by Jane Torvaney, Scotland
Last night when I came home from work I took a cup of tea out and sat in the garden. As I looked around me, taking in the vibrant colours of the flowers and their different shapes and sizes, I witnessed the ease with which they interacted with nature. The wind was blowing ever so gently, causing ripples of movement across their delicate leaves and petals. An abundance of insects were busy in the soil beneath and flies, bees and beautiful butterflies were flying around, sometimes choosing to land and explore the surface of the leaves or, in the case of bees, venturing deeper into the heart of the bloom in search of pollen.
I remembered how back in early springtime I planted some tiny seeds wondering what would emerge later in the year. At the time I could feel the potential in the seeds, everything was there ready, the beautiful flower was already within the seed, its amazing colour and shape patiently waiting to get out and express itself and interact with all around it.
All that was needed for it to grow and blossom was the nurturing sun, the soil and water.
As I sat in the garden last night I thought about how it is for us as human beings. How, just like the seed we too are born complete with everything already inside us. We are simply bundles of love expressing who we are within the world.
This love never ever leaves us, but whether we grow up holding it tight in a bud or whether, like our flowers, we allow it to blossom, depends on our choices – our choice to nurture ourselves truly and deeply, our choice to say yes to life and our choice to commit to it fully with all the love we know we are and always have been….. a choice to grow our own Love!
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To live the fullness of love should be very normal for us all, unfortunately this has not been the case for many people so it is awesome when we claim and live this every day as it offers a powerful reflection that inspires many.
That is true. What we are in essence is truly amazing and we only need to remember it, not make any changes to remember it.
Love how beautifully described that moment observing flowers and bees running around Jane. It feels like a a very innocent and open way to approach life, not from the knowing from the ‘adult’ perspective, but from the being who observes and feels the quality of lightness, absolute order and stillness that Nature reflects to us.
Such a great analogy. We are born with the same love equally. How we grow this love is equally on offer. Some may have harder soil to reach the sun light this life, others may find the soil soft and giving. But all are given the same within the seed. A spark of the divine ready to shine.
There is a beautiful acceptance in this article of the way life is for each and every person and how, there really is no judgement that can be made of a person’s path. Because whether the flower is held tightly or let to be open and blossom, it still has come from a seed which contains the all.
True – this love never leaves us, and potential is our birthright, but activation is our responsibility.
Love can grow. We can make it grow. Knowing this, changes everything and reveals in full the extent to which we are in the driver’s seat of life.
A great reminder that we are already love but it requires focus and support and an intimacy (attention to detail) to support ourselves to blossom.
Beautiful Jane, from the seed nurtured we continue to blossom.
Just like flowers, we don’t have to try to blossom or grow into anything – it’s a natural unfolding process. We will only hinder it if we try.
A great reminder that we are born complete, the outside packaging will grow and will learn how to function in its new home but we are born from love, made from love and connected to love without strings attached. We are free to choose what we choose and therefore we have responsibility and accountability as well. What are we nurturing our seed of love with?
Thank you Jane, this touched me deeply, I found the analogy of the seed perfect to describe the bundles of love we are born as, and that as we grow and mature we can decide to hold it all in like the tightly held bud, or let it all out like a flower open and radiant in its own beauty. There is a preciousness to realising we are love, and to the care we can give ourselves to grow and expand this love. We are like gardeners of the soul, nurturing and caring for this precious gift of love within, and caring for the body that acts as it’s vehicle.
It supports us to water and take great care of the seed that we are. Being hard and pouring scorn on it will make it wither. Loving understanding rather than harsh judgement will cause it – us – to blossom.
What a beautiful moment in time you have shared Jane, one in which it was so clear that taking the time to stop and observe what nature is offering us, is not just about the beauty around us but also the beauty within us.; our love. Nature is certainly a messenger not to ignore, or we may miss out on something rather grand.
I love coming back to this blog and feeling the beauty, preciousness and simplicity that is on offer all the time. We can squeeze this awareness and appreciation out of our lives in all our doingness and then we lose the joy to be had in every moment.
Yes, numbing ourselves comes with a heavy price – not being able to feel beauty and love.
Your words Jane are incredibly empowering in the sense that we don’t need to look for love outside of ourselves from someone else, but have all we need already there waiting to connect to. So this negates the belief that we need to find ‘the right person’ out there to match up with and fulfil us or make us complete somehow. But just as you stated, the seed already has everything it needs to grow from the beginning.
So true Felix, we focus on the weeds and then we miss how truly amazing we are, learning to appreciate ourselves is key to this.
We fall for the false pictures that another will fulfill us with love and then we will live happily ever after, but if we chose to live and build a solid foundation of self-love, we will experience a greater version of love that doesn’t need another to complete us.
What a beautiful and gentle reminder that as human beings we are “born complete with everything already inside us.” All we need to do is to deeply nurture this ‘everything’ just as we would a seed that we have planted as it slowly grows into the plant it is to be. And from this nurturing and loving of our ‘seed’ we will inexorably grow into the glorious being that we naturally are.
Our choice to nurture ourselves and say yes to love, why would we choose anything different? But we have, in the past, because we have the free will to choose whatever we want. I love the flow of your blog Jane, and it feels very gorgeous to choose Love this time around.
Love and simplicity come hand in hand – our love is so simple for it is just there – within us, all around us – it is us. We create all sorts complications to avoid and forget what we ever so simply are.
Be watered with love and we blossom, water another with love and they blossom.
A choice to let out all the love we already are, to blossom and share with all.
I’ve always loved the analogy of how a plant grows from a tiny seed, I agree we have the same abundance of potential that is inside us always, we simply need to nurture it, love it, commit to it and say yes to it.
What a beautiful blog – observing nature and really seeing it for what it is. In the past when I used to live in the UK, I use to take nature for granted, loving the spring and summer and disliking the winter. But I now have stop moments and truly observe what is being offered. It might be a leaf that falls in my path or a shadow of the leafless tree – its beautiful what God offers to us. And everything that is outside is within us and more if we choose to.
A beautiful analogy for us all, thank you for sharing Jane. Brings the importance of self-responsibility to the fore understanding that the quality of life we live stems from our choices and not by accident.
This is a sweet lullaby to read and let it wash all over you, confirming you in the warmth and love that is within, inviting it to be what comes out and is shared. Thank you Jane.
