by Annette Baker. Sydney, Australia.
The Key to The Mystery of ‘The Forgotten Fool’.
These words came to me one day when I was about 17 – I was sitting at a train station, waiting for a train. The words came seemingly out of nowhere; they came only once and very clearly. I heard them and I have never forgotten them.
The words had no significance to me at the time, though I knew they were important. They had no reference to any book I was reading, nor any movie or programme I had seen. These words were a message for me – that I knew, about what, I didn’t.
My whole life since then these words have been there, and I have known and felt that it was something of a riddle to life that I had to ‘de-code’.
For years nothing seemed to present anything of an answer to this ‘riddle’: though I wasn’t ‘actively’ searching, I just felt that the answer would come, perhaps unravel, in its right time. Nevertheless I was always curious, much so because of the strength and clarity of the message.
Over the last many years, as I began to study and to understand, embrace and live the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom (which Serge Benhayon has presented via the vehicle known as Universal Medicine), I knew that this was the answer, or at least that the answer was contained within these teachings.
However, ‘The Key’ had not yet revealed itself clearly… or maybe it had and I just hadn’t lived the Wisdom enough to get the revelation.
‘The Forgotten Fool’, I had begun to understand, was the human being living by the drive of the Spirit, rather than by the impulse of the Soul. The human being was the ‘Forgotten Fool’ because it had lost its way and forgotten its true origins – that of the One Soul; and a ‘Fool’ because it had been taken for a ride, and for a fool!
Hence the ‘Mystery’ was “how did we get there?” – what happened for us to break away from our truth, to be living a life that was not as it was originally intended, a life that was so complicated and at times meaningless?
‘The Mystery’ and ‘The Forgotten Fool’, these things I had started to understand well over the last twelve years, but the ‘de-coding’ was not complete without the understanding of what ‘The Key’ is.
I could safely say in general that the teachings of The Ageless Wisdom are the key, but I have known that I would not have ‘cracked the code’ until I had a definitive understanding of what ‘The Key’ actually is.
I could feel that how I am living now was releasing me to a great extent from living as one of ‘The Forgotten Fools’, but I am also aware that the unlocking of this message was not just for me, it was something to understand for all of humanity: so ‘The Key’ has to be something for everyone, not just for me.
Living with the understanding that there is a greater purpose for our being here, that all is not what it seems, that there are other levels of perception and sense awareness that we as a race have ignored for too long, I could feel that ‘The Key’ was somewhere in this.
We have ignored for a very long time the truth of what we innately have the ability to be aware of – we made that choice!
So how we go about reversing that choice is ‘The Key’.
If we were to live in a way that reverses that choice we would reveal ‘The Mystery’, and it would also expose ‘The Forgotten Fool’.
And so it finally revealed itself very clearly to me, as clearly as that first message, that ‘The Key’ is ‘The Livingness’.
And so twenty six years after receiving that message I have the answer, and like all things with the Ageless Wisdom – it is so simple.
‘The Key to The Mystery of The Forgotten Fool’ is ‘The Way of The Livingness’.
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The Ageless Wisdom is being presented to humanity once again, this time by Serge Benhayon. What he is presenting to humanity he presents with simplicity and the understanding that this wisdom has always been available to us, we had just mislaid the key and that key, as you write so wisely, is The Way of The Livingness. This is a way to live that brings life back to a simplicity, where love is the foundation and each and every person in our lives is our equal brother.
Life is a mystery as long as we choose to not know who we are and that we are receivers of energy not the creators of it, and not choosing to be aware of this is of course a bit silly or foolish as when we don’t remember we are forever lost in the mystery. But with The Way of The Livingness this all becomes clear and we will see we are not fools and there is no mystery to life as all can be known.
The Way of The Livingness is the religion that has its base in our everyday’s life. And in living this religion all of the Forgotten Fool will be revealed to us in a natural way.
This is such a beautiful example of how we can spend a lifetime searching outside of us for the answer or meaning to life but all we have to do is stop and look within and we have everything we need right there.
“The forgotten fool” – I love it. The fool the has forgotten it is in fact an equal to God.
I love the way the Soul communicates… and always with a divine timing. What a brilliant mystery to be solved, that sat waiting patiently on the back burner until the time was right for all the pieces of the puzzle to come together. And it couldn’t have been any sooner, as it needed to issue forth from the very livingness that was required to solve it.
“‘The Key to The Mystery of The Forgotten Fool’ is ‘The Way of The Livingness’.” Beautiful in its simplicity and this story shows that time has no relevance as the space opens up when we have prepared ourselves in The Livingness to be ready to know the meaning of the message.
As I read your blog, what comes to me so simply is how I have forgotten within me, the simplicity of life and my connection with God. What have I actually forgotten is that God’s communication is with me and is happening every day, by everyday events in my life, and how the simplicity of his connection is there. Stop and feel the connection that has always been there!
Complication enters into our life when we make life about the outer and in that forget about the inner qualities that are ready available and that otherwise would allow us to live all the divinity we are in a very simple way.
Thank you Annette, it was great to read this again. As I unfold living life with my soul (ie live The Way of The Livingness) I have had many occasions when I have had a new awareness and realised how fooled I’d allowed myself to be by accepting some aspect of life which is essentially false and not loving, instead of relying on my own truth – which I walked away from. The fool was always me! That’s stated very lovingly but the human spirit is a “fool”, as the greatness we truly are as Souls is so amazing, to fall for and to choose something less is indeed foolish.
