In our present time of wars, drug wars, binge drinking, corruption at all levels (e.g. from pharmaceutical and weapons industries all the way down to local government), religious fanatics killing and enslaving, the booming global slave trade (now referred to as human trafficking, including child trafficking, sex trafficking and refugee extortion), poverty, extreme wealth, abuse, cyber abuse, self abuse, bullying, suicide – the list could go on and on – where is the love in this world? Where has the love gone?
Were not all religions originally based on love? Were not all religions originally from the one religion of love?
Love for one another, love thy neighbour, love all of mankind, love will save the world, love is all we need, love conquers all, unconditional love… but what have many institutionalised religions become? Nothing but a human created set of rules (sometimes cruel, harsh and discriminating and definitely NOT loving) based upon some old scriptures that have been twisted and turned, re-written and re-translated to become the basis of how almost the whole of humanity act, think, indulge, hate and disregard one another.
I stop now and think; I have been a part of this, joining the masses, saying this is normal, ‘I’m all right Jack’, ‘we have to look after our own’, or just hiding inside my own little bubble of life, doing my own thing, cutting off the rest of humanity as though I was not a part of them and they were not a part of me. A ‘part’ of this, not by being a drug trafficker or any of the other abhorrent pastimes listed above, but a part of it nonetheless by accepting that all this happens, and never doing anything about it.
We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.
Yes I did hear all those love statements and think “yea, OK, nice thoughts, lovely sentiment, but really I mean, really, does anyone, apart from the Dalai Lama that is, think that it is possible to not just love thy neighbour but love the whole of humanity?”
The answer is YES, there are many people who truly believe; large and small groups spread across the globe, growing steadily in number, in strength and most important of all, in love.
Normal everyday people who truly believe that love is the way, laying down the foundations for a better world to live in for the generations to come. Already enjoying harmonious lives and living examples of true beauty. Lovingly helping others around them unconditionally.
Through the living example of love personified, Serge Benhayon, his family and Universal Medicine, with an ever growing number of students practising true love for all humanity, there is the greatest possibility to find where the love is. It has not gone anywhere, it can be found inside us all! Truly inspired!
by Christopher Murphy, Kindergarten Assistant and Universal Medicine student, Drøbak, Norway
Further Reading:
The Word Love
A True Love Letter for Serge Benhayon
So what is religion?
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
“We can all do something about the state of the world we live in…” – Absolutely, the way we live our everyday, how we are at home, at work, with family, friends, anyone we meet, all has a ripple effect and makes a difference.
A great blog to highlight how far we have stepped away from love in order for these things to take place, we all have a responsibility to bring more love into the world, because for each loving step or moment the world gets to equally feel that love.
We can give in and succumb to the cruelty of this world or we can step by step live by what our heart is telling us and with that lay a foundation of love slowly but steadily that we all one day will stand on.
It shows us how far we have descend away from our true nature – love, and how much we have hurt ourselves by not being that love with each other. It now takes us to see the corruption, pain, suffering, hate, murder, rape, discrimination, poverty, abuse, swearing and so much more, for us to face what the effects are when we choose to not be that absolute love that we are.
Visions of normal that are not true, true that is not normal. We know this too well. Normalising true is the next bit we are being asked for since we can recognize true with all our particles
Beautiful Blog, it is something to truly grasp, accept and appreciate, each moment that a loving gesture is made, the whole world is blessed by this grace. Therefore each and every one of us is then bringing to our world the change we all dearly want, every moment love is lived.
Hearing a policeman talk recently about paedophilia, he made it very clear that it could not happen or at least reoccur without enablers – the people who suspect or know but never do a thing to stop the things that we say we abhor in society. This is an extreme case but I can see how this happens in other areas of life like at work, where everyone allows the bully to continue their behaviour, so long as it’s not targeted at them.
This is an extreme example, but very significant. If I am honest with myself, I have certainly allowed abusive behavior to continue. Honestly looking at why I allow this to be the case is the beginnings of acting differently as such experiences come my way.
I love this line: ” every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society. ” Every moment we can either contribute to a more loving society or contribute to what we currently have where people don’t seem to truly care about other people unless they are friends or family.
Will we ever live our true potential if we base the way we live and compare ourselves to the extremes of evil and abuse that exist in our civilization today? If we settle that we are OK because we are at least not killing or enslaving another, are we really evolving. What if we were to hold ‘love’ as the marker of who we are first, that we are first the Sons of God, and our true living way is to live the love we are through our connection to our Soul? A not so obscure possibility and reality that is already being explored and consistently lived today by a global community through a religion known as The Way of The Livingness.
There is much emphasis on what we leave for the next generation when it comes to the state of our planet, our government and so on, and rightly so, but there is not much talk among families or society that we need to let go of unloving beliefs, ideals and so called traditions that we hold on to, so that our young are free to be themselves.
Yes, agree Aimee. The greatest gift we can leave for future generations, is the way to live in connection to our Soul, our Godliness, who we are, as this is where that love is really and always at.
Where has the love gone? It never went! It has always been within us and around us, it is just a matter of what do we truly feel and what are we aligned to? .. as well as, what do we choose in our day to day living and choices. This is still work in progress for me and will be forever more. It is my true life purpose returning back to the love I truly am and loving all others equally. One thing is for sure and that is Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have stupendously paved the way with regards to this for all of humanity and continue to do so ✨
Self love is the key to all our woes and issues in life.
Deep to the core of us we are love but this love has been veiled due to the reinterpretation of the word ‘love’ so we have come to settle for its emotional counterpart and not the fiery love of God that burns deep within us all.
As mentioned by Nicola Lessing in a comment above, you can read more here: http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-love.html
Truly beautiful Christopher, love has not gone anywhere but has been literally around all the time and it simply comes back to us to choose love to be our constant guiding light in our life.
Where has the Love gone? Is it under the chair? Or on the internet somewhere? Or in the closet? Or in the fridge? Hmmmm well we will never get anywhere looking for love outside us when it is right there where it has always been and will always remain, in our inner most within us.
Love is never gone – a fact that is shown in how sensitive we are to all that is not love. We know love inside out, and we are the ones who start to live it again.
Love is always with us and within, it never leave us, it is our responsibility and decision to go to it, if we so wish.
I see so many people struggling and I often hear these words, ‘something is missing or I’m not enough’ and I used to think and feel this too. It’s only since meeting Serge Benhayon, family and Universal Medicine has this changed. Its when I started to reconnect with myself and removed what was not me, did the love emerge and it is beauty-full and it is limitless, It has always been there.
Love is the steps each of us take and every step matters, so the question for all of us becomes, have I stepped with love?
Unconditional love can seem like one of those pie-in-the-sky phrases that never comes into the reality of everyday life. Like it is something nice that could happen but never does. And yet, I have felt in my inner-heart an unconditional love that is beyond what this world has to offer. It is a divine love that knows only the essence of all people and so it cannot judge and so it cannot place conditions.
True love is just simple, it isn’t laced with any emotions, any measures, it is of equal to all and within us all, we just need to be willing to drop the masks that hide it.
The different types of love that we have show how very complicated we have made love to be. All the while there is no need for this complexity but a simple tuning in with ourselves, as deep down we all know true love to be, we simply need to start living it again.
Love is here, has been all along – a deep well of it within us. So where are we that we live in a way that deprives us of that which would quench the eternal thirst we have all developed when we do not live in connection with such love?
Love never leaves us, we leave it, but love waits patiently on our return no matter how far away we have travelled because love does not judge.
Children know they can love all of humanity! It is their natural way and expression – it is us that reduce family to blood line or close friends. I say “go love bugs”!
And as parents we don’t get in their way of being the natural ‘love bugs’ they are, even if it brings up a lot for us where we allowed our loving expression to be squashed and boxed in.
Beautifully explored and found, that love has not gone anywhere but is always with us, we simply have to choose to live it. And the important part is to live it consistently and not get swayed by the many distractions and obstacles on the way.
When we reconnect to the love within us, we then realise and can feel an equal love within everyone else.
All it takes is for one person to truly live a life of love and the world changes
Love it Christopher – spoken from the heart. There are small groups spread across the world inspiring one by one. There is only love ❤️
” and Universal Medicine, with an ever growing number of students practising true love for all humanity, there is the greatest possibility to find where the love is. It has not gone anywhere, it can be found inside us all”
Well said Christopher, love is inside us all it just needs to be lived.
One of the best ways to keep people away from love is to bastardise the meaning of the word such that we end up killing and abusing in the name of love which is beyond absurd. Unimedpedia Love – http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-love.html gives us a clue as what true love is all about and what it is that we are so deeply missing.
When we choose love, there is an ease to life it is when we fight the living the love that we are that we create complication.
One of the biggest issues, if not the biggest, is that we have made love a word rather than a way of living. In doing so any matter of ills can be pardoned because with the right words it sounds good…
Every journey starts with the first step. So, too, does the journey to establish true brotherhood on Earth with each and every person taking the first step of love and to keep walking. Many have begun and each who does inspires many to follow suit. Hence the journey has begun.
Words of love without substance is the most empty and these words are on the rise every day because we want to distract ourselves from the emptiness that we have chosen. No right or wrong, but this is fact. But there is another way and nothing can compare with words of love which actually are full of love, but these words can only be expressed from a body full of this love. #selflove
I was a love skeptic for most of my life. I really thought it was a big fat joke, and when anyone referred to something being done with love, I would probably scoff, or a more classic trademark move was rolling my eyes! I turned a love corner some years ago now, and now I’m all about Love. It has proven to be absolutely true and I’m not talking the conditional kind, or the lust kind. I’m not in a romantic relationship, and so it’s not some cloud 9 feeling. It is 100% tangible, and when we bring love to ourselves, it flows naturally onward to everyone and everything around us. It’s powerful, and it’s nothing like what I perceived it be all those years ago.
Love is the way home, and we should not under estimate the ripple effect of one person who begins or returns to self-love, because all is felt, in that we all live in one big giant human fish bowl.
Yep, you are right, the love has not gone anywhere, it is right there inside us! It may have been buried under a large pile of protective covering but it is there inside each and every one of us and it is our job to let our love shine as brightly as it was designed to in order to show others the reflection of what lives inside them too.
Love is always within us equally, and we have separated from it long ago in pursuit of being an individual and safety and security when in truth all these and more is a there when we live from an open heart.
where is the love in this world? It is right there inside each one of us, and all we have to do is let it out…. every single loving act large or small makes a difference in some-one’s life and sometimes we have no idea how much we touch people’s lives.
Serge Benhayon is the first person I ever meet who not only spoke about love but also lived and expressed love consistently. It is very powerful when we see others live in this way reminding us that we are all equally this love too.
He was the first person for me too Anna, who reflected how to be and live in this world just being himself and sharing all the love that he is, and to which we all have equal access to. We all hold this innate wisdom and power within and Serge Benhayon is a living example of our glorious divine nature.
I don’t want to say he is the first because I so want to believe I had the reflection before – I probably did in glimpses. But Serge was indeed the first person I had met who consciously, consistently and openly knew what he is here to do, the first person to show me love was something to embrace because it is where we are from, what we are made of and there are not enough people consciously living with that awareness in the world.
Very beautifully said Christopher. Love never has or does leave us, it is only us that turns away from living with the love we innately are.
Beautiful Christoph, sharing with us what love is and how we all know it, living it so or not – that doesn’t matter as it is our nature of knowing.
This sentence truly makes sense: ‘Lovingly helping others around them unconditionally.’ This is what brotherhood is about – love. Hence it is not about who is right or wrong or who has it all – it is about living in collaboration and supporting each member of society to grow and return to the love that he/she is.
We really have to be aware of what are we really saying yes to at so many levels.
Very true Eduardo, as in every moment a choice is made, and with every choice made we share with the world the quality of love or lovelessness.
Even before I begin to look out to the world, I know for myself, some days I feel as though being loving is the hardest thing to do, and I really have to be making a conscious choice – and a few years ago, I was not even aware that there was a choice, my choice.
It is our unloving choices that have created the world we now live in and by making choices that come from the love that lives inside of us we can slowly change the world for we are all made from love which is innate in us all.
Your blog reminds me of something my mother use to say to me when I was young. I used to get very overwhelmed when she would ask me to clean my room. I would be so stressed I would cry, not because I didn’t want it clean it but because I didn’t think it could ever be finished, that it was impossible to clean and that made me very sad, for I knew I played a big part of all the mess. Anyway, my mother would say, don’t worry about all the mess, just lovingly start in one corner, just slowly take your time and enjoy that corner and the rest will follow. She was right and the rest did follow and I learned slowly that the less mess I contributed made it easier to clean each time. If we give up because of the “state” of the world, we give up on ourselves, we all count and we all can make a huge difference in the world.
We cannot complain or blame others for the state of the world – for it is up to us to bring the love and live the love that we so desperately want.
Love never goes away. It is like the air we breathe, always there to be reconnected to inside of us. The world simply lacks the expression or activity of love, so when we look around there is love to be seen and felt rather than the mess we currently see.
Never has love left us it is we that have left it and can return to it. Love simply IS. I like what you say here Christopher, it is true, “every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.”
Yes indeed, love doesn’t turn a blind eye and knows that everything affects everything because we are all part of the same body of love.
Right down to the deepest core of us, we are love and such love has never ever gone anywhere, it is simply us that have ‘walked away’ by withdrawing from our expression of it.
For so long I cut myself off from what was happening feeling powerless and frustrated because it felt as though I couldn’t change the world on my own. As I connect with others I realise that I am no longer alone and with support and love there is something that we can do. As I embrace responsibility in the way I live life and express my feelings of love and tenderness to another, this reverberates outwards like a stone dropped on the surface of a pond – little ripples will build into big waves of love and harmony.
“Were not all religions originally from the one religion of love?” So relevant to read again today. We all have love inside of us, some of us bury it deeper than others. As you say, we can all do something about the state of the world we live in – “every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.” Thus we can all take responsibility for bringing about a more loving world.
Knowing that love when expressed is equal to all is honoring what is felt within us. Living what we know is a continuous unfoldment with a lot of re-correction. Love never judges itself, it is always patient, so in this process of unfolding, surrender and surrender some more. There is no destination and no recognition of where we are at, love simply allows us to love (or not), and is there forever waiting for us to deepen more into the truth of who we are. We are there already without any pictures to follow, and once we are there we are already in movement towards the next step, so there is never any one point to identify and hold onto. Every moment deserves to be appreciated.
Love is our true nature, so what has happened that we allow these atrocities to go on? We don’t have to go on a crusade or demonstrating our reactions as we, like you say Christopher, we all play our part in not coming from a loving place ourselves, and all this’not love’ is adding to the misery we are in..together. Love is in our bodies, all we have to do is re connect and feel we are all equal Sons of God.
It is ironic that so many of us today go on quests to find and constantly look outside ourselves for love when it has always and will always be within.
Beautiful Christopher, love is forever waiting to be re-discovered for it has never left.
Is there anything more natural than being love to ourselves and other in the world, no matter stranger or family? Love feels to be the most natural way, one which innately and intrinsically is known absolutely in the heart. So it is the most simple to just live what feels natural; isn’t it true?
It’s great to see this written and to see people looking to live this consistently in the world, “We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.” We often look past the small things we can do and the knock on effect these have in our everyday. From a small gesture to a big plan it doesn’t matter when it comes to the effect. Each part is a part of a whole movement and at this time we need to move back to love.
Brilliant Christopher, there is part of us that constantly thinks, ‘if I just get a little bit better at this, if I get a new job, a faster car, everything will be clear’. In keeping on in this way, we steadfastly ignore the bare facts of it all, that life is not working ‘quite well’ at all but causing us all massive harm and disaster. We may have numbed ourselves to this fact, but the only true way out of this mess is for us to totally renounce our old ways and make truth and Love the guiding light of every thing that we do, with no compromise or dilution.
Everything we do creates a ripple. If you’ve ever watched ripples in water, they just keep expanding in all directions. I’ve not actually seen underneath the water but I’m pretty sure the ripples would be 3D and not just on the surface. And if they touch something they move back to where they originated from. So every move we make does count.
As I read this I couldn’t help but feel how very many very beautiful and powerful words have been bastardised so that we are kept at arms distance from the true meaning of words such as love and religion. We do know what the truth is of these words, for the truth is apart of us, but the choices we have each made are what creates the divides and avoidance of there true meanings.
Every time I emphasise the importance of love to somebody, I feel like a 5 year old girl who knows in her heart that that’s the answer everything. However, often, I feel that adults won’t understand and I have to speak in this sophisticated way, and DEFINITELY avoid the L word, because everybody is so afraid of it!
How very true that we avoid the L word. I wonder though if it’s because we are afraid of the word or because we all know it so well, and it’s so apart of who we are but through our choices we have essentially rejected this fact and we don’t want to see our part in this. Otherwise known as accepting responsibility for the fact that we have made the choice to not accept the truth of love. Hard pill to swallow.
Accepting my responsibility for contributing to the lovelessness in the world and committing to living in a loving way will continue to expand the more that I am open to allowing it.
Love never disappears but it can become obscured by corruption and wars etc. Serge Benhayon is a beacon in this apparent darkness shining a love that encompasses all and is a true inspiration to so many who are now taking this loving way out to all corners of the globe.
And it all starts at home, within our own bodies first. Appreciating that we all have something to reflect to the world, and allowing that reflection to be received by everyone and anyone in full so that we leave ourselves open to receiving the same reflection back to us…and that’s where the power lies.
Thank you Elizabeth, we cannot wait for the world to change by giving our power away to others and waiting for them to change, it truly changes when we each take responsibility for ourselves to return to living from love – our true essence.
Serge Benhayon is indeed a living example of love personified, reflecting this ability to live and breathe every moment as love for us all equally.
It is easy to look around to see and feel the devastation and corruption in our world. What you have expressed here Christopher shines a glimmer if hope and light to overcome this extremely harmful way of living;
“Normal everyday people who truly believe that love is the way, laying down the foundations for a better world to live in for the generations to come. Already enjoying harmonious lives and living examples of true beauty. Lovingly helping others around them unconditionally”.
So true, it is easy to get sucked in to giving up and not believing we can be the change we want to see, that who we are and how we live, doesn’t matter and could never affect the ugliness of what is being accepted as normal. Yet it can and does make a difference. The experiment is already in the making and simply calls more of us home to the love we truly want for each other.
All these wars, the loveless acts we see, they are our attempts to deny the love that we are. Like how crazy is that?! And I’ve been a huge part of this and can still be most definitely – those moments I choose to ignore my inner heart and opt for what I think the outside world is asking of me. What if the world is actually asking me to show the consistency of love that Serge Benhayon lives so that they, like me, can be inspired to trust themselves again and this love within?
The love never left, it is we who left it but even this is not entirely true because try as we may, how do you leave that which you are made of?
We are the ones that make this world loving, for it is our choices that create the world we live in.
“Were not all religions originally based on love?” – for me, there’s only one answer to this question, and that is yes! Love is what was presented by the many world teachers that have blessed us over the centuries, and now we have another world teacher in Serge Benhayon who is not only presenting the truth of love, but offering us The Way of The Livingness so we can know and live what is a true religion; a religion that has love as its foundation.
Love is what will save the world, this is so true Christopher. Love is our only way to restore harmony. It is the little every day changes that ripples out into bigger changes. One ripple made with love has the power to inspire and touch many lives.
Love is ever present and available to us all equally – like the air we breathe and the space we move through.
Yes indeed – Serge Benhayon lives love and it has been inspirational to witness this way of living over the many years and experiences. At no point has he wobbled, he has been consistent and his example has been simple. I have learnt what love is and that it is possible to live that love by being that love and seeing how we are all part of and come from that love. Love is our essence and our normal, so let’s live it and yes – change the world.
Its easy to write off humanity when we look at the state the world is in with its wars, racism, slavery, murders etc. The problem seems so big it’s easy to feel there is no point trying to make a difference because it’s only a drop in the ocean, but I know a smile or a kind word can make the world of difference. Love magnifies and ripples out.
If we saw the impact that one guesture made in love had then we may think differently about the choices we make.
A great call to arms – so to speak – one that has been expressed so many times before, and one that calls to make us consider the question that every human being has most likely pondered on at some point – just what makes human beings so capable of evil? Is it innate? Well, it is hard to consider that possibility if you look at every babe, who seems incapable of anything but love.
It is our withdrawal from love that creates the divide that allows the ill seeking energy to enter.
We can only change the world we live in by changing the way we live, and if we choose to live a life in accordance with what our inner-heart impulses us love will return as an expression in our societies once again.
This shows that love surrounds us and is within us constantly, we just have to choose to be love and it’s there, patiently waiting. Even in the darkest places in the world, love is always present for us to choose and it certainly never goes away.
“We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.” I love this Christopher – we all have a part to play in making a difference. So many of us give up, expecting the politicos of this world to make things better – but small everyday changes in our lives – if made by everyone – will change the shift back to love – a one unified world. one small step at a time.
I am up for that! I love that Christopher is a Kindi teacher, I love that he can foster that love and knowing in children.
Is it that we tend to focus on what is not love, or have a picture in our heads of how love should be or what it should look like from a person – that we miss out or don’t see the love and support that is all around us 24/7?
Lovingly helping others unconditionally; these are very beautiful and inspirational words Christopher. Along with loving ourselves unconditionally, living this way gives us purpose, brotherhood, harmony, stillness and joy. As you have pointed out, gradually more and more people are living this way, thus transforming humanity.
I love this Christopher, the ripple affect of all our choices is truly powerful the more loving choices we make the more we inspire others, the more we indulge and distract ourselves the more we confirm these harming behaviours to others, this level of responsibility is a game changer not only for ourselves but for everybody we meet.
The capacity of human beings to create and to swim in misery knows no limits. It is like there are two contests at once:
who succeeds more than another? and,
who can make another miserable?
Creation is a great way to entertain and to affect us so to make sure that we do not go back to love. It provides us with a zillion reasons not to. The reasons are also pure creation.
“We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.” Most beautifully said, showing clearly the power that we have in every single moment and every single one of us.
Thank you Christopher for the powerful reminder that our love and inner wisdom has never left us, it remains forever consistently there waiting for us to choose to live a life of love, harmony, joy, stillness and brotherhood.
When we see and feel, if we allow ourselves to, the horror that is being played out in the world and if we are continually meeting lovelessness, that is a lack of true love, it is easy to recoil and want to hide from it or want to confront it in some way. And maybe there is another way, maybe we can, by connecting to the love inside us and all that we hold true, live that love that is missing in the world. To do this we have to be true to ourselves, that is forever peeling away the old ideals and beliefs and living with true care and love for ourselves and allowing that love to ripple out of it’s own accord.
True love has no judgment, comparison or need for someone to be a particular way, it is accepting and forgiving, if the world had more love, there would be less need for war, exclusion, slavery and many other things that keep humanity in disharmony.
You have perfectly captured what institutionalised religion is Christopher…”Nothing but a human created set of rules (sometimes cruel, harsh and discriminating and definitely NOT loving) based upon some old scriptures that have been twisted and turned, re-written and re-translated to become the basis of how almost the whole of humanity act, think, indulge, hate and disregard one another.” That God for Serge Benhayon who has founded The Way of The Livingness… introducing true religion as something that is everything we have always looked for other so-called religions to be.
We are being sold a world that is loveless, scary, and fully of struggle. But is that the real world or just the picture that is on sale? Love is always there for us, but we must choose it, actively. The picture says that love comes to you only if you are really lucky, and preferably really good looking too. Otherwise it is hard and fleeting. All of this is the illusion that the world is going to hell. Yes, there are issues, and there are some really serious ones that we must not shrink from. But love is simply who we are. It is our very essence, and it can never leave us.
‘Love hasn’t gone anywhere’ When we reconnect to the essence of true love within our inner-heart then we know that it hasn’t gone anywhere, it is just that we haven’t been living all the love that we are. With the inspiration of those living the love of the inner-heart one by one, many by many we will all return to love.
Love what you have shared Christopher ” from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society. It is available to all mankind it is carried in the heart of every human being. As we, in large and small acts of love, reflect this love to the world, in time harmony will once again reign.”
The smallest to the largest acts of love are there to inspire the many. For too long on this planet it has been every man for himself or religion against other religion but the era of love is here even though looking at the world at the moment it is pretty hard to tell. If mankind worked together with love what an amazing place the earth would be. It totally freaks me out the amount spent worldwide on weapons when the same money could give every human being all that they need, food, shelter and healing, physically, mentally and spiritually.
All those statements you mentioned about the abilities or the power of love – there are so many of them, and yet if it was so powerful, why do we have all the abhorrent behaviour and ways of living thriving in the world today?
It feels that it is not that love isn’t powerful but the pictures we are sold that love comes from another or from certain gestures. We become void of love because we are not supported to hold and nurture the love we are born with. But when we do we start to see people and our world change. This has been my experience of love since knowing Serge Benhayon and the many that make up the student body and even those not, they simply allow that love within them to come to the fore.
Brilliantly shared Christopher. I love the absoluteness that this line reveals – ‘every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society’. When we appreciate how great a part of humanity we all equally and actually are, we will realise that the way we choose to live has an effect all those around us. And so the responsibility is ours to bring the Love we are within equally to all we do and all we meet, as the moments that we choose not to we are allowing the lovelessness to take the place/space that would otherwise be claimed by our Love, and it is this that contributes to the ills, turmoil, unrest and suffering in our world today.
Every single loving act will lead towards a more harmonious society … a statement that, if taken to heart, could revolutionize humanity.
“The living example of love personified, Serge Benhayon” – that is exactly it. I love this. So well captured, Christopher. We actually all are love, and learning to live as such in human forms.
When we see so much lovelessness being played out in the world, we do wonder where the love has gone. But the truth is love has always been here. Such love that even lovelessness is being allowed, as long as it has something that has been waiting for our true home coming for eons. Meeting someone like Serge Benhayon fills me with the joy of knowing that there is a truer way for us to live, as well as reminds me that our responsibility is way overdue.
I am finding that the more I understand energy and the fact that we are never separate from each other, or the energy we use to express and carry out human life (be it loving or abusive), I can’t sit on my high horse thinking I am not contributing to the abuse in the world simply because I am not murdering or selling drugs. My abuse may not be considered by the world’s standards as not abusive but I feel it, my body is my best barometer. When I choose to understand my levels of abuse and choose love instead I better understand others more and can help show that they have the same ability to choose love by making that choice myself.
Christopher, you do a great job of exposing the religion we currently have, how can it be called religion if it has a set of rules that divides people. We need to reassess what religion is and what it means to be religious.
Sadly these questions need asking when it seems that all we see around us is so far from the representation or quality of love that it is deeply disturbing and somewhat overwhelming. However when we bring it back to ourselves and the difference we can make through a single loving act, it is empowering to know that we can lay a new foundation that inspires others to do the same… and ultimately return to a way of living that not only reflects the love and beauty we are but produces the world we all want to live in.
Great article Christopher, and from what is happening in the world since you wrote this article, humanity is definitely in need of more love and brotherhood. If I share a few words that may exemplify the need for more love: Brexit, Trump, Hanson, Murdock, Bush, Blair, Turkey, Syria / Middle East and ISIS. The list is too long as we live in a loveless society – when even one person accepts what is being done to humanity in the name of being good or right, it is loveless!
How is it that we’ve become so disconnected from ourselves and so wary and untrusting of one another – to become so separated from each other when in fact we are all one? When we harm another, we harm ourselves and vice versa – why do we not understand this?
Just to be clear, I am not sure that one can say that all religions originally based on love? Most evolved based on the teachings of love by one teacher or another, but then twisted and bastardised to suit their own means from the moment of their inception. They became dogmatic ideals and tenets, where true religion is anything but that.
I agree Adam; the original teachings were all based on love and brotherhood and those teachings have had a varying amount of reinterpretation! No teaching from the past has ever said to set up this religion by any of the avatars. The world is looking for a religion that will unify all into a living brotherhood.
Our love hasn’t gone anywhere, only that we haven’t chosen to live with it. A relationship we can’t escape from but only ignore at our own expense. Thank you Christopher for this reminder that our love hasn’t ever left us and remains constantly in the background forever there waiting to be brought forward in every part of life, not just in the big flashy moments but in every part of life.
Everytime a single person chooses a foundation of the true connection of the inner heart in their lives, the platform of humanity becomes stronger upon which we can reconnect to the one heart that we all are.
In ancient times this was everyday lives for many and I feel it aches us to the bone not to have that present in our lives anymore. We live versions of it but not the full one. I think we want to live in brotherhood without any guards up, we do not like to live in our houses used as fortresses. The good thing though is that we do have a choice.
With all that goes on in the world, the consistent striving for self gain as individuals, groups, extremists, countries, governments and religion all under the illusion of ideals and beliefs, but in total separation to all others, this shows how far away from love we now live. Through true love and reflection it is possible to inspire others to live from their own inner heart, and not the ideals and beliefs we were once taught.