Everything in life is a reflection and we can take a very beautiful message from seeds knowing that everything is indeed inside us all and that we cannot underestimate the power of our body. Even though we are very small, in comparison to the stars, planets and universe – we still house all of that wisdom and access to that multidimensional intelligence in and through the body.
The blossoming of a flower is dependent on the soil in which it grows. An attentive gardener will know exactly what to do to ensure such beauty is made visible to the world.
Nicely put Liane. An attentive gardener knows the value.
As I felt a glimpse of the love that was there inside me, which had always been there but I chose to not see, when I was introduced to Serge Benhayon many years ago I desperately wanted to hold onto it when I got home. I had been offered a reflection that I had not come across before in this life and an opportunity to change my ways that did not support me. Ever since it made me realise that to grow my own love and become aware and discard what was getting in the way so I could live love was the greatest gift I could offer myself and others.
Ah I love this little piece of insight and analogy. It is all there, inside of us all, waiting to ‘blossom’ and the quality of care we take with this consistently will either support the fullness to shine or not.
“just like the seed we too are born complete with everything already inside us.” And as we grow we are our own gardeners responsible for keeping us cared for, watered and free of weeds so that we can feel the light and warmth of the Sun to bloom in our full glory.
We become so beguiled by what is around us – and that can include nature itself – that we forget what lies within us, waiting to be expressed.
It is actually irresponsible to not love ourselves. Sounds crazy and one may think that whether they love themselves or not does not impact on anyone else but the truth is it definitely does as how we are with ourselves is how we are with all else.
Making space in the body for love comes through self-care, it fosters a daily foundation through which love can be present.
Each and every person born has within them a core of love. Our lives and our alignment to (or not to) that love determine our daily experience.
“How, just like the seed we too are born complete with everything already inside us.”
This is such a truth, yet so many are not offered it in their growing, learning and the general process of life. The more we talk about our essence and the divinity held within, the more our world will begin to adjust and remember the beauty held in every person.
You have painted such a beautiful and serene picture Jane; I could feel myself there with you. Nature never ceases to amaze me; just when you think you have seen it all it still is able to surprise you. And the most amazing thing is that it knows what to do, repeating itself from one cycle to the next. It is the best classroom ever if we stop and take the time, like you did, to sit and observe.
Thank you Jane for such a simple and beautiful reminder ‘to grow your own love’, when we are responsible for building and deepening the love for ourselves we are rewarded back in many different ways.
Quite simply, love is the soil we grow from, the rain that nourishes and the sun that we instinctively turn to.
Beautiful Simon – to live with this acknowledgement is knowing how supported we are by nature and everything it brings – and in turn this brings a deeper surrender and joy to how we can live.
It really is that simple to grow our own love Jane! But we also seem to make hard work of it at times. Thank you for reminding us of this.
“a choice to grow our own love!” I love this Jane, as we have so many opportunities to do this in our daily lives. The knack for me is to be present within myself so that I can see what is before me and within me to offer a reflection of the love that I truly am.
How lovely Jane, a choice to grow our own love! Yes, we are like the seeds, our future is within us, we are born fully complete with everything we are already there waiting to blossom forth.
Yes, it’s true that we are born already everything, and then somehow we have re-designed life to strip this knowing away from us bit by bit as we emerge further into the world. Do we even realise just how far away we have come from ourselves? Is it possible that this separation is what has landed us in the mess we’re in? If so, then it means we just as easily re imprint the new default system and set it straight.
It’s interesting how as we grow older we forget that we have everything we need inside us, and are taught to not confirm who we are by knowing our own qualities, but to constantly seek affirmation of who we are, by what we do and everything outside of us. Knowing that nothing outside of us can ever fulfil us unless we know who we truly are, first, changes the quality and focus of life from seeking outside to a deep settlement within.
It is interesting that if you stop and consider the word grow, it always associated with an outward movement away from a point but not very often as a movement of return to a point.
Yes….. whereas the most profound growth, the one that really counts is the growth within, the return journey, not the one that goes anywhere.
A gorgeous blog to read Jane. I love how you have expressed that the responsibility and choice is always ours;
“our choice to nurture ourselves truly and deeply, our choice to say yes to life and our choice to commit to it fully with all the love we know we are and always have been….. a choice to grow our own Love!”.
I love analogies for what they bring the simple truth of life. The observations of how we can be. I love the reflections from nature it is the ease and flow and acceptance of life that I love, a full green leaf doesn’t resist become autumnal and dying it goes into it in full colour and let’s go. Effortlessly. We have so much to learn from nature and the cycles of life.
A simply beautiful sharing Jane on the reflection nature is giving to us. We have this tiny seed with in us with all the potential of the universe held there, just waiting to be warmed by the sunshine of our love and watered by our gentle nurturing ways.
There is a natural order or harmony that we are intrinsically part of; it is the vibration of love, of truth and oneness that this represents. It is a quality this is lived from within out, from simply being in surrender to ourselves, in connection to the love we are in essence, where we discover that this love is always calling and guiding us to be more, express more and live more of who we naturally are.
If we don’t take responsibility for growing our own love, then we will seek all sorts of ‘life’s pleasures’ to fill the gap left within. None of that works in the long run, even though it can appear to in the short term. Eventually we end up feeling the same feelings of lack, not enough, emptiness or dissatisfaction. When it is our own love we grow, there is the opportunity to forever deepen a sense of being nurtured, cared for, loved and held as a valuable and equal member of society.
This is lovely, we always have all we need within, whether we choose to nurture that is our choice which is always there for us.
If we use nature for its true purpose then it is a great tool of reflection in times of disconnection, it is never grander than what we are and if we hold that to be a known, we can be truly blessed by its magic.
So simple – a choice to say yes and surrender to what’s already within. What a beautiful garden it would be when every single seed chooses to be in full bloom. That may sound impossible, yet the potential has always been there.
I love it Jane… ‘grow your own love’! Learning that love is within us and not from another might sound basic but our entire society is based on love being something we give and receive. Hence why we can spend our entire lives surrounded by family and friends who supposedly ‘love us’ and whom we profess to love equally, yet feel there is ‘something missing’ at the same time. Love is inside us, and when we take care of ourselves truly, we get to live with love and ‘in love’ 24/7.
How our world would be if this truth was what founded our parenting and education in our schools: “…just like the seed we too are born complete with everything already inside us.”