It makes sense that we have been misguided, and that a fool is being made of us, by our choices alone. There is no one to blame, each and every one of us contributes to whichever way we choose to go, whether it’s leading ourselves further into illusion, or deepening our understanding and meaning of our lives.
The Way of The Livingness allows us to return and embrace that which we have forgotten and left behind eons ago, it is our way to resurrect ourselves back as true sons of God and to enjoy the simplicity and multidimensionality of living from our soul.
Ah, a breath felt throughout my body as I got to the end of this blog – thank you Annette for holding our hands as we found our way through the expression. I can feel how we really have been fooled and how The Way of the Livingness has brought us back to the simplicity of how we are living to remind ourselves of the connection to all we are from. It takes away all notion of separateness and individuality that leads to war and conflict. Instead it shows our value as individuals to work for the love of all, together and in harmony.
Thank you for sharing the key and the depth of this message calling on not only you but on us all – The Way of The Livingness.
I love reading your article again Annette, so beautiful to hold onto the words presented to you so long ago, and to at last find the answer you were looking for and so simple, connect to your inner heart and make that connection your living way of love.
This sounds like something out of a movie, in the coolest sense of course. What a beautiful rediscovery of a truth you already had inside of you.
Stunning Annette, what I love is the way you are engaged so decidedly at age 17 to never actively pursue, because that would not be in line with the way in which you were delivered that line, but to always know it’s profound significance and the fact it would reveal itself. Such a clever and poignant way to know you are on track with the truth of all things, and such a uniquely individual way yet at the same time universal in it’s meaning and application. That sort of beauty in execution belongs only to the Soul.
In The Way of The Livingness, one is wise indeed – and ever-remembering of ‘The Fool’ who holds the capacity to be the open and ever-student of him/herself and Universal Laws.
Love it that you found your ‘key’ Annette – and with it, the realisation that there is no ‘mystery’ at all when we say yes once again to being re-united with God’s Love.
The archetype of ‘The Fool’ has been with humanity for a long time indeed. The thing is, is not ‘The Fool’ one who is actually open to their inner knowing and the absoluteness of truth available, at any time? The Fool is one who has not layered themselves with accumulated and regurgitated knowledge, and thus has the capacity to be open to the awareness that will lead to him (or her) no longer being ‘The Fool’ – and in the beginning stages of reconnecting to all that one truly is – but rather into the claimed Son of God, who yes, is that by virtue of living in accord to the Universal Laws which hold him. The way of living is yes, The Way of The Livingness, lived and embraced by those who are prepared to walk in accord with His Love and in the knowing of all this offers us, once again on this earth.
Great sharing Annette, I think we can all agree that we feel there is something that needs to be unlocked, and finding the key is part of the mystery, the fact is that we all have access to the key if we choose to live from what we innately know, and the inner knowing and ageless wisdom is there for us to connect too.
Aha – I have the key! Now, if I can only stop creating doors to unlock.
We cannot decode anything in life and translate what we do not understand without the key or the password of understanding what is first at play.
The Way of The Livingness is the true key back to our divine origins, the livingness of which we chose to descend from for the pursuit of creation.
With steadiness and a commitment to honesty and truth we naturally begin to live “The Way of The Livingness”, whether we are a student if Universal Medicine or not, doesn’t matter, this way of living is there in our world to be felt by all. Making it available for every single person, no one is exempt and everyone is equally able to access it, by the choices we each individually make.
‘How come we are living so far away from who we truly are? Why did we fall to live a life from self? Did we truly appreciate what we had and did everything possible to keep it that way? Obviously not but what happened for things to change?’ These are just some of the questions I have often pondered on but regardless of what has happened in the past I chose to separate from my soul and boy that has hurt and still does at times even though I know; ‘The Key’ is ‘The Way of The Livingness’.
I was watching a show recently where a guy was talking about an operation he’d had on his brain and there was a good chance he could die during surgery. He said to his family, if I make it through this I am going to embrace life to the fullest. He obviously made it through and in the documentary as he is relaying the story he is sitting there with a glass of wine in his hand. Is to embrace life to the fullest about just letting go and enjoying all indulgences – whether that includes a substance that we know harms us or another false idea? Many times we can get messages that alert us that there is much more to life than what we are living – it is up to us whether we choose these or not.
MW, maybe I watched the same show or another one years ago but I remember something similar. I’ve been considering this lately, how crazy it is that we wait for the big stop, I’m talking of some incurable illness or disease or accident etc., to start ‘living’ life or making changes that we’ve always felt to but have been too comfortable in what they offer us. It starts with us and ends with us.
So much great wisdom in this blog. It is ridiculous when you consider how aware and powerful we actually are and yet we play dumb to it and live in a way that pretends that we are not.
Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have handed out many many keys in their teachings and presentations with regards to the Ageless Wisdom. There has been zero holding back from them. However what I am clearly seeing and feeling more and more is now it is my part in this to live the truth of what I innately know within my body as you have shared ‘However, ‘The Key’ had not yet revealed itself clearly… or maybe it had and I just hadn’t lived the Wisdom enough to get the revelation.’ And the Ageless Wisdom is not just for one person or a few but for all and resides within all.