Our responsibility is to understand what true love is and to bring it into every aspect of our lives. It is easy to become overwhelmed when we look at all the obvious evils in the world so we need to bring our appreciation to all that is love and care and to know that we can bring this to all we meet.
It is quite alarming how actions such as war, abuse, human trafficking, corruption, bombings, bullying, cyber abuse etc, are so far separated from the natural harmonious state of love. If love is our nature state of being, and everything is energy, then it is worth observing what is it exactly that consumes a human being for it to operate in such the complete opposite manner..
What was particularly shocking was watching a documentary called ‘Spotlight’ recently, how corrupt the institutions that we hold so dear, that have done so much ‘good’, can be. To be hiding thousands of paedophiles in their ranks, knowingly concealing them and allowing so much harm. how far from love have we come?
It’s incredible really how complicated we have managed to make religion and love when really they are super simple and totally natural for us all to express and live from; no need for segregation, ‘them versus us’, or keeping our head down and only looking out for a select few. We can make a huge difference by being open and considering of the all and everyone in the way that we live.
Thanks for raising the question Christopher. Even when walking around in a ‘good’ and ‘safe’ society one can see that people are suffering, not the despair of poverty and war but by being bound to their unresolved issues, it is a condition which plagues the masses.
Love is contagious. A condition where no cure is required. Instead a remedy to many of the world’s woes
Only when we truly look at our lives and see the lies we have been party to, will we see what a waste of time and effort it all has been, and all without one ounce of Love.
Love is certainly the way and once you connect to it there is no belief but an absolute knowing.
‘We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.’ If every movement in our day is loving what an amazing impact this would have on the world. Multiply this by many and even more people will be inspired to open wide their hearts to let out the immense love that resides with in us all.
I used to think because I hadn’t raped, been involved in a political agenda, done (what I considered) really bad things like murder, drug trafficking etc. that I could wipe myself clean of responsibility for the way the world was/is and say that I was doing ‘better’ than most. But I have since discovered that we are all a part of the communities we live in and all have our part to play, which does not mean staying silent or disengaging from humanity, but rather re-engaging with humanity in truth.
Thank you Christopher for your insights and for making it clear that it has been us turning away from love that is what has happened and after turning away we then tend to look for love in all the wrong places, we look everywhere accept within and by doing so we have allowed the list of atrocities that you have outlined to continue to prosper at the expense of humanity. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have pointed us back to reconnect to the love that we all innately are and with that love comes a responsibility to call out all that is not love.
Yes, good questions. Love is always here. We have dulled and distracted and disengaged from our-self’s and others. In this separated state from us and others the loveless thrives. We need to return to our essence, our connection and to others.
“It has not gone anywhere, it can be found inside us all!” Exactly Christopher – the love hasn’t gone anywhere – it’s right there where it’s always been and all we have to do is connect to it.
A beautiful sharing thank you Christopher, this line is a great reminder of the responsibility we all hold – ‘ every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.’ So true and how everything we do either heals or harms, knowing this and living this will bring about the true change that is so desperately needed.
Beautifully concluded Christopher, love hasn’t gone anywhere – but we have, searching high and low but never on the inside where it can be found. So it is us needing to return to love, meaning choosing it in every day life in every single word we speak and in every single move we make.
Part of the unwillingness to try and make a difference in the world stems from our beliefs that it is not possible, yet as you say Chris more and more people are eschewing this belief and making the small steps that then become gigantic leaps. Loving ourselves and by nature all around us is the greatest way to change the world, this along with speaking up and living with unshakeable integrity does make a difference. A huge part of the changes are unseen, ripple like effects that transmit to places beyond our eyes, but happen they do and the more we love the more gets changed, lies get exposed, corruption has nowhere to hide. Love is an unstoppable force and it’s definitely worth going along for the ride.
Just as love expands, my understanding of love expands and I realise it is not just for me and my friends, love must include everyone. The more I feel this the more I realise that holding steady with this love, not taking things personally, not going into reaction, is important for others to feel and on some level realise this is possible. Love takes responsibility for the way we are in the world, and that’s how things change.
Beautifully said Amanda, I agree being truly loving in the world brings great change and the ripple effect it has is incredibly powerful.
This so beautiful to read, and I can feel I needed a reminder of that I know that love is the answer, getting caught up in personal issues isn’t the way. We are here together and I know we all have a core that is based on love, and life is about getting to know this.
‘just hiding inside my own little bubble of life, doing my own thing, cutting off the rest of humanity as though I was not a part of them and they were not a part of me.’ But we are inextricably linked, because whether we like it or not, we share the same air, the same planet, the same particles. It’s all one big love-in in that respect. So ignoring something does not mean it has gone away. It just means we have stepped into the comfort of irresponsibility, away from our place in the whole and from the responsibility for the quality of the whole in which we have our place.
Christopher, such a great sharing to ponder on. I am really feeling that when love starts with ourselves and is a deep connection to our inner hearts then this is what others feel and it spreads -such a powerful medium to live in and is the only way for the world to change. Unfortunately with more love on earth there is more corruption and unloving ways exposed and this is necessary for us all to feel. As our bodies clear so does the earth.
This truly is a wonderful blog stating exactly how it is. We certainly do have a responsibility now that we have been shown what love actually is. I know throughout history there have been pockets of peoples getting the livingness right and knowing what true love is, but so many of us always have and still get it so very wrong. Mankind needs to fully understand, that what you do to another you do to yourself, from a true loving act to a brutal murder.
Revisiting your blog Christopher reinforces the need for us to be love and see all as love as it truly is.
When I make love personal and realise that love can be the way I move in the world, the way I drive, the thoughts that I have and the way I express. Love is my responsibility to choose foods that nourish me and sleep that holds me in good stead for the next day. All this may inspire others to be the love that is within them, as I have been inspired by meeting true love in action and in stillness.
This blog shows how we have watered down what love is – by its definition and capacity. I used to think allowing myself to eat whatever I fancied was loving myself. I used to think to have that special someone in my life was ‘being in love’. Resurrecting what love truly is in the way I live every day is the only place I can start.
Such a powerful heading Christoph; Where is the love, where has it gone?
Indeed where has it gone!
However your blog gives us inspiration and incentive to bring it back, and spread it out, in our every day living; each and every one of us.
‘Every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society’ is a very powerful statement and how simple it is for us to just be love to support humanity!
such a powerful word… Love… And it is indeed a quality of living that is the only true reflection of this in humanity, because otherwise it is simply another mental framework and process… And this is where we can learn so much from Serge Benhayon, because his quality of life is simply a resonance of love which is open and there to support everyone of us back to our own inner hearts, from whence we can also support others.
Beautiful Liane, it is indeed a bitter pill to swallow when we see that our choices are not coming from love. i love that all we need to do is give ourselves permission to live in this way, with love.
Deanne i feel they would be totally different from the separation we see now in health care. true care and love is what is really needed in these areas.
Yes , every choice has a far reaching effect on all of humanity.
I feel that if these choices come from love then a more harmonious society can evolve from this.
“Normal everyday people who truly believe that love is the way, laying down the foundations for a better world to live in for the generations to come. Already enjoying harmonious lives and living examples of true beauty. Lovingly helping others around them unconditionally”. What you have written here Christopher is very beautiful and inspiring.
Yes we are everyday normal people living our lives with care, consideration and love for ourselves and others.
What has become more and more apparent is the level of abuse we accept and allow as society’s normal on a daily basis. If we look at our kids growing up, the way they speak to each other and treat one another on a daily basis is horrendous and this is the so called small scale stuff that plays out in classrooms, nurseries and homes everyday. In truth it is not small, the sarcasm, talking over one another, talking about each other, pushing, hitting, shouting out, tantrums, disrespect for each other, property, teachers and themselves, the jealous, comparison, the list could go on, and we do say it’s not okay, but hand in hand we often say and accept that just how kids are nowadays. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Deep down we all know the deep love and care we come from, so why accept anything less.
It’s interesting what you share here Christopher, not only is it apparent that love is not being chosen through the large scale bastardisation of religion, as what we see presented as religion is not the truth, wars, greed, corrupt, domestic violence, cyber abuse and much more – it is also apparent in our own homes and on the street, though at times this can be hidden under a veneer of pandering, politeness, or niceness, which may make it trickier to see, but we cannot negate the truth we feel in our bodies, deep down we all know what is loving and what is not.
We are always having an effect, energetically, on those around us, we are either healing or harming. We have a choice, to inspire, or confirm the lovelessness.
Absolutely Alison, we are always either harming or healing, whether we choose to be aware or not. What a choice and responsibility we each have.
Just love your article, Christopher and it feels very supportive to be re-reading it again now after the latest round of atrocities that have been taking place all over the world. Love hasn’t gone anywhere, it’s where it always has been and always will be, inside each and every one of us, we’ve just forgotten it’s there.
This is it exactly…never to give up on love despite the atrocities going on in our world … we each all do make a big difference…”from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society”
I agree with you Christopher, it looks like love has gone but there is a groundswell of people who can see that there is love still in all of us, we came from love and therefore are Love , we have the opportunity to turn our lives around, to see we are all equal and come from God.
I often talk to people about society, about the things that aren’t great and need to be changed. Some see it as a pointless conversation, because no one can change anything. But I believe that if we all believed that, then nothing never would change. But if there are enough people, and one person is enough, who are willing to stand up against what is not right and talk about what can be done to change, it will have a ripple effect, not always instant in its effect, but a change none the less. All those in history who have made changes began as just one ordinary person, but because they believed they had the power to make a difference, they did. The same can be for everyone, and love can be that change.
I agree, Rebecca and social media makes it so much easier for us to communicate with each other on a world wide basis, rather than just in our own community. It’s been beautiful to feel people all over the world coming together over the last few weeks, all expressing how important it is that we come together as one, respecting each other and seeing each other as people first, law abiding people who will stand strong against the wave of terror and destruction that is trying to keep us separate.
I agree, it’s great to start to see those voices rise up, to see that there are those out there who can see through the game evil is playing, trying to get us to react and step away from our values and react in kind, but instead stand firm, hold onto the freedom to chose love over hate and not give these people the satisfaction of causing us to cut ourselves off. If we do that, then war or not, we have ultimately be the losers
We can and we do make a difference by how we are, what energy we allow to run us, in each and every moment as you say Jane. The more of us who choose to live this way, the greater the impact.
It is so clear that love is the answer, and Serge Benhayon and all others who study with Universal Medicine, have deeply inspired me to grow to this love that is already inside me. It is the start of something huge, that is in the true religion for all to be.
How often do we underestimate our power? Because we can´t see what it does in a bigger scale, when we express something lovingly or we decide to go a different way. But boy oh boy, you shouldn´t. Everything is energy – when you embrace your own power and affect the world you will see results, and feel what it does to humanity to act in a different way.
Beautifully powerful words Steffi – as everything is expression this means everything done whilst we are living in connection to the love that we are affects all others.
Absolutely- “only” just being you and not swimming in the same direction as everybody, is already extraordinary in todays world. And then imagine- living all your power and not holding back your wisdom just rocks 🙂
A very powerful sharing Christopher. I feel there is no where to hide any more and there are many “little bubbles of life” that are bursting around the world as more and more of us are now becoming fully aware that we can make a big difference no matter how large or small these loving acts are offered out into humanity.
I feel that this is really key, for all of us to look at our part to play in such a love-less world, and to be responsible for bringing it back to our daily lives.
You can only start with yourself and inspire others. Every single one of us, needs to take responsibility for the tiniest expression we put out. I feel the urgency in that- how much do we have to suffer, how sick do we have to become to really start going a different way of living.
Exactly Laura. Saying that we cannot change the World is not only not true, but simply does show that we are not prepared to take the responsibility for our life, our choices and their consequences. Hiding away, hoping and pretending that others will find a solution will not work.
To feel like we can’t change the world is choosing to ‘stay in the cave’, to bury our heads in the sand and say, what will be will be. It’s a cop out, it’s giving our power away and does a great dis-service to everyone, especially our selves. We absolutely CAN and DO make a difference. The cumulative effect of multiple loving acts and thoughts is enormous, from; making a cup of tea, a loving hand on an arm, offering to help someone struggling with a heavy load, choosing to just listen and deeply connect with another person. Love is always felt by another, even if it isn’t acknowledged. The more love that is expressed in the world, the more love there will be, it’s that simple.
I agree Michael and Laura. The world is in such a mess, that we can no longer just sit back and expect someone else to put in the effort to change things. We have to take that responsibility for ourselves now, starting with the smallest details of how we take care of ourselves, and the more we do this, the more we will be able to do, so inspiring others to do the same. This is where all things truly begin to change, and as the saying goes, from a tiny acorn, a great oak grows.
Yes Michael, it really does come down to energetic responsibility. the choices lie with all of us, we all have a part to play. when we take that responsibility then it will inspire others to do the same
When we reignite and reconnect back to our own love inside ourselves, by virtue of the way we live with that love and the reflection others feel and see from us, it shows that there is another way to be. Just as the Benhayon family have reflected that way back to us.
Living this love is the most simple and most efficient way to make a difference in this world.
It is the truth Michael, love is changing everything and it is our responsibility to live in this quality to the best of what we know it to be, every loving expression has an impact.
“We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society”.
Indeed we can do something and it is up to each and every one of us to be responsible in everything we do.
A beautiful and very powerful sharing thank you Christopher.
Hear hear Shirl! It is indeed our responsibility to be aware of the quality in which we live knowing that this affects us all. Serge Benhayon and his family are exemplary examples of this in every way, reflecting this way of living for us all.
It is all about the quality we live in, changing the world by living our truth.
Yes Benkt, quality is key and it’s by the reflection of love that the world can change.
Being love and every single act from that, will bring harmony to the world. Harmony is what is being cried out for in every corner.
Very powerful and very inspirational what you are sharing with us Christopher. I agree with you, it can only start with ourselves, it doesn’t make sense to wait for anybody to bring more love into this world. We are all made of love, it is time to live it.
‘Where is the Love? Where Has it Gone?’ It has gone nowhere. It is just sitting inside us patiently waiting to be tapped into…it is our choice and once we choose it, wow, we can see it everywhere, and, see where it is also sorely needed.
It starts with one Christopher, it starts with ourselves. We can’t expect others to be more loving, truly loving with themselves and others, if we are not willing to go there ourself.
You are not alone on Ariana, most of us have allowed our selves to be deceived on this count yet we all yearn for love. Must have been something in it for us because this is crazy. My oh my, what lengths irresponsibility is happy to take us!
Love is actually very simple. We have created huge problems and made the world a dark and complex place in our resistance of love, but what Christopher describes here about being loving towards other people is actually a simple choice, though one that asks for a letting go of ideals, beliefs and the protections we have adopted to keep us from being hurt by other people.
Thank you Christopher, the more we are able to love and understand our self the more we are able to love and understand others, the more we will be able to love and understand the world.
The very fact that we live in the world where: “we have to look after our own”, and it becomes the focal point, ensures that we don’t truly live life knowing the facts that we are all connected, related, and if we used those words in truth we would consider every person on this planet and beyond our own. Unfortunately we confine this to a specific near kin relationships or friends and ignore the horrific situations that so many others (out of sight) live with.
Christopher it is easy to see examples all around us of people just looking out for number one, without having any care towards others – this I feel is reflected in how we look after our elderly and how the close knit families are becoming a rarity. I feel very blessed to be shown an example of what true love within a family, and for humanity, looks like, and this reflection I get from Serge Benhayon and his family.
Gorgeously said Elizabeth. The responsibility we all have is in the details of the everyday.
Christopher, all that you say is true that is going on in the world, and also that we ALL have a part in this; those of us who may not have necessarily made such extreme wayward choices, but just to not speak up and accept things as they are, is also a deviation from love, as you have shared here with us. So in effect, what is beautiful is that this group of people you speak of, the students of Universal Medicine, of which I am one of many, are coming back to love big time, in our choice to now speak up and to live this love in and amongst our families, friends and communities everywhere (as you say, around the globe). Thanks Christopher.
What you’ve written is very exposing about where has the love gone in today’s society Christopher. I have felt love inside me since I was a child but recently have felt and reconnected to it on a very deep level and found the love of God is deep within me as it is us all. All we have to do is look for it, it’s gone nowhere.
Absolutely gillrandall. All we have to do is look for it underneath all the emotional stuff that we have piled on top. It’s there waiting for us to re-connect to it and feel it.
Also it may seem to many that changing our way of being to a loving one is just a drop int he ocean, insignificant to the size of the welds problems but if we understand that everything is energy then we will know that that drop in the ocean has changed it forever.
Christopher, what you share is huge in a world where many have given up and withdrawn thinking the mess is too big to clean up. The answer is simple, dedicate yourself to a life of love to the best of your ability, be willing to keep developing and this will change the world. One heart at a time.
It doesn’t make sense does it that we as a society are all out there looking for love when all we have to do is look within connect to our inner hearts and there it is, Love. For many years I resisted love; I held myself guarded not allowing love in or expressing it. When I listened to the presentations of Serge Benhoyon and Universal Medicine I learnt how to take my guard down and trust myself and humanity again. When I connect with my eternal love I have no needs I expect anyone to meet because I am love and can’t be hurt. When I shut down and have expectations and conditions that don’t play out according to the picture I have, I feel hurt so there is only one answer and that is to be Love.
It is easy to feel disempowered when we feel the atrocities and cruelty in the world when there is so much we can do by bringing our focus to our own connection and expressing love moment to moment form a simple word to the smallest action it all counts.
Unfortunately the word religion is today more synonymous with violence than it is with love. This is not the fault of true religion of course, but rather the fact that its true meaning has been bastardised over time.
Love has not gone anywhere. It has only been our choice of how much of it we want to accept and express. It’s patiently waiting for us all to return to it.
The community responds to love so openly and quickly if it is just lived by us very simply. Not imposing just our way of being allows others to feel safe with us.
‘We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.’
Every detail attended to with love and in true service builds the consistency of love that humanity is so desperately yearning for, but also railing against.
This blog allows me to feel the true purpose of love. Most of my life I have felt that there was no point to small acts of love. I felt as though the world would remain lost no matter what I did. Thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I am beginning to feel and experience that there are no small things and every time love is expressed it matters. Thank you Christopher.
well said Leonne, it is simply a choice that we make all of the time to express or not to express the love within.
Yes, and instead of not only waiting for others, even take the responsibility to express the love that you are and by that lead the way for others to feel inspired.
well said Jane, if we break free from the prison of taking care of our own back yard and see that we are part of one big world we will start penning the door to others once again as letting people in is a big part bringing love back into our lives.
We can make so many words about love and say ‘I love you’ so quickly. The world would be quite silent if we could only speak from truth. There were not many TV channels and not many adds on the walls and bus stops. Universal Medicine would remain though.
We do all know love and we all want to be loved. The biggest gift is to be that love and to reflect this back to everybody around you. Every day, every moment. It starts with me, why wait for others?
Yes Brendan it is a real blessing having people around who are loving and about serving where they can. I know I am really inspired when I come into contact with anyone who displays those qualities.
BUM (Before Universal Medicine) Love was a commercial commodity; we were told how to buy, give, take it away, hold for ransom, shower it on others, spend a life time searching for, thinking we had found, lost forever and the list is probably endless. All of these words and actions to find something we can never loose! You could say Love has had a BUM deal, if we stop buying into what has been told to us in the past for what love is and turn back on our light… the light of us may be small now, but like dominos we can have far reaching affects.
Ha Ha, love this comment sjmatsonuk. Yes love has had a BUM deal because we have forgotten that it’s within us, where it’s been all along.
Christopher it’s interesting to ponder on “Were not all religions originally based on love? Were not all religions originally from the one religion of love?” I feel this is why there is such a great deal of sadness, anger and reaction around religion because we all actually know what you have shared here is true. How the human mind has been allowed to concoct, control and then separate religion from its true meaning is excruciatingly painful for it comes no where near the truth of religion nor the truth of love.
Great point Jennifer, how religion is now manipulated and coerced to fit into so many ideals and beliefs of whomever can scream or shout the loudest or indeed incite war, destruction just to prove a point, all in the name of religion. When there is nothing destructive or unloving about religion, nothing.
See more on the true meaning of religion, and some great audios at unimedliving, I love this truth, ‘True religion is therefore always a beingness, never a doing. It simply means being and living in full our divine essence, that is, who we truly are.’
– See more at: http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-religion.html#sthash.EHBQpvZH.dpuf
Thank you for your blog Christopher, love is all around, it has not gone anywhere, it is inside each and every one of us on this planet, just waiting to be uncovered and expressed.
I was listening to a conversation today about wars and religion and how these wars were caused by extremists. I wondered if the war and the extremism was more of and end result rather than a cause. The cause being much earlier perhaps when behaviours were ignored way before war or extremism was even considered or even thinking that what good will a loving way do?
We all intently look for love, its something we are drawn to – yet we’ve got so confused in this world about what true love actually is that its hard to find anywhere. However what I’ve also come to appreciate is that is just one big illusion because instead of looking out for that love its there inside us all just waiting to be re-connected to. The simplicity is hard to fathom when we see the abuse, hurts and corruption worldwide.
Hello Christopher, I am one of those people who believes it is possible to love thy neighbour and the rest of humanity as well ! Thank you for sharing.
There is not one drop of love in any of the institutionalised religions we have today and I always find it very powerful whenever I read a blog that exposes this truth.
I totally agree Caroline, deep down have always known that something didn’t feel right with religions and when I came across Universal Medicine that delivers exactly the truth about God, it was extremely refreshing to have the truth in front of you to see it for what it truly is, and confirming why I never wanted to engage in religion in the past.
So do I Caroline – it’s like i want to yell out ‘Timber’ as another loveless pillar holding up an empty religious institution falls to be ground. Their foundations are not based on love so as soon as they are exposed they come crumbling down
Yes, it is hardly surprising that people are turning their backs on institutionalised religion as it stands, it is loveless. Understanding the true meaning of religion, a re-connection with self; from unimedliving , ‘As such, religion is simply a re-turn or a re-connection to that which we already are, that is, to the grandness and the magnificence of the Divine which is in all of us and within us equally so.’
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“Were not all religions originally based on love? Were not all religions originally from the one religion of love?” Yes they most certainly were but as Christopher has exposed here the true meaning of the word religion has been bastardised and it is only recently that I have begun to connect to the true meaning of the word religion.
I agree Caroline. Claiming myself as a religious person has not been entirely easy because of how I have reacted to the current way religion is portrayed. But coming to understand that being religious is being in and developing relationships to all in life based on my loving way has been very freeing indeed. Having love as the foundation to how we go about every intimate detail in our life is exquisite. If it were not for Serge Benhayon I would not have escaped my ongoing reactions to how hurt I was feeling from what I though religion was.
I absolutely agree with you Christopher, most of us live our lives in our own little bubble, not really caring what is going on in the world; all we are concerned about is ourselves and those closest to us. This is how I have lived most of my life and still do at times but since attending Universal Medicine workshops and presentations offering me another way, I am beginning to see the bigger picture… life is not about self but about every one and every thing, equally so and this includes me.
Where is the love? Looking in the news at the atrocities occurring, it would be all to easy to ask this question – to look outside ourselves and ask why. rather than to look within and ask ourselves what we can be doing to bring more of us, more of our love to the world.
I agree Rebecca, especially considering that a lot of atrocities are by people claiming to belong to particular religions. I can see how many react, as I did against the beliefs and actions of religions. I can see that our determined and dogmatic beliefs no matter how idealistic are leading us down a much more protracted path. When will we begin to see this unwinable pattern?
I agree Jennifer, religion is just another label to stick to people to separate one group from another, to divide families, friends and fellow humans
That ‘given up’ attitude is one that needs to be challenged. I know it has been very strong in me, and I have felt there was no point, because what can I, as a single individual do? Recently I was on a course and one participant said that she was at such a low in her life she was considering doing something that may have landed her in prison. She said it was the kindness of one individual that changed the course of her life. We may not all be saving another from prison, but we never know the full impact of our actions on another.
Exactly – I have heard so many stories about the effects of one person’s kindness on another, and for myself know how nice it is to just simply be served by someone friendly, or serve a friendly customer – it brightens a day.
It is good to stop, feel and see what is going on and ask this question ‘where has the Love gone?’ We ‘think’ we are improving and building a better future but this is a complete illusion and could not be further away from the truth. Growing up I have seen how everything has got far worse (not better!) from wars, poverty, housing, abuse, trafficking as you say the list goes on. There needs to be a definite change. In everyone I have met Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are the only ones that see the world spherically, are honest about what is going on and live in a way to consciously bring the Love back. Not that it ever disappeared, it has always been there, but humanity has been so lost we have not been able to truly feel this.
Love seems and feels to have disappeared from our daily lives. Everything (or almost) confirms this. We adjust to it. We accept this fact as the way it is. But there is no real reason to do so. Feeling the love in people who have said no to the ‘normal’ way of being and claimed what is really normal is really inspiring and world changing.
Feeling and seeing this love lived in others is the most powerful reminder that we are this love as well and can connect back to it at any time if we also say yes to it – and by that offer others the chance to remember that they are this love as well.
Thanks to Universal Medicine and the teaching of the Ageless Wisdom we are reminded that the Love has gone no where, that the Love is there all to the time just waiting to be connected to. That we are Love if we so choose to.
Yes, and it was Serge Benhayon who showed us this and it is now for us who have remembered love to remind humanity.
Awesome Chris, yes it feels like as humanity we have lost our way constantly looking, searching for love outside ourselves. Universal Medicine has inspired many thousands of people to look within for that Love and in doing so they have found that they are the love they have been searching for. It is so true Chris, love never went anywhere it has and always will be here, it just takes a choice from us to connect to this.
I am becoming more and more appreciative towards my parents and some friends around me that have allowed me to express whatever I felt and feel to express. Even if they don’t agree. It’s this allowing that is to be appreciated. It is actually a very loving deed. For a long time I considered that as normal but I’m actually experiencing that it feels amazing. And does supply miracles. And the Magic is that they receive a healing is well, everytime I am connected to me and speak Truth. And yes, this is available to all, and for many it seems to be lost. They hide in comfort and fear. Which is understandable, but also very tiring and not who we are. Appreciation of myself and others is key to allow myself to express freely.
This is powerful Floris. Appreciating ourselves and than speaking from this place of truth is so lovely. It’s great to have friends and family that receive our honesty… and yes we all receive a healing. 🙂
It is wonderful Kathryn to read the confirmation and equal experiences in your words. So many people do absolutely love hearing and receiving the truth. It’s what they’re longing for, just as we are. By keeping the believe running that nobody wants to hear or see me, I do not have to take responsibility and keep myself in constant fear. I’ve realised that in relating to the world from this dependence I am constantly measuring and draining myself. Rather then giving myself permission to just share what I feel to share. Without the need of wanting (needing) to be heard, seen, met, etc. Simply because I’ve met myself. The more I choose this, the more familiair it becomes. It’s like a confirmation of life, an appreciation of me choosing me – everytime I express my truth.
We can often feel overwhelmed that there’s nothing we can do to make a difference in the world, but what you write is gorgeous to feel that ‘every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society’. Like a ripple effect, we can make a huge difference with Love.
gillrandall I believe this is why we struggle so much as a human race, we have lost our ability to see the huge difference we all make when we act with loving care. If we were feeling the enormity of the impact that one persons actions can have we would take our responsibility to others a great deal more seriously than we currently do. It is incredibly empowering to see this truth and act on it.
‘We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.’ I love this Christopher because it is so TRUE.
Being love and every single act from that… will bring harmony to the world.
I love this line too kathrynfortuna reminding me of our purpose and the responsibility each one of us and myself has in making up the whole.
It changes the way we perceive responsibility doesn’t it? No longer as a chore but more as an honour.
Yes very true Kathryn. You never know how your actions might affect others – the smallest loving gestures can make the hugest differences to someone’s life!
I totally agree Susie. The smallest of loving gestures can start a ‘pay it forward’ activity without us even realising it. Take the supermarket for example. If we take the time to stop and truly met the checkout attendant than notice how they are with the next customer. This example is obvious however there are many versions of this going on all the time. Love sure is catchy. 🙂
I am with you Brendan, it is a true gift having people in our lives “who live lovingly not only for themselves but for everyone” and how glorious it is that this is inspiring more and more people to live the same way.
The stark simplicity and truth of what you express here Christopher is chilling really. How blinded have we been by the attraction of separation and feathering our own nest at the cost and expression of true love?
The crazy thing is that the love hasn’t gone anywhere – it’s been inside us all eternally. What has been missing is our acceptance of it and willingness to express it in everything we do.
Indeed Fiona, it is a crazy thing. and so why do we hold and guard ourselves against it and against everyone else – even though it is a certain recipe for misery and disaster. It is thanks to Universal Medicine and the presentations of Serge Benhayon that I am beginning to know what Love is, and also in the understanding of why we do not accept love – learn to let go of that resistance, and to embrace the love we truly are once more..