It is this truth, the essence of God within, that deserves to be fostered within us all – and continuously so.
Thank-you Jane.
Every part and process of a flower is beautiful. No matter whether it is a bud, a fully blossomed flower, a wilting flower or dried one,eventually everything is beautiful. Can we also say that without a doubt about ourselves and our life?
What a joy it is to express our own love especially with another and, to feel it expand. It has always been inside me. The challenge is when we observe what disturbs us most and still be able to bring and deepen our love in this moment.
Such a simple analogy Jane, it shows how powerful the choices we make are that either sets us up to bloom or shrivel… and knowing what does support and what doesn’t then innately is what builds a foundation that we can keep expanding and growing from.
Yes, but it is only the outside that blooms or shrivels as the seed of love we are made of and born from does not shrivel, it waits patiently for us to remember it is there and to bring a simple focus to nurturing that love.
As you have pointed out Jane the choice is always ours; I love what you have expressed here;
“our choice to nurture ourselves truly and deeply, our choice to say yes to life and our choice to commit to it fully with all the love we know we are and always have been….. a choice to grow our own Love!”
It is all there waiting to unfold all we have to do is be the we already are and allow – pretty simple job description. Why would you ever hold back what is so natural to each of us?
‘We are simply bundles of love expressing who we are within the world.’ Yes, we are bundles of love, shining our light just like the flowers with their beautiful vibrant colours.
A good gardener knows that the quality of the soil is what will determine how the seed will grow within it. Thus, it is love and our whole-hearted expression of this that will grow us, just as our withdrawal from this will cap us.
A beautiful analogy to the flowers growing from seeds and how our love is similar – when well tended with purpose and care, our love within flourishes for all to enjoy, as with the flowers with their rich and abundant blossoms.
“our choice to nurture ourselves truly and deeply, our choice to say yes to life and our choice to commit to it fully with all the love we know we are and always have been….. a choice to grow our own Love!”
It is always a beautiful experience to observe what we seed forth when it blossoms and come to full bloom.
When you live in a city in an apartment, there are so many things you take for granted and you simply do not see (like all the hard work of nature that helps us to carry our lives). In a sense, nature it is a bit like the body. Do we appreciate the hard ‘invisible’ work it does for us all the time?
I ask, is the work that nature and our bodies do for us neither hard nor invisible? Is it but the simplest thing in the world for nature to live the harmony of life? For it does this day in day out, with no trying. Is it possible that our bodies also do the same? Working with the same simplicity under the many constructs that we, as a spirit in a body impose upon it? And this is very visible. We see, feel and know the tension that hood winks us into believing it is normal, but what if we begin to acknowledge that the harmony we feel in nature, which is what our bodies align with, is normal. Then nothing is invisible.
Beautifully observed Jane, nature offers us a true reflection of life, and when we look closely at nature everything has a harmony and a flow to it that makes it work in perfect balance.
Re-reading this exposes just how simple life is. So why, oh why do we let ourselves get caught in the many myriad complications that become our life? With but a choice we can again introduce simplicity. In my experience this comes with a dedication to clear, honest communication and a surrender to the vulnerability that we are so scared will cause us to break in two, not yet though has this happened to me. What has, is a deeper love and understanding of myself and from others.
This has also been my experience: ‘a dedication to clear, honest communication and a surrender to the vulnerability that we are so scared will cause us to break in two’ allows for our relationships to deepen and let in more love.
“This love never ever leaves us, but whether we grow up holding it tight in a bud or whether, like our flowers, we allow it to blossom, depends on our choices”.
Beautifully expressed Jane, and yes the choice is always ours.
It so beautiful to know and feel within ourselves that we are born complete, everything is there for us to embrace and live life fully open and with each other as we are all part of the whole, everyone of us with an unique ‘colour, shape, size and smell’ which means our own qualities to express the divine we belong to.
I love and appreciate the fact that in every moment we all have “a choice to grow our own Love!” or not. If we make the choice to plant those seeds of love then whatever will bloom will be full of this love down to every single particle. But if we choose not to then these love filled seeds will not sprout but nor will they die, they will just wait until maybe one day they will begin to be lovingly tended to once again.
Thank you Jane, we are like a bud that opens into a flower from the start I feel we are co-creation and as a bud we make the loving choice to return to be in full bloom, then as we evolve there is that never ending point that goes on forever.
A very sweet blog Jane and lovely to come across it this morning. Nature certainly is a great teacher if we take the time to observe and appreciate what it has to offer. There is nothing that is by chance, we are all part of an amazing evolving Universe and we each have our part to play.
Love what you have shared Jane, to me as my love evolves the vibration in my body increases or becomes more refined as I become more still.
It is interesting that often we can do the opposite of what nature reflects to us. Children are born generally very open and more free in expressing themselves then as we age we tend to measure, adjust and take on ways of being that can close off this openess to others.
Oh nature! We can live and ignore it almost completely. Or can connect to it and be open to its wonders. In either scenario, we can get fascinated by life but what that means is totally different.
I so love this blog, it’s a beautiful reminder that we are born whole and complete within we just need to allow ourselves to blossom for all to see our grandness.
Knowing that we are love by nature is one thing, and committing to being that love is another. Thank you, Jane, for reminding us that it is a choice we make in every breath we take.
It’s a beautiful analogy of how we already have everything inside of us and just need to tend to and nurture our connection to what’s there and our expression of it.
What you have expressed here Jane sums it up perfectly, the choice is ours truly and simply;
“our choice to nurture ourselves truly and deeply, our choice to say yes to life and our choice to commit to it fully with all the love we know we are and always have been….. a choice to grow our own Love!”
Yesterday I was talking with a friend and expressing how much my daily walk in nature is so supporting to me. Being in and with nature allows for me to connect more easily to myself and the joy there is inside. It confirms my true state of being and inspires me to be that and let go of anything else that is getting in the way. When I go for a walk I soon notice when I am in my head or not with my body and in tune with my movements. The choice to align then is simple and I find myself in love with me, us, and all that is.
Amazing Elaine, how simple life becomes when we simply stay with our movements as a choice to be divine, which then aligns us to everything that the universal order offers us.
I have a new rose bush and I love watching the new buds arrive and the different stages until the rose is in full blossom, this all occurs without the rose bush thinking or stressing about it, that’s why nature is such a beautiful reflection as it reminds us of the simplicity and joy when we surrender to the power we naturally are.