I too have been moved to tears Annette in re reading your sharing today. I wasn’t sure why it has affected me so much but it comes to me that indeed, at this time of upheaval in the World, it shows us The Way of The Livingness.
There is no need to delve deep and understand the mystery of life… love, God, truth are all simple by nature when we are connected to ourselves. Life does not need to be complicated when we bring it back to a moment by moment movement.
Beautifully said Simon, taking care of how we are in the present moment – bringing who we are in full to whatever task is at hand allows us to be with the simplicity of God, love, truth, harmony, stillness & joy.
Re reading this today was very powerful. The feeling that we all have something to share with humanity is palpable. It is also humbling to realise how much energy we put into ‘not knowing’ this innate truth. And how simple it can be if we accept and live from our divine power.
I love how you’ve unraveled the clear message that was given to you and for sure the key is The Way of The Livingness, our true religion.
Perhaps the ultimate foolishness is to step away from God and allow a source of energy to run our lives that is loveless, yet tell ourselves we are in control!
Thank you Annette for sharing your message, it is great after all the years you had never forgotten those words but have at last come to reveal the mystery, and the key being The Way of The Livingness, the way back to ourselves and heaven.
Through The Way of The Livingness we are able to bring to life, and live through our every day, the qualities of our inner-most being, the light of who we are, where there are no mysteries as all is known when we live in connection with the oneness of our Soul.
The Way of The Livingness is the gateway to the wonders and wisdom of the Universe, we all have accessibility to this and it just starts with a simple choice to connect and live from our inner hearts.
Love this Annette, and the fact your Soul always knew. The key was within all along, just cloaked by the ‘forgotten fool’. The living way of love is key.
One of the miracles in this story is how the words in the message you received were never forgotten.
For me, the key and the door represent a new paradigm and stepping up to a greater level of awareness, which definitely comes from me being a student of ‘The Way of The Livingness’.
Thank you Annette for sharing your message and its meaning with us, The Way of The Livingness is certainly the key that unlocks the entrance to the divine inner heart that lives unacknowledged within every human being until we are fooled no longer.
This blog brings a tear to my eye Annette. I especially love the way you explain your understanding that this very personal message was also for all. The Way of the Livingness has helped me to understand that each and every person on the planet offers me a reflection and an opportunity to choose love.
Yes, The Way of The Livingness certainly opens the door to heaven or back to our true selves so it makes sense to call it a key which sounds better than saying the door handle to the mystery of the forgotten fool 😉
Maybe it is not even a door so key is probably even more accurate as there is nowhere to go, we are already everything!
It is true we have been fooled, we have let our spirit take us for a ride, our comfort and pride have stopped us from accepting truth when it is presented to us. Looking back I am able to see the intricate web that is cast through our emotions, our comfort, and our pride to name but a few, that have kept us trapped in the merry go round of life.
Annette,
Your sharing brings great wisdom, for in receiving such a clear message, that you know was important and that one day understanding would be there is in itself significant. Every human being has the potential to let go of the “forgotten fool” and again claim their soul self, to be their living way (The Way Of The Livingness). The absolute support that is always with us to bring us back again to the truth of ourselves cannot be ignored when it is delivered in this way.
It is misleading to suggest that religion should be mysterious, and in this regard, we have been fooled by what mainstream has offered us. Christianity refers to the mystery of God, and Buddhism to the mystery of enlightenment. Yet the truth is – if there is a God – then there should be a pathway to understanding his nature by observing human life. Revelation should be simple, not enshrouded in some unattainable mystery that leaves us detached from any hope of understanding the truth about our origins.
So true Adam. I hadn’t considered this before. Why on earth has religion always been something that many of us just haven’t understood….or been able to make sense of. Perhaps it’s all part of the design, to keep us under an illusion that we are not enough and therefore keeping us separated from the all.
The Way of The Livingness is the key offered to us all and this is unlocking an eternal journey for us until we choose to fully return to our sacred connection to soul and God.
‘However, ‘The Key’ had not yet revealed itself clearly… or maybe it had and I just hadn’t lived the Wisdom enough to get the revelation.’ Reading about wisdom in a book is one thing but living it for oneself is another thing altogether. It is not about following a list of shoulds and shouldn’ts but rather opening to a new way of being and allowing space for our own inner truth to emerge. It is about connecting back to soul and learning to trust ourselves again.
Beautiful and truly humbling – like with all the past choices of creation / drive , it is okay to admit that we have separated big time from union, love and brotherhood. But now it is up to us how easily we let go, our own choices do that. And so, everyone should be given the choice, which is the case, to heal and clear that which is causing the separation to continue further. Until this is done by all there will be no universal union.
How awesome is that, that 26 years later you have not only understood the message but are living it. The key is how we live, if we live in accordance to truth. How can we do this? By knowing and understanding The Way of The Livingness and living these ageless wisdom teachings everyday to the best of our ability. I have been a student of Universal Medicine, the Ageless Wisdom teachings and The Way of The Livingness now for some years and although my life and health have turned around, for the better, completely I know there is always another deeper level of love to be lived. It is never ending.