‘And so why do we hold and guard ourselves against it’. Great question Annie C. We’ve grown accustomed to the idea that when we love, we are opening ourselves up to being hurt, but that is not the glorious love we all have inside, that when we allow it to flow out transforms need and fear and insecurity into a whole of love, joy and harmony.
Yes Fiona, well said…. Love hasn’t gone anywhere, we just need to express it, to ourselves and with anything we do…
Exactly johannebrown17. Love in all its expressions are all around us. I love watching something as simple as the power of some light-hearted joy.
and I feel that is what we are missing…that love is within…love is who we are – really missing it, missing ourselves. Our search out their somewhere has never and will never bring us to love or to true religion.
absolutely Fiona, we may have turned our heads from the love and have come to focus on our hurts instead but occasionally we can’t help but connect to it. There is a lot of suffering and atrocity in this world but there is also a growing expression of true love. To return to that natural state of harmony that we all so deeply crave it is imperative to start recognising this love in ourselves and equally in others once again.
Definitely Fiona, it is always there, just our willingness and choice to live it.
Spot on Fiona. It is so important to stay connected with this love and expressing it. If we do not do this we feel the hurts are the truth and live in the illusion that the love has gone away – and that is a creation.
Yes, love was there all along, inside us, we were just looking in the wrong places, outside of ourselves for it. We can accept this love and express it in everything we do.
Absolutely Fiona – our own avoidance of the glorious truth makes it convenient for us to apparently believe that the love has gone somewhere when in fact it and everything we need to return to living according to our true loving nature is inside us.
Totally crazy Martin! And there is that ‘choose’ word again. The big C! Everything is a choice and the sooner we know this the better, In fact if there was one thing I could teach a child it would be that they have a choice, that everything is a matter of choice and everything that happens is a result of their choices because learning this and living by this beautiful science is one of the greatest truths gifted to me by Universal Medicine. Knowing I have a choice, has empowered me and changed my life in immeasurable grand ways.
We have all been swept up in the rip tide of life that has become the new normal. We can’t swim against it, we can try but become exhausted, going with it we are just sucked out to sea or is there another way? We can just choose to swim side ways where we can observe and feel what is really happening.
Great analogy sjmatsonuk, why join everyone else in their exhausted swim against the tide, denying ourselves the beautiful truth of love.
How is it that we settle for less than love and then all of the abuse that you have listed in your opening paragraph Chris is considered normal and accepted as part of our way of living? If people like yourself, all those who comment and of course Serge Benhayon know that we can live a much more loving way with each other and thus bring back true religion.
Very true Sally but Rome wasn’t built in a day. With our Loving commitment to humanity we will get there.
We all know love, it has not gone anywhere, and the many comments of this blog confirm the fact that is is alive and expressing through many.
I agree Victoria. I am enjoying the comments as much as the blogs because I am feeling the love in so many people being expressed here. It’s beautiful.
Hear hear kathrynfortuna, I too enjoy the comments, it is very beautiful to feel the love expressed in them.
And it is truly beautiful how you highlight this fact Victoria.
Absolutely Christopher, beautifully said ‘ We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.’
Absolutely jenny James, we can and we must all do something. Humanity needs love in the world more than ever.
hear hear matthew, humanity does need love in the world more than ever – and it is the responsibility of every single one of us equally to choose love for ourselves and to live in a way that allows more love to be. and as more people choose to live in this way, so can others see this love and be inspired to choose if for themselves.
I agree Jenny and Christopher, it is through the living example of love that we get to see and know we are from that same love. And when we are inspired to choose to live love equally, then every act becomes a loving act, and from there society and the world can transform from one living from hurt, fear, protection and survival to one of true care and love for all.
I agree Annie C, we all have the ability to inspire each other to return to love should we choose to live our lives with love.
Absolutely Annie and Matthew the world needs more love. As you say it is responsibility of all of us to choose love for ourselves and all, so humanity gets to see there is a different way to live in this world.
I agree Jenny, love can be bought through every profession in the dedication to every detail in respect of the client you service.
I too loved these words Jenny, every moment, an opportunity to be love, and the affect this has on everyone.
So true Anna, its up to us to bring all the love that we are so as others can feel what love is. It starts with us.
it feels to me like a snowball. It may be small,and may seem insignificant, inot that huge snowball, but roll it in more snow, it gets bigger, until its big enough to roll on its own, and then it gets HUGE. All the little steps we take towards showing love will grow and grow until its significance cannot be ignored.
I can do one of two things, keep my eyes closed or open them wide. Keeping my eyes closed, in other words, turning a blind eye to what is going on in the world adds to the mess, simply by turning away. The thing is I feel this love, this deep well of love that wants to come out. It hasn’t gone anywhere for me, so opening my eyes allows me to live with the love, interact, work, shop and express this love. People need to see and feel it and know there is another way to live.
“Where is the Love? Where has it gone?” you answer your own questions beautifully with the only true answer there is…” It has not gone anywhere, it can be found inside us all!”
Very true rosemarydunstan, Love is always with us, the question we ought to ask ourselves is, ‘Are we choosing it?’
This blog is so beautiful Christopher, I love your words “Normal everyday people who truly believe that Love is the way, laying down foundations for a better world for the generations to come”. To just be ourselves in loving relationship to each other , sharing this Planet with all as equal beings. Thank you Christopher.
I love how it is that simple and how Universal Medicine stands with out question the full glory or what we are and where we come from. Every tool under the sun is that supports this connection is presented and shared with us – which is incredible and from what I have come across to date nobody else is doing this. But at the end of the day it totally comes down to us and making that choice for ourselves, to be the Full Glory that we are consistently.
Such a great question posed, as I often think of this. Are people just so on the treadmill of life that they have actually stopped asking that question? They have become so blaze to the way of the world, not realising that in accepting the status quo, it is just aligning to all that is not going well in the world. I loved your line “every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.” This is a great mantra for us all to live by, that every little gesture, thought, loving intent towards another is clocked somewhere and is felt, not only by you but by all.
“Normal everyday people who truly believe that love is the way, laying down the foundations for a better world to live in for the generations to come. Already enjoying harmonious lives and living examples of true beauty. Lovingly helping others around them unconditionally”.
What you have written here Christopher is so simple yet so profound. I am inspired by your blog to lovingly and tenderly connect to my spark and the spark in others.
It seems to me that as a society we are pretty lost there are lots of extremes in this area to from the “I’m alright Jack” attitude through to the give to others until you are so depleted types either way many people are ending up with illness and disease. I wasn’t until I leant through the living example of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine what true Love is.
The world is in a mess, but it is not love that ever left us, it is we who left Love… and we can choose to reconnect with our nature at any moment.
Absolutely Victoria, the spark of love within us never dies out but just patiently waits for us to remember it and to fan its flames.
When you put it like that Martin – it does seem so strange.
So true, “love has not gone anywhere, it can be found inside us all!” It doesn’t get any simpler than that.
I thought I had a good idea on what love was before I came across Universal Medicine. Wow was I in for a surprise when I felt what love is. Love is in me and love is who I am. To love and cherish me I love and cherish everyone and bring that to everyone I meet everyday.
Lovely to ponder about, Christopher! To me the key is to be love and live love. The warmth and love that radiates from me then is an option for others to feel and ponder. It is always nothing but a choice. Be love or be anything but love. And I can’t make people be something. But I can choose to radiate as best as I can. To be a lighthouse inspiring others.
I’m very inspired by your sharing Christopher. Our daily choices make such a difference – either as you say we are “just hiding inside our own little bubble of life” or we live the love we are and share the love with each other.
If we remember that we all have a heart and that in every body resides love and that in truth we are loving beings loving everybody else equally there would be no war possible. But it is that a big part of the world suffers under a form of dementia and has forgotten about this vital truth and numbed the feeling of love and lost the connection to truth.
That is true Christopher the numbers of people increase who are: “Normal everyday people who truly believe that love is the way, laying down the foundations for a better world to live in for the generations to come.” So each of us can do something about the state of our world as you so beautiful describe in your powerful blog.
When we go about our business with the attitude of ‘I’m all right Jack’ we offer humanity nothing but individualism and separation. When we consider everyone we offer brotherhood to all.
‘We can all do something about the state of the world’. Absolutely we can, even if it is a simple as a comment stating that what is happening is wrong. It is too easy to just turn a blind eye at the mess around, but unfortunately that is what happens.
Jane that is my experience too. ‘The more I speak up, the more I engage in life, the more I am inspired to do so …’ And the more magic moments. The very opposite effect of hiding in a bubble.
So true, we can all make a difference, even in the simplest of gestures. If we all gave up we would be creating a loveless world, when what we all truly want and what the world is crying out for is Love.
I know this song it goes a little something like this ” from head to toe its love ALL the way” and crank it up. Thank you Michael Benhayon
“…we think that we can’t change anything so we just go with it.”That’s where I have been majority of this lifetime.Playing small and insignificant. Since attending Universal Medicine events and courses I am reminded again and again that there is no “small” things. Everything is meaningful by nature and every loving act – seemingly small – leaves a huge mark in a whole picture
Yes elenalight I can relate very much to playing small and going along with every one and every thing but recently I am becoming more aware of how I am making a difference in the quality of energy I am living. Of course, I slip up from time to time but hey, I’m learning. Thank you for the reminder that no matter how small I may think a loving act is, it is indeed huge.
Indeed Martin – it is odd that we spend so much energy on fighting what we all crave the most – Love.
What stands out to me reading this today is how is it possible for a religion to claim it is loving,or a society to claim it is loving when abuse is rife along with corruption and inequality? As you’ve shared Christopher it’s not up to one person to wave a magic stick but for each of us for to bring loving movements and acts into our day – then we will see a true worldwide change.
We as a species have spent most of our lives trying to improve something that has never needed fixing… us! If we all tried to do a single loving act could it be the first domino to topple over that would cause everything to change?
“We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society”. This is so true Christopher, if we all did our bit and acted with love, in everything that we did, what a different world it would be. As you said individually we can make a difference, collectively how powerful!
“We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society”. This is so true Christopher if we all did our loving bit what a different world it would be; individually it is our responsibility to act with love in every thing that we do; thus changing the world.
“every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society,”…this is the beginning of true and loving responsibility.
So true – by each one of us being respectful, loving and treating everyone as equals we can make a change.
I think it’s great Christopher the way you’ve highlighted how we can try and cut ourselves off from humanity “as though I was not a part of them and they were not a part of me.” We are interconnected and what we each do does matter and makes a difference to the whole. Really, if we think we are in our own little bubble and that what we do won’t affect everyone else, we are kidding our self.
Yes Fiona, that is something I’ve noticed that I have used as means of protection, especially in the past, but it does not work because we are all interconnected and we all feel everything.
I love this quote, I can relate to it through wanting to live like this in the past and not thinking I knew how to go about and and also through appreciating that I am now learning to live harmoniously “Normal everyday people who truly believe that love is the way, laying down the foundations for a better world to live in for the generations to come. Already enjoying harmonious lives and living examples of true beauty. Lovingly helping others around them unconditionally.” I can feel the change in the quality that I live, how I relate to myself and others, there are many choices in life and when we dedicate ourselves to choosing love more consistently it creates true change.
“Where is the Love, Where has it gone?”… it’s not gone anywhere it is right there within our body, hidden deeply beneath layers and layers of protection. It is ironic that due to our undealt with hurts we protect ourselves further from the love we innately crave because we don’t want to feel the hurts! Once we begin to crack the shell and let the light out to reveal itself in all its glory then the love will re-turn to the world and everyone in it. There is no one more patient than God, he/she (gender equality here!) has given us pointers along the way (a very, very long way) and we have chosen to ignore them, but these pointers are getting more evident, with illness and disease on the rise, ‘natural’ disasters and erratic weather patterns, abuse of all kinds, depression, obesity… the list goes on. It is a shame that we, as a human race, have to reach crises point before we wake up and ask “is there another way, there must be more to life than this?”. Well the answer is to come back to the love that we truly are, and deal with our hurts and claim our power back once and for all.
This is so true sandrahenden. Love is within us all and we cherish it so dearly that we only bring it out and let it be seen when we feel safe enough to do so. The conundrum is that we wait for the world to become safe before we express our love, but the world feels unsafe because we have held back from bringing our love to it!
What’s interesting for me to feel is that recently I have not been feeling the love in my body that I have previously felt in large quantities. It highlights for me that the macrocosm is simply an enlarged version on the microcosm. In short the big picture can only be a combined version of all of the little pictures (namely us). So it is for me as an individual part of the bigger picture to ponder on what I am doing/not doing that is preventing me from feeling the love that I and everyone else already is.
This is true Alexis, when we don’t feel love, it is for us to take responsibility as to the choices we have made that have not allowed us to feel this love that is innately inside each one of us. And what I am realising more and more is that the choices may not just be around what food I eat, what time I go to bed etc, but also the choices that I make around what thoughts I choose to follow and believe or not.
These are words of wisdom Rebecca.
‘hiding inside my own little bubble of life, doing my own thing, cutting off the rest of humanity as though I was not a part of them and they were not a part of me.’ …. I think most of us have been guilty of this at some stage. I so very grateful to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for allowing me to well and truly burst this bubble and instead choose to connect to love, humanity and life.
‘It can feel at times that there is no Love in this world and we are all alone. These are the times when I feel disconnected to myself and once I come back to me I realise that is just an illusion that sets up further separation’
Well said, Susan, we feel what we chose to align to.
Yes Christopher there are a group of people all around the world who through the very down to earth and yet agelessly wise presentation of universal medicine, are getting on with their normal lives while also placing first and foremost the study and practice of a living from their innermost, from the inexhaustible well of love within them. For me as one of these students, it has become key to understand that this love is in all equally and seeing every person I meet first as love and then acceptance of their choices, is key to being able to consistently connect and live the love that I am.
Simon and Christopher it is always good to be reminded that love on earth does exist in spite of the many evils being perpetrated. As students of Universal Medicine we are here to reflect it to the world, to learn first that we are love ourselves then share it so that others can in turn come back to being love.
When we meet everyone with equality be it children or elders it opens up such appreciation for what is shared that is out of this world . We gain so much more understanding and wisdom from our connections with equality and the learning is so rich.
Thanks for a great and pertinent sharing here Christopher. Each and everyone of us have huge responsibility just being part of this whole thing. We all cry foul when we hear of abhorrent acts of crime or abuse but just because we are not party to those crimes does that absolve us of any wrongdoing? To make this world about love we each have to live love every day, in every way without perfection of course as everything we do contributes to the whole we all belong to.
“…every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society,”…this is the beginning of true and loving responsibility, I feel. Offering love to self and others in the smallest of things, as well as in the big things. The smallest expression, when perfectly constellated and with divine timing, can change a person’s life. And I’m sure the Dalai Lama rejoices in the fact that he’s not the only one who sets Love as a foundation for Life 🙂
It’s the lack of love in the world that makes us all go searching for it. But ultimately love is inside us just waiting to be re-connected to. When we re-connect to it we can then contribute some much needed love to this love-less world.
Yes Rebecca so simple. Christopher asks the question where has Love gone and it has gone nowhere. It continues to live inside of us waiting for us to reconnect and express the Love we are to all of humanity.
The thing I like about love, true love, is that there is no perfection.
Yes Shami, true love simply is.
A great reminder Shami for us to be gentle with ourselves as we develop along this path of return to true love.
This fact Shami I find to be very freeing thus allowing us to be truely who we are.
It can feel totally overwhelming when we read of the state of humanity and the temptation is to give up and say ‘what can I do?’. Well you have answered this question Christopher. We can be the Love that we are innately and this makes all the difference. How very apt from a man whose name is apparently derived from a Greek word meaning ‘bearing Christ’. You are as wise as your name Christopher.
I know the enormity of the mess seems to huge to comprehend. But every small act of love heals and effects the all.
In giving up we add to the atrocities we see in the world; by standing up and being love we are “doing” everything to initiate and inspire another way to live. And I love the point about Christopher living to his name.
Well said richardmills363. It’s so easy to feel overwhelmed by everything if we make ourselves small – a bit like an ant looking up at a tidal wave going, ‘oooooooh, crap!’. However, as you rightly put, being the love we are inside can make all the difference – no need to prove anything, just be ourselves and that inspiration and support can change lives!
Reading your Blog Christopher lets me feel how everything I can observe in this world to happen, is also happening possible in me, e.g. as the seemingly personal wars and unresolved dilemmas. And the principle is about the same, what shows that we are one and for ever connected although due to the loveless choices we have made, feel separated. So I agree that every step we take ourselves back to love and loving choices is taking care and responsibility for the state of the whole.
Absolutely agree Stefanie it starts with us and with our love, touches others.
When we take those steps to love, we have more understanding of what is truly going on in this world, and our loving expression towards what is happening, without emotional reactions, has to be a stabilising influence where the world will see a more loving way to be.
Awesome Stefainie… “every step we take ourselves back to love and loving choices is taking care and responsibility for the state of the whole..” This is very true. Every little bit of love makes a huge contribution to the state of the whole
Universal Medicine teachings has taught me and reminded me that the Love has not gone anywhere, it is their 247 with open arms and ready to be with me all of the time. It is up to me wether I choose to have and express this Love 247. Life seems to been created to not reflect the absoluteness of what real Love is, even the word Love has been mis-interruptated. Love is not an emotional need that we crave – Love is just this Love. All encompassing, supportive, harmonious, firm and consistent.
Love never leaves you. We leave Love.
Natalie, what a totally gorgeous comment! Love is always there, and yes, has never truly left us, we have left it! Time to reclaim what is right there waiting for us in every single moment. Thank you for your inspiring words this morning.
A pertinent point Natalie, love doesn’t leave us, we leave it. Therefore it is always a choice that we can make, to align and be love or to choose that which is not love.
Thank you Natalie for writing: “Love never leaves you. We leave Love”, that hits me this morning in a loving way to take this powerful very simple truth in and with me! It exposes every argument and justification with easiness.
I’m loving and allowing the truth ‘Love never leaves us’ sink into the core of my being. To sit and feel love is always with-in is divine. Why would I want to leave love? If I stay connected to the love with-in I can’t leave it. I can only loose the connection.
Great sharing, Natalie. “Love never leaves you. We leave Love.”
We always make the choice and each choice we make affects so many others in the world around us. If I am in a bad mood how many people does that affect in a day and then those people may pick up on the energy and this goes to others and so on. So imagine if we all choose love, that would be so powerful and amazing. I don’t think we really appreciate just how powerful this could be.
Yes the one word on the planet that we all know and seek is LOVE. Also the most misrepresented word…
Love is an emanating quality of stillness found within us all.
Does it say that in the dictionary? I do not think so.
The Ageless wisdom teaches us that the love that we seek is actually within us all. How cool is that. Thanks Universal Medicine for bringing this amazing work to our world 🙂
Beautiful Natalie. Love resides in every one of us and indeed has not gone anywhere. It is there patiently waiting for us to connect to and what I have discovered from attending Universal Medicine is that when I am connected, I am confirmed that I am enough as I am, without trying, having to please, needing nothing from outside of me but simply as I am.
Well said Natalie and very true. We make the choice to leave love and God, thereby making ourselves about ourselves and not the religious way that is love and for all.
Thank you for sharing this Christopher. I love the line about each of us having the ability to make even a small change of doing little things with love and this can affect the whole world. It is important to feel this – what we do, and the way we do it, matters. It has an affect on the whole word. This shows our amazing power and also the huge responsibility we have. So the question is, how are we affecting the world? Are we being love or not?
I love what you have written here , Lee. It is so true, everything we do and in which mood or quality we do it matters! – and makes a change either a harming one or a healing and loving one.
In this context I love the metaphor, to consider, that we all live in an ocean of energy. Every move of every person is creating a wave, a wave of love or a wave of not love, and this wave will be felt by all people on this planet.
What is interesting is that it is our natural way to live- yet we spend all our energy fighting it.
‘What is interesting is that it is our natural way to live- yet we spend all our energy fighting it.’
Yes, Emily, it’s crazy, if it wasn’t so incredibly tragic, it would be funny. We are actually choosing all the illness and disease this world is currently suffering from because we are choosing to resist being our innate loving selves. The force we are using to oppose the incredible love we all have within is immense, hence the extraordinary rise in our dis-ease.
Christopher this was so great to read and super inspiring. “but a part of it nonetheless by accepting that all this happens, and never doing anything about it.” many times this happens, we think that we can’t change anything so we just go with it. But by changing how we live ourselves- with all the love inside of us- we do change it, and by so doing inspire others, just like you have inspired me :). All we need is love. Awesome.
I love the simplicity and clarity of what you say Emily. In a world that is full of complications that take us away from ourselves we can change ‘how we live ourselves- with all the love inside of us- we do change it’ and we can feel this happening as we connect and open ourselves up to the love we feel from God and the Universe, and then become a beacon in the world as we offer this love to everyone.
Indeed we can’t change any thing without changing ourselves first because we things collectively are the everything.
I agree Alexis, that is the only way it can work – once we change ourselves, everything around us will accordingly adjust to our new way of being – awesome.
I wonder if we “all to easily accept that we can’t change anything” Ariana because we lack a sense of responsibility, for not only ourselves but for the All, for everyone else. I think we have grown complacent to abuse through lack of self-responsibiity which filters down to a lack of care about others and so we spiral into greater and greater degrees of tolerance and acceptance of abuse in its myriad forms.
Beautiful sharing Emily and this is something I am learning. That how I choose to live affects many. Learning to make life not about me but about all.
I agree Ariana, and it starts with saying NO to the abuse we serve ourselves on a daily basis without even noticing; all the not so obvious subtle ways such as over eating by one mouthful and not taking a moment when we are stretched or tired.
Today when revisiting this blog and reading some more of the comments I was struck with feeling that I have not been expressing true acts of love this week and how much harm was wielded in holding back the love I am upon many including myself. I was starting to feel unworthy of adding my comment amidst all that you bloggers are expressing and then I read your comments Amelia Stephens: “.. any act we do from love, is of such great service to all of society” and I thought ‘well I do plenty acts of love despite this week being a quiet off the mark”. And Amelia when I read – “We can live this love always, and so starting with each little bit, one by one, we can learn from each other about how this world lived from love works” I was inspired to pick up my heart and get back on the love horse because I am still learning and Serge Benhayon and the Universal Medicine student body of thousands, who are also still learning, are shining the way forward for me as well as everyone else and I am part of this on-going cycle of both learning to live the love I am and inspiring others to do so too and that is just the best thing ever for me to know. Further up the comment stream Kylie Connors stated ” she wouldn’t be anywhere else for anything’ and I have to agree love is it and anything less,as I experienced this week is excruciating. Thank you all for your wise words of love.
Part of the livingness is the learning that never ends and mistakes are an important part of the learning.
Too true sjmatsonuk. It is very important that we start viewing our mistakes as learning opportunities and do not beat ourselves up with judgments for them.
I agree, it s not about perfection but a journey of recognising these things as we go and bit by bit letting go of the hurts that cause this is in the first place. Our love and our acts of love will then grow each day.
You are so right Doug, once we strip off all that is not us, life becomes a simple choice to stay the same or expand to the next step of our elvolution.
This is an awesome realisation to have had jeannettegold. At school we are taught that we are either right or wrong. If we feel we get things wrong we feel overwhelmed and like failures, giving ourselves a hard time and like we are useless. However if we were to say to kids, you are still learning this, you are still developing those pathways in your brain, we would be more understanding of ourselves and more accepting that it is from our mistakes that we learn the most. In this consciousness we would be far better placed to stay open and self appreciative of where we have got to in the understanding that there is no end goal, that we continue to evolve without end. In this light there is no wrong simply a deeper evolution to be made.
Beautifully said michelle819. In school, and at times in our family, we learn that mistakes are to be avoided and so we shut down and hold off expressing ourselves, trying to second guess what behaviour or comment will win approval instead of just speaking our heart. So much better to see mistakes as simple ‘whoopsie’s’ from which we learn.
I had the realisation this morning just how deeply I hold onto being “right” or “wrong”. When things don’t feel right, rather than reading the situation for what it is, I go into contraction and feeling awful about myself fuelling a long term held self loathing. In order to cut this feeling I allowed myself to appreciate my essence and who I am whilst looking at my part in the situation with objectivity and understanding. What helped most of all was to come back to my tenderness and to really appreciate what this brings. In focussing on this, the hardness in my body lessened and I could feel an expansion through its entirety.
A total paradigm shift to there being no end goals and no mistakes just unending evolutionary opportunities for all equally would be a true goal for humanity to head towards! I can imagine that it would change everything, just as, through the support of Universal Medicine, it has for me.
Dear Jeanette Gold, I just felt to share with you, you indeed are not alone when momentarily experiencing a glitch in the arena of ‘distraction’. It feels to me, that, perhaps in those instances when one has unintentionally left the back door, open so to speak, and allowed an intruder to enter our body of love, our vehicle of expression, albeit in energetic form, can result in feelings of disconnection, not measuring up, unworthiness etc. etc. as has been a recent experience of myself also. One has to wonder what is it about us that has brought attention to ourselves from this consciousness of imposition that has brought about the resultant feeling of disharmony and a thought of being ‘less than’ .
Could it be that the fact of any one of us as a human being, a student of the Way of The Livingness reflecting true love for humanity, is a threat to that which seems to be the domain of the puppeteers who would appear to be controlling the would be world players and decision makers? Is it possible that the loving reflection emanated by those who have chosen to reconnect with the all embracing magnificence of God’s love are making a difference to the effluvia of harmony in the world?
Could it be a consideration that if a loving reflection was not so evident and obvious would such attention be meted out to offset the love that we naturally are within? I agree with you on recognizing the responsibility that is there to make the choice, or not, to reconnect to the power and the cohesiveness held within and expressed in the blogs and comments that reflect that yes, we are all connected energetically and thus the flow and the play of Love is always there for us all, all of the time.
I wouldn’t be anywhere else either Mary, even when the going has been very uncomfortable and exposing for me, I haven’t wanted to be anywhere else, returning to the love I am and that we all are is my purpose now.
Thank you Jeannette for your honest and gorgeous moment of love right here. It’s all about truly expressing isn’t it? When we do this the love will flow. 🙂 🙂
That’s pretty much it in a nutshell kathrynfortuna.
Jeanettegold your honesty is beautiful for that is you being love. Being ourselves and walking down the street is being love. We are all developing and undoing all those ways we have trained ourselves to be to protect ourselves from being hurt. It’s a great learning and your honesty is very inspiring.
I have learned from Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and my own experience that one of the most powerful assests we can all have is honesty. Only through honesty can we tear down our protections and reach the truth and as the well known adage states – the truth will set you free.
Thank you. Beautifully said Christopher, and lets not just give it lip service. ‘We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.’
How often have we shied away from speaking up because we pretended that what we had to say or could have done would not have changed the world, while in fact every single loving gesture, however small it may be, does make a difference, as it will have been earthed into this world. It will be there for ourselves and for others to build on or add to and thereby fundamentally change the world step by step.
Thank you Christopher. It’s so important what you have said here about knowing that any act we do from love, is of such great service to all of society. We can live this love always, and so starting with each little bit, one by one, we can learn from each other about how this world lived from love works (beautifully!).
There is love expressed in many ways, but sometimes it pales in contrast to the massive issues we face as a humanity. Just have to remember it is the small cogs that make a wheel turn, so all the ‘smaller’ expressions of love are super vital in this whole mess of issues that we face.
I spent much my life feeling overwhelmed by the size of the task in hand, how do I go about changing what needed to be changed in the world? I felt something was not working but was not sure how to go about making an impact? So I often felt insignificant,small,and unable to balance what I get was so uncaring and unloving in the world. “We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.” Being aware, and by that I mean I beginning to live the fact that every word, gesture and intention can make all the difference in this world, I began to feel empowered and able to make changes. We all have choices to make every day, it is a fact that many choices creates ripples of change.
So true Samantha ~ and we don’t necessarily know or realise how far these ripples reach. We so need to appreciate when we choose to live from love, as it allows us to do this more so, and others to receive that reflection. There can be no greater service than reflecting the love that we all innately are.
Christopher with the state of the world and all the problems it would be easy to think there is no love. What Universal Medicine have reminded and inspired in me is that if I let go all the fences and walls I put up not to see what I don’t want to see then I am naturally connecting to the love I am – a love that is there within everyone of us and a love that has always been there. In essence love is all around us and within us all – we’ve just chosen the opposite of what is there. This shows me the level of appreciation for Serge Benhayon and what he has inspired now in so many around the world.