Thank you Jane for a very beautiful blog, we have all we ever need to grow, flourish and blossom, it is all within us, as we surrender to the love that we are.
A lovely analogy Jane. The idea of allowing ourselves to blossom brings to mind simplicity and surrender with absolutely no effort needed.
This is such a beautiful reflection of the truth of us all. We hold within us all the wisdom of love through which the future is already known, where our Divine magnificence is our natural way of being. We only need to begin to surrender to all that is there within and allow the love we are to guide us to flourish through every loving choice we make, in honor of the love we all innately are.
When we nurture a seed with warmth from the sun and water for it to drink it blossoms into everything it is to be, but if we feed it poison, block the sun from it’s sight, then it crumbles and is a smaller duller version of itself. This is exactly what happens when we grow up with all the beliefs and ideals coming at us,, until we once again connect to the light that has always been there from when we were born.
Imagine what would be required for a flower to hold back in blooming. Flowers are born to bloom. What is it we are born to do and how much effort are we using to hold that back?
Love is our everlasting sun. 🙂 Beautiful reflection.
At the moment we have our education system in the UK set up not to nurture people to know that they are already complete and like a bud that just needs unfolding but more so that we need filling up with knowledge and theories to be wise or to be of worth. I wonder how different our communities would be if we truly nurtured everyone to blossom..
Simply true Jane. It’s pretty cool when we consider that just like nature, with nurturing, we blossom.
I always love reading this blog, when we water using the same essence we come from a gorgeous flower is eminent.
‘Grow your own Love’ – makes perfect sense! Thank you blossom!
So beautifully expressed, Jane. Thank you for reminding me that I am enough and have everything I need inside me to grow -it’s up to me to feed myself with love and appreciation.
Thank you Jane, a beautiful blog for me to read, nature has so much to offer us by reflection if we only take the time to listening and observe as you have done. I always loved the words the oak is in the acorn, in that tiny bundle of love all is there it just needs to grow, we are the complete package.
“We are simply bundles of love expressing who we are within the world.” Reading this Jane always makes me smile, but it is tinged with a little sadness knowing that so many do not know that they are these beautiful, loving bundles. If every child had this loving fact gently instilled in them what a different world we would live in; a world with billions of bundles of love living in joy and harmony, and true brotherhood.
What a beautiful reflection to come home to Jane and I love your observations that you share with us. Nature is the magic of God and a wonderful teacher at the same time when we open up to this beauty that surrounds us but is equally in us.
I love this analogy Jane, it conjures up how it feels to grow and flow with nature. And brings light to the fact we are born with everything already within just waiting to blossom and bloom.
I love rereading your blog Jane, what I could feel this time, was how when we don’t fight the movement of nature and the flow of life, all our gloriousness shines in all its beauty. Just as a flower blossoms when it moves without a fight to the ebb and flow. Gorgeous, we have much to learn from the ease of which nature moves.
This is beautiful Jane,
If we but give ourselves the grace and space to feel the richness of love we hold with in, it is impossible for it not to open and blossom like a flower. The beauty of our love is that it is forever.
We are made to blossom, but it is our choice to allow this in full. Free will is the greatest thing to learn: first, seeing that we have a choice and second, that it is our responsibility to make this choice or not. We are the guardians of our own seed, and are responsible for the care it needs to blossom.
If we see our body as being the seed that holds all our potential within, we can start to feel how much we have reduced ourselves by believing that the full-grown body and mind is the limit of our potential.
It is our choice to nurture ourselves and our choice to share ourselves with the world. Sometimes we get so far away that we don’t know where to begin, however any step back to our essence is a brilliant step. We may not feel it, but we eventually will feel the joy of expressing our true selves.
Love is there inside us, this is a beautiful observation in nature. We come with the full package but let ourselves be shaped by experiences, shaped into a box of holding back, but we can always choose to start nurturing this potential again, and blossom once again.
I love this gentle dose of wisdom Jane. Allowing ourselves to blossom into fullness resonates deeply – how many times do I hold back just that little bit, and how silly that is in the scheme of things. Nature never holds back and that is a great reflection.
Gorgeous observations Jane. We have this seed with the potential to grow into a beautiful flower inside us, it is all there, all we need to do is nurture, love and cherish it and we will be able to be all that we are in full too, just like the amazing blossoming trees in spring. They are always an inspiration to me to not hold back and go for it in full.
A flower doesn’t stop at the bud stage unless it has interference, like being picked, or a disease. It’s the same for us, it’s natural for us to blossom just like the flower but it’s what we allow in that interrupts our full beautiful expression.
Yes how true merrrilee, and as we let go of any beliefs we have taken on or let in that do not represent the truth of us, our natural beauty unfolds in all our magnificence.
We have everything within us. We are just as we should be in essence. Taking responsibility for our choices is absolutely essential to the joy we live our lives in.
Thank you Jane for sharing your moment. There is nothing I enjoy more than to sit in my own garden when I am looking to refresh my Body and Soul.
Beautiful blog Jane, reading it again I feel the simplicity with which you have expressed a grand truth – that we are born with a complete package, it is up to us to express all that we are. I too find that being in nature brings my attention back to the beauty and simplicity of life.
This is such a gorgeous blog, reading it again is an awesome reminder for me of who we are and what our choices can be. We can certainly choose at any time to grow our own love, just like you’ve described Jane, very lovely to read and deeply inspiring. Love never really leaves us, it is a choice to allow it to blossom or stay tightly wrapped patiently waiting.
Jane a beautiful blog to read, sitting down after a day’s work with a cup of tea and watching nature reflecting back at you. A really beautiful way to hang out with yourself and expanding the love that you feel.
It is just gorgeous to read an article such as this at the beginning of the day that encapsulates the absolute beauty of nature and the reflection it offers… reminding us of something so exquisitely inspiring as the potential we possess at our fingertips to say yes to… and let out all that we are.
“How, just like the seed we too are born complete with everything already inside us.” – Such an important confirmation needed by all that we are already complete – we just need to unfold what is already inside of us, our essence, and let go of anything that is in it’s way.