“The Forgotten Fool’, I had begun to understand, was the human being living by the drive of the Spirit, rather than by the impulse of the Soul. The human being was the ‘Forgotten Fool’ because it had lost its way and forgotten its true origins….” As you say the key to the forgotten fool is The Way of the Livingness – returning to soul – beautiful, profound, simple.
Love it – simple and profound. A riddle no more.
Great sharing Annette, the key to the mystery of the forgotten fool = the Ageless Wisdom. I love it. The wisdom that can be found within each and everyone of us.. We have the key we simply need to connect to our deep wisdom and no longer indulge in playing the fool.
So much simplicity, truth and wisdom expressed here in your blog Annette. Thank you for sharing your powerful journey of self awareness to find the key; The Way of the Livingness.
I love this Annette, that the key is ‘the livingness’, there is so much in life that we are not taking responsibility for. The way in which society has progressed to, it is full of people, communities and even governments putting their heads in the sand, thinking that if they stay there long enough it will all blow over and we will be alright. But that is not the case, we are needing to take more responsibility for ‘how’ we are living, the livingness.
Thank you Annette, how beautiful for you and all of us to find the key in the Way of the Livingness that unlocks for us the truth of who we truly are. amazing and divine sons of God.
‘The Key’ is ‘The Livingness’. Well said Annette and very true, I can relate to being the forgotten fool and thankfully I also discovered ‘the key’ that can unlock and deliver great wisdom, love and joy when we choose to listen and embrace this truth everyday.
‘The Key’ has to be something for everyone, not just for me’. This is a very deep truth and a key in itself. The answer to life is something that applies to everyone equally – not just one or a few. True wisdom. The moment we make something about ourselves we disconnect ourselves from the ‘key’. The Livingness is a way that is for all.
This blog resonates very deeply with me for its simplicity, its honesty and humility. One day, on my way home from London, the train I was on stopped at Clapham Junction. As I looked at the station clock it read 22:22:22 but in that moment it was as if time stood still – as if the clock was waiting for me to ‘clock’ it. For me, this was one of those moments – a communication that was saying ‘there is more’. It was a time in my life when I was starting to feel something deeper at play – that it is not just a random accident – that everything is part of something greater. I too felt aware that there was no need to pursue an answer to this communication but could feel that it was part of an unfolding awareness that would and will present its truth to me if I continue to listen and observe. And it has done so. And there is more. And the Way of the Livingness is that more.
I have experienced clear messages like this in my life, what I love is that you never gave up or comprised on getting an answer for the satisfaction of getting an answer, you waited for it to unfold itself and the truth presented in time, simple and true and I think we can all relate to being a forgotten fool at one time or another.
Yes, Annette, I can feel that the key for me is the Livingness as it is integral in reconnecting me back to my essence and a life of simplicity and brotherhood and we have foolishly over thousands of years denied the simple truths being offered to us and have made individualism and recognition the gods we have sought.
The door to the Ageless Wisdom has always been open to all and The Way of The Livingness is the way to find our way back home to the glory that we foolishly forgot when we chose to shut the door on Universal Love.
So cool – this blog reminds me that we always have the key, and we can choose when we use it, we can wait 25 years, or 100 years, or we can use it now.
Beautiful Annette, for you to have received this message and to have held on to it for so long until one day the mystery was revealed and the key unlocked for you and for us “The way of The Livingness” the way back to Soul to brotherhood, to love, unity and equality for us all.
I do enjoy reads like this.
Many are searching for a deeper meaning to life and are feeling the tension and unease of how it is we live today. I was one of those people but upon finding the teachings of the ageless wisdom I know that this is the key to how we are to live, what our purpose is here. “The way of the livingness” is it for me, for everyone.
Very true Kristy. How often are we bamboozled by the pictures of how we want things to be and not listening and surrendering to the Souls truth? Letting go of control.
“The one key that fits all”. l love the truth of that. lt is worth repeating.
Right on Annette! l couldn’t agree with you more. My life has changed so much since the way of the Livingness was introduced to me.
My days feel more genuine, magical and real.
There’s no comparison except to say the difference is black and white. All for the better, greater and more glorious me.
Annette, such simplicity in these words but bucket loads of truth. I have also discovered that the Key for me is also to live in the Livingness which is a continual unfoldment of life for me.
I agree Anne, Annette has shared a beautiful and simple reminder with a lot of truth and wisdom for us all.
Yes it is the way forward for me also.
The way of the Livingness has allowed me to unlock the mystery of me and each day l go deeper. As l commit more deeply l begin to feel humanity more also and l am allowing love more thoroughly into my life. There has been no other path as profoundly simple and true, that has included the all.
Beautiful Irena, I agree, simplicity of living true to ourselves bares no comparison to all the other versions that do not, I could not now ever turn my back on this Love again.
Marion, you have nailed it – Simplicity is the way of the soul and complexity is the way of the spirit – this is a dead giveaway to us living as the forgotten fool or us living the way of the Livingness.
I agree Roslyn, it is a message to be shared for all. And how amazing that Annette was been so open and receptive at 17 and never forgot this message so that she could now share it with us all – shows how important a part we all play in this world, each of us is a piece in God’s puzzle.
When we can really appreciate ourselves and what we bring we can truly bring so much healing to every area of our lives.
Appreciation is key as is appreciation of self – and thank you Irene for reminding me of this in particular this morning!
