want it to not be this way and yet are not prepared to look at the quality they contribute themselves. It may be a cliché that we should be the change we want to see in the world but if everybody chose to be more loving with themselves and others we would all have in the world what we both want and deserve.
Thank you Esther for being you and expressing so beautifully. It is our responsibility to be all that we are as this inspires others to be themselves and the wonderful thing is the more we live the great love we are the more beauty we see in the world. . . so simple really.
Our greatest responsibility is to live the great love that we are and nothing less.
This is a deeply gorgeous peer beneath the curtain that has kept us veiled from the truth of how things truly are. Those great ‘walls of protection’ we have built to protect us are nothing more than fortifications that serve to keep love out. Thus, what we herald as our bastion, is in-truth our deepest prison. Thank you Esther for saying it like it is and bringing us to the truth that within these fortress walls lays a love so deep and grand it cannot be contained by any such false imaginings.
I closed my self down to the harshness and lack of love that I saw in the world, only to find that I was the one who had closed down to my own self love and was contributing to what I did not like to see. So beautiful to see beyond it all and realise that within each person lies the potential to love and be love, and change the world.
Beautiful blog to re-read- thankyou. “And the most beautiful thing I discovered is that there is a true beauty and loveliness in all of us, despite the rough and often tall walls we have build around us in order to protect us from the world.” Gorgeous.
“But the fact is, if we don’t make more loving choices the world will stay as it is… and most likely only get worse”. It is a very salient sad fact that you have highlighted here Esther. And so it is, that it comes back to each and every one of us to make more loving, harmonious and wise choices.
I was one who, for most of my life couldn’t make sense of the world and the life that I was struggling to get through daily, all the while feeling that there was more to life than what I was seeing and experiencing. Feeling at odds with the world changed the day I walked into my first Universal Medicine workshop, and when Serge Benhayon began to speak I knew that I had finally come home to the world that I always knew was there.
“We are all longing for a more harmonious and loving world: but I could also see that we do not acknowledge that, and thus do not live that way” – I agree, Esther. And we somehow make life all about self-gain (monetary and recognition) which would never be enough for this longing; and we employ many means of protection. I used to live like that too. But really, it’s so simple, if we want harmony and love in the world, be that. It’s quite comical when I look back and now realise how I thought the world should meet my expectation while I offered no contribution whatsoever from my part.
This is a beautifully presented sharing Esther. It is so true that there is no other lifeform on this Planet telling us what to do besides ourselves and the negative energy we allow in. If we don’t change who will ? Nature, as you mentioned, so beautifully works around us, and allows us to get on with our self harming ways. It is time for us to be more loving and harmonious in our everyday life.
‘So to me it seems it comes back to us. It is us who make the world as it is’. Thank you for calling us all to account Esther. Too often we can stay in the comfort of hopelessness and blame everyone else for the state of our world – yet it never changes anything and it feels so dull and empty. Bringing it make home, our focus to ourselves and how we live can lift the burdens and unshackle us from irresponsibility so true change can come.
‘And I can see now that the harshness I see in the world is only an outer layer – and that I tended to just see that outer layer instead of focusing on the true beauty in each of us.’ – Beautifully said Esther, I know the more I focus on the ‘what is’ instead of the ‘what is not’ this increases my appreciation and understanding of everyone and life – then life just continually expands and becomes more joyous.
I had a similar experience too Alison, I always felt there was so much more to life but never expressed it and kept my feelings to myself. Meeting Serge Benhayon, a man who spoke everything I ever felt, was amazing – someone else who felt the same. And it turns out there are thousands, or maybe even millions that feel the same!!
The world keeps turning as we keep doing what we are doing. We are in a playground that allows us, almost, to do whatever we want. However the school bell will ring and one day we will have to return.
‘So to me it seems it comes back to us. It is us who make the world as it is. Thus we can make a world to our liking. And why not make it a world that is full of love, joy and harmony, something we are all longing for?’ I agree Esther it is up to us to show the world that there is a different way of living.
I know the more I choose to be responsible and make choices that are loving and true this empowers others to also know they have a choice. I spent most of my life hiding myself away and not fully engaging in life so I was adding to the ills of the world, committing more to my life has been an amazing and powerful experience for me that I know can support and inspire others to also shine their light.
Yes Anna – We don’t need to be a murderer or criminal to be adding to the woes of the world, even though those behaviours obviously are! By holding back our love, hiding our light, being dishonest or unloving to ourselves we too are making the world the way we see it now.