It is a choice to grow our own love, yet we can also find it super easy to fall back into old patterns, patterns that have not served us well, that feel very comfortable, that are not about growing and evolving. They instead feel a chore to change, there is a stubborness that can set in, I have felt this for sure, when I have made great strides, felt there is something truly evolving that I have felt, the next step so to speak, but then the old patterns creep in and take over. I have found it then really does come down to awareness and making other choices. To know what these patterns are and not give in to them, but make the choice to grow our own love.
Jane – as you say – it is as simple as a choice. We have everything needed to blossom and to be all of who we are, and it is a case of us choosing – are we willing to stand out, are we willing to take responsibility, are we willing to be a reflection for others, and are we willing to commit to this’ – and with those choices – we either blossom or we stay a seed.
Such a beautiful blog Jane, we come into this world complete, as does the seed, holding within so much potential and unfolding and every ready to grow, all depending on the choices we make day by day.
“a choice to grow our own Love!” Beautiful Jane. We all have the potential to share all the love that we are but we have a responsibility to nurture and allow our love to blossom to lighten and enrich the world.
As I was reading your blog I was inspired to take myself out to my garden to sit and appreciate all that is around me. To take a quiet moment to enjoy the beauty of nature that surrounds me. I will try this for my morning tea. Taking the time to appreciate nature is deeply nurturing and rejuvenating, reminding me to appreciate myself too.
Beautiful blog Jane, growing our own love is indeed possible. The seed of love is in all of us, it is up to us how much we care, nurture and allow it to shine in its full bloom. I feel deeply inspired reading your blog again. I love the feeling of spaciousness and warmth in your words.
I absolutely love the way you describe the potential inside the seed – everything is already there, simply waiting to be cared for in a way that allows us to blossom. Of course I can see that there have been many times where I toasted my seeds on a hotplate or threw them in the garbage without any care for where they ended up. Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon have supported me to see that it is never too late to plant a seed of love as our potential is limitless.
Beautiful Jane, I felt the deep reflection you allowed in, just received and how you expressed it in words was wondrous and took me there, along with the message, we are our own gardeners.
A beautiful reflection Jane. Everything offers us something and it is up to us whether we choose to read what is being offered or not. Thank you for sharing.
This is exquisite Jane. I find analogies like this very powerful as it reconnects us back to the truth nature and life is reflecting back to us constantly
This is such a beautiful analogy Jane, I loved re-reading your blog and feeling what beautiful blossoming buds we all are when we add a little love.
So true Joe, I am moved by this line because it reminds me of my own inner nature, and that I do know how to find stillness, love and joy…”our choice to nurture ourselves truly and deeply, our choice to say yes to life and our choice to commit to it fully with all the love we know we are and always have been….. a choice to grow our own Love!” I see it as having always been there, within, just waiting to burst forth like the seeds from the earth.
” just like the seed we too are born complete with everything already inside us.” And yet still we continue to choose to make life so complicated.
This is gorgeous to read Jane, I felt like I was with you in the garden experiencing all the beauty and magic that nature is constantly reflecting to us.
You paint such a beautiful picture of your garden Jane, and the magic of nature that was unfolding as you sat and watched, and with it the insight of the divine “seeds” that we are, seeds that contain every thing that we will ever need. And yes it is definitely our choice how we tend to our own garden and as to whether we will allow our gorgeous bud to unfold to all its glory.
A very timely read Jane. It’s wondrous to see so many who are a part of Universal Medicine blossoming so beautifully…to have watched them flourish over time and know that it’s possible for all of us is heart warming. It’s a choice that only we can make for ourselves – to stay tightly closed or allow ourselves to unfurl.
I love that image Deborah-“to stay tightly closed or allow ourselves to unfurl.” Unfurl sounds so joyfully, glorious like a magnificent, brightly coloured, flower in full bloom. Who wouldn’t want to choose that for themselves? And yet so many of us don’t-many feel trapped in a momentum they cannot get out of- I did until I came to Universal Medicine also. Now I feel blessed every moment of my day.
Being a gardener myself I can really relate to your metaphor here Jane about growing and allowing our potential to blossom. Why would we want to foster the growth of weeds rather than the lovely flowers? Why would we plant the seeds and then neglect them so that they never get a chance to reach their potential? To me this picture is very helpful in supporting me to make the best choices I can in a commitment to myself, and thus to humanity, to living a full life. Thank you!
Great point Helen, ‘why would we plant the seeds and then neglect them so that they never get a chance to reach their potential?’ We let what is not meant to be there, cover and hinder what should naturally grow and blossom.
The ultimate responsibility is to grow our own love. This is indeed a beautiful and inspirational sharing Jane. I really appreciate what you have expressed, your gentleness and your stillness.
‘The ultimate responsibility is to grow our own love’ such words of wisdom Shirl and so true for we are all seeds of love and can bloom wherever and whenever we choose.
Suse, this is a great reminder to those who blame their circumstances as their reason for not being in their fullness, we do have a choice “wherever and whenever we choose.”
I just melted into myself when I read this beautiful sharing Jane – I love the analogy with nature whom presents us with so much learning – beauty, power and stillness in your words.
‘How, just like the seed we too are born complete with everything already inside us. We are simply bundles of love expressing who we are within the world.’ Knowing this beauty of life stops all drive or striving to become something, more, better and even the best.
“depends on our choices – our choice to nurture ourselves truly and deeply, our choice to say yes to life and our choice to commit to it fully with all the love we know we are and always have been….. a choice to grow our own Love”
I loved your analogy and your beautiful words of simplicity and wisdom, thank you Jane.
Observing the harmony of nature as you have so beautifully shared Jane makes me wonder why we as humans cannot emulate that same harmony in our everyday lives? Would not the world be a very different place than it is today if we all appreciated ourselves and each other equally and worked together in the same way that nature does?
I love nature, it inspires and reminds us of what we truly are and how we can be ourself without reservations, nothing in nature is holding back. It continues to grow, and lets go when it is not needed any more.
Seeding forth and growing our own love…I love it Jane!
Thank you Jane for the beautiful reminder that ‘just like the seed we too are born complete with everything already inside us. We are simply bundles of love expressing who we are within the world.’ The joyfulness of blossoming and expressing this love rather than the contraction of holding it back in a bud is something I am discovering more each day and for which I am truly grateful to Serge Benhayon for the opportunities I have been offered to explore this.
You don’t see a flower ever holding itself back.