Annette, this is a blog that is a revelation in all its simplicity and wonder. Reading it has opened up a few “Aha!” moments for me. I too can relate to the part of having been the ‘fool’ and lived with and making false choices, unconsciously and at times consciously. And with immense appreciation I can stand where I stand today having dropped much of the foolishness. But in reading your blog and in particular the way you have written it, I could see that whilst I too allowed myself to be fooled for so long in the way I live, and though I am free of this form of foolishness to a large degree (and here thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and the amazing support) there is still an element of me being fooled in thinking I am completely free of the foolishness whilst I hold any judgement of another brother ‘fooled’ or still within the grapleholds of forgetfullness. For the moment that I do not allow any understanding nor compassion for a brother, I too return to the pool of fools that are no lesser in importance only greater in forgetfulness. Thank you Annette for this revelation, that supports me to remember more deeply so who I am and why we are here.
Awesome revelation Henrietta. Your humility is inspiring. We are forever learning and deepening. When we think we’ve got it, that’s the bottom of the next magic mountain.
This is a beautifully written blog – how lovely to receive those words and to be led to the answer Annette in complete knowing that it was for everyone equally so. Divinity lives inside us all and it speaks in a myriad of ways, thank you for sharing.
All of this wisdom is available to us. We are the fools that have searched everywhere except within ourselves. It is a powerful message Annette. How beautiful to be ready to receive it and that this is a truth for all. It is time to let go of the pride that holds us away and to embrace the love and joy that we are.
I can agree that the The Way of The Livingness is is the key of life that exposes all that we are not, and brings all that is of truth. Thank you for receiving and remembering this riddle Annette “The Key to the Mystery of The Forgotten Fool”, beautiful.
..and with that, any door we’ve ever faced, held ourselves behind, or felt we couldn’t open, are unlocked and able to be walked through. Thank you Annette, I love that you held the key for so long, even without knowing exactly where it fit.
Beautifully described Giselle. Each moment is a doorway to truth and we have a choice and so much support from our soul if we call on it.
The key to exposing the forgotten fool is definitely the Way of the Livingness. Mystery solved! Beautiful blog Annette.
It is all about the way we live every single day, the Way of the Livingness is the key for me too, always.
Thank you Annette for sharing your message for humanity and sharing the journey to finding the Key, The Way of /the Livingness, as presented by Serge Benhayon.
Beautifully said Annette – the wisdom and power of The Way of the Livingness is key to living a life that is truly loving.
I now know it’s the key but upon reading this Annette it’s emphasized even more just HOW important the Way of the Livingness is – it’s everything.
It is very beautiful to note that you as a young woman received a message that changed your life and you knew it had that potential. Many others might have discounted it as gobbledygook.
So true Suzanne, if we only would listen to the messages from the Soul we would find that they are endless. Our soul is constantly communicating with us
Thank you Annette, a deeply profound article revealing ‘The Key’ and you are oh so right that this is ‘The Way of The Livingness’! Thank you for sharing your journey and being the inspiration you are!
Annette what a profound line to receive and how much more powerfull and complete it has become now that you have found the ‘key’, the ‘livingness’.
Annette this is beautiful, thank you for sharing. Connecting to the Ageless Wisdom we all know is an awesome journey. Having the key, the key is our Livingness to support us in this journey has been possible thanks to Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon, for sharing The way of the Livingness with us all . The power of the Ageless Wisdom should not be under estimated.
Goosebumpingly gorgeous Annette: ‘The key to the mystery of the forgotten fool’ – I love this and it makes perfect sense. In regard to the riddle factor, I have often wondered why wise people speak in riddles, only to realise that they don’t…it is us who listen in riddles. That is, they don’t talk funny, we listen funny, for as you say: “…like all things with the Ageless Wisdom – it is so simple.” And if we cannot see this then it is an indication of the complication we have allowed to be in us.
Annette thank you for sharing your riddle with us, and the decoding process you went through. I would say it was a very beautiful gift to receive, and confirmation of the truth of Serge Benhayons teachings of The Ageless Wisdom.
Annette, I love this blog. It reveals the truth that we have and make choices all throughout our life and with these we can either connect to the endless source of wisdom that connects everyone or be locked into always searching for more and living in a way where we have lost our connection to that which unites us all. I had always been fascinated by the word ‘soul’. I even read books on it, but none re-connected me to the fact that my soul is with me in every breath I take. The ageless wisdom through Universal Medicine not only re-introduced me to my soul, but showed me how I could. This to me has been a very precious re-discovery.
‘I knew, about what, I didn’t.’ The philosophical depth of these words Annette are so heavenly given. Since attending Universal Medicine presentations I have been reminded that we are in fact divine, all knowing beings, and we choose to be ignorant of this. One of the ways I have been coming round to understand this is by seeing just how clever, calculated and masterful I can be at sabotaging myself and creating my own misery and issues. In fact it was easier to accept this than it was to accept my divinity but I can’t actually accept one without accepting the other. So these words about us knowing but choosing not to know are not so much a riddle to me thanks to Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon, although I still give ‘not knowing’ a really good run for its money.
As I was reading your comment Deanne, I could feel the sadness of knowing that we are (all) divine and we choose to be ignorant of that. Despite this our soul is always there, reminding us everyday that it is waiting for us to choose to re-connect, so that we can see that we are so much more that we ever thought we were.