It is easy to see that mankind is capable of love when a great disaster happens and everyone rallies with help and donations, but wouldn’t, it be great if we just did this anyway without the need of a tsunami or something. We are all on this beautiful planet together and there is enough for everyone if we just stopped our squabbling. I was driving yesterday and I saw three gigantic transporters pass going the other way carrying military tanks. Just the fuel costs of these machines could change people’s lives not to mention the cost of these oversized juggernauts and the tanks and let alone all the military costs all round the world. It totally freaks me out that all this money and resources cannot be spent on feeding,houses and clothing our fellow man and cleaning up the planet instead of destroying it and developing solar and alternative fuel sources so we can all breath a cleaner air.
Yes this shows so much how living from ideals and believes does not work, so many religions show us this, their motto’s and ideals are about loving everyone but yet people go in war over their religion being better than another religion. This is not love. It is time to start living what we would like in this world, only saying it does not make it happen.
I was hurt about this loveless world so much, until I discovered, thanks to Serge Benhayon, the amazing love inside me, for myself at first. Only with that as a base does my love for others and humanity grow and develop, and with such joy.
I have learned that I if I am just me, connected to the love in my body, I connect from that with other people, rather than from my mind, and they respond with openness and take a lightness with them to the next person they meet. And so does the love ripple and reveal itself to humanity. So simple and so amazing.
What resonates to me in this article is the deep feeling of giving up in most people of our society. And I have lived as such, I have lived in the wide spread belief I am weak and I am only one person and cannot do anything concerning the horrendous tragedies occurring in this world. Perhaps a politician could, or a person who has wealth, and as such has power, can do anything about it, but me? – no. Through learning to know Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon my attitude cncerning I am weak and powerless, started to change. I began to understand that everybody is powerful, if one chooses the true energy. I have the power to love, to heal and to emanate this energy of love so that many people receive it and can equally start to understand and heal. Expressing truth and sticking to truth is a powerful healing medicine.
Christopher, your blog is a great wakeup call to humanity most of whom have stood by as you say, and observed the abhorrent pastimes you list but been “a part of it nonetheless by accepting that all this happens, and never doing anything about it”. There are now an increasing number who know that they can do something about the state of the world we live in. This does not mean that they have to join and army and fight or volunteer in Africa or any other war torn zone. Our true power and hence true contribution towards making a difference is as you say, in “the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society”.
It all starts and continues with us Christopher. Love is who we are and we are all placed equally to share and inspire others with the great example we can be , after all we have been blessed with an example like no other at this time in Serge Benhayon and his teachings of The way of The Livingness. As we see the loveless state of the world we need to remember we all are love some have just forgotten and need reminding!
We were having a discussion one day about a country who had invaded another and how badly the invading country was treating the people of the invaded country. The conclusion was- “what can you expect when you see how badly they have treated their own people?”
The same logic can be brought back to our own bodies. When we treat ourselves badly why would we be kinder to another?
This is the key. When we look after ourselves, love ourselves deeply, this extends to all others. It seems too simple, yet this has been my experience with Universal Medicine. I have been inspired to try this and to my amazement, my love for others has expanded the more I treat myself with love.
I absolutely LOVE the honesty and truth of this blog Christopher. The Love has not gone anywhere it is there inside of us just waiting to be connected to and expressed with others no matter what. As a student of the Way of the Livingness presented by Universal Medicine I have come to understand and feel that this is my truth. Living this Love with All no matter what is a forever deepening process and it feels like this is exactly why we are here on this earth all together.
Beautifully said, Natalie. I too am realising that the love has not gone anywhere, it is in fact all there in abundance once we allow ourselves to let go of our protection and stop identifying with our hurts.
Yes, the love is there, always within , and so we can bring it out and use it. Love loves to Love!
“Were not all religions originally based on love? Were not all religions originally from the one religion of love?” I don’t know the origins of the thousands of religions that have existed over the last several thousand years, but I do know love must underpin any relationship to self and with everyone.
There is so much lack of love in the world everywhere we look and it is so easy to blame or get disillusioned and give up. Responding like this is so familiar. How empowering and inspiring to realize that the love hasn’t gone anywhere. It is within us and just waiting to be expressed in our lives.
I feel a great sense of responsibility in what you’ve presented Christopher. There is so much more going on then what we see and the pictures in our mind – we are part of something so big and sometimes in that overwhelm I can choose to only be in my bubble, staying comfortable and knowing I’m safe. This is ultimately contributing to the excruciating ache of humanity. Every choice we make that is not in line with Love, true Love for all and ourselves, is allowing abuse to continue in this world.
As we deepen our own love, connect and feel it from within, we can’t help but express it to the world for others to see and feel. We are then inspiring the expansion of love in the world.
EVERYONE is at essence LOVE – we are love and we are from love and we live within the sphere of God’s love so it is always everywhere. However, as you say Christopher that is clearly not what is expressed and or experienced by most in their daily life. This means that we are constantly making a choice to NOT express and be the love we are. Most of us have deep hurts around seeing the lovelessness in the world knowing that this is not who we are. We hold each other to ransom saying you be love before I will be love and so it goes on. At some point enough people have to make the choice to say I will fully commit to being the love I am and then gradually the love barometer will start to tip in that direction as more follow suit. Serge Benhayon made the choice to fully live and express the love he is and as a consequence thousands throughout the world are connecting to expressing more and more of the love they truly are.
Well said, Nicola. Holding the world and each other to ransom is getting old, and there is a new way emerging thanks to Universal Medicine, that is supporting thousands of individuals to shake off their hurts and step into a grander, more joyful and love-filled experience of life.
It’s interesting how we look at groups such as political parties or large organisations and we talk about how they are not doing this, or are doing that – most often in a way that says there is no love in the decisions they are making. But what I remind myself, is that this group is made up of individual people who collectively form the group. And so, it the group is making loveless decisions or implementing loveless policies, doesn’t this say a lot about the individuals and how much they love themselves? If a person is ‘full’ of love for themselves, it wouldn’t be possible to make a policy or decision that will impact others that was void of love.
Hi Christopher, I too look at the world some days think ‘Where is the love?’ but then at other times I am brought to tears by the beauty of the everyday person’s love and this inspires me no end to bring more of the love that I am. We can all inspire each other as we are love.
Wow Christopher, I am truly inspired by your blog – a beautifully real, simple call to love!
There are a lot of people that know that the world is in a bit of a mess. On one level we all feel it, how could you not. It is seen in the statistics and the faces of everyday people. Where is the loving glow, the effervescent love that is in all of us. It is so burried that it can’t break through the cloak of heavy sentiment. It is up to me to live with this glow and let this inner love be seen and be felt and never ever react to anyone who tries to taint this joy, for they only want to feel what is seen in me. It’s time we all stood up and show what is possible.
This is a very powerful statement ..’every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.’ We all meet people in everyday life, so we all have an opportunity every encounter , every day to make a difference to grow a harmonious society.
What this blog helps to expose is that hiding in our bubble in reaction to the world hasn’t worked, it only helps to support the status quo. In supporting the status quo, since nothing ever stands still we can see that we have been supporting things to get worse. For me to start to see and understand that I have contributed to the mess we are in is a great support in making loving changes to how I am with myself first, which then supports the changes with how I am with others, which then affects the bigger picture.
I love this blog. The question where has the love gone is a very valid question. The great thing is that Serge Benhayon has been addressing this issue for over 14 years and as well reflecting to humanity that living love 24/7 is possible through he himself living unconditional love for all equally.There are now hundreds of students of the livingness that also live this way….Bringing back the love!!
Society has become distracted and have made it about the self rather humanity, which is why all these things are happening. Like you say, “every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society”, if we all start with that we can start to make a change.
It is super empowering to know that every time we choose love in whatever we do we are playing a big part in creating more harmony and joy for all.
Agreed Francisco, in love we are so powerful.
Thanks Christopher for sharing your loving words , so true we share the responsibility of the way the world is and it is up to us to start choosing to make it all about love in the way we live and the way we relate to others. To live what is true and name the what is not as not acceptable.
Love this blog, I say bring on the Love!!
“Yes I did hear all those love statements and think “yea, OK, nice thoughts, lovely sentiment, but really I mean, really, does anyone, apart from the Dalai Lama that is, think that it is possible to not just love thy neighbour but love the whole of humanity?””. For a long time I thought this. And I can still be in this ‘modus’ at times. But boy oh boy, do I have influence. Expressing the truth, expressing lovingly, sharing my concerns about anything, it all contributes to a more loving society. And allthough sometimes I find it difficult to start expressing, I never regret myself having shared what I feel. Never. My fear for the outside world seems to be an illusion, created by myself to not have to take responsibility. Where as no change happens from the ones changing their lifes on behalf of every one else. So many people these days are completely fed up with the loveless society. Together we can make the change.
Where has the love gone? It has gone nowhere – it lives inside us. We abandoned Love not visa versa. Now we know where to look, many are doing just that and are finding it and bit by bit are reclaiming it s their way of life and its wonderful to be a part of this alongside Serge Benhayon and the Universal medicine student body. Great blog Christopher, as you say “truly inspired!”
True Jeanette. And I wouldn’t be anywhere else for anything in the world.
My love is here to stay.
Yes, great point jeanettegold. We ask the question ‘where has the love gone?’ when it is us who abandoned Love. Even as someone who understands that Love is innate within us all, I feel how conditioned I have become to start looking outside of me when I hear this question. It feels like it has become so automatic to seek outside myself that in every moment I have to be so aware to choose it within me. Choose it, and choose it again and keep choosing it with all that I am.
I hear you richardmills363. I also forget and sometimes I find myself on Tinder or somewhere else seeking solace from the pain of some loveless feeling event or other. This only serves to very temporarily numb the hurt from feeling a loveless action come towards me and never serves me well in truth. At these times it has always proven most supportive to reconnect to the love that I am inside and from there the hurt instantly turns into compassion, to an understanding of what is driving the loveless act and acceptance of where we are all at in that moment plus on our unfolding evolution.
Very pertinent jeanettegold…we abandoned Love not visa versa. Everyone is born with love – everyone. What do we do with it, that is the question?
That sure is the question Sandar Dallimore, the mother Pandora’s Box of all questions! What do we of with the love that we are born as? And why? This is truly worth exploring and something Universal Medicine is not afraid of supporting people to do. They have been invaluable in my journey back to the love that I innately am. Its a long journey, I am still on it. I foresee no end to it, but every step of the way is so beautiful and profound and I am enthralled by the possible depth it will lead me.
It really comes back to our individual responsibility to live lovingly.
I agree Jinya, Given we come from love and are love we all have the responsibility to re-connect back to this one love and live accordingly.
The fact that the major institutions that call themselves religions have in all cases at some point in their history, descended into squabbling over what is “the way” or what they think their particular prophet meant when they said “X”, which lead to a fracture in that group, says much about what religion has become, as opposed to what it was meant to be.
Most religions were seeded forth by a singular point of focus: a single person who transmitted a way of teaching which was to speak to the people of the time, presenting them with teachings that are universal and timeless, but in a way that was needed and would be understood by them in the world they lived in.
This relationship between ourselves and our timeless quality is what religion is truly about, and is what the word itself means. But instead, the teachings of these masters of divine relationship have been used by those with purely material aims to enforce dogma and the mistaken idea that ‘we’ are better than ‘them’ because ‘we’ know the ‘true way’ and ‘they’ are wrong.
This completely disregards the truth that was presented by each and every world teacher that has walked the planet: that we are One. A One Brotherhood with All.
Indeed, Jane. There are many who become a part of religions because they want to help others and are drawn to having a relationship with God, but unfortunately mainstream religion has very little to offer them by way of true relationship. I wold say that is mainly because it does not start with the understanding that comes with living as the Son of God. No religion except the Way of the Livingness presents this, for to all other religions it is considered heresy.
Christopher, this is lovely, love can change the world and there are many people who are living this way across the globe. Loving the neighbour and the whole of humanity. As we connect to the deeper love within us.
This is such a beautiful blog Christopher, Love can change the world. As all ill parts of this world are not love.
Yep Benkt – true. All then ills of this world are caused by lovelessness. Loveless thoughts intentions and actions are destroying humanity and the Earth. Love is it! It is the answer to all our ills.
Spot on Benkt – Love is who we truly are. It is a quality of the Soul as is Joy, Truth, Harmony and Stillness. Anything that is not of that essence is a reflection of who we are not and is therefore an ill and harmful energy. The more we recognise this and make a commitment to choosing love the healthier our life and those of everyone around us becomes.
I am not particularly fond of military terminology in any way but this analogy may serve a purpose.
In a way this is a call to arms as Kevmchardy so beautifully wrote, «a loving battle cry», at the same time it is more a call to stand up together and fight with and against ourselves, with our own forces that are loving, against the forces within us all that are not loving. This blog was not written for Universal Medicine students alone, as we all know that we are in the midst of the greatest ever battle and we are all fighting(loving) for the whole of humanity.
Often the most difficult war to fight is against the unseen enemy that is right in front of your nose, sitting on your own doorstep, or even on the end of your bed, maybe in the garage too. Many of us are living in so much comfort and luxury that it serves as camoflage and helps the enemy remain unseen, drawing our focus in life away from the center (battle) and out to the peripheral. Away from our purpose in life and into the material gratification, into the hands of the enemy.
Now, we all can stand up and LOVE for brotherhood and all of humanity!
To the question you ask Christopher, “does anyone, apart from the Dalai Lama that is, think that it is possible to not just love thy neighbour but love the whole of humanity?” The answer is definitely YES. I can attest to this as I have met such people and they are my fellow students of the Livingness spread across the globe. I can confirm that they are people who truly believe and they are “growing steadily in number, in strength and most important of all, in love”.
And isn’t it wonderful Anne to be a part of something that the world is so desperately in need of, to show we are all the ones and that love is possible for all, it’s a work in progress for me but I too have seen the living breathing evidence of those who commit to the livingness in their every movement.
Yes Vanessa, and we can all be one of “those who commit to the livingness in their every movement”. All it takes is a choice in every moment. . .
…and what a refreshingly beautiful wave of love this is. Something that should be broadcast, reported and shared widely. ‘Remember the love??’ It’s the one thing every single person wants most deep down.
It is actually the simplest and smallest acts of love out in the world that make a difference, just like dropping a pebble into a still pond…it sends a ripple out much further than where the pebble landed and is felt by many.
Agreed Sandra. It is “the simplest and smallest acts of love out in the world that make a difference, just like dropping a pebble into a still pond…it sends a ripple out much further than where the pebble landed and is felt by many.” Just because we cannot see the effects of these small acts of love, doesn’t mean they are not happening. As it also applies to when we are not so nice to each other, the ripples still go out to many but have a very different effect. Hence why we can feel if someone’s angry even if they don’t speak. How we are has an enormous impact on everyone and everything around us, which is why taking responsibiltiy for our lives is so important. And it is Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that are showing us the way forward.
This is a very beautiful example Sandra, and it is interesting that this scientific fact, surrounding us in every move we make, is not scientific enough for the ‘modern’ mind to trust in ourselves and in the power that lays within each and every one of us.
And to come full circle, it starts with us first – small acts or moments of kindess and love towards ourselves and then this way of being naturally flows to all others.
A great question Christopher ‘where is the love, where has it gone?’. As many of us have discovered, the love hasn’t gone anywhere, we’ve just all been looking in the wrong places, outside of ourselves for someone else to bring it to us whether that be our parents, siblings, partners, friends, colleages, neighbours, etc, etc and when they don’t deliver ‘the love’ we react because we feel hurt. But what I’ve come to know is that it starts with us first. It sounds like a cliche, but it is true in that we need to love ourselves first, and only then can we truly love another.
Love it Sandra bringing it back to us, where it all begins and ends.
Yes, I very much agree, Love hasn’t gone anywhere but we have been searching in all the different places crying out for love to come to us, all the while love is right in front of us, in us and surrounds us. It is only that we chose to put the wrong glasses on and not see the love that is there and naturally resides within us.
Yes the wrong glasses Esther and also all the fairy tales and stories we are fed through books, TV, movies, songs, theatre…how many of them are love stories….many, so it’s like a slow drip feed from when we are young that tells us to go out looking for love, and if we don’t find it or we lose it (very careless); then we’ll be miserable.
Absolutely Sandra – for without a steadiness of love in our own body the reflection we offer our brothers is not true or of our full light. We don’t need to change the world, but we can change the way we are living and the world will benefit greatly, another cliché but it makes sense!
True Sandra, it all comes back to self responsibility and by living the love we have been seeking outside ourselves our search is over and our lives can really begin.
It is very true that one loving act, or indeed act from love, can change the world. We have to be the change we want to see in the world because we can. It is as simple as that. Bad things have the freedom to happen because we do not stand up and speak up, very often thinking someone else will do it. But we are that someone else, we all are. Thank you for your blog.
This line says it all, Lucy – “We have to be the change we want to see in the world”. And it starts with the way we treat ourselves and then others in our daily lives.
Spot on janetwilliams06 – being the change we want to see in the world is for us to live in every moment – as best we can – without saying a word, others feel it and can then make the choice for themselves to live more love.
We don’t realise what an affect this (the way we treat ourselves and then others in our daily lives) actually has on others and the world. Living from love doesn’t actually get passed by, it creates a ripple affect for all else to see and feel.
Well said Lucy Dahill, we tend to lean towards the attitude that one person cant make a difference or that someone else will do it, we are ALL that someone else!!
Indeed we are. And I am very glad that I am part of this LOVE revolution.
Great point sarahraynebaldwin. We are all that someone else indeed and we all have a part to play.
This is so true sarahraynebaldwin, and something we have to take responsibility for once again. We all have the power to change this, one loving act at a time.
‘we are ALL that someone else!!’
We are indeed, sarahraynebaldwin, the more we resist this we are adding to the retardation and stagnation of humanity.
I agree Lucy, we all are that someone else, and regardless of the type of act that we do if we are connected to our bodies and our essence it is an immense contribution to all.
Very true, it always comes back to each and every one of us which then brings it to the all. This is the same with the systems and the world we live in today, each and every one of us has contributed to the world’s affairs that we have of today thus each and every one of us can contribute to a world that we all would love to have.
Hear hear Lucy Dahill – it is all in the beingness of what we choose.
Well said Lucy change needs to begin with us and not just wanting it but doing it with no holding back
I love your words “we are that someone else”. Yes, we all have a responsibility and everybody can contribute his part to the bigger whole. It doesn’t make sense to wait for somebody else to do it, we can do it.
‘…but what have many institutionalised religions become? Nothing but a human created set of rules (sometimes cruel, harsh and discriminating and definitely NOT loving) based upon some old scriptures that have been twisted and turned, re-written and re-translated to become the basis of how almost the whole of humanity act, think, indulge, hate and disregard one another.’
No wonder we cringe when we hear the world religion. It has been completely and utterly bastardised. And yet the word and meaning of Religion is so pure and beautiful. It offers us a way of being in relationship with all things loving and true, God and Heaven and our own Divinity. We should feel a spacious, all knowing and lovely quality not hard when we hear the word religion.
I personally can relate, or more appropriately say, react, in the past to the mere mention of the word religion or God. Re-learning the true meaning of religion has opened myself up to a world I had shut myself away from. I now enjoy standing in the light rather the darkness where I had been for a long time.
It is tragic what has occurred at our hands. Like you express so clearly Kathryn it is super beautiful – beyond words in fact what it feels like to be in relationship with God and divinity.
It feels very healing to reconnect to the truth of the word religion. Many turn away from religion because of what we have made it mean rather than what it truly means. The pure simplicity of reconnecting to God, the Love within us all is truly joyful – one of those real ‘Aha!’ moments when so much falsehood drops away.
If I had not reconnected with the love that is within me through the teachings and support of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I would wonder where the love has gone based on the the current state of the world too? It shows the extent to which we have used so many behaviours to stop feeling and disconnecting from this love – that is naturally who we are. As you have shared Christopher, feeling our part in creating what we see in the world today and taking responsibility for our own actions and behaviours can have a ripple effect on everyone. From the seemingly smallest action, big things can happen. Thank you for writing and sharing this blog Christopher – there is so much truth and wisdom here – I love it!
How much longer? I can’t even fathom the number of root races, years and incarnations we have had to go through and so many of us still stubbornly holding onto a way of life that is obviously not working, as I did. Thank God for Universal Medicine. Thank you to me for getting on this journey. We are on our way back.
In our everyday life we cross paths and interact with so many people, it is our responsibility to express true love to all. We are all love equally, love is within us all we have to do is reconnect and by reconnecting to our love we emanate love, and reflect love to all that we meet. Offering them the opportunity to choose to re-connect with the true love within them.
It is indeed our responsibility Margaret, Serge Benhayon has showed us what true love is and that it is possible to live in a truly loving way. Now it is up to each and every one of us to show others just like Serge Benhayon has the love that we also are. Not by preaching but by living it.
I love this Margaret. It is our responsibility to connect to the love that we are, express and reflect this love to all so that they may know that they are the same love equally.
Love is the strength, truth, power and firmness that is deeply needed in our world to turn things around, to deeply heal that which is not loving. There is nothing lovey-dovey or wishy-washy about true love, love is the foundation that we are from and it is where we are going, we can choose to get back to love easily or go the hard way; but either way love returns.
Beautiful Cheriseholt – The language of Love, steady and knowing of itself 100%, there is no doubt or discrimination in Love’s way, only unity in who we are.
Yes cheriseholt, I’m with you on that one – true love is definitely not wishy-washy or lovey-dovey but something solid, powerful and true that we can choose to come back to at any time, for it is both what we all essentially are, and where we will inevitably return to.
Cheriseholt, you have said this precisely as it is and I couldn’t agree more with you that Love is not some wishy-washy or lovey-dovey expression that it is made out to be and what I thought it to be. Love is warm, holding, all encompassing, firm and divine. This I have experienced through the work of Universal Medicine and thank goodness for this organisation showing the True Way forward.
Absolutely cheriseholt. There is a strength and power to love that holds us. Love is what we will return to.
Great point cheriseholt. I love the absoluteness and solidness of love, higher than the tallest mountain and deeper than the deepest ocean, love is everywhere and all around us in every moment. We just need to live and claim this as the reality and truth it always has been rather than live in the illusion of denial.
In life, unfortunately success does not equate to having a life full of love and connection. If you have a good job, money, intelligent children, trophies or accolades for sporting prowess, then you are considered to be successful. However, in none of that is how much love you have in your relationships and with yourself, how loved your children feel and how you are in everything that you. That kind of success would set people up to live completely different lives, and set society up to be far less driven and far more loving.
So true Rebecca, our measures of success are misguided. Lots of “successful” people as they approach death make statements about not being able to take things with you when you die or wishing they had spent more time with their kids or worked less. The reality is, if you live a life full of love you can take this love with you all the way to your death, and your love can be felt and shared with all around you. It is time to redefine success.
I agree, but how sad is it that it take us until our death to realise that the most important things in life are how much you have loved people and been loved by people, not the model of car you drive of the number of digits in your bank account.
I’ll be in that, Lee and Rebecca – the re- defining of what it means to be successful, with the main criteria being the ability to be Love and to express Love.
One of my greatest lessons since discovering Universal Medicine has been to truly understand and appreciate that to live a life from love and with love brings more joy and fulfilment than any amount of money or material possessions could ever hope to give. I may have agreed with these words before, but I didn’t feel the truth of them in my body as I do now. It’s been such a gift to have had the opportunity to embody this.
Great point Rebecca. We need a new definition to what success means. People’s lives would have a completely different foundation to love from. A lot of things would be super different, there wouldn’t be so much reaching to get places and disregard for ourselves and others to reach an ideal.
I agree Emily – our lives would be so much more fulfilling if what we considered a ‘good’ life was based on love not our current idea of success.
“I have been a part of this, joining the masses, saying this is normal, ‘I’m all right Jack’, ‘we have to look after our own’, or just hiding inside my own little bubble of life, doing my own thing, cutting off the rest of humanity as though I was not a part of them and they were not a part of me.”
You make such a valid point here Christopher and this is the ‘normal’ for so many in our world today. I have always struggled with this type of life, doing my own thing in my bubble and forget what’s going on out there. The Truth is, as you confirm in this blog, we are all connected and humanity is a part of us and there is no getting away from that.
Funny how I feel more content and know how deeply rich my life is because I now live the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and this responsibility I have that what I say, think and do DOES have an affect on the All – our world.
For the record, when I talk about my deeply rich life, I am not talking money wealth – I am talking about the richness in my heart which comes from staying open to the people in this world no matter who they are.
Absolutely Bina, you define a deeply rich life so very well “.. I am not talking money wealth – I am talking about the richness in my heart which comes from staying open to the people in this world no matter who they are.” – a richness we can all live if we but choose to accept the responsibility that comes with knowing that we are indeed all connected.
Living the richness of our heart is an oft-aspired to ideal. Here it works and is normal and people respond, not quite knowing what they respond to but they like what they can feel.
True christophschnelle, what is felt speaks volumes and cannot be denied.
Beautiful Bina…imagine if we all measured richness by our openness to humanity rather than material possessions.
With the true might of Love we will return to actual brotherhood on earth – natural and innate in every last one of us (despite what the current state of affairs might demonstrate) this is guaranteed. That which we are we will inevitably return to.
Thank you Christopher – I am one who has also rekindled the flame of Love and live harmoniously with all to the best of my ability through the reflection provided by Serge Benhayon.
Thank you Christopher and Helen, I agree that, ‘with the true might of Love we will return to actual brotherhood on earth,’ but first because of the amount of ‘love’ available to all for us to remain inspired, we must choose to connect to love first. Otherwise more force has to be called in to oppose the ‘love’, and this is what is causing all the disruptive aggression.
“We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.” Very true, what goes around comes around. Even with the smallest act – like letting someone into a traffic queue – I then witness them allowing someone in, further down the road, and hopefully this continues……Every loving action we make does affect another and reflects to them how the world can be.
Love is definitely back on the map in its truth and expression thanks to Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and the Way of the Livingness for us all.A great sharing and expression of what is really going on. Love is in every moment,expressed and lived and this really makes a difference in the world by each of us simply living the love that we are in our lives on a day to day basis and expression.
Absolutely tricianicholson, the ‘map’ is on fire , and this fire will eventually be chosen by all of humanity.
The word love has been so misused, abused, and mutated that we have become disconnected and cynical about its very utterance. Claiming back its true meaning and living that, is setting a foundation for our future and real evolution. Love is back on the map thanks to Universal Medicine and The Way of the Livingness.
I agree, matildaclark, many roll their eyes or switch off when the word ‘love’ is mentioned, so yes it is high time true love came back on the map, the one thing we universally long for, our Universal Medicine.
The chaos, the migration, the refugee, all this movement in the world, where the world events are literally knocking on our doors and hardly anyone can turn a blind eye anymore are a clear message that brotherhood is the answer. We can’t make any difference between culture, religion and nation anymore, it is time that we understood and accepted that we are all equal deep inside and that we are all yearning for the same, for love and harmony and truth. And as you say Christopher, “We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.” I absolutely endorse this, yes we can, it comes back to every single one of us.
Esther absolutely I agree fully; culture, race, religion, nation can no longer be used to divide, separate people for inside we are all equal. The sooner we start to live that bit by bit we can have a world in harmony.
“A ‘part’ of this, not by being a drug trafficker or any of the other abhorrent pastimes listed above, but a part of it nonetheless by accepting that all this happens, and never doing anything about it.”
I’ve been ‘part’ of this also, Christopher, but while I appeared to be sitting on the edge keeping out of all the corruption, not speaking up, I was judging everyone who was ‘part’ of it. Where I was arrogantly assuming I was ‘better’ than others who were obviously partaking in harm, my judgement, my so called ‘do-good’ and benevolence, charity, sympathy, to name just a few of my behaviours, were part of a much more sinister type of corruption – the one where I was still looking at people in a quiet judgement, that is of the fact, that I was doing better than them (or looked like it). Underneath I was all along unconsciously making it about myself, measuring myself against the standards society and I had set for myself. I was actually in my own war against humanity, and indulging in my own behaviours to not feel how less than others I actually truly felt. There is much more we need to look at honestly and truthfully, and step up to take true responsibility for, before we see great changes in the world. My harmful ways might not be as obvious but boy oh boy they have been, in a way, more hidden and not obvious and therefore possibly of greater harm. A big OUCH!
I Love this Christopher. Just yesterday I was told basically that it is ridiculous of me to believe that the world can be changed by how I am…,but I am one of the people of whom you speak, who Knows, that Love is the Way ! I have already witnessed in my life and many lives of people around me, how choosing to live love (in everything we do) can completely change our lives/experiences for the ‘better’. By better, I actually mean that our lives become more True, Harmonious and Joyful.
I loved reading you’re from Norway. Yet another fellow brother from far away being inspired by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine to connect to the love within and alongside his fellow brothers. Bringing a true loving change to the lovelessness that we see on a daily basis is the key to laying a foundation for generations to connect to and see that there is another way forward. This way forward must acknowledge that we are all connected, we are all one and together we can bring love to all who walk this earth.
