I love nature and what it allows me to learn in every moment.
After having had a very beautiful meeting via Skype with an amazing friend, I was sitting on the terrace and I felt such an inner warmth and stillness. I decided to enjoy the wonderful morning by going for a short walk to admire the landscape, the golden morning sun, and let this joyful feeling sink in deeper.
After a few metres I suddenly saw a snail, which was graciously gliding through the grass. I could feel a stillness, beauty and clear focus in those movements that felt very similar to what I felt in myself. It seemed to be so full of joy gliding through the meadow, just living each moment, without a goal to be reached or something to be fulfilled, just living and being. Now and then nibbling some leaves to nurture itself, constantly stretching out its feelers to feel its surroundings.
When seeing the ease with which this snail carried its home and how solid that home seemed, I had a deep realisation of the fact that my home is also always with me. It is not made of brick and walls, but a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me.
It is light and yet the safest and most solid place I can imagine. I can always go there to be warm and to nurture myself and I do not need to be provided for with anything from the outside, as everything I might really need will be ‘at home’.
The striving for goals and the expectations I have had towards life suddenly seemed like a big distraction from the ease and stillness I could feel, if I would be constantly aware of the fact that my home is always within. It feels like I just need to allow myself to go there more often.
This little snail has been an amazing reflection and inspiration… of coming home to my soul, my inner wisdom, and to my inner-heart.
By Michael Kremer, Personal Assistant, Buchholz, Germany
Further reading:
The Inner-Heart: Your Key To Connecting With Who You Truly Are
Being Still – With Joy
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
We can only return home if the quality we are in the world allows it.
A beautiful reminder to stay connected and aware of what is around us rather than racing through life being oblivious to what is in front of us.
Re-reading this blog today is a beautiful reminder that we are enough just as we are, there is nothing to push or strive for, only to return to knowing that our true home is always with us deep inside.
“This little snail has been an amazing reflection and inspiration… of coming home to my soul, my inner wisdom, and to my inner-heart”.
It is inspiring to observe how in nature all move impulsed and powered by an inner vibration that represents all that is to be lived, by the pulse that gives it life, never questioning simply being all that it is designed to be. This is real freedom, and this is what we also have the opportunity to live, being impulsed by our Soulful light so our movements reflect the quality of our essence, with awe.
Reading this blog made me appreciate that the smallest thing on this planet has a purpose and constantly reflecting to us that God’s creations are all around us. If we just stand still and observe it just for a moment.
When looking deeply into the snail’s eye it has a deep focus and it is still appreciating where it is going. One can also look it in the other eye as it is focused on the camera while the other eye is looking where it is going, which brings up a clarity, because although there is a distraction, I will move forward as long as I have the opportunity. If life was the same where we understand what is going on around us and then only respond when it is needed so our movements will always stay on track towards our evolution without taking our eye of that ball.
“a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me.” Our true home is where we are always welcomed and called to return to.
With the ever-present beauty and message from God through nature, one wonders how anyone could ever say that they were bored. Our relationship with nature alone, apart from everything else, is so rich and wise.
I love this Michael, if we carry our home with us then if you think about it we always have everything we need, so we when we often pretend that we don’t – it’s a bit like a snail pretending they have no shell – and it’s crazy because it’s always there.
Perhaps that is the steadiness that knowing your home is always with you provides. If someone picks you up and puts you somewhere different you still know that you’ve got everything you need in this different situation.
“my home is also always with me.” The magic of God is in nature all around us as a reminder of our true home.
When we understand that everything that we need truly is actually inside of us then life starts to evolve within and around us.
What i love too about snails is that they always go in their own pace and never are rushed by anything (imagine a rushed snail!) There is a knowing that there is a moment for everything and that it will come to us as long as we steadily keep going.
I find sometimes the magic of God through the symbolism of nature provides a rocket of awareness to the simplicity an absolute confirmation of the majestic we are from and are.
Nature has a beautiful way of reminding us of who we are and how grand we all are.