Living separate to the glorious love we truly are, is like a masquerade party where everyone forgets to take off the mask and continue to live as they are not. I can understand how all the foolish things that go on in this world are born from this separation.
Great story to share Annette, love it. When we open to the posibility of love and true love at that and begin to let go of all else, we find the ‘key’, the key to freedom and heaven on earth.
Gorgeous Annette. There are a few riddles that I have never been able to solve and they are a source of frustration. Great that you could solve your riddle after so long! My unsolved riddles will not bring as much wisdom as this should I ever solve them 🙂
This riddle is so gorgeous because it exposes the fact that it is never too late to choose Love as our living way and reconnect back with our Soul. No matter when we choose, the doors to heaven will always remain open for us.
Answers to these riddles of life are available to us all, through The Way of the Livingness but as you described Annette, maybe “..I just hadn’t lived the Wisdom enough to get the revelation.”
Annette I absolutely love that you talk about something which is for all equally, that is universally applicable. To me that is the measure of a true message from the One Soul. How beautiful, inspiring and unifying is your message – that everyone is or has been a ‘forgotten fool’ and everyone can find their way back to the truth of who they are via the ‘Way of the Livingness’ and what a gift that we all can choose to have Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine to present it to us.
The energy of what is being presented is getting stronger and so in order to resist, our behaviours are getting more extreme. People are getting sicker, more aggressive, and eating more in order to avoid feeling the impact of their choices – it is a cycle of self-abuse that is causing great harm to our own bodies, and yet many of us avoid the simple self-loving choices that can unlock our lives forever and allow the love that is there to be felt.
One of the ways we have fooled ourselves is by thinking we are getting away with our behaviour – by how we eat, how we sleep and how we travel – here’s a great blog that talks about the arrogance of how we disregard the consequences of how we are living
http://medicineandsergebenhayon.com/2013/07/10/getting-away-with-it/
Beautiful, clear and simple -the key to unlock our hearts and re-turn back to the love we are from lies in the livingness, the choices we make and the choice to stop and re-connect to our bodies.
I understand from this that there are many different ways that humanity has fooled itself and that each one of us, with our individual livingness is helping to unlock the mystery for all of humanity, each individual expression contributes to the whole.
The Way of the Livingness has brought much simplicity to my life, and this I continue to appreciate.
Wow, I love this. So simple. So powerful and so worth the wait. Thank you so much for posting this…just like the Way of the Livingness itself, it is a profound revelation.
Annette, thank so much, a wonderful read. The Way of the Livingness is the Key that unlocks the door to the place where we realise keys are not necessary as there are no doors, no barriers, no partitions, no separation, no fooling!
I am responsible for how and if I understand the Ageless Wisdom. Serge Benhayon is the presenter, but to unlock it is my way. That’s so beautifully reflected by your miraculous story. Thank you.
Well said Felix. We are the only ones who can do the unlocking. I have huge, huge levels of appreciation for the presentation of the truth and for being handed the keys, but it is my job to actually unlock what is there to be unlocked.
There is now way to forget the gorgeous jewel of wisdom you have expressed here Annette. Thank you.
Great Sharing Annette! Thank you!
Thank you Annette for sharing these inspiring and life affirming words. Today I will – Live in a way that meets, re-connects and practices deeply loving self and then loving of all others.
Recently my wife read a quote to me from Henry Thoreau and it said: “How vain it is to sit down and write when you have not stood up and lived.” It is through the way we live that the truth about all things is revealed – or not, of course.
Yes its about living life Adam and not being afraid to make mistakes or stumble.
Thank you Annette sharing this truth, The key back to our divine origin is The Way of the Livingness.
Annette yes the key is the Way of the Livingness that is impulsed from love that is inside us all.
This is beautiful Annette as it exposes that our life is a product of our choices to seperate from our soul and that the key to our joy is connecting back to ourselves through our daily choices and expressing that within the world. I too feel like I am beginning to truly understand that the quality I am in and choices I choose to make are reflected in the world and it is my Livingness that can either harm or offer healing and evolution. Beautiful!
A wonderful account of decoding the riddle you were given – the simplicity of the answer is beautiful, ‘The Way of the Livingness’.
What a great revelation Annette and I love the steps that you presented which gave clarity to the key. The Livingness – of course! No longer the forgotten fool.
Yes, funny that, that it was prompting me at 17, no doubt at 8 and 26 too, and every other day of every year in between too! Our Soul NEVER leaves us, it just leaves us signs.
Could it be that we want to forget our divine origins? That is incredibly foolish.
Yes, we conveniently forget what we can’t bear to remember – that we are love but have not lived it for so long.
Thanks Annette, Its amazing how much wisdom our soul can access when we are ready to to be open for it to come in.
Thank you Annette – i love how your soul dropped this to you as you already knew where you were heading – back to the livingness.
I love those moments in the past where we can recognise our soul dropping in. Even in the misty fog of being lost, the soul finds a way in.
Yes Nikki – always pulling us back to return.
A simple and powerfull blog – Thank You Annette.
I love the bit you write about “how did we get here?”
I have often wondered in the past, what was all this earth life about because from my angle it was pretty meaningless and definately all too complicated.