If only we were as natural as the flowers and had only the sun and rain to feed us, instead of getting distracted and grasping at everything and anything to fill us up. It is like you say Jane we already have everything we need inside of us, without making life complicated by looking outside of ourselves, especially as this only brings more emptiness. Thank God for Universal Medicine for reminding us that we already have everything we need.
Flowers teach us so much in their naturalness, simplicity and especially their harmlessness.
I realise what I have allowed to bloom has been from a false light where outer influences helped create a me that was not true rather than allowing the true light of the stillness within to blossom … Until now that is … With the loving support of Universal Medicine.
I love what you have said here Suzanne, how simple yet profound – I know the false light you speak of also and the feeling of absolute appreciation for finding Universal Medicine. Your joy is palpable. Let’s spread the love.
Beautiful analogy Jane, I can see how unlike the flowers who flow with the universal pulse unconditionally, we try and control the flow that is within us and resist the bud from flowering. If we took notes from the flowers on how to flow with the pulse we would all be magnificent flowers for all to see.
I was really inspired by your blog Jane, the images you painted and the Magic of God you offered us; very inspiring indeed. I just loved what you wrote here, so succinct, powerful and wise;
“This love never ever leaves us, but whether we grow up holding it tight in a bud or whether, like our flowers, we allow it to blossom, depends on our choices – our choice to nurture ourselves truly and deeply, our choice to say yes to life and our choice to commit to it fully with all the love we know we are and always have been….. a choice to grow our own Love”
Beautiful, simple analogy, Jane, capturing the fact that our own expression of the love we naturally have within is totally down to how much we choose to commit to life or not.
Awesome summation Cathy. When we don’t commit, we don’t truly live.
I feel like it is natural for us to be a part of it all, just as the bees, butterflies, flowers and wind were all in harmony together, we can understand that we are not separate from each other and can have this kind of harmony.
I think its pretty cool how nature can reflect the beauty we all have inside
Jane I like your analogy ‘we too are born complete with everything already inside us’. Your description of the seeds and how they grow into a beautiful flower was very relatable to us humans. We do have everything inside of us, if only everyone knew this.
I have been looking at photos recently of me as I grew up and I saw are how much I was holding back, my eyes where bright but I was not expressing myself “This love never ever leaves us, but whether we grow up holding it tight in a bud or whether, like our flowers, we allow it to blossom, depends on our choices.” It reminded me of this when I read of your description of the ‘tight bud’ I can see this in others also, how their eyes shine but they may not always express how they truly feel or their true qualities. Learning to self care and truly love ourselves and others offers the tools to express it and blossom.
Beautiful simplicity Jane. The garden full of different coloured flowers is the blossoming of the potential of love that is within each and every seed and it is our choice to grow the love to fill the garden with with more love and ever deepening colour.
This is a beautiful way to show how we are surrounded by reflections of love in nature all the time. Thank you Jane for such a delicate and tender sharing.
I loved your blog and the title “Grow you own love” just says it all, doesn’t it? I am committed to growing my own love and to return to the love I am from.
This is beautiful Jane. Every loving choice we makes is growing our love. To know that this choice is available in every moment is a constant reminder of the depth of love that is there for us to explore. Day in day out, we are being offered the opportunity to experience a forever deepening love. To rest is to resist, and to say yes to more is simply another choice.
Thank you Vicky, this is a great expansion to a simply and beautifully expressed blog.
I love your sharing of your cup of tea in the garden Jane. Nature shows us the abundance. The abundance of colors, of blossoming, of leaves and so on. It inspires us to live in the abundance of our own Love.
I loved re-reading your words about your cup of tea in the garden Jane. I love these simple rituals that bring a moment of stillness and reflection. Every day every moment we can be planting seeds or tending to them to allow them to flourish.
Beautifully expressed Jane. Nature inspires awesome metaphors – I love the image of the tight bud and the full blown rose. I choose to open like a full bloom.
Gorgeous Jane!
Everything is already there within. The greatest lie with as a human race have been sold and bought into is that we need to ‘find ourselves,’ that somehow the truth of who we are is outside of us when in fact everything is already there within, we just need to peel back the layers to let it out.
It is so beautiful when you are able to pause and appreciate the exquisiteness of nature in its harmony and synchronicity. I imagine if they were behaving like humans there would be flowers ill and dying, butterflies speeding around flying into each other, insects trying to dominant areas of the soil and putting little fences up to keep others out, bees having a fist fight or stealing each others pollen… it wouldn’t be pretty. The world is suffering through our unloving choices. It is so beautiful to imagine what it would be like if we all connected to and lived the love we are and in doing so made the world a garden worth admiring for the true beauty that would naturally emanate from us all blossoming in that way.
Yes Samantha the reflection of nature really demonstrates how far away from living in a loving way most of humanity is but the more we grow our own love the more this will be reflected to the rest of the world and in the harmony of nature.
Beautiful and simple – I loved the part where you reminded us – ‘How, just like the seed we too are born complete with everything already inside us’. Thank you Jane.
What a beautiful garden of full blooms you have expressed here Jane. Your imagery and grace, colour your blog magnificently. Here’s to love in bloom. Thank you.
As I read this beautiful analogy I could feel all those seeds of possibility within me that I have not nurtured as lovingly as I could have, but at the same time there was a knowing that it is never too late to begin. Some seeds can lay dormant for a very long time but when they finally germinate and blossom they will still bring the full power and the magic of God with them. I am my garden, and it is up to me, and the love and care that I tend it with, as to how glorious it will be.
I love the analogy Jane that “..we are simply bundles of love…”and the expression of that love depends on whether we choose to make self loving choices.
That is a great metaphor for human life, I think it captures it perfectly. All is waiting inside for us to grow… We already have it all. I love the way you describe the garden, I can really picture it all.
I love this……growing your own love and the metaphor or planting the seeds, because the seeds for growing our own self love is the self honouring things we do for ourselves. When we self honour, this accumulates within us and builds confidence and self love.
A beautiful, delicate and amazing blog Jane. Thank you for sharing this with us. This is so true, how we can ‘choose to grow our own love’. Nature is reflecting to us how amazing we are already and the vast beauty we hold within. When we allow it to blossom, the joy and the glory is shared and celebrated for all to see.
To give ourselves a moment to observe nature is a wonderful experience – such a gift for us all. Always adapting to its environment, so many colours, constantly changing (growing)with the seasons – it is truly amazing. As we are too – and as you so beautifully share Jane we also have ‘a choice to grow our own love’ something which nature does so well.