Beautiful blog, Christopher – truths beautifully and strongly expressed; especially in the answer to “where is the love?” As Serge Benhayon presents to us in so many ways – “it can be found inside us all”. What an inspiring and consoling thought!
“Were not all religions originally based on love? Were not all religions originally from the one religion of love?” If we took religion back to the love it originated from we would not be able to have all the religious wars and battles that have scarred our land.
And we would naturally live in harmony with each and every person in this world without hesitation or reservation.
Absolutely, when we are one we are made of the same particles and make-up as each other and so with this understanding we can bring our true compassion and equality to one another.
Very true alisonmoir, wars would not be possible if true love would be the foundation of our religions.
I agree. If we just kept it as simple as God is Love then perhaps the separation, war etc and all that religion has come to mean in it’s reinterpretation would not exist.
It could easily be considered a throw-away comment, or too large to be considered seriously, but I rather find this inspiring and completely accurate: “We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.” Everyone shares this responsibility and the boldness of an action size does not count in the weight each contributing loving movement and act collectively holds. Well said.
There is certainly great exploitation towards our fellow man.The sum of this lack of love is evident when you list just a few of the ways this is carried out. It is appalling how we treat each other. Universal Medicine has allowed me to realise that I am responsible for all this, not directly, but by not living a life that says no to all this. My voice does matter, and as you stated Marion Hawes, ‘the bubble is burst’ and we are stepping out with our greatest and most powerful asset, our voice.
We build skyscrapers, fly to the moon, get electricity out of sunlight – but we have lost to say hello to the ones around us, look them in the eyes and connect. The small acts of love coming from the heart are true longterm world changers. I agree.
We think that our greatest commonality is “being human”. Physically this is true. But what we are from our essence, what exists ways before birth this life and beyond death of a physical existence is love. There is only denial and delay happening by not accepting and living this fact.
Yes, Christina we need to know this…that beyond the “being human” and the physical there is something much grander, more universal and deeper. Our essence holds so much more than this life only, it exists before and after physical existence and is love in completion. To live life only from the perspective of physical existence is the driving force of all our problems. There is a deep beauty and well of abundance that we have hitherto left untouched and undiscovered about ourselves. Something which Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon have woken us up to.
Love unfortunately has become an idealised notion of something sadly just beyond our grasp. Our understanding of its true nature has become diluted by our reaction to the corruption that we see all around us. And so, we settle for happiness and peace, which are in essence not love, but rather states of being that detach us from the conflict that surrounds us. In that detachment or elation we feel relief. But it is not reality, and it is not true, it is just a temporary reprieve from the constant tension we feel around us. True love can only be recognised by one who is willing to equally feel the true rot of corruption that feed the world we live in.
This is a fantastic point Adam and so very on the mark “true love can only be recognised by one who is willing to equally feel the true rot of corruption that feed the world we live in”. If we are not prepared to see and to deal with the corruption all around us then what we are expressing is not true love but emotional love which is based on what we want the world to be rather than how it actually is and what we can do about it.
Detachment is a great self-medicator, but true medicine takes responsibility not relief.
Brilliant points here explaining the difference between emotional love (the cover up plaster over the wound) and true love (seeing and healing the wound from the inside out).
Very well said Adam. Happiness and Peace are a false middle ground for so many people, they’re not quite love but they appear similar on the outside and mean we don’t have to really take responsibility for the quality of our life and how we are with ourselves and others.
Yes Brendan, if we don’t start with the small things, there is no ground tendered for the big things
Beautiful Christopher, it is not utopia to suggest that love will change everything. In my 51 years of life it’s the ONLY thing l’ve ever seen inspire and foster true and sustainable change that goes on to inspire and foster others to do the same. It is infectious… the key is in it being TRUE love, and not one of our many bastardised versions. It is only by living that love, and not by any specific act carried out in the name of love, that changes things.
It goes to show how wayward we have allowed ourselves to become when we feel love across the whole world for all is too utopian. But as you say Jenny, it is not utopia, love can and will change everything. Humanity needs to let go of the emotional and bastardised versions of love and connect to that place that is in within us all equally and from there, we can bring true love to the world.
Well said Tracy… it’s in recognising we’ve been sold a lemon when it comes to love. Without anyone to reflect what the real-thing is, we’ll continue to suck on lemons, thinking that’s it.
What a grand illusion to fall for. Selling out to something you think is it, but it isn’t it. Many have chosen to live with that because society has placed so much pressure on us to be married or to be in a relationship and to be raising a family. We haven’t stopped to feel if what we have is real love because we are happy enough to be fitting the mould society says you’re doing well when that box is ticked. Yet the world starves for true love and has chosen to suck on the bitter taste of lemons instead.
Yes and what I’ve discovered is that we hold onto those beliefs that keep us in the lesser versions of love, for just as long as it suits us… however much we don’t like to admit it. I speak from experience and of having chosen that lesser version for much of my life. There is a greater self-responsibility in taking on those beliefs than most of us are prepared to accept.
How important in this world today is to point out, what is going wrong. You nailed it here in your blog- Where is the love ?! Thank you.
I know steffihenn – it is like we are okay with the world as long as no one is disturbing our “backyards” and we can continue in the comfort of believing that everything is okay; when clearly it is not. I love how Christopher has nailed it (on so many levels here) – to truly initiate a change we must look outside our own backyard and realise that things in the world are not okay and accept that we each have a part to play in that. It is not up to us to clean up anyone else’s backyard, but it is up to us to speak up about what is really going on, to stand up for truth and to be and live the love that we know we are in every moment!
To answer your question, Christopher, we are love, it is inside us all equally just waiting to be connected to. To shine for all to see so that they too may be inspired to connect to the same love within. By not shining our light we are responsible for allowing all ‘that is not love’.
That is a hard one for me Carmin; to accept that I have played a role in all of the lovelessness that surrounds me. Although I have not committed awful crimes or been involved in huge corruption I have not always expressed from the love that is within me and my light wasn’t felt by someone. The more love we express, the more this is reflected to another to choose love.
Yes, we have a responsibility to claim our light and not hold it back for any false beliefs or held hurts. Our responsibility is as simple as connecting to and living our true selves and with this we cannot help but shine our light brightly wherever we go, it’s natural for us to be light, no different to a star sparkling in the sky. Do we think that stars look around and compare themselves or get jealous, do they hold themselves as more or less than another star? Or do they know themselves as an equal point of reflection to all other points of light and allow their true radiance to be seen, felt and received for light years to come?
It’s so awesome that all the children in the Kindergarten, where you work, Christopher, will get to feel your love every day you are there, what a blessing. It’s the same for each and every person who is choosing love, to live their life, with love, we can’t under estimate the effect that this has on all those around us.
Thank you Christopher for a great article, it is amazing to realise that there is so much ugliness and horror out there amongst people doing these things and living that way, when an amazing amount of love resides within each person on this earth, how we have been deceived. We have a responsibility to humanity with the choices we constantly make and like you said “every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.”
I often get overwhelmed at the state of the world and it is quite easy to up and go back into hiding. It’s such a mess that what can I do? Like many others, in my twenties I set out with a vengeance to make a difference in the world and was sure I could change the world. It didn’t happen and I became a bit disillusioned with it all. But in recent years I am realising the power each individual has based on how they are in the world. Walking, living and being in your power and with love can and does impact the world. I can only change myself and when I take responsibility for that, I offer a different reflection to others. They may be inspired to change or they may not. It is also my responsibility to call out what is not ok. This starts in the home for example with the way we speak to each other.
I used to have huge expectations that people would change. Surely if they could see what was going on they would change. But sometimes people aren’t ready to see and this expectation was very damaging. I then began to hold back and go into a space of “Well, if they’re not going to do it why should I?”. But without a reflection of something different, how would we ever change?
Great point Katie and Nikki – having no expectation or need for anyone to change is important. It does start in the “home” – the change starts here, with me.
Very pertinent point nikkimckee and Katie, it starts behind closed doors, not as a foghorn announcement to the world but in how we are with ourselves, how we are with those closest to us, learning to make it very normal and then it simply becomes our normal and not something special we do for others. It simply is.
Often the task to make a difference in the world seems so overwhelming to people that they can’t believe they can ever make a difference and thus give up before they start. But what if everyone in the world realised what you share Christopher that ‘every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society’ How amazing if we all committed to such acts in our daily lives.
We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society. – well said Christopher, every action counts.
Absolutely. At the end of the day isn’t the world made up of many many people. So the state of the world is what we actually contribute as a collective. Therefore if our actions and way becomes loving, responsible and unifying then surely the collective will also reflect that.
“We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love;” Yes, this is not ‘mission impossible’, we who know and feel where the love is can be the agents of change. Our job if we choose to accept it is to be the fullness of that living love in all we do say and think. All the rest naturally follows.
“but a part of it nonetheless by accepting that all this happens, and never doing anything about it.” We can feel powerless looking at the world as a whole but when we bring it back to our own sphere of influence, our local community or even with neighbours, just noticing and and connecting, lovingly not accepting something unacceptable and speaking up has the power to make enormous change. It may not be evident straight away but from experience it is possible and does happen. It takes one to love, others may accept that or not but at least one is offering the reflection of love. It is what we all want but if it is not being reflected anywhere how do we remember it? Message to self: Be the one.
Your blog is truly inspiring Christopher, thank you. What stands out for me with all the barbaric loveless acts in the world, is that they are being backed up by some form of championing force for why it is being done. This exposes that there are different ‘truths’ (really ideals and beliefs) that people cling to as being right. Thank God there are people like Serge Benhayon, and many others that live by universal truths for all. Thank you for saying it how it is and bursting my comfort bubble.
Thank you Christopher. Great and very valid question – Where has the love gone.
Thanks to Serge Benhayon and his unending commitment to love and humanity, many now know and live the truth of love in their lives. These many are also reflections and inspirations for others.
There is life & love to be found, but just not as we know it…well, not as it is commonly known. There is life and love to be found and as you say Christopher it lives in all and requires a simple dedication to the willingness to live the love we feel and not the love we are told is real.
It has ‘gone’ nowhere, simply locked away in the heart of every man.
I am beginning to see the blindfold that I have placed over my eyes – and the pattern of checking-out when I read such statistics and ‘bad news’… But today I stopped to really clock that this ‘bad stuff’ is happening to People, to humanity and our brothers. By saying ‘it’s not happening to me’, we are hiding in our bubbles of ignorance, allowing this all to continue until it reaches our doorstep. It is time to see and voice what is not true – for in truth it is negatively affecting us all. How far will we let it go until we change? How can this Corruption be so rife?
Thank you for presenting our purpose: “every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.”
Your words are raw and they remind me of the purpose of this life. Thank you Christopher.
“Were not all religions originally based on love? Were not all religions originally from the one religion of love?” The answer I am sure we can all say is that yes they were… and in the re-translation of them we definitely somehow lost love along the way. How beautiful is it then when each individual claims back the love within themselves and is able to express this outwardly to all with equality, no matter what background, sexual orientation, ethnicity, culture or religion.
On my re-read of this extraordinary blog Christopher, this bit stuck out — “..helping others around them unconditionally..”
This is what is missing in our communities and this is life changing and world changing.
Having no hidden agenda is what true Brotherhood is about. What I mean in simple language is we need to start seeing and feeling as if every single person is our true brother and support first our selves and then others. This is not about giving away your money or time willy nilly, it is about consistently offering true support and that means learning to discern what is needed in any moment.
Example – young boy at supermarket checkout looked very low and apparently something I said changed his day and week. He waited and asked around if anyone had seen me again and eventually he got me and I agreed to meet him and chat at the tea shop.
I gave him 2 hours of my time because I can and I know it was life changing and this is one of hundreds of stories I have. Its the normal for me to live in this way.
Love and Truth go hand in hand. Your blog Christopher is full of truth. How can two religions clash if they are both based on love? How much bottled up turmoil and disfunction must we be harbouring in our bodies en masse to even consider putting ourselves or others down, let alone being physically violent? There is an equality among ALL human beings, underneath our differences of opinion, skin and hair colour, language, nationality, culture, profession & gender, we are all the same human beings who have the ability to feel and respond to life. Too much time is spent identifying ourselves because of our differences and not enough time spent connecting to and celebrating the equality that binds us.
Thank you Christopher for sharing on this very important topic. I know that I have contributed also to the state of affairs this world is in, but it feels so empowering when we have incredible examples and role models like Universal Medicine, Serge Benhayon and his Family leading the way with True love – ‘Lovingly helping others around them unconditionally.’ I know that I too make a difference when I connect to my own inner heart. I went from giving up to knowing that there is a bright future for all humanity. That no one gets left behind and that when we choose love, we have Heaven on Earth… now!
The more we can see the world as it truly is – a mirror for all of us to understand and grow by, the easier it is to feel and express love, even when those around us feel quite differently. These expressions of love are very powerful. They may not be openly accepted and appreciated but they do get noticed.
We need to appreciate the power of our reflection when we choose to reconnect to the love we naturally are and live it on a daily basis.
There is not a day that goes by without corruption being exposed in one part of the world. As you’ve shared Christopher this is but one part of many loveless parts that is out there. It’s easy to get disillusioned if we see this and don’t think we can do anything about it. But the choice is for each of us to change that through how we first take care of ourselves and then all others. As you say one loving act starts a ripple effect. No need to march down the street or sit silently in protest – a loving gesture or expression, in my experience, is what is really needed.
Very true. These are our choices just as it is our choice to see the truth and light we are and not only see the corruption etc. if we only choose to see the bad then this is when I feel we think it has a power over us.
“No need to march down the street or sit silently in protest – a loving gesture or expression, in my experience, is what is really needed.” Beautifully said David. No need to do all these action to proclaim what we deem right or wrong, if we claimed this zest of action in our every day life and spoke up wherever it was needed we wouldn’t need any big demonstrations as a collective community but had this all working in our everyday lives everywhere we go and are.
And those loving gestures and expressions make such a difference in this world David, I agree. When we choose to adhere to Love no matter what, it can be really challenging. There is no excuse to get angry about anything, choosing Love means taking a step back to stop, observe, get our personal reactions out of the way so we can truly feel what is taking place and respond. It requires developing maturity, commitment and lightheartedness in all we do and empowers us to make changes in our personal lives that do ripple out and gently wash over everyone we meet. The impressions we leave on other people really do make a World of difference.
All that marching and protesting is fuelled by the emotions of injustice, anger, frustration, etc but it doesn’t change anything. It may produce an outcome but it doesn’t change the festering rot that caused the protest in the first place. Only steps taken in love can make any true change.
Yes for too long I had sat back in my own ‘little bubble of life’ very much aware of some, not all, of what was going on around me in the world. Not feeling that my voice would be heard or that I could change that ever building ‘mess’ gathering momentum daily around the globe. Since attending Universal Medicine presentations/workshops with Serge Benhayon something big happened. The love which had long been buried inside me started to be unraveled, healings started to clear and support, more love started to emanate, I started to view the world with much different eyes and most important of all, a love for humanity started to increase. Yes I do have a voice, I can make a difference. (bubble burst) As you share so beautifully Christopher “Practicing true love for all of humanity” is the way forward which is gradually building through many other students of life around the globe, “Laying down the foundations for a better world to live in for future generations to come”.
You remind me, Marion, that the quality in which I take my every step is a choice which then leaves a foundation stone behind. Then in true responsibility I can say, “What is the quality of that?’ Am I perpetuating our attachment to relief, distraction and avoidance of seeing our reality OR am I part of paving the way to a life lived with honesty, integrity and eyes wide open?
That is really important what you have shared Marion, we have a responsibility to ‘lay down the foundations for a better world to live in for future generations to come’. The world is a mess but it can be changed through each and everyone of us taking a stand, taking responsibility and being the Love that we are. We just need to get on and do it!
Thank you Christopher for highlighting that fact that love has not actually gone anywhere, but is there patiently waiting for us, if we choose it. It is easy to see how our choices through the ages have got us to this point and your list of everyday atrocities as horrific as they are, have in fact become our norm – this is very sad indeed. I used to despair at the ugliness I saw in the world but thanks to Serge Benhayon, I can now feel that life doesn’t have to be that way.
“We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.” These are powerful words and ones that if fully understood and acted upon have the potential to change the world.
Well said Rebecca, we are not victims but co creators of love – we just need to choose it. Could it really be that simple? I think so.
I completely agree. I too love these powerful words. Serge Benhayon is living proof that one person can change much and many lives.
I agree Rebecca even our seemingly smallest interactions do have the power to change the world, to bring harmony to humanity.
Yes, this is still something we need to fully grasp as a humanity and then be willing to live a life of consistency and responsibility knowing that every single act of ours contributes either to the woes of our world or brings love and harmony to everyone.
Yes absolutely. Every single act either contributes to the woes or brings love and harmony. To live each day knowing and seeing this level of responsibility as a blessing is a game changer and encourages the next step of building consistency in those choices. We can be the change we want to see in the world, we simply have to choose to be it. Get out of the way and be the love we naturally are!
Absolutely Rebecca, and it’s not about going out there and DOING things that bring love. Love emanates when this is the quality we choose. When we take responsibility to heal our hurts, our love is what naturally returns and shines forth and it is felt by everyone. All we have to do is to take responsibility for ourselves. When we do this we allow the space for the healing of so much more.
I agree Katerina this is the way to bring our love to the world. “When we take responsibility to heal our hurts, our love is what naturally returns and shines forth and it is felt by everyone.”
I have been part of the dog eat dog world. I was one of the anonymous persons that was hiding in plain site, amongst the masses for far to long. I have found as you have said Christopher that even one loving act turns on our light and the more we do this the brighter our light becomes and this makes it imposable to hide anywhere for all to see and feel what can also be theirs.
“even one loving act turns on our light and the more we do this the brighter our light becomes and this makes it imposable to hide anywhere for all to see and feel what can also be theirs.” I like this sjmatsonuk and your pun on the word ‘impossible’. It’s true each true act of love, and not the imposing so called acts of love out there around us every day, light the way back for all and in turn allow others to feel their own light within.
We do do many acts within our days that bring light. I am realising that if we actually stopped to feel, acknowledge and appreciate the amazingness we bring- then perhaps there would be no self worth issues.
Great reminder Johanna08Smith. The world could do with more appreciation.
So true Johanna08smith, appreciation of ourselves and others brings about deep healing.
I love what you are saying, the more love we pour in our bodies the brighter we shine and the more everybody else will see and feel that there is a way to live with love and in harmony.
I found this blog to be like a loving type of battle cry, akin of rallying of the troops to just get out there and be love and promote love through our way of living.
I love that we are gathering together in communities all over the world, supporting each other, as we go out into the wider community, inspiring others to learn that there is Another Way – the way of love, the Way of the Livingness.
And how could we hold it in for a single second when we feel the true state of us as a one brotherhood?
Well said Kevin, it is a call to arms, a call to rise up and chose to express love despite the grimness of the world.
Great image kevmchardy – and well said – a loving battlecry rallying the troops to drop their weapons of protection and return to the love that we are and bring that to the world. In each and every moment.
Thats a great way of saying to kevmchardy – a ‘loving type of battle cry’.
Absolutoy kevmchardy, I feel the same, ‘I found this blog to be like a loving type of battle cry, akin of rallying the troops to just get out there and be love’, this is so what is needed and as someone who has felt that there is another way, a way to be loving with myself and others having been presented with a loving, true way to live by Universal Medicine I can feel the responsibility of living this in the world and opening up and letting people in, rather than living in protection and fear.
I get what you mean kevmchardy – a clarion call that the mess we are in is not it – there is love to be lived again – it is in us all equally – and the tide is beginning to turn, one person, family, community at a time.
True, the living tide of love is rising.
I love that kevmachardy, and I know what you mean — a battle cry full of love, instead of the emotional charge we’re more used to hearing.
Yep, we are love, every one of us and that is our weapon of choice, simply to present, to live, to be … love. When so many of us have lived out of fear of being hurt for so long we need to see that it is possible to live a loving life that has deep care for ourselves and others equally before we dip our toe in the water. So I agree Kevmchardy, let’s get out there and be love.
A great description of how you felt this blog to be kevmchardy. ‘Battle cry’ indeed; without swords!
Thank you Christopher, it is great to hear that love is found all the way in Norway! Your blog is a beautiful example that love can be found anywhere no matter the circumstances all we need to do is ask for it and connect to our inner heart.
Just today I have had a deepening understanding of how love works, and it is so beautiful it blows me away. Becoming aware of a restrictive/unloving pattern within myself, a holding on of hurts or a persistent reaction to a particular circumstance, and nominating it whenever it arises, and observing myself honestly in these moments leads to the diminishing of this lack of love within myself and toward others, eventually releasing it all together, making more space for the love I am within. The amazing thing is though, that as I have just experienced this within myself two very beautiful people in my life who are very close to me and know nothing of what is occurring for me have at the same time opened their hearts to allow more love within and between themselves to heal a very long standing hurt. Everything we heal, that allows more love within, makes a space for others in our lives to do the same. The responsibility is to heal and become the love we want to see in the world.
That is beautiful rosemarydunstan and so true it is our responsibility to make the choice to heal our hurts so we can become the love we want to see in the world.
Gorgeous rosemarydunstan and I can very much relate. The more I open up to my own love, knowing this is truly who I am and taking responsibility to heal the hurts I’ve been carrying, the more my heart is open to myself and to everyone — to reconnect to their own love that always resides within ourselves as well. Our love is always there with us, we might have walked away from it, forgotten it, but the moment we call it back knowing it is who we are, its fire ignites so powerfully and we return home.
Exactly Thomas, it is a human trait to think that one person cannot make a difference, this is how love is stopped! But if one person reflects love, five people feel it, and so on. Every single choice we make today will one day be what humanity is. Amazing, every single last person counts as one whole.
Yes, and what a crazy notion that it’s too hard, or that we are unable to make a difference. We have seen time and time again the power of our teachers of past and present living real love and changing the world in their wake. It’s time for us all to walk as the ones.
Beautiful Christopher. It is true – what happened? Where did love go? Buried under eons of greed and corruption – but there is light and it is ignited within the very hearts of the men/women who used to enjoin in the furore. Love is the way, and it is not just a concept. Universal Medicine presents a life lived from love, what it is, what it looks like, how it feels and practically how to get there. One thing we have to do.. choose to be love once again.
I love what you have expressed here Jo and the simplicity of our return – to choose it once again.
The current state of the world is a mess as you have clearly outlined in your first paragraph Christopher. Fact is that love hasn’t gone anywhere, it is inside each and everyone one of us, it has always been there and each of us can access it at any point in time if we so choose. What gets in the way of us feeling this love – our undealt hurts and issues. When more of us choose to stop blaming others, to look inward and deal with our stuff, we have the opportunity to truly heal. We then unfold back to the love that we innately are. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have been an inspiration to many (including me) to do this.
Absolutely Ariana and a very good point indeed. Universal Medicine is leading the way in supporting thousands of people across the world to access the love that is there inside of them through the Teachings of the Ageless Wisdom. Before we love another, we first must indeed love ourselves. Through the courses and presentations of Universal Medicine I have learnt the importance of self-care and self-love and am feeling the knock on affect that has in feeling the love for humanity. When there is a love for humanity, there is the will and want to make a change.
Great points Ariana and Donna – and I love the analogy of humanity and the headless chicken running around looking for what is actually deep within us, and what we simply need to open up to and develop a relationship with. This is so relevant for me to be reading this morning for I feel strongly that it is how we are in our microcosms that then feed the macrocosmic harmony or disharmony. A grand reminder indeed of how simple it is to ‘take on the world’ – we simply re-connect to ourselves and this leads the way.
Very true Ariana and Donna, I was listening to the radio this morning talk about mindfulness and going to our happy place to find a memory of being happy, how we all live trying to protect ourselves from one hurt or another. I felt so sad that this conversation didn’t pick up on how much it was encouraging us to protect ourselves, to isolate ourselves, to stay in our heads and how doing that is feeding the lack of engagement to see ourselves as beyond our borders, both personal and national. We are the change for this world and being in our heads and seeing others as different is definitely not the answer and is how we find ourselves in Christopher’s thoroughly depressing description of the world we have today.
This exposes how mindfulness doesn’t actually change anything, it is just a ‘tool’ to escape the hear and now, feel bliss, go to a ‘happy place’ but what happens when you leave that? Surely that just makes things worse because of the disparity between reality and the images you’ve had in your mind.
We are the love and I’m enjoying claim it … It’s always a work in progress as I deepen so do I connect to the joy in reflection
“It has not gone anywhere, it can be found inside us all!” This statement is spot-on and for many to read, it sounds far too simple, for the momentum with all of us at one time or another has prevented us from taking another step towards ourselves. I agree Christopher, there is love building in people all over the world; it cannot be stopped and anyone can find answers to their questions that can sustain them in this love building activity too (rather than just let them down with another unsustainable solution common place in this current age).
‘We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.’ I loved reading this, it is a beautiful reminder that we can all make a difference if we so choose.
True, and there is nothing wishy-washy or airy-fairy about these acts of love. Love is very practical, responsible, simple and joyful!
I love the the clarity and directness of this article Christopher! No maybe about it, we can all bring love to our everyday interactions in the smallest ways which immediately changes the quality of love in the world.
Thank you Christopher for what you have shared here. It is the responsibility for us all to live from the love we all hold within. From this choice alone true change can be felt and seen in a big way.
I agree Kelly, if love is our true focus huge healing occurs of this for oneself and everybody else.
Awesome blog Christopher and I love your opening questions. They are so pertinent and should be asked by everyone daily! And I totally agree with you when you say ‘We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.’
Yes me too Rebecca, I’m appreciating more and more how much of an impact the way we live our life has on the whole of humanity. Even how we are with ourselves when we are alone is super important, as this sets us up how we will then be when with others.
Yesterday for the first time in my life I started sharing the religious experiences I’m having by truly starting to feel God and The Divine again. I felt tension in my body before talking about it, but it felt the right thing to do otherwise I would have been holding back me because this is in truth a big part of my life right now. What happened was far from what I would have thought it to be… A sensible discussion around love, the origin of religions, the church, the life of Jesus, etc. How deeply beautiful and profound to have this conversation with a friend that I know for over 25 years, but never shared things like this. Simply because no one ‘started the converstation’ before. So the first 25 years definitely laid the foundation and were religious in the sense that they made it possible to share and express openly without holding back. My friend even shared that the origin of sermans are to make people think about life. How beautiful is that. Clearly church and religion are 2 totally different expressions. We were in his house, sharing religion at this point in time for us. Wow. Simple, yet AMAZING. The love had gone into silence and it now lid up to light the world again. Spoken as well as felt.
This love you speak here about, Christopher, is not an ‘air-fairy’ one – it is a profound, tangible and powerful love – that enables you to live in this world as a fully committed and responsible member of society with all it brings with it.
Yes, Sonja, I agree. The love Christopher speaks of is not ‘airy-fairy’ at all, but is good old fashioned common sense. Our daily commitment to life and each other really does make a difference.
Christopher, the last two paragraphs just made goosebumps while I read them. I just have to repeat them:
‘Normal everyday people who truly believe that love is the way, laying down the foundations for a better world to live in for the generations to come. Already enjoying harmonious lives and living examples of true beauty. Lovingly helping others around them unconditionally.
Through the living example of love personified, Serge Benhayon, his family and Universal Medicine, with an ever growing number of students practising true love for all humanity, there is the greatest possibility to find where the love is. It has not gone anywhere, it can be found inside us all! Truly inspired!’
Thank you Christopher for making us all aware of the dire straits that the world is in- and how the loveless behaviour prevails.
And this highlights the responsibility we each have in turning this around by making our life about love- reconnecting to the love within us- as we all come from divine love, so others can be inspired to do this also.
Christopher what a great topic for one may well wonder where has the love gone and it is thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that we are reminded by example and reflection that love is inside us all. All we have to do is connect to it by our very living way .Thank you for a brilliant sharing for us all to appreciate the love we are and to live it.
If Love is the heart and soul of human beings, our living centre, but the way humanity is living is not reflecting that anymore, then what are we living from? If we are not living from ourselves then what is the energy we are living from? The absence of love on such a grand scale should surely in itself be a wake up call.
What a great question Christopher. I can further justify the fact the as a society we have definitely lost the love because I don’t even remember much talk about religions being based on love growing up. All I can remember is pointing out the separation between them all. How interesting my perspective on the topic was all those years ago.
Where is the love? Where has it gone? True love hasn’t gone away from us it is reflected to us in nature all of the time, we chose to go away from it. The Way of the Livingness Religion is our path of return to true brotherhood and true love, which has always and is always there for us to connect back to, for we come from love, we are love and we have the choice to be love. In fact it is the most loving responsibility we have to ourselves and for all of humanity. When we are not love, then we are disconnecting – separating from our very essence – from ourselves and from each other, leaving us open to all manner of destructive behaviours, corruption, illness and disease, which we then come to accept as normal.