“I could see that we are all longing for a more harmonious and loving world: but I could also see that we do not acknowledge that, and thus do not live that way.” So true Esther, we can be saddened by the way humanity is today and despair, or we can choose to live with harmony and love in our own lives and start to change the world.
When I feel the love within me and understand and be aware of the great love that is possible and that what is in me is in everyone else equally, it fills me full of hope for what the world can be.
‘And I can see now that the harshness I see in the world is only an outer layer – and that I tended to just see that outer layer instead of focusing on the true beauty in each of us.’ The more loving that I am in my choices, the more that I see my true beauty and that of everyone around me.
Thank you Esther, your blog opens the reader up to be aware of when their focus is fixed on the thin layer of harshness in the world and people. This in itself feels like a starting point; a way to explore feeling and seeing what lies beneath this veil.
Yes Deanne, the harshness in the world and people is a thin layer. I have been enjoying seeing what lies beneath this veil of mine and everyone’s. It can be at times very uncomfortable but it sure beats the discomfort of believing that veil was all there was whilst knowing there was more.
It is such a wonderfully freeing feeling when you allow yourself to look past/under “the thin layer of harshness in the world and people” and begin to see the innate beauty that is waiting there. We are in danger of missing out on so much magic in this world if we continue to focus on the outer layers, instead of taking the time to look within.
“the harshness I see in the world is only an outer layer” how true Esther and great to be reminded – I personally enjoy the reflection nature constantly offers; the steadiness of the trees, the beauty in the flowers all of it showing us who we are – in their way I feel they are loving us just by being themselves.
This is worth pondering on Esther “Isn’t the world made up of us living in it and making it the way it is”? When we realise and accept this we know we can play our part in making the world a more loving and harmonious place to be, for after all, we are all part of the all. Is it possible when we blame others thinking we don’t have any influence or aren’t involved we are fooling ourselves into using it as a reason (excuse) to not accept responsibility for our own way of living? We have been given the beautiful examples in nature by God in both the plant and the animal kingdom the wonderful reflection of how harmony works for the good of the all.
Thanks Esther, i love that when we look at our world as not just something that affects us but something that we are a fully inseparable part of in every moment the real beauty is realised
Yes Chris, a simple and lovely way to say it! Completely inseparable we are and the realised beauty for me is the potential of power we each hold to transform each moment into a moment of Love.
Nature is such a perfect reflection for us, reflecting a harmonious and loving way to be. It is sad that only a few people acknowledge this reflection as it is all there for us to feel and see. “Whenever I go for a walk I find every single tree just standing there in its own beauty reflecting back our beauty, regardless of the weather conditions or the mood I am in”, a great observation Esther.
I found that I was in such reaction to the harshness of the world that I couldn’t see the love in most people and so couldn’t see the love in myself very well at all. Now I feel the love in almost everyone and can definitely see myself more clearly and more lovingly. The world didn’t change, I did.
We are all architects of our own destiny and by living in a self caring and responsible way not only does it have a positive effect on our own life but also serves as a positive reflection to others
It’s true that the world doesn’t actually demand or dictate this harshness that we assume we must live by, it’s a humans in the world from which we pick up these messages. But as I have learnt also is that it is not the person from which these messages are communicated but the energy that comes through such a person. If that energy does not come from who we are, which is love, then we get everything that that love is not. There is so much focus on what we do and what comes out of us in our speech, words and actions and little focus given to the quality of all of that. Having learnt this has been a great lesson in not taking it personal and to question those thoughts, words and actions that are not love from others and myself. That outer world is shaped by our inner world, so what have we allowed our inner world to be?
Great question Leigh – “what have we allowed our inner world to be?” And not only what have we allowed, but ‘why’ have we allowed it to be this way? Could it be that somewhere along the way we have lost this inner connection and that in order to allow love into our inner world, we need to be honest about our choices, and re establish a connection to who we really are, and not what has been determined by our investment in the outer world.
Definitely Angela I would agree with you there about getting honest about our choices and re connecting to who we really are. But what stood out for me as a read this was the word ‘Honest’ it’s like there is still hanging around this idea that being honest is about ‘fessing up’ bringing all our dirty laundry out on the table and looking at it and feeling guilty – what a load of lies! Recently I have been feeling and learning that being honest is about feeling the ugly come up but knowing that who I am is underneath all of that. When the unloving choices pass through the body and we are connected to ourselves we get to see and feel the ugly play out and it can be horrible but while connected to the love that we are we can let it just pass through and leave. I then know I have a choice, open the door for the lovelessness to come in again or not.