It was only AFTER I came across the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom as presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine did things start to become clear and make sense. I knew I had come to the real Truth about humanity because it gave me answers to questions I had all my life and it was simple. Anything simple and I love it as I don’t have to use my head to work it out.
I remember when I first started attending presentations by Universal Medicine. There were definitely things my mind didn’t quite get or understand. But what was interesting I didn’t have push to know. I simply new that I would understand in my own time. This has been so different to how I was before hand, pushing myself from pillar to post to make sense of what I saw around me and have no real understanding. I’m with you Bina I love the simplicity of The Agless Wisdom and because of the simplicity it is there available to all.
I absolutely love this blog, it is so clear and supportive, I feel like I have been ‘cracking’ a code, as in what does this all mean…life? Once I moved from my head to my body regarding how I experience and live life, a whole heap of clarity has come my way. The ‘key’ as you say is in the ‘livingness’. Thank you for your enormous sharing.
Thank you, Annette, for reminding us that we are receiving messages all the time – reading and understanding them and sharing with others is part of our livingness and the way of communication.
Love this Annette, thank you for your awesome wisdom shared. I agree that The Way of the Livingness is the key, the way to return to the waywardness of the ‘forgotten fool’ to the realisation that we are the equally divine Sons of God.
This blog supports connection with one’s self, and so with all, so deeply, The words are precious and the tools explained beautifully. I began looking after myself more, and I did so because I felt like I had enough of feeling tired, bloated, anxious etc, but I had no awareness then that I would be finding the ‘key’ that allowed me to access a deep wisdom that has always been there. But it has occurred, and I am learning that this truly does come for being self loving and caring in my day.
It was such a gift to find this blog Annette. Sometimes I struggle to make a choice that is true but you show just how foolish it is to choose anything that is not love.
This is great Annette, there is so much wisdom in your words and I totally agree, that the key is the Way of the Livingness. That’s the way true change occurs.
Thank you Annette for sharing this message that is clearly for us all. Beautiful how you’ve been able to de-code these important words that you took 26! years with you in your life . I know for sure you are not a forgotten fool any longer, you are embracing the Livingness in an awesome way.
‘The Key to The Mystery of The Forgotten Fool’ is ‘The Way of The Livingness’.
This is awesome Annette and you have explained it with such clarity and simplicity. The way we choose to live will either keep us in the role of fool or we can choose to connect to our divine nature and align with our soul.
Thank you Annette for your amazing revelation of how we return to whom we truly are, Soul. With such clear directions one is able to find the ‘path of return’ from our very wayward journey into the ‘spiritual plane’.
AAhh….The Key to The Mystery of The Forgotten Fool’ is ‘The Way of The Livingness’. Thank you Annette. Simplicity, the essence of great wisdom.
I loved reading your blog, Annette, and how you solved your riddle. ‘what happened for us to break away from our truth, to be living a life that was not as it was originally intended, a life that was so complicated and at times meaningless?’. Beautifully explains why so many of us have felt ‘out of sorts’ in our lives. However, we are all being, and always have been, lovingly guided back onto the ‘right path’, to return to our truth. It’s up to us, through our choices, how long it will take us to get there.
Such a very powerful blog Annette. As I was reading I realised, that I too had always been looking for The Key, as there was a part of me that knew there was one, and I also realised how many times I had been fooled into thinking that I had found it. It was not until I was introduced to Universal Medicine that I knew that I had finally found The Key, but it has still taken many years to figure out how to use it. Now with The Way of the Livingness presentations I am learning to unravel the mysteries that have always puzzled me, and it is becoming so clear that the more I live The Way, the more I know, and the mysteries are mysteries no longer.
I love how you have shared here Ingrid about the many times when you think you have found the key, only to then realise that you were fooled.
What comes to my mind then is the shame we have in this realisation … “Oh No, I have been fooled again” and how hard we can be on ourselves rather than treat ourselves like a baby who is learning to walk, and not worry about it, and get right back up on our two feet and try again. We are never failures, but always learning. Some take the long scenic route, some more direct but all equal in the end.
Yes Rosie I can relate to the shame of “how did I let myself get fooled – again?” Another big one for me has been embarrassment – “what will people think of me?”. And what you said is so true, for all of us to continually remember: “We are never failures, but always learning” – something to remind ourselves whenever we stumble and fall; that’s how a baby learns to walk, they just pick themselves up and off they go again.
Me too, I have been on quite a search in my life, looking for ‘the key’ (truth), feeling that something was missing and not quite right….at some moments I thought I found it, but then to realize soon that the key was not really fitting, that it still did not make sense. But then Universal Medicine and the way of the livingness came on my path and within one second, everything made sense. I found the key and this key has been with me for many years now and will be for the rest of my life.
Thank you Annette for the simple answer in decoding ‘The Key To The Mystery Of The Forgotten Fool” – The Way Of The Livingness’.
‘Deep and meaningful’ conversations with people reveal that many people have experiences like this, Annette, and are generally unwilling to share them for fear of being thought a fool ! Thanks for sharing this mystery story, that shows how there is a part of us that knows much more than we think we do, and drops little breadcrumbs for us to follow to find answers to life’s mysteries. I feel that an honest search will lead back to the Ageless Wisdom, which has always been there for us and always will be. To find it again alive and being practiced by Universal Medicine, as the Way of the Livingness, has brought all my past mystery messages into the light of understanding.