I really loved reading this, Jane. Very beautiful and loving. I feel the joy of knowing that it is our choice and responsibility to let the seed grow as a full bloom therefore able to leave the next set of seeds behind that are more potent to grow, as well as the sadness of knowing having lived holding back and whittling as a tightly held bud prematurely, probably many, many times before.
A beautiful reminder Jane that is worth repeating – “our choice to nurture ourselves truly and deeply, our choice to say yes to life and our choice to commit to it fully with all the love we know we are and always have been….. a choice to grow our own Love!” – So true, thank you.
I simply love this Jane and it makes so much sense, to unfold the love that resides in all of us we need to take care of and deeply nurture and cherish us.
With such ease growing my own love can be done. That’s what you remind me of, Jane. And every plant has its own rhythm, you can not pull it to grow faster. But you can expose it to the Sun and trust that it will grow.
Jane you make it easy to understand and to feel who we truly are (Love) and that it only takes our loving choices to say yes to it.
Yes, I agree. This blog is so beautiful and I love reading every bit of it. On my morning walks, when I stop to appreciate the beauty in nature, I will remember to also stop and appreciate the beauty in me too. I am also learning to appreciate life and everything around me continuously, choosing to change my momentum and to live with gentleness and love.
It seems that often in difficult situations that there is the opportunity calling us to grow our own love, not to have to find solutions, just nurture ourselves deeply and feel our delicateness, and allow ourselves to bloom! Thank you for your tender blog Jane.
This is a beautiful story for a story book, very poetic and alive.
I like the metaphor you are sharing here – very beautifully said – the seed inside us, has everything..It just needs to blossom..
Thank you Jane, I agree we are born connected to our soul as a bundle of love, it then becomes our choice to stay in our divine aspect or to align to our spirit! Our soul brings an ever increasing amount of love and truth, while the spirit tricks us into many ideals and believes that are erroneous.
So lovely to read the detail you observe within nature and the beauty of this. A simply great analogy to humanity. As I imagine your garden so well described, I also imagine the colours, vibrancy and delicateness all around from each person blooming. How harmonious this would be too.
It is beautiful to acknowledge and feel the potential that lives in every single one of us and that such potential simply requires love to let in bloom out for all to see and feel.
This is just so beautiful it brought tears to my eyes knowing we all have the potential just waiting inside to bloom and blossom into the most amazing people.
Beautiful analogy Jane. I love how when we allow ourselves to be still with nature and observe what is being offered we discover that nature is always reflecting to us the truth of who we are in essence.
‘We are simply bundles of love’.
I loved hearing the observations of your gardens. I haven’t opened my eyes like that in a while. It’s sounds so wonderful to just admire what’s going on around you.
Jane what you have shared has touched my heart, that after once holding like a closed bud is now choosing to bloom in full glory.
Very beautiful and true. How much there is to learn from nature if we but take the opportunity to sit back and observe.
This is gorgeous Jane – grow your own love! This is a great analogy of how we can all blossom should we choose to love and care for ourselves.
Jane i completely LOVE this flower analogy, thank you so much, I am smiling with joy taking this into my day, your words: “our choice to nurture ourselves truly and deeply, our choice to say yes to life and our choice to commit to it fully with all the love we know we are and always have been….. a choice to grow our own Love!”. Beautiful.
A choice to grow our own love; how gorgeous and inviting is that.
Jane what a beautiful and descriptive piece on Love.
Another metaphor that I have observed is how sometimes great growth can be occurring below the surface so at times we may feel that nothing is happening and then suddenly one day this beautiful flower pops up shining in its full glory.
What a beautiful picture you are painting here. I love watching nature and I will be reminded, when I see a blossom expanding, that this is actually me expanding, if I choose to *
I can feel your delicateness with the way you write which reminds me of the delicateness of a flower. Beautiful Jane. I know when I am in nature I can feel the stillness,love and harmony that is present which I know is the reflection of who I am. All that is required is simply reconnecting back to our inner heart where love is in abundance.
Jane I love reading your blog. It feels like I am sitting beside you enjoying a cup of tea watching the glory of nature bless us with its abundant love. This abundant love that also resides within each and everyone of us.
Thank you Jane for this beautiful metaphor. It is a lovely way to feel that we are already everything that we need to be. That we have everything within us – all we have to do is let it out.
A beautiful blog Jane with a very loving message on how not to lay dormant but to be all that we truly are and the purpose that we all have come here for, to return to blooming love.
Really beautiful Jane
What a simple but oh so precious way of reflecting who we are and how we can be all that we can be!
Thank-you for this beautifully and simply expressed article. Isn’t is wonderful what nature is always presenting for us to feel and see. There is so much we can learn by just sitting and enjoying the reflection that is always on offer from nature.
Beautifully observed and expressed Jane. So true that we are born complete and it is up to us to nurture that seed within to full bloom.
A great analogy that like the seeds, growing love takes time. We can’t force the plants to grow and bloom, they have to do that on their own, but it can be supported with care and attention. From experience when I try to be love I am not allowing all that is already within me that can be love, to be love. Rather than dropping the trying and returning to the fact that I am everything already, I become sad and frustrated that trying did not work. It sounds crazy when written down – that in life we try to be who we are by being something we are not then get sad, upset and ignore the fact that it doesn’t work because how can it when we have started by ignoring the fact that we are already everything… Thank you Jane for the simplicity in your words, that we, like the seeds, already have everything within us and that with time it will bloom.
Nature is a great reflection.
What a beautiful writing. I can feel the beauty and the natural rhythm and flow of nature and ourselves.
Great Blog to re-read, I it is confirming what I feel inside and that it is all already there, I only have to make the choice to let it out and show it to the world.
I loved being being in your garden with you Jane, thank you for the moment.
What a great reminder Jane that everything I am is already inside me and that with nurturing myself with love, honor, gentleness and deep care my inner beauty will come out like a flower out of a bud.
“The wind was blowing ever so gently, causing ripples of movement across their delicate leaves and petals. An abundance of insects were busy in the soil beneath and flies, bees and beautiful butterflies were flying around, sometimes choosing to land and explore the surface of the leaves or, in the case of bees, venturing deeper into the heart of the bloom in search of pollen.” – I love your description of your garden Jane, I felt like I was there with you.