“When we are not love, then we are disconnecting – separating from our very essence – from ourselves and from each other, leaving us open to all manner of destructive behaviours, corruption, illness and disease, which we then come to accept as normal.” Well said deidremedbury. So in a nutshell all there is for us to do is to reconnect to the love that we are.
When I read this I felt how popular songs extolling the virtues of romantic love (“all you need is love”) have kept us away from truly understanding love and knowing what it is. Romantic love is a distraction from the real deal. True love is about truth, responsibility, deep knowing, stillness, joy, harmony… about living from the point of view of the all. If we all lived with true love active in our lives we would never have arrived at the place we are in. It will take a lot of people making the commitment to living from and with true love to turn it around. Thank goodness for Universal Medicine for demonstrating exactly how we can begin to live in a way that will enable this to happen.
“Loving others around them unconditionally”, this feels important Christopher not having conditions on our love and help for others, for me personally the more I make loving supportive choices and learn to take better care of myself, I am able to support others in a less needy way, not needing the recognition and approval from the other person.
Thank you Christopher for calling out that we still have a huge slave trade (now called human trafficking) we are told that we are evolving and no longer have slaves, but have just changed the name. This disgusting and sub human way of treating another fellow human should be front-page news on a daily basis, as its something we all have a part in, as long as we ignore it and pretend its not happening.
It’s astounding the degree to which we have accepted, passively enjoined and failed to speak up about the atrocities of human life. The ‘not in my back yard’ phenomenon has caused us to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the abuse that goes on to the extent we have minimised and normalised it, and failed to recognise it in ourselves – in the way we are with others, and with ourselves. Abuse is our norm.
Christopher, I used to think the worlds problems and the lies I saw all around me were too big for me to make a difference, but I’m starting to see how powerful I, we all are and that every act from presence and love does make a huge difference.
Yes agreed Thomas, I can still be inclined to feel that way… it’s too big. But then I look at some key people in history, and then some I know now, and the difference they make is ENORMOUS. If every one of us were to do this, there is no looking back.
This is a great blog to read just now, it re-ignites my commitment back in to work at a time when I have been feeling overwhelmed, because it reminds me that we can always return to love.
We have an attitude that if something awful is not effecting us directly or someone in our close circle of friends we turn a blind eye to it, by doing this are we not contributing to the awful act simply by not standing up and saying its not OK. We have as humanity accepted so much less than the stupendous beings we are and the love we all know ourselves and others to be, thank you Christopher for bringing this subject to our awareness.
I LOVE what you have expressed here Christopher. I feel to make this real for people we need to add that the kind of other-and-all-focussed love you speak of is not something obtained simply by reading or hearing about it – it needs to be arrived at, step by step, as we work our way out of our self-centred lives – and with great self-love – towards a way of life that is about serving humanity.
Yes Victoria well said… a ‘life that is about serving humanity’ is one where it is understood that every expression affects everyone, and hence we remove the ‘self’ from the equation. This requires accepting responsibility for the part each of us plays towards the whole working harmoniously as a one humanity.
Thank you, Christopher, yes, we have become so used to so much being totally out of whack in our world, the scary part being, we’re starting to accept some of it as normal, ‘it’s just the way it is’ ……. but it’s not normal, anything that isn’t love is NOT NORMAL. Most importantly, we can make a difference, ‘every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.’ It’s just a choice as to whether we love humanity enough to want to do all we can to turn the tide and bring back the love.
Absolutely Christopher, where has the love all gone in the world. It is important here for me to keep this totally relevant to my part that I play and have played in this devastating world we live in. I can see how my responsibility to be loving and hold my love steady has not been a priority and certainly was not what I would have considered as even my responsibility until coming across Universal Medicine and all of the amazing practitioners that are always around to support. I have been reawaken to this truth and sit with a shocking reality that I have allowed this to play out, as I have been working on not bashing myself I can say this in a clear observational way rather then being self critical and so working on my part and bringing all of me to every situation I have in is an ongoing daily choice that I now choose to make.
The current foundations of humanity are based on the lists of ‘things that are not love’ you have listed at the beginning Christopher, including the choice so many of us make to ‘turn a blind eye’. Hence the foundations we collective stand on are unstable and crumbling away under our feet. As you point out, those people who are choosing to live from love are not only re-laying their own foundations but are contributing to the rebuilding of the foundations of humanity. The more of us who choose this the more solid they will become. Serge Benhayon laid the first stone in this new era and now there are many hundreds all over the world (myself included) who have been inspired to do the same.
We are the LOVE that we have been SEARCHING for….
I agree with you totally Kathryn, we are the LOVE that we have been SEARCHING for…..and when we reconnect and feel this truth within ourselves we cannot but express it outwardly, even in the smallest gesture we can ignite that love in another and so on it goes.
Yes Rosemary it is as simple as reconnecting to the love that we are and living from that love. This inspires all we meet to find that love within themselves and this is how we spread the love. A good way to start to reconnect is through these simple 10 minute meditations presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. Here is the link: http://www.unimedliving.com/meditation
Thank you Christopher for such a beautiful sharing, it is interesting how many speak of love but very few live it in a true way. Serge Benhayon and his family are living examples of how to live life in a truly loving way and many of us have been inspired to also live this truth that is equally within us all too.
Great point you are making Anna. The knowledge that love is the way, or the answer cannot be enough only if I adhere to a way to live this in my everyday life whilst attending to everything that life is asking of me – like Serge Benhayon does – am I a true teacher of love. It is then that I will emanate love from every pore, my walk will be love and therefore my thoughts and my talk will be love. It won’t be a theory but I will be a living proof of the fact.
There is so much about the way humanity lives that is not right and YET all around the world people are waking up to the fact that they can either contribute to the disharmony or not. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine students are reclaiming back the love that is within us ALL. We are in times of change and I feel blessed and inspired to be apart of this Way Of the Livingness.
As devastating as the exposing of wide spread abuse is, it is a step towards truth for us all. So much abuse has been tolerated and hidden which is equally devastating for all. Love is present when we can trust the truth.
Christopher, what really struck me on re-reading your blog was just how much we actually talk about/sing about/write about love as a society yet the society we live in is far from loving. It is as if love is something elusive that we are all longing for and that a few people happen to stumble upon. This of course is far from the truth. The truth is that we all come from love, it is within us and all we have to do is to re-connect to it. Thanks to the support of Universal Medicine I have been able to do this and so have many others. It is life changing.
Yes a lot of people talk about love, love is the way, love heals everything etc. but where are the practical tools to live love in ones life? Universal Medicine presents a way that is a life lived from love, not somewhere that you go, it is simply what you live. Be love is no longer a concept but a practical way of life.
Hi Elizabeth and Jo, I see what you are saying here it is the concepts of love that we are taken away with through music, movies, writing and discussion and these concepts are so misguiding as they have nothing to do with the love that we all naturally are that is within each of us waiting to be re connected to.
The greatest point that needs to be taken from your fantastic writing Christopher is that when we know about the ‘past-times of humanity’, spelled out by you, and choose to Do Nothing, we are therefore accepting of the behaviour and party to it. I think many would not like to hear this, and the common thought might be “I have no control over what another does”, and to some degree this may well be true, but as Serge Benhayon presents that everything is energy and everything therefore because of energy, then there is an energy being lived throughout the world that is supporting the atrocious, un-loving as an overwhelming understatement, behaviours we see. This way of energy of being or acting is much closer to home, in fact in our households in the form of disharmony, relationship conflict, distraction by entertainment, food, sport, coffee, alcohol and a myriad of others and can therefore be controlled and changed. The choice Is Ours therefore, not someone else’s problem.
Awesome point you make here,Suzanne. A sort of ‘take a look in your own back yard’ before we’re so quick to call others out.
This blog insights the responsibility we all have if the smallest drop of love said in any situation has enormous impacts on the whole, the same must be for that of the smallest drop of anything that is not of love.
Yes Joshua, our greatest shirking of responsibility lies in choosing to remain unaware of this fact…
From the opening list of behaviours which describe a pretty loveless world, it would be easy to think that there is no love in sight, but thankfully, as you share, ‘It has not gone anywhere, it can be found inside us all! Truly inspired!’ it’s a joy to read that you are a kindergarten assistant and can bring this love to all the children, staff and parents that you come into contact with. The beauty of love is that it is carried from one person to the next and that one person, like you, me or Serge Benhayon, can impact so many through living lovingly.
I learnt a lesson recently of understanding the effect one person can have. One of my colleagues couldn’t make it to work and no one could cover, so we had to do the shift with one person down. It really brought home to me the important role every person has in life – that without one person, everyone else has to work harder to cover the gap left in the puzzle where they are meant to be. Imagine if just one person is kind and caring and loving wherever possible – and this causes someone else to smile more and feel happier, and perhaps be inspired to also be more loving and kind – the ripple effect is seedless and unmeasurable.
Universal Medicine has reflected to us how living in comfort and not shaking ourselves out of this stupor, supports these awful things in the world to exist. The more we live the love that we know we are, building on this, the faster the world will change.
So true Amanda all we need to do is to reconnect to the love that we are and being this love is all that is required as this naturally changes everything.
Absolutely Amanda, Universal Medicine is the epitome of love in action, and has helped me and so many to expose the hidden or not so hidden areas and activities we can use for comfort. I look back on what I used to reflect to the world around me and shudder, an exhausted, driven, anxious, sad woman, but this can and has changed by the choices we make in any given moment.
Love it Christopher Murphy, what a testimony! By virtue of realising all this corruption, control and abuse in the world, and then feeling the power and strength in a growing number of people standing up again and living LOVE – I felt builds a trust in humanity once again, and that this new religion – (or should I say old – the true roots of the past) – one about love – one that finally feels like home once again… is what we are missing from this world…but no fear it is back – The Way of The Livingness is here to stay, as presented and inspired forth by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, and all the students in their living way.
Indeed it is there Christopher just waiting to be reignited.
Universal Medicine is where the greatest possibility is to find where the love is. That sure is the truth. Thank you Christopher.
Christopher thankyou for highlighting that it is personal responsibility and our commitment to ourselves that will start to turn the tide of unlovingness in the world.
I agree, it doesn’t happen with mass movements, rallies and protests, true change for the true better starts with personally taking responsibility and realising that “enough is enough, no more of this; lovelessness hasn’t worked and it will never work”.
So true Gabriele, the real power of change lies in each and every person choosing to live lovingly. Mass rallies and movements do not ask this of us. Taking responsibility for the quality of our inner thoughts, the quality of our interactions, relationships, communication and regard for ourselves and others is where the real, permanent change begins. We always have a choice and that choice begins with how we live, speak and move through our days. It is a choice to honour, appreciate and deeply care for ourselves and one another, a choice that can be made at any time and by anyone for the whole of humanity.
It’s not what we say, it’s how we say it, it’s how we are in our selves in all that we do and say that has the impact. When we include love it changes everything and the smallest act becomes something very special, the love is felt, always.
Profound statement you are making here Lee, we all have the power to turn the tide and make the next choice about love and then the next and the next… and we will experience how the tidal wave of love will build and spread far and wide.
We all want to be loved and to love yet when we don’t feel love we tend to look outside of ourselves to find it. We will never find love outside of ourselves simply because love resides within us. All we have to do is re-connect to it. Of course when we connect to the love that is within us that love cannot help but emanate from us and can be felt by all.
Beautifully expressed Elizabeth and always a great reminder and confirmation to feel and develop a relationship with the love we naturally are!
What you have shared here, as others have, is really important. If we continually look outside ourselves for love it will never truly be found but instead add to the comparison, jealousy, hurt and anger etc etc. If we all stopped to REALLY feel this we would be able to see the ridiculousness of how we look outside for love instead of first connecting to the absoluteness within ourselves first, and then coming from here .. living from the inside out instead of bringing the outside in! Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and Universal Medicine Practioners are the only people I have known that consciously live and teach this.
Spot on Elizabeth, to love is to reconnect to the love that we are and being this love is all that is required.
Yes a great distinguishing point Elizabeth… the love we crave comes from within us! This was the most revelatory point when I first experienced it and understood where all my years of ‘loving’ without the expected results, had gone wrong. When I think I have to ‘give the love’ that’s needed to make the world a ‘better place’, it’s exhausting. When I understand that love emanates, once l’m connected to it… there’s no effort other than the responsibility to remain connected. So simple!
‘Joy’ felt in the responsibility to remain connected? ‘Exhaustion’ in the thinking and effort required to ‘give the love’? Mmmm…Joy, Joy, Joy!
What I have never been able to figure out is why it seems far easier for people to just look out for themselves and not worry about others, surely if we all worked together as one race of people, abundance would be there for all instead of the individual person, nation or community etc. wanting more than their neighbours. Also is it not far easier to just love instead of all the energy that is in hate and the building of weapons of all shapes and sizes to express that hate. Thank God there is truth amongst us leading the way for a future that will work instead of the chaos that we are currently in.
Thanks Christopher , Love Is definitely back on the menu and growing stronger everyday ,
In the age old battle between dark and light we have now come to a tipping point of change , the battle is far from over and all of our responsibility to keep love going by our livingness ,appreciation and understanding .
I agree Greg – everyone on the planet needs to go on The LOVE Diet!
That’s so true Ariana. So much is written of evidence based practice with regard to children and families but with very little mention of the word love. It seems like the word love has been bastardised and I rarely hear it mentioned else in regard to emotional love.
So what a great question to put to society. Love is here all around us if we choose to connect and choose to be honest so we can call out what is called love but isn’t.
This is absolutely a game changing blog Cristopher, how often do you hear, “it is terrible but there is nothing I can do about it”. But here you are explaining that it is in the act of every loving word you say, taught you have or way you move. You show us how much responsibility we have in being and expressing the love that we truly are and this is the way forward to bring true change in this world with so many unloving acts.
The extreme forms of evil that we do not like such as war, rape, murder, paedophilia, people trafficking etc all have their roots in us staying silent anytime we see or feel abuse from another person no matter how small. We may not be able to directly influence events in Syria for example or elsewhere in the world but by taking more responsibility in our own daily lives by calling what is love and what is not love, we change the energy that is feeding these world events.
Yes Christopher there is a growing number of people who are asking these questions and also choosing love more often in their daily lives which can only have an accumulative effect in the world.
The list of human behaviours in your opening paragraph is, on one hand completely shocking and outrageous, but on the other, it is everyday occurrences that are aired in the news daily and it has become the norm for our current times. So I can make one of two choices, accept this as normal and do nothing or work on bringing more love to a world that desperately needs it.
Yes so true Matthew. When one steps back to look at the list, it is quite shocking to see just how much we accept these behaviours in our societies. It seems that our skins just get thicker and thicker. It is so important to acknowledge and focus on nurturing love in the world and that begins with us. What we have come to accept in the wider world we need to cut both within ourselves and in our lives. When we truly address our lovelessness on the micro level, we give ourselves the opportunity to debase it on the macro level. What is not allowed to exist within our families or us has no foundation upon which to exist in our societies. Choosing to become personally accountable for our individual behaviour empowers every individual to truly begin to address the ills in the world.
And what a remarkable way to live Rowena, it is a very important part of our society to be able to be one of the few to choose to stand out and say no to behaviours that do not support ourselves or each other for that matter. To be able to work on what we feel and see as not working is a perfect example of a person choosing to take responsibility for ones owns actions.
I agree Mathew, and it always starts with yourself by the quality of care we choose for ourselves and our innate connection of brotherhood..
We cannot deny it, the world is in a mess and as you have shared this is just a FEW of the reasons why ‘wars, drug wars, binge drinking, corruption at all levels (e.g. from pharmaceutical and weapons industries all the way down to local government), religious fanatics killing and enslaving, the booming global slave trade (now referred to as human trafficking, including child trafficking, sex trafficking and refugee extortion), poverty, extreme wealth, abuse, cyber abuse, self abuse, bullying, suicide’. Feeling into this more I know there are people that genuinely care but this care and love doesn’t seem to make that much of a difference and I feel one of the reasons why is because we don’t know how to truly stop, appreciate and give ourselves the self-love and self-care we need. The world does not reflect this to us, but instead to compare, strive, drive, go faster, work harder or give up. Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and Universal Medicine Practitioners and students are showing there is another way to live, we can turn this around and we can make a difference, but it needs all of us to be on board.
Brilliantly expressed Vicky Cooke. You are right, appreciating ourselves is truly the way out of this mess we call ‘life on earth’, that way once we stop and take a moment to truly begin to appreciate ourselves and stop looking on the outside for solutions, then our lives will begin to change from the inside out, and these changes will be true and lasting and this is what humanity is looking for, we’ve just been looking in the wrong place, thinking that true love is ‘out there’ when we hold all that we will ever need right inside of our beautiful bodies which are crying out for a little appreciation and tenderness.
I love this, ‘once we stop and take a moment to truly begin to appreciate ourselves and stop looking on the outside for solutions, then our lives will begin to change from the inside out’. This is what I have been experiencing recently, appreciation feels like the key, the more I appreciate myself, the more I trust and honour myself and the more vital and loving I feel.
We spend our lives looking outside of ourselves for love and wanting the world to reflect the love we so desire and yet forget the fact it resides within us… and that to make a difference in the world, requires us being willing to take responsibility for how much and how often we are prepared to express what lies within and thus inspire others to choose the same.
True, many people live within their own bubbles and anything outside their bubble is none of their concern. The problem with this is that it is our concern, let me explain.
We live on a planet where everything is connected if that be through nature, trading or economies, etc. Nowadays a very tangible way to see that the world is connected is through economies. A prime example of this is the European union. There have been many financial problems hitting Europe at present. Countries going into default and an influx of war refugees. No country within the European union can act on its own to get of this mess. Cooperation and unity is very much needed. It is a very fine balance when a nation within the union is close to bankruptcy and other nations needing to lend emergency funds to save them to sustain their one shared currency. Thereby they are clearly connected and no country can just worry about their own. The world economy is closely woven as is the European union. An example of this is the stock market. If the Asian stock market crashes other internally markets will also suffer as seen recently.
I have only described a small facet of our world and how it is connect but I’m sure if every person sat down and ponder on the fact we would see many more ways we are all connected. Thereby only focusing on our own little bubble or glade of grass is an illusion in its self.
There are some great questions posed in this blog!
‘We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.’
Yes indeed, which is why it is so important to never give up on people as we all need to be shown and live love.
When you read any news site it is hard to reconcile the fact you’ve shared “Were not all religions originally based on love? Were not all religions originally from the one religion of love?” The reality is true love is no longer the basis or the leading impulse of those groups otherwise we would not have the war, hatred, inequality, judgement etc..
‘Were not all religions originally based on love? Were not all religions originally from the one religion of love?’ So, what happened? Did man bastardise them so much that they now contain some truth but not the whole truth? If they were all to contain the whole truth would there then be so many different religions? I think not. The Way of the Livingness is to my mind the one true religion, based as it is on love, equality and truth.
Thank you, Christopher, for the great questions you have posed. Our seeming indifference to the daily atrocities occurring in the world needs to be pointed out again and again until we wake up out of our stupor and face the horror of what we have been party to. Universal Medicine is not popular because it relentlessly reflects the truth of our choices back to us, but thank God someone is doing it and cares enough to face the backlash.
Well said Janet. So close and yet so far. If we turn our focus from the outer to the inner we can make a whole world of difference.
So beautiful expressed janetwilliams06, that is so true. We need to face it in order to truly change, as until now not many faces (lives) have truly moved up and stepped forward to admit that how we are living, yes also individually, is not IT and is not working, it is crushing us all. It requires every member of society to step up to this fact. Every single member that is going to step forward, will lead the way. This needs to be, as we cannot wait any longer.
It is true how all religions were originally based on love. This is what they all have in common. It would only take a simple return to this to unite all the religions of the world.
True Rebecca, it would. So why is it that we chose not to? There would need to be an enormous amount of humble pie baked and eaten to bring any religion other than one of universal truth, down from its arrogant stance and into love.
It takes only a few people to live in a truly loving, harmonious way, laying down new foundations through practising true love for humanity in whatever way no matter how big or small, to inspire others through their living example, so that love starts to build until a tipping point is reached and it becomes the norm. This will take time, but we have plenty of that on our side and it has already begun.
The openness to being loving will all of humanity is foundational in bringing about sustainable change in society.
Yes and the ripple effect of laying these foundations of Love is spreading as proven by Serge Benhayon and his family.
To not live in our own little “bubble of life” can be challenging as I have found it can be difficult to not react to other people who are in their bubble and not being loving. Yet when I see the bigger picture of the world that is when it becomes easy to see how we are all one. And to feel there is a movement growing, with people making choices to say no to the misery and be lovingly uplifting the world, that is a beautiful thing.
We seem to be unable as a society to look honestly at the big picture… and say hang on – we need to stop, this is not working. We can not look at life honestly and overlook where we are at as a whole. Sure some people can pretend they are doing ok – but in reality they are just in denial of what is really going on. The first time I heard Serge Benhayon present he put everything together in a way that I had not come across before. The big picture all of a sudden made sense. And he still makes sense every time I hear him or read what he has written in a way that makes the big picture visible.
Astounding.
Christopher Murphy – what a super top post you have given us today. A breath of fresh air and much needed subject to talk about.
That word ‘Love’ does not sit right with so many because the essence of the word has got lost and your blog confirms this clearly.
Your first paragraph alone is a STOP for this world to question what on earth is going on and why are we ACCEPTING this and not doing anything.
As you say “we can all do something about the state of the world we live in” and this is where Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are the leaders. They have given me the tools to sort myself out and now help others and ‘do my bit”.
For me doing my bit includes speaking up and not just nodding and agreeing to something that is totally untrue. By keeping my mouth shut I am in effect saying Yes I agree because I did not offer that person anything else. How else is there going to be change if we all just accept the status quo and yet can feel tension inside us everyday.
Indeed Bina, the lovelessness is validated with each day that we continue to override this tension.
Christopher, thank you for this truthful account of where humanity is placed when it comes to Love at this present time. We are definitely in need of more love and harmony in our world. Choosing to be Love and expressing it is the way back as this opens others to feel the Love they are and this, like fire, spreads quickly.
Christopher, this is a great sharing and lately I have been pondering on the same aspect. Fear of love seems to be more common in our world than to accept the love we are deep within. I start to understand how love which is expressed but not in full adds to the harming which is in the world.
“‘I’m all right Jack’, ‘we have to look after our own’, or just hiding inside my own little bubble of life, doing my own thing, cutting off the rest of humanity as though I was not a part of them and they were not a part of me.” The impact of this separation is rearing its head everywhere. Yesterday I was reading about the something called the silo-effect where big companies are splitting their workforce off into so many different departments, which then fail to communicate to one another resulting in giant mistakes and the potential downfall of the business. A great example of the boxed in, self mentality that pervades our society.
The smallest deed can have a profound affect on one persons life. Lets make that our daily choice.
How many of us have lived within the bubble doing our thing, ignoring the world, and thinking we are not affected. We are all affected by the lack of love present today in the world. Look around you, who do you see genuinely joyful and loving life?
“The answer is YES, there are many people who truly believe; large and small groups spread across the globe, growing steadily in number, in strength and most important of all, in love”… not only are there many that believe this, but there are many people who are actually living this, actually showing the world that it is possible, and that love is not exclusive to an individual or to a special ‘group’ of people, love belongs to all because it is within us all. Bravo Christopher for telling it as it is, true religion is about living in a way that re-connects us to the love inside of us, that way everyone feels it, and one day everyone will acknowledge it because the pull is strong to come back to love.
Go Christopher, saying it how it is. I love this blog. There are groups of people spread around the globe believing love is the way and it is growing in numbers. I am part of this group, and am continually inspired by all who walk with me.
When we read the list of all the things that are wrong in the world, it is easy to think that it has all gone too far, that we cannot recover, there is no hope, nothing we can do will change the world and yet, one man is showing us that we can, Serge Benhayon. Many of us have already experienced that, in living The Way of the Livingness, the harmony we develop within our own bodies is reflected in our immediate surroundings, in our relationships, our workplace and in the people we meet. People around us change as we do, it’s like a ripple effect. It may take centuries for the whole world to ‘get it’ but we can see how the initial responsibility lies within each one of us to live lovingly, honouring our bodies, appreciating everyone we meet and slowly, slowly, those ripples will spread outwards and harmony will be the norm.
Beautiful Carmel and so true.’People around us change as we do, it’s like a ripple effect. ‘
True Love has never gone anywhere. It is within us all waiting to be ignited again. As kids we would have felt and known this natural love we are but with all the pressures kids have on them to be a certain way and fit in, the love would have been squashed. Thank God for Serge Benhayon who has shown us the way back to this love through a way of living that reconnects us back to our true selves.
I loved reading your blog Christopher – Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are certainly showing us that there is indeed a different way, one based on the love we all inherently are and our return to being one unified. We can choose to look out upon the world and see the lovelessness but we can also choose to connect to the fiery love within, the love is definitely on it’s way back, very powerfully so.
There have been many movies made and books written about how one person’s action can change the world – either for the better, or for the worse, and at some level we all know that each of us is an important part of the whole, and then at another level it seems one person can change nothing as we watch the refugee crisis from Syria, or the senseless murder perpetrated by a drunk bully. What you bring here Christopher, is that regardless of the atrocities that surround us, regardless of the cyber-bullying or face to face bullying, each of us can choose to live with love, and be that point of truth for everyone we touch. The more of us that align to this knowing, the faster the world will indeed change.
Absolutely Heather, couldn’t agree more, the more of us that align to this knowing, and live the love that we are, the faster the world will indeed change.
Wow, Christopher, I love your writing; how beautiful and simple what you share and claim here – the love is indeed on it’s way back, thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, and all the students of The Way of the Livingness, who choose to align and remember to this truth. Thank you, very inspiring you are indeed.
Well, there may be little or no love in the world but there is lots of emotional love which feels great for a while and we are also better off in many ways – physically, more freedom etc. Maybe one day we will get around to also having love in the world again.
Hear-Hear Christopher… Asking the million dollar question… the question that is so obvious yet has not been asked out loud. We all think this quietly, shake our head when terrorism and corruption strike… yet, quite fundamentally, this is what every single human being is looking for… Love.. and ironically, its right beneath our nose!
Exactly johannebrown17, it is as nearby as our next choice if we choose love in the way we breathe, speak, move and think.
Love this line of yours Christopher: “Were not all religions originally based on love? Were not all religions originally from the one religion of love?” – if so, and I agree, then in-truth, religion is what will save mankind from its subversion…and yet the (organised) religions we have today with histories of child sex abuse, killings under the name of God and so on it seems are doing the job towards ensuring that ‘religion’ remains tarnished and rejected. We need religion in our lives because religion is LOVE-UNIFIED in Truth. The Way of The Livingness is such a religion, which is re-setting how our world is and it very future.
Absolutely Zofia, religious distrust is at an all time high; where’s the consistency, where’s the living inspiration, where’s true change, evolution indeed where is love? The Way of the Livingness has wiped the slate clean, has started again and returned religion to its most simple, embryonic form, a lived realignment to a one unified point that serves all equally.
Wow lucindag, this is so beautiful, ‘a lived realignment to a one unified point that serves all equally.’ It’s beauty lies in it’s expression but also in the truth being expressed.
Very true Zofia. The Way of The Livingness unities us all as one, One Love. This is the answer we have all been looking for, a religion that is based on Love and not harm.
So beautiful isn’t it Zofia! So simple and beautiful. What have we done with all our complication and reinterpretation of God and the way to be with him?
When I read your comment I felt that most ‘religions’ in the world today are not religion at all. They are simply businesses and political apparatus offering a place of hope and belief for people disillusioned with the world; all founded with a long history of abuse, violence and criminal activity.
Beautifully said, Zofia, and The Way of The Livingness is bringing back the true meaning of religion, exposing how humanity has bastardised the very meaning of the word through the corruption of a few to hide behind religion for self. Religion is never limited to self, it’s always about the all, every one. ‘Love-unified in truth’.
Christopher, as I came to the end of your blog i was reminded of me as a little girl asking the same questions and longing, longing so deeply, to come across something in the world that reflect and embodied the love that I knew but couldn’t see in the world around me. That love that I knew to be the absoluteness of everything that is true I found when I came across Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. What Serge taught and ignited was the love that was burning inside me that I had dimmed away from little having been so hurt by the world that seemed to be behaving in such a cruel way. The community of students of Universal Medicine, all of who have reignited their own powerful flames of love are now bringing back to the world in which we live, the enormous love I longed to see shine when I was little. The love is real, it is ours to claim and one day it will be what the world as a whole knows is the most normal way — our way.
Seeing Serge Benhayon walk through an airport once was all the evidence I needed to know that there is another way to live, and the impact of living like this in full love in everything you do, thoughts included, can never be underestimated as it is super powerful. Walking in the wake of that sort of lived love is a moment of reawakening if you so chose it.