‘Deep and meaningful’, words that I have found many people avoid Dianne, because they bring up the beautiful mystery of life, and expose the ‘box’ many live in so they don’t have to look at those little breadcrumbs that leave a trail for us to follow.
This is so beautiful and confirms that we all receive messages all of the time to help set us and humanity on our path back to our true origins.
Absolutely Mary, and what huge fun it is to choose to see and hear those messages. I remember loving advent calendars as a child, particularly the ones with chocolate inside, but now every day is December, because if I choose, each is full of opportunities to open that little window, and see a picture and receive a gift. Its just now the pictures are real, and the gifts are not chocolates, but are say, seeing the stillness of a deer in the woods, and knowing without any doubt why it is there at that moment, or understanding the messages shown to me by birds in my garden. Whilst this is such fun, it is also way more than that. It helps me make sense of day to day life, and to understand that my life is not separate and distinct, certainly not from nature, but is part of a way bigger picture.
Yes, very true Lee, we all receive messages all of the time, but we often dismiss them rather than decode them and read them for what they are.
Thank you for taking all the years to decode this one Annette.
Gorgeous.
Some don’t even know that there is a mystery to life at all…. So many have ‘forgotten’ what true living is really like. But you put it so simply Annette, the key that we choose every moment to behold the quality of life we would like. Thank you
Yes Joshua so many have “forgotten” what true living really is and I agree that Annette put it into simple words to let everyone feel where to go . . .
I agree Joshua, many don’t even know that there is a mystery to life. For the one’s that do know ‘the key’ as Annette so simply described, well it’s up to us to express The Livingness so others can start unlocking their keys.
True Annette, and as ‘forgotten fools’ every human being holds a deep and innate wisdom within them, just waiting to be accessed. The Way of the Livingness most definitely is this key to remind us of all that we are. Thank you
Thank you Annette, I love the simplicity of this sharing and profound message for us all. The key is in our livingness and the more we commit to this loving way of living the more we tap into the divinity of who we are.
It is wonderful to read about a mystery truth unfolding for you. The Way of the Livingness presents to us on so many levels and in ways that at first may not make sense but when the love is connected to, the truth is able to reveal itself.
Wow what a facinating blog, it’s like hearing wise words from history that has such a deep meaning that you need to sit with and ponder on. I really enjoy this blog and the mystical feeling it has, thank you
Thank you for sharing this insight Annette. It is amazing how we can receive and feel something as profound without knowing the full meaning of it for some time. The ageless wisdom is simple, clear and profound.
You share something here so supportive and profound for humanity and you do so through your experience and being aware “And so it finally revealed itself very clearly to me, as clearly as that first message, that ‘The Key’ is ‘The Livingness’.” I have been learning to live ‘The Way of the Livingness’ and have become aware that the ‘key’ is there for all, and I am learning it is simple rather than complicated although I had been telling myself this for so many years.
Livingness is the key, one which anyone can choose to have and unlock the illusions we have chosen. All then starts to become clear and simple. Thank you Anette your blog has just presented the greatest gift humanity can ever have.
Awesome Annette, I agree in full the key to life is The Way of the Livingness! My life has returned to one of simplicity and love by making the choice moment to moment to live in connection to my essence. I learnt how to re-connect to my innate wisdom through the teachings of Universal Medicine and the inspiration of how Serge Benhayon lives.
Wow awesome Annette. That was quite incredible to read and very interesting to here about what it meant… It actually makes sense.
I love this blog. It feels like something out of medieval scriptures.
Reading this blog left me with feeling so joyful because of knowing that the way we as human beings live is often not its true way like you said: “The human being was the ‘Forgotten Fool’ because it had lost its way and forgotten its true origins – that of the One Soul”
Thank you Annette. This is a beautiful confirmation that the wisdom and truth is in every cell of our bodies just waiting to be released. Allow and the unfolding of the wisdom is there and will make itself known.
‘The Key to The Mystery of The Forgotten Fool’ is ‘The Way of The Livingness’. Mind blown and heart open, is what this has done.
I love stories like this – that show we’ve had access to our soul and our livingness for our whole life, and it’s always just been a choice away.
Wow, how beautiful that you received this message and that you de-coded it through the ancient wisdom, the lovely thing is that it was not complicated but really simple. ‘And so twenty six years after receiving that message I have the answer, and like all things with the Ageless Wisdom – it is so simple.’
Wow! Beautiful blog Annette! Your blog reminded me very strongly when I was 17 (the number is not coincidence here). Suddenly, from no where, I started feeling a very strong need to be still, to avoid distractions, to be present. I can remember how beautiful was to be in the bathroom and just be with me and how soothing the stillness was in my body. It created space. It is funny how the esoteric work allowed me to go back to that which felt very true in my body and to deepen it. What was also interesting is that I knew how beautiful this was but for many years I did not go there, I was only content with the knowing I could go there.
We all need to know this information “The Forgotten Fool’, I had begun to understand, was the human being living by the drive of the Spirit, rather than by the impulse of the Soul. The human being was the ‘Forgotten Fool’ because it had lost its way and forgotten its true origins – that of the One Soul; and a ‘Fool’ because it had been taken for a ride, and for a fool! ” What Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine present is so important and of great value to us all.