Jane, what a beautiful analogy, I love it, grow your own love and it really is our choice, to stay that bud or bloom as a flower. It’s such a helpful image, thank you.
It is up to us to allow ourselves to blossom. No-one else can make that decision for us. I love this as it is the ultimate in personal responsibility. To blossom or not to blossom, that is the question. I reckon Shakespeare was onto something when he said, “To be or not to be, that is the question.”
Jane that was delicious, my body sucked up every word. It gave me a moment to feel what an amazingly beautiful flower I’m keeping inside and how it’s too beautiful not to share. Thanks Jane, I’m going to have a re read ☺
A great analogy here Jane, yes we all have the potential to grow and blossom and to what extent we do this is how much we truly tend and nurture ourselves.
A beautiful post written with such clarity and simplicity. That we are all born complete with everything inside us and only need to chose if we are to blossom or not.
Jane I really love the sentence “How, just like the seed we too are born complete with everything already inside us.” This sentence reflects the potential we all carry into each new day, each new moment. As I read this I can really feel that with each passing moment we can evolve, just like a plant grows that little bit more with each passing moment. This is great for me to see so simply as I have recently struggled with the idea that we can evolve in each moment infinitely, even though I know this to be a truth of life. I can also feel, dependent on how much love we allow in each moment, we can choose the rate we evolve. Just like a plant will grow at a certain rate dependent on the quality of soil, sunlight and being watered well. Nature offers us many answers to the bigger questions we have about life, and once we have seen this answer reflected in nature we can own that feeling in our body and expand upon it; this is the magic of God reflected in nature.
Jane I could actually feel what it was like to sit in the garden- gorgeous! Nature continuously reflects to us what is and what is possible!
Jane your blog was glorious. Nature really does have this amazing ability to share so much if we just stop and listen. It is so true we are all born with everything we need to grow our own love.
Wow, what a powerful simple blog. I feel the absolute loveliness of what you have written and feel just how much what you are explaining is the absolute loveliness of who we truly are as human beings and how it is we nurture and foster that loveliness to be lived within all of our days.. To continue to grow our own expression of love. So so very lovely Jane.
This is so lovely Jane thank you. I relate very much to the beauty and order of nature. It’s true that plants blossom and grow as part of their divine order. It is our divine order as well; we only have to choose it.
Beautify Jane. Thanks for sharing your observations and ponderings.
This was so such a beautiful blog to read Jane. I love how nature reflects to us how life can be lived so simply and in harmony with each other. It is so true that we are born complete with everything inside us waiting to blossom with love.
Thank you Jane for sharing your simply beautiful story and revelation. The fact that we in truth, as does a seed, have that potential to be who we are, then all we have to do, is just be. Nothing more, we are already all we are, the only choice we really have is not to grow or not to be who we are.
Lovely to be reminded of that everything is already within us. We only have to make the choice to feel it and share all of this beauty with the world.
Beautiful blog, was like sitting in the sun with you and enjoying the garden, our innate joy and beauty with everything there!
Jane, I got goosebumps reading your words – true story! I was struck by the symbolism of the ‘beautiful flower already within the seed’. We are exactly that – born of love with a beauty already complete. Our tenderness as gardeners determines the shape and hue to which we allow ourselves to grow – a choice indeed. Thankyou.
I really loved this too. A great reminder which we could all do with at times : ) and we hold so much wisdom within as well. There is so much more to us than meets the eye.
Thank you Jane, I agree that nature has this way of showing us things and teaching us lessons about ourselves like nothing else on earth.
Another lesson from nature and from your blog Jane, is that there is no trying in nature, no rush or goals set, and when I ponder on this it establishes a more harmonious rhythm in my body.
Simple. Beautiful. Profound. A gorgeous blog. I was right there with you in the garden Jane.
I love this Jane, it proves we are all as able as each other in our different expressions. All we need to do is nurture our seed to bloom and flourish, and no matter where we find ourselves in life, our seed is always there waiting for us to water it, beautiful.
Very empowering to many, thank you Jane.
I just love the simplicity of this analogy Jane. Like the seed we are already complete, with everything already inside us. Truly beautiful.
Simply beautiful Jane. In the past I held on to my love in a tight bud, it was layered with so many hurts that I couldn’t break out and simply be me. Through the presentations of Universal Medicine and the Sacred Esoteric Healing modalities Serge Benhayon teaches I have been healing my hurts and the restrictive layers are lessening and I am finding it easier to choose to let my love blossom and grow with more love every day.
This is very beautiful Jane. Thank you for writing it.
Wow! what a beautiful notion Jane. I’ve never looked at life that way before. “Just like the seed we too are born complete with everything already inside us. We are simply bundles of love expressing who we are . . . this love never ever leaves us, but whether we grow up holding it tight in a bud or whether, like our flowers, we allow it to blossom depends on our choices”. Thank you.
Wow this is such a sweet article Jane, I love this analogy, ‘I thought about how it is for us as human beings. How, just like the seed we too are born complete with everything already inside us.’ A lovely reminder to be ourselves and that we do not need to try and be something else because we are already absolutely beautiful.
Gorgeous blog. Felt the depth that it is coming from (:
Love the analogy of a seed and a human – it is to true that we have innate possibility within us already – a little nurturing, and voila! A very simple example that we can choose to live in this way, or not.
Beautiful blog Jane, and so timely for me to read for I have been pondering on how I sometimes can and sometimes struggle with allowing myself to be the love I am, to express my true nature. The flowers and bees and butterflies do not question their beingness, they live it in full. Nature is just such a lovely inspirational reflection all around us and it’s great that you took the time to connect to the ‘magic of God’ and share it with us. Thank you.
This is gorgeous Jane, I could feel you in your garden taking in the awe of nature and recognising at the same time, the awe that is within each of us. Thank you for your reminder that nature is there to reflect back to us the divinity, rhythms, cycles, harmony, flow and evolution that we are all a part of and ultimately belong to.
“Grow our own love” – thank you Jane! We are a part of nature too, just like the flowers in your garden, and I love this light and inspiring pondering that you received from sitting still in your garden and observing nature at work – reflecting your own nature.
I will attend to my nurturing today, feeling that I am a part of the big garden.
Beautiful blog Jane.We all have that ability to let that love blossom.