Yes indeed Vanessa, watching the way Serge moves and listening to the way he speaks confirms to the core that there is another way to live.
Awesome blog Christopher – you have captured in a nutshell the state of the world and the strength of the growing tide of unconditional love happening within many and spreading around the world, and yes this is “Through the living example of love personified, Serge Benhayon, his family and Universal Medicine, with an ever growing number of students practising true love for all humanity, there is the greatest possibility to find where the love is. It has not gone anywhere, it can be found inside us all!” This will be a relief for many as there is no more seeking or searching when we come to know and understand love is within us, and always has been.
“We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.” I love this line Christopher. It reminds me that every single thing that we do has an effect. We can then choose to do things, everything, in love or not. The more we choose love, the more the effect is from love. All these little things add together to make the world we live in to be one of love or not.
Beautiful Lee, it is a simple law of cause and effect. The more we choose love and express from love, the more love is there returning to all of us.
Yes, true Christopher LOVE is the only thing that will change the world, firstly though the change comes from us being love and that is all that is needed because love expands, spreads just as the light does in the darkness and love will never not be because that is who we are and what everything is made of – the energy of love.
Thank you Christopher, what you have presented is very empowering in the way that we are all responsible in creating harmony in the world by the quality of choices we make in life and the responsibility we take to develop our relationships with self and others. When we start to connect to this love within us you cannot but share it with all simply by just allowing yourself to be you.
I agree Francisco, the love and appreciation that we build for ourselves is the key here, without that we are just carrying out empty deeds of good will, being falsely nice or a good person, with no basis of true love and care.
Beautiful Christopher, this all really needs to be said. It is imperative for humanity to return to love, and that is something we each can take responsibility for and practically live everyday. In this almost loveless world thank God for Serge Benhayon and for each student of Universal Medicine for taking up the call to live the truth of love everyday. You have written inspiring truth Christopher, thankyou.
Thank you Christopher, a superb article and one to remind us all that what we all earn for, deep down, is deep down inside us all the time. All it takes is one person who has re-claimed that inner connection to show everyone else how to achieve it for themselves, the one hundredth monkey syndrome. I too have been one to cower away from the atrocities in the belief that I am not powerful enough to have an impact, but as you say, turning these things around begins in the smallest of ways that gather momentum and step by step bring powerful changes. Once the swell is given some power, who knows where it will sweep to, all we have to do is to continue to express all the love we know we are, in as many ways as we know and feel how to.
Indeed rowenakstewart, the scale of these atrocities leaves us feeling helpless to make change, yet as you say “turning these things around begins in the smallest of ways that gather momentum and step by step bring powerful changes” indeed true evolution is begun.
The work begins with ourselves, learning to love and care for ourselves, because this basic foundation is otherwise lacking in our lives. Once this level of responsibility is assumed, we develop the capacity to help and assist others unconditionally. Life becomes purposeful, to reach and connect with people and not just an empty pursuit of fulfilling our own illusory needs.
It is indeed possible to love ourselves, love one another and for this change to be reflected in humanity. It is not an ideal.
I have explored and sought many ideals about what it means to live in community; ashrams and intentional communities, but through the work of Serge Benhayon, I have learnt that secluding and isolating ourselves in a bubble does not constitute love nor true community. Because when inside that community, one feels inclusion, yet sitting outside that community one feels excluded and different. Yet no matter our clothes, our jobs, our way of speaking, we are all one people and we can live in a way that is connected to and open with every person we meet, every day.
I can feel the way love is being laid as a stronger and stronger foundation, and really enjoyed the way you describe this Christopher. It is so true, the more love we express, the more love there is to be seen and felt by everyone. This is the part we can play – by not simply just accepting that abuse ‘just happens’ in the world.
A powerful statement Christopher, thank you. As you say there are all the un-loving acts and they appear to be on the rise. However, they have always been there, it is just that there is in fact more love now than ever before and that which is not love is being exposed e.g. the historic child abuse by the church.
The list of evil acts when read together is super powerful highlighting just how far we have come from love.
It is indeed, Fiona Cochran. There are so many terrible things going on in our world every minute of every day, it’s very important that we understand the reality of how things are, not to take it on as a burden, but equally not to bury our heads in the sand in the comfort that it’s not affecting us, so we’re ok. We are not ok because the world isn’t ok. It won’t be ok until the very last person on earth is choosing love first.
What I have discovered Christopher is love has to be lived otherwise it is merely an ideal or belief. It is actually not possible to act out any of the crimes against humanity you describe if you are living religiously in a body of love. The Dalai Lama is a living example as is Serge Benhayon of this fact. Living the love that we are is a deep commitment that we can never waiver from, as soon as you do you are back to only knowing love which allows all those awful acts to continue, even if you are not doing them. It’s a pretty big responsibility and I am in awe and inspired by Serge Benhayons work and what he has delivered from his absolute commitment to Love & Truth, not as a admirer but as someone who knows we can all live this way equally so.
Very powerful words Suzanne – feels like truth to the bone!
I love what you have said Suzanne and agree if we are truly living the love we are it is impossible to act in any unloving way toward another or humanity in general, and it is as you say a huge responsibility, for the minute we waiver we are contributing to the continuation of the acts of lovelessness. I also am totally inspired by Serge Benhayon and his absolute commitment to living Love & Truth, and through him know that this Love & Truth resides in us all, and we can all choose to live this way, equally so.
And when we claim that love Ariana, it is so easy for others to be inspired, simply because it is who they are; it is innate in them sitting and waiting. They just need reminding to light up the spark again.
The miracles that occur in our lives and bodies when we make the choice to return to express from love and expose the lovelessness is mind-blowing. Once we surrender back to love we begin to re-learn that this is how we are designed to be.
‘We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken, to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.’ I had turned away from the awful state of the world, given up it would change ever. Now I know, as your statement is saying Christopher, we all do matter, we all have the love inside us and can live in a loving way, inspiring others to make a difference in this crazy world.
I believe I had given up for a long time too Annelies. But more and more I’m realising that every single one of us has a place here and a responsibility to contribute.
The responsibility is ours to own in “that We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society”.
Yes each ripple counts!
It’s a sad moment as a child when we first realise how loveless the world can be, or that people, including our parents and siblings who we look up to are living a life without true love. It was only yesterday that I was feeling how I tried to ignore this hurt by thinking about positive things in my life or creating an imaginary story to distract myself by being in my mind. The truth is the sadness is only a distraction tactic to not feel the responsibility that we all have in how life is. The lovelessness we see is what over many lives we have allowed and chosen to engage with instead of love. With true responsibility we can all very simply move forward by choosing true love in every choice.
Yes I remember that shock and confusion as a kid. You didn’t really understand why people would do what they did. This proves your point Chris, that if we knew this as a kid then we all know love just how much we are prepared to express it differs between people.
This is a great point that we must constantly come back to “we all know love”. The differences in our willingness to express it must also come back down to our willingness to be honest about how far we have walked away from this love. Do we stop and be ‘hurt’ about how the world is, and measure our expression based on how hurt we are? Or do we stop and admit the world hurts because it was us who walked away from love, and in this honesty we can be empowered to come back to this love that we all know to our very bones?
It takes a lot of courage to see it all, and by this I mean choosing to see how those we love may make choices that don’t value themselves, hence blinding themselves from their beauty. I feel a deep strength in people who allow themselves to feel all of this and continue to be loving while understanding we are all making choices all of the time.
The strength in someone who allows themselves to feel the depth of the lovelessness in life is their willingness to admit that they have played a part in leading their brothers away from love.
I have succumbed to these pictures too Danielle of how life should look in order to keep things safe and secure but in doing so pushed down the hurt that I and we all carry. It is easy to fall for it when almost everywhere we look we see people not living the true love they are – disempowered, narrow-minded, not the real them at all.
The perception we settle for to keep things safe and secure is just that, a perception which in reality is a misery we have all accepted in one way or another, one that whether we admit it or not allows things like wars and corruption to thrive.
As Christopher highlights the truth is, every single person on the entire planet is from the One love.
I love this Dean “a perception which in reality is a misery we have all accepted in one way or another, one that whether we admit it or not allows things like wars and corruption to thrive.” This captures the essence that the lives of comfort, entertainment, stimulation and pleasure that we create are equally responsible for all of the obvious evil we see, like war, murder, greed and corruption. In that the comfort, entertainment and stimulation are equal evil, if not worse because they are seen as good, championed and worked towards. In reality all of it, the comfort and the war is there to not feel the fact that all along we have been the one’s that created the lovelessness we are trying to avoid feeling.
From what you have highlighted Danielle it therefore follows that every single person is an enormously powerful package because clearly whatever we all choose to put our energy into, it tends to happen in a very big way – like the things you mention, war, corruption, pornography and the less obvious (but nevertheless irresponsible) copious amounts of entertainment and excessive comfort.
Imagine if we realised that there is nothing actually wrong or impotent about the human condition, just that our choices are too often in the opposite direction to true and lasting empowerment. We simply need to stop backing the wrong horse…
I love these wise words “Imagine if we realised that their is nothing actually wrong or impotent about the human condition, just that our choices are too often in the opposite direction to true and lasting empowerment. We simply need to stop backing the wrong horse…” It’s so easy to get angry with life around us and the ill, greed and abuse humans have created, and in this moment hate or despise people or humanity, but you are so right Dean, there’s nothing wrong with our brothers and brotherhood, it’s the fact we’ve just been reading the wrong “how to live as a human” instructions.
I discovered (or should I say re-discovered) the right “how to live as a human” instructions located deep within myself, my feelings and my knowing and this has been in great part with thanks to Serge Benhayon, a man who himself has mastered how to live human life truly well.
Hear hear Christopher! Thank you for voicing this truth. Within the society we have today it is easy to get lost in the lack of love and reflections of all that is not love, yet in living true to who we are our Love is not lost.
The overwhelming lack of love in our society is causing more separation. Everyone is fighting to survive, looking after their own interests, feeling like it’s all they can do to just keep their head above water. However, choosing love first completely changes our landscape, suddenly we can see what is really there to be seen. We create more space, there is no longer a struggle, instead a joyful rhythm to life. Finally life makes sense, there is real purpose and so much heartfelt joy.
Living in a loving way does mean a very deliberate choice to be connected. When so much of the world is reflecting a disconnected way of being, it is perhaps easier just to go with it, even if that means dedicating much time and energy into trying to work out how to connect or philosophising what it means. The truth of love is that it is who we are. So connection could not be more simple, if we trust that love is there in our essence and is the most natural way to live. Christopher you are raising this simple fact about love for all of humanity and it is deeply appreciated.
Love and Not Love both require time and energy, however if we were all aware that the time and energy to be Not Love is a lot more time consuming and energy zapping. Would we want to continue down this path? Love is so light, joyful and freeing, why are the majority still choosing the other?
After reading and listening to the audios of Serge Benhayon speak about the comforts of humanity, I am feeling totally inspired to make humanity my interest. Often I switch off to the fact that the world is in a pretty terrible state and just focus on my work of self-development or lovely life. Yet this allows me to choose comfort very easily.
If you’re feeling like being exposed – check out this link to Comfort on UniMed Living.
http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-comfort.html
Thank you Rachael. If I think my life is all about me then I’m already choosing comfort – I’m not considering the bigger picture I am part of. So being exposed feels uncomfortable because I’m getting to feel how irresponsible my choices have been. This is great because this connects me to truth and to true purpose without which there is no joy, only depression and apathy, and no expressions of love for the world to inspire.
Not sure I ever feel like being exposed – yet exactly that is very exposing in itself. What exactly am I not wanting to see in myself? I agree Rachael, the link you share is one inspiring look (and listen) exploring the true meaning of ‘comfort’ we so conveniently nestle ourselves within to stay safe within the ‘good life’. Brilliantly ground breaking, despite any un-comfortability of its Truth.
Christopher, yes Love it is, and yet it’s not what the majority live but we all can. Your line ‘every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.’ is so powerful, it shows the way for us all to build and be love in the world, it starts with each and every one of us and every loving act builds it further.
Yes Monicag2, if we are love in all the small things, we pave the way for others to also be love. We are all a reflection for each other so when another feel and recognises the love, they will know that they too are this love, all they have to do is choose it.
The more we build our love, this will inspire others to follow suit, to recognise in themselves that they too are a body of love waiting to express.
I love how you’ve expressed this Alison. I am feeling how important it is for me to recognise in myself the beautiful reflections I feel in others and feel the truth that I am no different in quality, that by building on my appreciation of my essence and really feeling the truth of who I am in my body, there is the space to see where I’m not living in accordance with love and make loving choices.
You have aptly described and exposed the comfort most of humanity are living in Christopher. We stay confined in our little bubbles, looking out for and protecting ourselves perhaps from the horrors and tragedies of the world – but in this protection we are missing out on love too and true connection with our brothers. We are all so connected, like water molecules getting pulled magnetically towards each other, we are made to connect and see our true selves through the eyes of another. Love has not gone, we have just learned to deny it.
We have become too comfortable in our little bubbles, or we are totally distracted on becoming comfortable that we become disconnected from the world. We often feel lost and overwhelmed with what is going on in the world, and not knowing how we can help, we tend to bury ourselves deeper into our comfort bubbles.
Beautifully expressed Rachael and love your analogy that ‘we are all so connected, like water molecules getting pulled magnetically towards eacher other, we are made to connect and see our true selves through the eyes of another.’
Bringing true love to all people means getting out of the way of our own stuff that wants to keeps us separated and safe. Little loving connections go a long way to sharing love with humanity.
“The answer is YES, there are many people who truly believe; large and small groups spread across the globe, growing steadily in number, in strength and most important of all, in love.”
Thank you for writing this blog Christopher. It allows me to appreciate the world changing power of the enormous love that has been offered by Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and the students of the Way of the Livingness. It also allows me to appreciate myself and what I have chosen.
The way you write this makes it so simple Christopher, and reminds me that love is something we all deeply crave but get used to being without. But the truth is love never went away anywhere, it’s just been waiting with all the patience in the world for us to stop shutting it down.
Exactly Joseph – Love never gives up on us!
Beautifully said Ariana, our world exposed. It is the little things that we bring from the love we are, in our livingness everyday that honours the truth. This blog asks everyone to stop and feel, connect and take action from there – see the trees and not be overwhelmed by the forest. Thanks Christopher
Christopher, I so relate to all you have said here, it does at times feel as if the world is in a terrible state, completely loveless. And yet, there is so much more love available to us in the world now. It would seem that so many in the world are reacting against this extra love that is available, making extra effort not to be able to feel it. But as you say, “we can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.” This is key, it is up to us who have been so blessed to meet Serge Benhayon and his family and take part in Universal Medicine presentations and workshops, and who have come to realise the power that we all hold within, a beautiful, loving, caring power, to truly live that way and take that into the world in everything that we say and do. And as you say, there are thousands now who have had this experience and know the truth. Over time, we can all contribute and make such a difference in the world. In only about 15 years, the numbers have grown enormously, what can we achieve in the next say, 50 years, and more, just be being our true selves?
Hello Christopher Murphy I am glad to see you are looking after our children in your chosen line of work. As you so rightly say, “We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.” We have given up on this but it’s a trick to keep us away from ever returning to the love we naturally are. The start as you say needs to come from us, no matter how big or small. Thank you Christopher.
Yes: “We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.” It is about living this love and not about just saying the words that will truly bring a change to this world and how we live with each other.
Yes well said Jane. This simple yet profound teaching is actually the only thing that is truly needed to be taught in schools. With this wisdom we can change our lives and on a bigger scale communities and the world. I have not seen any of the current education systems doing that until now.
“Were not all religions originally from the one religion of love? Absolutely and then they were used for power over, and control of, society, and the love they were based on was buried under the self centred actions of a few. It is now time to return to a religion that offers us the true meaning of religion, one that returns to this intrinsic truth and one that is lived without rules, demands, fear and control. The Way of the Livingness is one such religion – it is the Way of the future, a way to live the love that we innately are and which humanity is beginning to call for.
Thank you Christopher – “every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.” And as love has never gone away only us trying to resist it, It is that simple and because we all have a part to play in society that is never separate from another this way of living does work 🙂
Yes Christopher there is a lot each of us can do to bring love to a loveless world. If the people we meet on the street were treated with the love, respect, and understanding they deserve they would not turn out to be drug traffickers, slave traders, etc. This means we have to say no to all forms of abuse in our homes and workplaces and also our social interactions between fellow humans. We are all here together for a long time it is beautiful for everyone when we respect each other.
True Bernard – and I find that the way we treat and respect others is usually a reflection of how we treat and respect ourselves.
I agree, you can never underestimate the power and effect of a smile, asking someone how they are or taking the time to compliment someone when you notice something about them. It takes nothing to give these small acts of kindness, but their values is beyond measure.
I agree Jane, often when you look back you realise the small things where actually the bigs things.
“Every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.” This is the ultimate form of responsibility. Until we claim for ourselves that every single act counts, we can easily delay being truly loving to all of humanity in every moment.
A truly inspirational blog Christopher. I love how you present the reality of the ‘abhorrent pastimes’ that exist in our world today, and equally shocking is that they are permitted to continue through our silence and sense of detachment. It is important to recognise what is actually happen to our Brothers and Sisters around world, and not to just turn a blind eye feeling relieved that it is not happening to us or that we cannot do anything about it. For as we turn a blind eye to any act that is not loving, we begin to accept and excuse the same in our everyday living. Yet as you said so well – ‘We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.’ And yes, when we choose to connect to our Love within first we can begin to restore the foundations of Love in our lives with those around us. And step by step, one by one, as has been reflected through the way Serge Benhayon has chosen to commit to and stand for Love every day in every way, many others have also now been inspired to choose this loving way for themselves also. With every choice we make, with every step we take, if we choose Love we leave no room for anything less that Love to exist.
How simply many of the world’s woes would be solved, if we brought it back to LOVE. We’ve become so caught up in making things complicated (me included) and fighting that we have forgotten that we all have the answers inside of us. As Joel L stated “it is truly an upside down equation’
It means a lot to rekindle the inner knowing and willingness to act upon the fact that we make a difference in even the smallest things we do, to overcome the many experiences of giving up on ourselves, others and love in general, and to not expect the whole world screaming Hooray! and change for the good in a second, but every day to meet people and choosing love to be the prevailing quality to the best of our abilities.
I love what you say here Alex. It is interesting to consider that we are in fact feeling the impact of the smallest of choices and yet at the same time we have chosen to deny or dismiss what we have felt. This all happens in a split second. Either way we are making the choice to not be aware of the responsibility and therefore the power we hold.
We know the kind of dramatic situations (in life or movies etc) where decisions about life and death are made in a split second highlighting that fate is sealed in such moments, but actually this is going on in every moment with every choice as one moment leads to the next in the quality chosen.
I can relate to this Christopher,”just hiding inside my own little bubble of life, doing my own thing, cutting off the rest of humanity as though I was not a part of them and they were not a part of me.” I can come out more and be of greater influence simply by how I choose to be in the very next moment. As you say…choose LOVE!
Everyone is craving true love. We can search high and low, we can travel the world and try this and that, only to find that it was right there all along. It was always there, waiting patiently for us to return to it. The stress, the tension, the angst and agitation are the signs that we have taken a step in the wrong direction.
Well said Vicky Geary, the stress and tension, the angst and agitation – which lead some people to partake in horrendous acts, are all signs that we have taken a step – or two – in he wrong direction; away from the love we actually all are.
This is indicative of society and what we have allowed to be an accepted norm which when exposed with a livingness of true love, is clearly not true and simply makes no sense. We can banter around the word ‘love’ as often as we like, but it will never ever mean there is any love there unless we choose to actually live it.
This shows the enormous dishonesty in us when we are prepared to accept an empty word to mean something in absence of its true livingness. Livingness comes before word and this is when we are truly living life in full
It is so easy just to look at the world as it is and despair and continue living in our own little part of it and not taking any responsibility for what is happening. As you say, Christopher, many of us are choosing to come back to the love we truly are and living this on a daily basis. This has been life changing for many and continues to be so and this is what the world is being reflected and it is very powerful.
Where is the love? It has never gone away, I have simply said no to it sometimes. The art I am learning with Universal Medicine is to say yes to it as often as possible.
Thank you Christopher Murphy – your sharing is a breath of fresh air. Amongst the rubble, the stars are starting to shine. They shine like the stars above us as they remember who they are and where they are from. The love of old is amongst us, to light the way back home.
We have the choice with every single action or expression that we make to reflect love to those around us, thereby allowing them to feel something different.
Every single one of us has to make the decision to live love, to live lovingly, to live respectfully towards each other and most of all to take responsibility over our own every single action. Only then will we change the face of earth. Waiting for others to do it or giving up on how things are will not change anything in fact it will make things worse. It comes back to each and every one of us.
Well expressed Esther Andras – it is all about self responsibility and the quality of energy we choose to express in – love or that which is not love. The community of Universal Medicine students is making a huge leap forth in making choices to return to Love and live this way as a new normal.
Yes, it has such a big impact because so many of us are the bystanders, which in fact indicates how much power we have. We, the majority of humanity, let happen what happens thus we add drastically to the situations at hand, a way of living we do not approve of. So our power is immense, we simply need to put our voice of truth into action and give up our seats of standing by and become an active member of society, in our communities and the world as such. There is no arena where we can chose between audience and performer, we are all standing on the same ground.
What a beautiful sharing Christopher of our responsibilities to simply be the love we all are and to express it in everything we are and do. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are showing humanity that this has not been happening and how to bring us back to express and claim our natural divinity and expression of the love we all are inside. Thank you and yes we all do matter in the simple things we express live and share.
I can feel every loving expression confirms to myself and others the truth that we are love and we have access to love 24/7. At the moment I’m remembering to let go of judgement even as a I walk down the street. Or when I talk to people but may have already judged how they’ll be with me and what I’ve planned to address – rather than meeting them with love and being open to everyday miracles that do come from such meetings. So aware of how I drive especially in rush hour and if I’m all about me getting to point B on time, regardless of others.
I can either reflect to others love or reflect harsh criticism and what’s not love. I know which feels open, expansive and connected; and I know which feels like poison.
I can feel every loving expression confirms to myself and others the truth that we are love. At the moment I’m remembering to let go of judgement even as a I walk down the street, or when I talk to people but may have already judged how they’ll be with me and what I’ve planned to address – rather than meeting them with love and being open to everyday miracles that do come from such meetings. So aware of how I drive especially in rush hour and if I’m all about me getting to point B on time, regardless of others.
I can either reflect to others, love, or reflect harsh criticism and what’s not love. I know which feels open, expansive and connected to everyone; and I know which feels like poison.
Thanks Christopher, it is truly an upside down equation where we hold onto the beliefs and dogmas that keep man separated and locked away from the very love we ask those beliefs to provide us.
So true Joel…we are set up by all those beliefs and dogmas to think love is outside of us, this ever illusive picture of how love should be/will be…when all along it is within us, patiently waiting for us to re-connect to it.
We are set up AND we choose it…that’s the real ouch. We can feel it’s not true but choose it anyway.
Well, it seems we cannot see the forest for the trees. It takes nothing more than to stop to see that in fact we are surrounded by love at anytime and everywhere, and always carry it with us, as we are love and nothing less deep inside
Yes Michael! And de-programming the loveless behaviours does not happen overnight but discovering we were always of love, from love and are still held by love is the most joyful discovery in our lives.
Love your comment Michael Kremer…absolutely true. There is so much more in stopping to smell the roses!
Great blog, I totally agree, we are all responsible for bringing the love, not thinking others are going to, or that the world is all of a sudden going to all of a sudden be different. It is up to us to make it different, by each and every moment and act we do, with ourselves and everyone we come into contact with.
So true Raegankcairney, I used to think that I could let others bring love, which is full of so much arrogance, expectation and lovelessness. When we take the step forward to be love we can feel the enormity of the reflection we can offer.
So much goes on within our world today that is not ok and yet is allowed to go on unchallenged. From a local government level right through to big business, national or international politics to black markets and underworld activity – All the acts carried out in greed, self interest, in the name of ‘good’ or for political gain are facilitated by the people who know of them and don’t speak up against them. A people can have huge influence over the state of their country, state, city, suburb or neighbourhood by speaking up and equal influence by not speaking up.
When Love is not based on a true foundation, it can and does take on many sorts of meanings, some of which is quite bizarre. If it is not felt from its origins, from our innermost, no wonder we are left looking and searching for it. The irony is it already exists within all of us.
Good point Matthew – the word love has been and is widely misused with many proposing that they are doing something from love when it is anything but. When all along we have our own marker of what true love is deep within us.
So true Matthew, we have made many choices that were our own creation and not in line with gods loving way. The result is the lovelessness that Christopher has described well. Do we really want this to degenerate further, do we need to do that to prove that experimenting without gods love will only produce further separation. All he glory of gods love is within our hearts, when we let go the hurt and let it out we bring heaven to humanity on earth.
“Truly inspired.” You betcha Christopher – you have inspired me for sure. There is a way, there is love, we don’t have to accept and give up. I love how your simple, natural, pure, innocent, enthusiastic expression has powerfully claimed this known truth within us all – love is the way.
Awesome words Christopher. I’m reminded of the old saying ” Be the change you want to see in the world.” The choice would seem to be clear…….BE LOVE.
What is beautiful to feel is that we can only see and know all the unloving behaviours that remain active in society because we actually know how to live lovingly with each other. If we didn’t know any different, we wouldn’t think the way the world is abusive at all. Serge Benhayon and his family actively choose to live from the known love that is within us all and because of them I am deeply inspired to live from my love.
And at those moments when the pain and lostness of a loveless world tend to overwhelm us to know that it is even more so the reason to be love and make a difference, reconnect and deepen one´s connection to the love inside and feel that nothing is greater than that love and joy and let it be expressed in our next move, word, look.
That is so lovely to read and feel the truth of Abby, I echo the choice to live lovingly with each other from the known love that is within us all.
A great point you make here Abby, it is only because “we actually know how to live lovingly with each other” that we see and notice all the unloving behaviours that are going on in our society. So it is up to us to live the love that we know we carry within, out into our world to lead the way and show others that this can be done, and surely in time, we will make a difference.
Christopher I agree that the world as we know it today looks to be in dire straits where love for our fellow human beings is concerned. With all the wars, murders and horrific abuse in families and marriages. There is the knowledge that we do know (as has been mentioned) that within each of us there is the essence that is Love, and always will be, Thanks to Serge Benhayon’s teachings of the Ancient Wisdom more of us will share the Livingness of this and the ripple effect grows wider every day.
Love – where has it gone? This is the problem – we think it’s gone away and we go looking for it not realising it is within us. It reminds me of a story where a man is looking outside his house for something and the neighbour asks him where he left it and he says that he left it inside the house – so why do we look outside the house?
So true Sandra, there is such a scramble in the minds of mankind to search high and low for something that we already are. It is the biggest illusion in my books and one that can only be concurred by connecting and feeling the immense well of love within. With the support of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine practitioners and all the heavenly modalities on offer – there is a way of being with, and living by this love that is inherent to all, equally so.
Hear hear Sandra – why indeed do we look outside the house?
It is true Sandra Newland, we waste much time and energy looking outside of ourselves for what we already know we really are deep inside in our essence. What is it that drives us to remain focused on the external rather than just be accepting of the Divine innermost?
It is clearly designed to prevent us from the inward path back home to ourselves.
When we look at the state of the world it is easy to think that love does not exist. This however is far from the truth. The truth of the matter is that love is what we all want the most. Thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine more and more people are re-connecting to the love that they naturally are and are now learning to express this love. This then has a flow on affect on others who get awakened to the fact that they too are love and if they choose they too can express it to others.
Hear hear Christopher Murphy. What a neat summation of the world at large, and the possibility of what could be…
In the world where lovelessness is constantly being played out, it is hard to believe that we are the love that we so desperately seek – because that very decision to step away from it was our own making, and responsibility is the last place we look into for any clue.
Very true, hence the importance of seeing someone doing exactly this: taking responsibility, healing one´s hurts, reconnect to the eternal inner love and express forth from within what is just the same within all of us – that is what Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and many others continously do, showing us that it is not only possible but also the only way to restore what we all long for.
..yet moves toward it and with it comes the recall and reclaim of living in the love we are.
Too true Fumiyo. We all resist and avoid responsibility and yet when we are given the experience of true love, as we have all been graced with by the Benhayons and the many beautiful practitioners of Universal Medicine Therapies, it is then possible to bring this love to ourselves, everyday which allows us to take on greater levels of responsibility, because our love holds us strongly to see and release the behaviours that are anything but love.
The thought that we are the love we so desperately seek does’t even sound real, that is until the experience of nurturing and tending to that love begins. Then slowly, slowly and without any perfection the love within can be developed and displace the misery that so normally existed before it.