I love what you have shared here about honesty Leigh. It does feel that we have learned that ‘being honest is about ‘fessing up’ bringing all our dirty laundry out on the table and looking at it and feeling guilty – what a load of lies!’ I wanted to bring more honesty with a friend of mine recently. I felt so anxious about being honest and I started writing down how I needed to express it and it felt so heavy. However, the minute I expressed it the heaviness went and I wondered what all the fuss was about. A lot of other feelings came up too. Honesty has definitely been tied up with confession and guilt. But actually honesty feels amazing in the body and between people. We are naturally honest when we listen to our bodies. More like a breath of fresh air than any dirty laundry.
Esther, you have given us readers a real treat with your blog – thank you! It is so easy to view the outside world with suspicion and to create walls around us to try and lessen the feelings of vulnerability. In my case the main wall I built was ‘hardness’. People were not allowed in and I didn’t permit myself to feel any gentleness or tenderness within me as I perceived this as a sign of weakness that could get exploited by others. Universal Medicine has supported me to work on bringing down the walls and it turns out that the main way to do this is to learn to nurture and love myself. I am discovering the joy in this and then can’t help but share it out into the world.
As you have stated Esther we all have a role to play in making this world a better place
I was smiling when you talked about trees lashing out, but the truth is that no matter what goes on they just am them, and we can do this too, if we choose it. After all we are in the world and living in it, it’s easy to blame it but the truth is that we can change how we are with it, if we choose.
Most of us choose to only see that outer layer, a layer we tend to react to and judge another by. We cannot continue to sustainably live like this because not only is nature and each of us affected by our lack of responsibility, so too are our economies, health, well being and true state of living and relationship everywhere. Choosing Love is the only way to change this.
Absolutely Joshua. Let’s support each other in this way of being.
You used some great words, beauty, harmony and clarity- That is what I feel in Esthers blog too. She sums up in a very playful way what true responsibility is and how nothing will not change, if WE are not changing our way of living. An indeed awesome felt sharing Esther.
This is a really beautiful article Esther asking and inspiring us to truly be the love we innately are in all we do… for collectively we have the power to make the world the way we want it if we all individually choose to be responsible and contribute to it in a deeply loving way.
Esther this is such a beautiful blog that uplifts and reflects the true beauty of us all and all we can choose to be. It makes my heart sing to know the choice is ours.
The ‘outer layer’ is definitely a preoccupation in this world, however there is so much there to be felt and appreciated if we want to look beneath this outer layer.
Thank you Esther. This is a powerful call for all of us to be responsible for the world we live in. I so agree where you say “So to me it seems it comes back to us. It is us who make the world as it is. Thus we can make a world to our liking. And why not make it a world that is full of love, joy and harmony, something we are all longing for?”
Thanks for reminding us of the beauty that is reflected back to us by nature, and the human arrogance to think they are not connected to this on some level.
This blog is absolutely wonderful, with such a wonderful and large perspective that flows right on down to each of us. If you read the following and it doesn’t vibrate with you, perhaps you need to take a closer look: “And I can see now that the harshness I see in the world is only an outer layer – and that I tended to just see that outer layer instead of focusing on the true beauty in each of us.”
Esther awesome blog, I absolutely love it. You reflect so much here, and I love how you acknowledge that we all want to live in a harmonious way, everyone does, but they often feel defeated by the harshness they feel and see in life around them and give up. And yet here we have nature, trees which just are in the majestic beauty, not reacting no matter what they throw at us – I love your image, and laughed at the idea of a tree having a hissy fit, but it’s such a great truth and a point well made, they don’t, they just are showing us that we too can just be. Yes the world is harsh but that’s just the outer layer you talk of, and underneath is all this beauty ready and bursting to come out, and the world is indeed how we live in it, so taking care of our quality in all we do is the way. Thank you for this deeply nourishing blog.
A sharing of the way life seems to develop while growing up. We are born connected to who we truly are and as we grow become separated from that, as you have said Esther – ‘I knew that there was more to it than meets the eye’. Thank you Esther for bringing more of you to every moment and sharing the love that you are.
The harsh outer layer tricks us, because it is on the surface. Universal Medicine presents ways to connect to the innermost, and once I could feel the latter it seemed ridiculous to connect to the outer falseness when the kingdom of God awaits inside.
I love the analogy of Harry Potter arriving at Hogwarts and you arriving at Universal Medicine. It very much does feel like that when you have travelled through life knowing there is more than what we see, but not having that reflected in our day to day environments, to then finding it. Great blog thank you Esther.
This blog is so gorgeous, inclusive and honouring of us all.
Thank you Esther for bringing such wisdom and inspiration. through your expression
Thank you for sharing this Esther. Indeed it is us who have made the world the way it is, yet we don’t have to only see the shallow exterior of hardness and competitiveness that we often display. We can choose to feel the beauty that is beneath and equal in us all.
Very beautiful Esther, I can relate to your analogy of Harry Potter turning up at Hogwarts.
Thank you Esther for sharing your commitment to being ‘focused on the quality I am in everything I do’ and the impact that this has had on your life and all those around you. As you say Nature just is and doesn’t demand anything of us and the more we start to change the way we are in the world in a loving way the more we can build a world that reflects the beauty of everything.
Absolutely Ruth the more we all take personal responsibility for making simple changes to the way we live, the more the world can start to come back into harmony and the more inner beauty will be reflected for all to feel.
Esther your example of how the trees do not have moods and lash out at us but stand in their own fullness and majestic glory highlights the ridiculousness and irresponsibility of the way we can choose to live, and the beautiful reflection that nature provides.
Esther, I just loved your analogy of when you first came to Universal Medicine and when Harry Potter arrived for the first time at Hogwarts that you ‘didn’t feel abnormal any more and life started to make sense’. This is so true and I can so relate. Awesome blog.
Wunderbare Esther I love what your wrote: “And I can see now that the harshness I see in the world is only an outer layer – and that I tended to just see that outer layer instead of focusing on the true beauty in each of us.” So that would be great if we could learn this at school – focusing on the true beauty in each of us!!!!
Nature is a great teacher Esther. Humans behaviors look really silly when you compare it to nature. Great reflections Esther.
Nature is indeed a great teacher Concetta. She is always there forever consistent reflecting back to us our innate harmony – as you mentioned Esther it is up to us whether we choose this or not.
Esther how beautiful to be reminded that there is a loveliness and beauty within us all instead of the outer harshness that we sometimes present.
I love your blog Ester, it describes how I feel too. The deep yearning for love and harmony for humanity is I can imagine how we all feel. It is when we allow the protective barriers to distance, isolate, separate and disconnect ourselves from each other that is where disharmony creeps in. It has been empowering for me to learn that by taking responsibility for my own choices, developing self-love and self-care is the beginning of bringing harmony into my life. I also realised that how I live also has an affect on others in more ways than I have ever imagined.
Hi Esther, I also always felt that there was more to life as we knew it, and yearned to live in brotherhood with all. It pained me that this way of living was not recognised and searched many paths to find a way and I also did seek many ways to numb this feeling. Becoming a student of the Way of the Livingness I now understand and know that what I had been feeling is true and living this Way is possible by connecting our love and truth that is within us all. I love your analogy of the trees. Nature always had been and still is an integral part of my life, a place for me where I felt my essence reflected, by the way nature purely lives and expresses its essence. And a great question here highlighting our responsibility to live our truth and our love from within – “isn’t the world made up of us living in it and making it the way it is?” As I too believe and can feel that, as you say ‘we are all longing for a more harmonious and loving world: but I could also see that we do not acknowledge that, and thus do not live that way.’ Thank you for your beautiful expression.
Esther I loved every word of your blog but what stood out most for me was your last sentence. ” And I can see now that the harshness I see in the world is only an outer layer – and that I tended to just see that outer layer instead of focusing on the true beauty in each of us. ” This is so timely for me right now also. It’s about uncovering the truth in all situations and seeing beauty unearthed.
Beautiful Esther, it is indeed us that can make a change in this world, and make it about love.
This is a great observation Esther – I have never seen a tree lash out either – rather it waits constantly showing us all of itself so that we can make a choice or not to be all of ourselves. Staggering that the many reflections that surround us are often not seen through the many outer layers we have all constructed.
So true, when we talk about the ‘world’, we often see it as something beyond our control, something separate, and we see ourselves as a kind of victims of circumstances and there’s not much we can do about it. What I am learning is how I am with myself has a huge impact on how I experience the world and its people. The more connected I am with myself, the easier it becomes to appreciate the beauty of the world and its people.