Indeed that first list could well go on Christopher, but equally so are the people willing to stand up for love and say NO to the abuse that affects all of humanity. We all have a responsibility to do this – without people voicing that this way of living as society is not true, it will continue to get worse and worse until we reach a level of destruction where we cannot go on.
Very true Susie Williams…we do all have a responsibility to speak up about any abuse we see or feel in the world – to call out what is not love, and to be the love we all know we naturally are.
Well said Susie.
The only reason all the things we have in this world that we do not need to have are here – is because we have been to lazy on the whole to make the world what it is capable of being.
Well said simplesimon888. My favourite example of this is the issue of climate change – there has been tons of ‘ra-ra’ about it for such a long time now, it’s even been introduced into the education syllabus for multiple subjects – but what are we actually doing about it? It’s something a lot of people obviously feel strongly about, yet we are still using more and more fuel? Trees are still being cut down? And – fun fact – cows produce MORE carbon emissions and greenhouse gases than ALL the cars in the world combined – yet our meat eating habits remain unchanged? Interesting things to think about….
Absolutely agree Susie. It seems only true and lasting change has come out of destruction, or when things are so bad that we can’t proceed. When doesn’t it make sense to change things in the true way? It does to me. Our everything is calling for change.
There is so much that is NOT love in this world! Even down to our everyday family, there is bickering, hardness, no love and no vitality. What can be said about all of humanity if this is our typical family?
So true harryjwhite – we have accepted this into the minute detail of our own lives and behaviours, even down to how we treat ourselves; in fact humanity is saturated in lovelessness. The lovelessness has filtered into every aspect of our lives – however, this is a choice – and the sooner we realise this we can begin to take responsibility and make different choices. The first step is to simply acknowledge it rather than allow ourselves to be sucked up by it.
There is so much that is not love, the list goes on and on, and on top of that the version of love that romantic TV and movies shows tell us all about (and we love those shows!) is not love, but a falsely imprisoning ideal that is only a shadow of love. Love is to be claimed within us, so it can be lived each day.
Such a great question! Inspiration is few and far between when it comes to true love in the world currently, it brings the quote to mind… ‘Be the change you want to see in the world.’ It’s all of our jobs to change this.
So powerful and also reassuring to realize that love hasn’t gone away, but still is there inside us all. If you look at our world today it is clear we need another way. Universal Medicine with Serge Benhayon and his family offers us a way based on the love we all know we are. This living way is called The Way of Livingness and this is THE way.
Love has never gone anywhere, we made the choice to leave love.
It is not possible to extinguish that which forever burns.
A great blog to read Christopher with exposing the way the world is full of corruption and distractions of all types including alcohol, drugs, wars etc and the fact that True Love is something that is also here, on this planet, for all know to return to and live in full, equally so. Thank God for Serge Benhayon who remains a constant inspiration as I continue to make new choices and changes in my life to return to love.
“Through the living example of love personified, Serge Benhayon, his family and Universal Medicine, with an ever growing number of students practising true love for all humanity, there is the greatest possibility to find where the love is. It has not gone anywhere, it can be found inside us all! Truly inspired!”
Christopher, certainly I once cut myself off from humanity ‘as though I was not a part of them and they were not a part of me’. I was miserable. Thanks to Serge Benhayon my heart feels full again, and I can see such beauty in others.
True Maree – Serge Benhayon supports us all to look beyond our hurts and misery, and to see the true beauty in ourselves and others.
I so agree Jane that “it is us who created the world we are in today, and it is us who can change it as love never left us- we left love”. This is important for then we know we are no victims but equal players and if we choose so we can be game changers as Serge Benhayon and many others before us.
There is such a simply choice to be made – to be love or not be love, history shows us that to date we have done anything but not be the true love we all are, instead we have chosen to hide our divinity or lace it with some arrogant belief that we are better then others. Universal Medicine is helping us all to wake up and remember that brotherhood truth and love are our natural way of being and that anything less is pure harm.
Beautifully expressed . Thank you samanthaengland.
Yes samanthaengland, Universal Medicine has reminded us all of what love truly is and not an interpretation of it based on need. Christopher, when we look at the world today, “where is the love, where has it gone…? are great questions to ask. Thanks for asking them.
Because love has gone nowhere, as it still resides within each of us, we might also ask what is it that we have become so blind to the point of unknowing that we cannot or don´t want to see what is so obvious for everyone who chooses to see and know.
Brilliant Samantha and so true. The word love has been moulded into something that we feel we need to be a certain way to receive love or to do something for love but the truth lies in the fact that we are all love already and when we express from that it can move mountains.
Yes I would agree Christopher when we read a newspaper, listen to the news one could ask “where is the love? Where has it gone? It is a big wake up call to all of humanity for we have allowed life to be this way. Fortunately, Serge Benhayon, his family and many students of Universal Medicine are changing this by living in a way where love is the new foundation.
When we stop believing that we are separate from each other, those seemingly ‘small’ acts of love are actually very powerful. Love is hugely powerful to the point where even a look can bring with it the beauty of who we truly are and allow for a healing to occur. Why do we look at all the ills that are around and assume that they are too big to deal with so we don’t bother when a look or three words spoken as I have experienced can cut all of that down and bring a clarity that says ‘this reality is not greater than the love that you are.’
Absolutely Leigh.I know myself that when someone says or does something in a kind, caring and often unexpected way it makes a huge difference to how I am feeling and this act then flows from me onto the next person and so on. It all counts; every single little thought, word and action. It’s also a reminder of the constant responsibility I have to stay with love to the best of my ability. As Christopher has mentioned – there is already too much of the opposite in this world.
Leigh, your comment reminded me of a phone conversation I just had very recently where in the silence between talking, the love that was there was felt so, so clearly. Our love is our enormous power, it is in how we move, how we speak, how we cook, in everything that we do, and in the silence we allow — when we claim back our love, it is felt by others in ALL that we simply are.
Leigh – I love it and I couldn’t agree more, love reminds us that there is literally nothing too big for us to handle, because we have true grandness inside us.
Thank you Christopher, this is beautiful. With the world in the state it is, it can be seemingly easy to give up on Love, and the world being a harmonious and loving place. Where we have come to as humanity is so far from that. We can can build up blinkers to feeling there is another way. But another way there sure is, and as you have said there are people slowly but surely allowing more love to be their way, and thus the way for all.
‘In our present time of wars, drug wars, binge drinking, corruption at all levels (e.g. from pharmaceutical and weapons industries all the way down to local government), religious fanatics killing and enslaving, the booming global slave trade (now referred to as human trafficking, including child trafficking, sex trafficking and refugee extortion), poverty, extreme wealth, abuse, cyber abuse, self-abuse, bullying, suicide – the list could go on and on – where is the love in this world? Where has the love gone?’ There is actually more love available in the world today than there has been at any point before but many people are resisting it and choosing to move further into unloving behaviour to try and hide. With more and more people starting to live lives of simple loving choices having been inspired by Serge Benhayon and those living this way already so shall so many more make such changes and a ripple effect of love lived will continue to move through humanity.
Beautifully said, Michael. And a great reminder – yes, there’s more love available than ever before.
Yes Michael and Fumiyo, there is more love available than ever before, we only have to choose it in ourselves and then caring for others is a natural evolution. Learning to feel why we resist it in ourselves, being honest about the hurts that we carry, coming out of hiding from within our protection… so that we can live amazing yet simple lives. This is the ripple effect of love that will change humanity.
Since love is actually what we all want more than anything else in this world, there is nothing that can stop this ripple effect. We have all been sold so many false versions of love but when you meet the real deal and see it consistently over a decade like I have, there is no denying this is our way back to one love.
I agree Fiona. We have been sold a false version of love, but there is no denying the real deal and this is what we are all looking for.
The resistance to being loving has indeed become deeper and more hard-set, Michael. At the same time, it has become easier than ever to connect to the love we are. We do not have to go live in a cave or practice strict rites in order to find that connection as we used to in the past. Now, we can connect simply through simple techniques such as the Gentle Breath Meditation, and know in our bodies all that we are.
I agree Naren – saying yes to love can be enough. It seems there is a trick that we have been lead to believe that having a loving life will be difficult or arduous but this is not the case. Simple small loving choices, introduced step by step, as feels right for us, creates a foundation of love to support us and a momentum develops.
Very well expressed Michael. It is so true what you say.
Thank you Christopher, for this beautiful and insightful blog. – ‘We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.’ – A hugely important statement and a reminder for us to not give up and go ‘there’s no point, my voice does not matter anyway’. Our voices DO matter and every single act or expression is an opportunity to choose love – or not.
Beautiful comment, Eva. In looking at our current world it is easy to give up and hide behind that our individual expression doesn’t make a difference. This is not true, every act, expression or way of being makes a difference for everyone. It is either love or not, it either offers another way and support others to make loving choices or it adds to the enormous lovelessness we all experience.
Every voice does count, and the knack is developing our own self-love and connection (as has been presented by Universal Medicine many times), and from here all we do and say will hold that quality of love.
I agree, Jane, we learn and grow in expressing and inspire other to do the same as long as we express and not stay silent.
A beautiful point to highlight Eva – “Our voices DO matter and every single act or expression is an opportunity to choose love – or not.” In choosing that love no matter how small or big the expression – it is like a wave of love that ripples out, an innermost calling that simply says – remember…this is the truth of who you are.
It all comes down to that choice in every moment and when honestly examining this fact it becomes very obvious how many choices are made without love and are considered to be normal. The level of responsibility love asks us for is absolute.
Absolutely – it is utterly crazy, we all come from love and naturally are love, yet the ‘norm’ is to make choices void of love. We, as a society are indeed considering this to be normal.
We know love even when we are may say that we haven´t experienced or lived it yet in its full expression. That we register its absence and or experience suffering in relationship with people is proof of the fact.
Absolutely agree, Eva, there are now many of us who realise we can make a difference, just be being our loving true selves. We need to take this out into this now pretty ugly world, and show that there is another way of being. Over time we can definitely make a difference, as you say, “Our voices DO matter and every single act or expression is an opportunity to choose love – or not”.
I agree with you, Eva, we can all make a difference, it is up to us to live who we truly are deep within. As you say, “our voices DO matter and every single act or expression is an opportunity to choose love – or not.”
Yes our voices do matter and do have impact!!!!!!
I love being open and friendly, as you describe Mary, when I am sitting in public places, where everybody seems to keep quiet, keep to themselves and yet I will reach out, have a chat, have a laugh. Sometimes more people join in the conversation and it feels great, like people are awake and not just absorbed in their iphones.
Yes I was very taken by that line as well. It is in every moment that we can choose to create a harmonious society or not. I realise that many throw away comments we all can make about the state of the world, and there’s nothing we can do about it, all add another layer to the mistaken belief that we can’t do anything. But we can. Change does start with us.
Very true Eva, every gesture and expression of love that we make is felt by all whether we are aware of it or not. And conversely, every act that is void of love is also felt by all — and this is the enormous responsibility every moment of every day.
Mary what you have highlighted for me is that it isn’t actually hard to influence others towards a more loving way of being because true love is so familiar to us all, we recognize it deep within our hearts.
So true Eva! Every single act or expression is an opportunity to choose love, or not.
Beautiful Mary – when we speak the language of our hearts we cannot be ‘strangers’.
That’s beautiful Eva – every little expression of love, no matter how big, counts to something bigger, that then begins to change the ugliness and disharmony we have in the world.
Christopher, most of us have only been taught one way to change the world’s problems and if we care enough we will do something about it. Doing something about it usually means political involvement, looking for solutions or directly helping those that are affected by the circumstances. In your blog you mention some problems that have deep roots and extend far and wide, just the thought of these problems can be overwhelming so it was very refreshing to read your explanation of what ‘doing something about it’ can be and that ‘We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.’ Serge Benhayon writes and speaks about this often but I don’t get tired of this message and I love to hear others say it in their words. I like to be reminded of our inter-connectivity and how the loving choices are equally as important as advocating for political change and grass root involvement. Thank you Christopher.
Beautifully shared Christopher. I find it quite confronting to feel how much I have tried to get away with ‘hiding’ in life when we are all in life together and you truly can’t hide from any one or anything. We are all apart of the all and can feel what each and everyone is doing at all times.
Awesome comment Natasha. It is so true that we are never truly separated from another regardless of whether they live across the ocean or next door. It is only us that choose to ‘hide’ from this truth as it exposes the responsibility that we all have with the choices that we make. I too have hidden, for many years, from feeling this and accepting this responsibility. I know realise that all that we do and all that is done by another, is felt by all whether we choose to be aware of this or not. But what is truly empowering is realising that we have a choice to commit to the Love that we all are within, from which we can make choices that honors this Love and that essentially honors All that is of this Love. For it is through this Love that we are all connected.
Very true Carola, the power of a choice. So simple yet so many of us are still yet to choose love in full ~ why is this. Fear, trepidation, illusion of what it’s going to be like or for the potential of getting hurt. There is nothing more beautiful and amazing then loving and sharing with the full essence of love.
I loved this.
I love the way you have written this Christopher, that we can make this as simple as how we speak to someone, do we take care with our words, a simple act of love that we can all do in the next instance, that is a great starting point for bringing more love and care for our fellow human beings. A true blessing that you work in a kindergarten, offering young children the experience of a gentle, tender man.
With all the terrible things that are happening in the world today asking ‘Where has all the Love Gone?’ is a question I would ask when I was trying to figure out what life was about. I remember before Universal Medicine feeling that this was not a world I would want to bring children into and questioned what sort of world we had become. The truth is Love has not gone anywhere it is always there waiting for us to re-connect back to. Knowing we are already love turns the world upside down, everything about life tells us we have to look for love, when all we have to do is be what we already are…Love.
I’m truly inspired too Christopher after reading your blog. No the love hasn’t gone anywhere, it’s right there inside us all waiting to come out.
We can choose love every moment of our life and not follow anymore the so well known path of what is not love, existing in the desperate search for love. We are love, there is nothing we have to look for outside of us, we hold it all inside and just have to express it. Love is who we are, lets express it in full!
Great blog, Christopher, exposing what is going on in society. A more loving society starts with each and every one of us, bringing our love out unconditionally. This is exactly it:
“We can all do something about the state of the world we live in, from the smallest word lovingly spoken to the greatest act of love; every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.” Thank you for your inspiration.
I remember the first time I heard someone say that the person looking away from the crime is as guilty as the person doing it, it completely chuffed my way of thinking. You are so right most people think as long as their own are ok that’s enough, but you are equally correct in saying we all have the responsibility here to change the world.
Inspiringly beautiful to read your words Christopher, which one day will resonate with the whole world. As we experience the truth of love that comes devoid of emotion we can begin to expand our own consciousness in a way that not only opens up our hearts to the world but reaches out to everyone we meet. This love does not come boxed and ready packaged as is offered by so many religions, but is a love that is self exploring and exposing and offers us an opportunity to change and evolve back to our rightful place in the universe.
Love is the way.
I am love.
So I am the way.
Love is most definitely The Way – love for ourselves and then expanding out to everyone, top humanity. Deep inside all of us there is the kernel, the core which is love. Huge appreciation to Serge Benhayon, whose love knows no bounds – for showing us the way back home.
So true Christopher – ‘the Love’ has not gone, we just gave up to express it! Thats brilliant because it means that we don’t have to wait for love to come back to us (if we act good) – no, we gave it away and so we can claim it back. My love was and is always there, right inside me, waiting for me to get expressed again.
Your list of what is happening in the world is less important than ‘Nomophobia’ fear of no network coverage. Losing our your phone, dead battery. How many peoples love has been encapsulated into the device in our hand that they cannot do without? Can we give a loving hug to the person sitting next to us by sending a text? We need to return to looking in the eyes of those we speak to and feel the love. What a lonely place the world is becoming to stand in the crowd and all you see is what is in your hand.
I truly feel that “love is the way”, the only way we can offer something different is to be the love that we wish to feel and that we know is there.
One of the greatest lies we have been sold is that we are insignificant and cannot do anything to change the lovelessness in the world today. Not true as you so rightly say ‘every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society’ and thus we all have the responsibility to examine our actions and commit to living more lovingly.
“Normal everyday people who truly believe that love is the way, laying down the foundations for a better world to live in for the generations to come. Already enjoying harmonious lives and living examples of true beauty. Lovingly helping others around them unconditionally.” Thank you for sharing Christopher that there is another way to live and whatever small loveless thing we nominate adds as to the whole. We can not simply change the world but we can start with ourselves how we live, how we express and how we are in relationships and make it about love first and foremost.
Christopher – as you wrote this I considered how there are millions of people in the world who use love for themselves. This can come in the form of love songs, writing, owning slogans all about how love is the answer, declaring they have an immense love for family and friends – but is this true? I was very caught up in the emotion and ownership of ‘love’ – when in fact this is not loving at all. Love is about equality for all of humanity. If we are not willing to see that we are part of the all, that love really is something we must hold all in equally for it to be true, then of course we will have extremities of war, corruption, ,slavery, poverty – all stemmed from an imbalance and a lack of true love. Thank you for sharing with us that you know and have felt true love, as have hundreds of us – and wow did that rock my boat – but it has changed how I receive and give love entirely.
Christopher when you take stock of the world and how things currently appear it is challenging to think that love is there but as you’ve said “It has not gone anywhere, it can be found inside us all!” and this is what I also feel and came to understand with the great living example – Serge Benhayon and now many others who have built their life on a foundation of the love that is within us all.
I love what you’re writing here Christopher. Clearly summed up and asking anyone to consider all encompassing love for everyone in our lifes. This starts to take care of ourself, coming back to the fact that we are indeed worth to live with Love as a basis for ourselves. And from that, serving the people around us. What I’ve found is that Love to me has been an activity for a long time. But it’s not! It’s a connection with my body and heart first in everything that I do. This has changed everything and there’s still resistance to live that constantly as the trauma of leaving that love is still in my body. After years of being caught in the illusion that I could go around it, I now feel that there’s much more trust to feel this. Coming back to where the Love has gone? Most important is for those who do truly love and care to express! Because I’ve found that we do not dare to express love (the activity of Love whether in words or in actions) but do think like it.
The world definietly seems to be getting worse and not better and it would do for ALL of us to see and ask the questions you have done. I can relate with what you have shared here ‘cutting off the rest of humanity as though I was not a part of them and they were not a part of me.’ By doing this I have not only allowed the lovelessness to carry on but to get worse! Shocking really. It takes a united front to change this, that is all of us everywhere to know we are a part of this, a part of each other and that through self-love, self-care, love and care for others as well as taking responsibility for our lives and all that is around us we can allow the true Love to start flowing again.
A great question Christopher – where is the love? While reading your query of what are the organised religions doing, I was reminded of an article I read of how ISIS is warping religion to condone brutal acts of murder and rape. This extreme can only have happened in a world that has lost its way, that needs clear direction that can only be reshaped by living examples… and yes Serge Benhayon embodies this for others to be inspired by.
Love can be as simple as listening to another person with true understanding, no judgement, and accepting where they are at. Not holding grudges, or giving them the ‘silent’ treatment, but being there for them in full so that they too can feel what love is. Whether we speak out or stay silent, depending on what is needed, our presence always offers a reflection and the choice is then theirs to make to align or resist.
Thank you for sharing Christopher, what a lovely blog. Everybody deeps down knows and wants love, just many of us have settled for less because we have not found it around us. Now though, inspired by the living example of Serge Benhayon, many of us are being that beacon of love for others showing that it is possible to be love with everyone.
Beautifully said James – ‘Now though, inspired by the living example of Serge Benhayon, many of us are being that beacon of love for others showing that it is possible to be love with everyone.’ A powerful call to the responsibility we all hold. As once we have connected to the Love we are, if we do not share and express this Love in full, we are essentially living less than the quality of what this Love in truth is. And so the more we choose to be the Love we are, the more we are, as you say, ‘that beacon of Love for others’ reflecting that there is always more Love to live for us all.
Christopher your blog is a great call-out to all to consider the love (or otherwise) that we live each day. I agree that we are complicit if we do not actively bring love to every moment of everyday – there is an endless source of this true love (as opposed to the emotional romantic kind) that lives within each and every one of us. If every person was to activate this source how could the world sustain unloving acts?
Yes Christopher, there is love living in each of us, and the number of people that are re-claiming that love and bringing it into their relationships and the world is growing. The emptiness and seeking you have identified in some people will one day be filled with the love they are within. A blog honestly written and shared. Thank you.
This is beautiful Christopher, we all are love, and I can feel that holding this love back doesn’t help anyone further.
It is easy to be despondent about the state of the world and mans inhumanity to his fellow man but the essence of every man, woman and child on Earth is love but we have lost our way. Love has not gone away and Serge Benhayon in teaching The Way of the Livingness as a way of living from the essence of love within our inner-heart is inspiring many to inspire the many more that there is another way and that way is true love.
Where do we start putting all those wrongs to right? It can feel overwhelming and we can feel powerless, but we don’t have to go out there and change the world. If we start with self love, then express that love to our friends, families, work colleagues and anyone we come into contact with, the ripple effects are profound.
Serge Benhayon started all this as one man serving humanity and now many others have embraced The Ageless Wisdom, its quite extrordanary the power of expressing from love, and the ripple effect it has on the rest of society cant be underestimated
It does seem as though Love has left the Planet, Christopher, but not left only buried deeply within us under hurts and dissolution we carry around with us. But with the inspirational teachings of Serge Benhayon in The Way of The Livingness we are uncovering the depth of our Love and healing ourselves with the loving support help of Healing Practitioners.
Great call Christopher to all of us to live the love we all equally hold inside, as the love is not gone anywhere but is there in al of us. And as you say, many people are living from this inner love and are building there lives with this love as the foundation and I am one of them. I can agree that sometimes it is confronting, to face the bare reality in our societies where cruelties are taking place for which I have to acknowledge that I have allowed this to happen, not because of a physical act, but because I have not done anything about it. But living and building the love in me will definitely help to grow more love in our societies as i do not underestimate the power that love has.
“Every single loving act will conduce towards a more harmonious society.” Yes absolutely Christopher, as love is expressed through our own expression this can only inspire all we meet in every connection we have throughout our day to day lives. Now that is truly something to celebrate.
You are so right Christopher,love hasn’t gone anywhere, it is inside each and every one of us but just needs a little coaxing (or a lot) to get it out of us.
Yes Kev it is very true that ‘love hasn’t gone anywhere, it is inside each and every one of us’. And so the more we choose to trust and express the Love that we are within, the more we naturally re-build the trust between us to deepen our connection to our Love within and with each other.
Christopher thank you for the reminder that we all can return to that love which is inside of us all. We just need to connect to that love and share it with humanity. It is beautifully being lived and share by Serge Benhayon who is living this unconditional love with everyone. What a beautiful reflection for us all.
Through the expression of love it to expands. After all it isn’t something to be contained within, if we try and hold onto it for ourselves, it is no longer love.
Every loving gesture, word, embrace, glance, act, smile etc all contribute towards a greater expansion for all of humanity. Serge Benhayon has been leading the way with a footprint of love on this earth. Starting with one, then others have followed, and little by little there is change. The only way is up, that is through love back to heaven.
So true Christopher the love lays within us all, just waiting for us to stop, feel and connect to it. It feels time for us all to consider what our responsibility is to life, bringing the love that we are, out for all to feel through the very choices we make everyday.
Like many other words in our language the word love has been twisted in its meaning and used for a whole lot of purposes that are not truly loving. The sayings about love that you mention Christopher have almost become throw away lines and the truth behind them lost. Now as a result of one man, Serge Benhayon, the world is slowly becoming aware of the true and all encompassing meaning of love, and from the inspiration of Serge and his family’s livingness, more and more are living this love. We do not have to move mountains to make a change in the world; we can begin to make that change by first loving ourselves and bringing that love to all we meet in every moment of our lives.
I agree Ingrid Ward we have lost the true meaning of the word love and being loving with ourselves. If we are not loving with ourselves than we can not be with others. Thanks to Serge Benhayon many people are able to start to make different choices and starting to self care and self love.
Well said Ingrid. Although we all know love profoundly within, the word and its true meaning has been twisted and tainted with ideals and beliefs and particularly an emotional rendering which is far from the truth of love. The living example of Serge Benhayon, his family and his business Universal Medicine and the way it is run, have certainly expanded my awareness and understanding of what living a life of love is and can be. They are a daily and ongoing inspiration for me to live a life which is loving and this starts with a loving relationship with me and my body which then extends out to others. Without this connection with ourselves first it, trying to love others is like trying to draw love from an empty well.
To add to what I said above, trying to draw love from a well that is empty to pass on to others, patently does not work. Look at the world around us as Christopher says and listen to the words of so-called love songs, which are often wailings of dire need, loneliness and agony, not love at all. What is missing as Lyndy so rightly points out is each person connecting to their inner hearts, learning to love and appreciate themselves and from this our behaviours both individually and then nationally can change.
Well said Ingrid. Understanding that true Love is who we are within and not something we seek outside of ourselves is what will restore the true foundations of Love that is so very needed and available today. It is through the way we choose live in connection to our Love that we will return to live the true ways of Love, together as one.
How true Christopher – with all the horror, corruption, exploitation, rejection, lies, it certainly does appear as if “love’ has left the world. And it certainly has, in all these acts which occur when we are disconnected from our inner-most heart. And yes love is always waiting, holding us, until we choose it as our Source and fuel for life.
Wonderful Christopher, so true there are many people who know love is the way. Serge Benhayon is a living embodiment of all that love is and how it can heal and inspire thousands of people.
I hope this article reaches many people.
Thank you.
The greatest act of love is expressing it – in this expression no act is too small or too great, for love has no measure, the measure is love.
Beautifully expressed Liane thank you.
Gorgeous Liane, I read this a few times to allow it to sink in. Express our love in full with no holding back and it feels there is a grandness.
If the word ‘religion’ in truth means ‘re-turning back to the love that we are’ (http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-religion.html) then any teaching that does not support our unfolding back to this, is merely a mask used to blind us to this truth and placed there to trip us on our way back home. If we have not made love the foundation from which we move, then we are at risk of stumbling when the many false offerings that are designed to entice us, lie strewn across our path.
Absolutely true Liane, when there is not a foundation of Love, then we are at the mercy of anything this world can throw at us, and we can take it on and get affected, because we do not have the foundation to stand firm in what is true, and see clearly what is not.
It’s true what you say Christopher, every loving expression does help to create a more loving world, for we are all a part of one big pool of energy. Yes we do need to engage with society and share our loving way, but we also contribute more love to all with a simple loving gesture to ourselves, in knowing this I know we are unstoppable.
Thankyou Christopher for this loving call back to that which we are. WE are the love we so desperately seek. The illusion exposed.
Indeed Liane, we desperately, at least I did, search for love but miss the fact that we are originally love and so only need to look within. It is a big falsity to think we have to go out and find love.
Accepting that we are love and coming to the realisation that it is how we live that matters was huge for me and the more that I live it the more I confirm this to be true.
It is something I also love fionacochran01 is the way love confirms itself so I do not need anyone else to tell me that was loving as I know and can feel it for myself. The more I then confirm the love that I am the more and more I allow myself to surrender to love and so the more love I become in all areas of my life. The magic is there is no end goal or place to get to as love is forever deepening and evolving – quite amazing when I stop and think about it.
‘WE are the love we so desperately seek. The illusion exposed.’ What a great couple of lines Liane.
I know this and I have heard it before but I just love what you say here Liane: “WE are the love we so desperately seek. The illusion exposed.”
You say it all, again: “WE are the love we so desperately seek. The illusion exposed.” For it is a big illusion to seek love outside of ourselves.
Thank you Christopher. Serge Benhayon is exactly that, Love personified. A living example of all that love is, which as you say, is in us all equally and has never left us.
Yes Sara love has never left us and indeed can never leave us. Even if we end up blowing up the entire planet the amount of love that constitutes us, the earth and everything else will not be changed, it will just look different.
Well said Alexis, our love is constant.
What this exposes for me Christopher is the responsibility we all have in relation to love and the way we live, and that when we don’t speak up or think that what is happening in our world has nothing to do with us, or is someone else’s problem, that we are adding to the irresponsibility that is currently rife within our society. Thank you for sharing this so clearly, and offering us all the opportunity to be living examples of the way we know the world naturally can, and should be, when we make love our foundation.
Not only this Angela, but how even the smallest acts of love that anyone can engage in do make a difference and start to rebalance everything that has not worked in the world.
Angela to live as most currently do, which is to not care about what happens to anyone other than their immediate family is the same as a person looking down at their own infected foot and saying ‘nothing to do with me’. We are one united whole. It is simply not possible for anyone to not be part of everything else therefore how everything else is is how WE are, simple as that.
The responsibility to live love in every moment came up for me as well Angela. It has exposed that I can settle for less than this and I have let this become normal. After reading this amazing blog I will be deepening my relationship with love.