“We have a million excuses why we have to live the way we do” is so true. I fully agree with “the more loving I am with myself, the more loving I will be with others, and in everything I do”. When everyone (all of the humanity) can start to be loving with ourselves, I feel that the world will change. And the good news is that there are many of us, the Students, who are loving with ourselves. So let’s spread the love more! Thank you Esther for writing this. I really enjoyed reading it.
Haha, I love it – have you ever argued with a tree? So why argue with a person, who is just as beautiful in their essence as the tree is.
Ha – this is great and so true.
This is great Esther. I love how you so beautifully express our individual responsibility “isn’t the world made up of us living in it and making it the way it is?” Yes it is and one by one we can each begin to create a true and lasting change in the world.
So, beautiful Esther!! The world we live in is a harsh one. We are very well trained to deal life with harshness in the hope to be left alone or to make things work for you. Harshness is usually the way. The problem with this is that our best part misses out. There is so much beauty in us all, that goes unexpressed, unshared (even within ourselves). We have accepted to be a mere caricature of who we are.
I know first hand experience that accepting that love is the way to open up a world of wonders, realisations and possibilities that talk to each of us deeply. Only accepting our beauty we can appreciate beauty around us. As the old saying goes, beauty has to be first on the eye of the beholder.
” ..isn’t the world made up of us living in it and making it the way it is?” Very true Esther and as you say if we want the world to change we must first focus on changing the way we are.
Gorgeous Esther, it was so lovely to read your experience and how things have changed for you. I too love the reflection of trees, so steadfast and beautiful, each in there own size, shapes, colours – a lot like us really. I also loved your last line, ‘I can see now that the harshness I see in the world is only an outer layer – and that I tended to just see that outer layer instead of focusing on the true beauty in each of us.’ I too can relate to this and am working on looking deeper than the harsh exteriors and into the beauty that is within.
Esther i just LOVE this post and your insights to nature and the trees even ‘speaking’ ; that they are never in any judgement of us as human beings, forever standing tall in their beauty and truth no matter what the ‘weather’. Your reflection makes sense when we know, feel and honour the fact that all plant and sentient life forms are equal parts of this world.
Thank you Esther for the beautiful way you have described nature as a reflection for how to be.
Trees are such a great reflection for us all, they stand gracefully tall, stable and proud, on a solid earth foundation. Still and silent but for the allowing of the wind or rain to pass through or by, rustling leaves and branches but never affecting the solid stillness that is innately what they are. They support a myriad of other life within their gentle boughs, open and accommodating, needing very little in return, for they know the kiss of the suns glorious rays and have the gift of heavens light to sustain them. And together, in their grand majesty they form a harmonious union that gently encourages growth and sustains a whole forrest.
This is a beautiful analogy begun by Esther and now continued by Barbara, the trees are indeed such an awesome reflection of how to live, I had never thought of it that way before, but its true. Thank you
I love the question “isn’t the world made up of us living in it and making it the way it is?”
That says all for me , Thanks Esther
I loved what you wrote about the harmony of trees, I got this picture of an old willow giving us a slap saying hey you guys, it’s time, let’s do it together
Very beautiful blog Esther, thank you. What you have presented here is so true self-responsibility will support the quality of the world to change.
Beautiful – the simplicity is profound “isn’t the world made up of us living in it and making it the way it is?” this gives the power back to us all, to live in a way we would love the world to be first with ourselves and then naturally with others too.
I laughed at your Harry Potter analogy Esther, because that’s how I felt at my first Universal Medicine event: “I didn’t feel abnormal anymore and life started to make sense”. It sure did thanks to the incredible presentations by Serge Benhayon; all the questions I had about life and my place in it began to be answered. I soon realised that I did have a place in this world but that came with a deep responsibility; to me and to humanity: a responsibility to bring love to a world that is crying out for answers.
This is great Esther – I love the line “But the fact is, if we don’t make more loving choices the world will stay as it is… and most likely only get worse.” It reminds me that the choices I make have an impact on everyone and everything and I know from experience that every choice has a ripple effect.
Lovely blog Esther, it is true that when we choose to be more self loving with ourselves we open up to appreciate equally the same love in others.
A gorgeous blog, Esther. ” I have learned the more loving I am with myself, the more loving I will be with others, and in everything I do.” This is true for me also, as more and more I find that, as I am more loving to myself this reflects out and I open up more to others, then the people I meet are also more open towards me.