Yes allowing ourselves to really go there is the key, a commitment to forever deepen within ourselves. I have been bringing more consistency to deepening within myself which is having a huge impact in all areas of my life, far beyond what I could have imagined.
Yes to be at home in ourselves is a yummy and solid feeling and always there but ‘It feels like I just need to allow myself to go there more often.’ Thank you for this lovely reminder.
Through our connection to who we are within, to our inner-heart we discover that our eternal home resides within, a kingdom where our Soulful light represents all that we are and how our lightness of being can be lived wherever we are. We certainly are blessed to have the constant reflection of nature reminding us of the true nature of who we are and what we are here to live.
This is such a gorgeous sharing and reminder Michael; of the messages we receive from the Magic of God that are constantly offering us truth and wisdom.
I have always enjoyed the abundant reflection from nature and I felt to read your lovely blog today Michael as I too found a gorgeous little snail on my travels this morning and he was leaving behind a beautiful silver trail and it showed me how the quality in which we move can be a direct reflection of how we live and that is pretty cool.
Being observant with nature and open to what it reflects back to us is, in itself, a pattern of movement, one that reveals that we are always at home.
This is such a lovely reminder that everything is a symbol, communicating divinity in one way or another – and it is when we allow ourselves to be open to read what is being offered that magic is felt.
Beautiful to read Michael, thank you for sharing that our home is always with us, this was the feeling I first experienced when i first heard Serge talk, a feeling that I had come home, home to my inner heart my soul, there to be bathed in its beautiful love, warmth and stillness.
I always love being at home but I have to agree that our home is with us all of the time, this is felt when I take a trip for a couple of days and I am somewhere else. The surrounds may be different, the luxuries sometimes decreased, sometimes increased, but the feeling is that I am home, as when you have yourself in full, your home is everywhere.
This shows the importance to make sure we really feel at home in our own body and in and with ourselves.
Being at home within yourself is the key to healing anxiety.
I agree Michael, our home is always with us in our inner-heart and also may I add that the universe and constellations also feel like home.
So lightly said Michael… yet holding of such deep wisdom. In truly knowing that we are home, the world becomes a different place…
What you have shared in this blog Michael is also an amazing reflection and inspiration. How blessed we are to have the opportunity to come home to our soul, inner wisdom and inner-heart;
“This little snail has been an amazing reflection and inspiration… of coming home to my soul, my inner wisdom, and to my inner-heart”.
The snail is such an awesome reflection of being complete within yourself and trusting in the universe.
It’s so gorgeous to feel how when we choose to re-connect with our inner heart we discover that we have truly come home and have no need of outside trappings. I am gradually releasing so many items in my home that I was attached to but they no longer serve a purpose and can be easily let go of.
This is a beautiful thing to remember as I put my lovely home on the market ! The divinity is within me and that is my home – I reside in the heart of God amidst the universe.
Nature is always giving us gorgeous messages that are exactly constellated for us in that moment. In fact all of life it like that including the people we happen to meet and the page of the book we just opened. The Universe is our home.
That you found such inspiration in the gliding steadiness of a snail Michael shows that if we open our eyes up to the fact, we are blessed by many experiences in our day to day lives that can inspire us.
When we are open to the messages we receive from nature it can bring a wonder to life. This morning I passed a snail and while I knew there was a message from God to read I carried on walking….That is until I came across another and then admitted that I couldn’t ignore it anymore. What I felt was to be assured that my home, my heart and my love is always with me, and to take things slowly rather than trying to force myself to be the picture of what ‘being me’ is/has been.
I haven’t read this blog in a while and thoroughly enjoyed reading it again. Appreciating what you are sharing with us Michael and reminding me that my home too is always with me, by connecting to my soul.
It’s a beautiful feeling to know that our ‘home’ is always with us. With every loving choice we strengthen its foundations until even the most tempestuous of ‘storms’ leave us unrocked and steady in their wake.
Every time I re-read your beautiful blog Michael I feel refreshed and know the simplicity of life. Thank you!
Great blog Michael. I was just thinking this morning, if only you could be truly at ease with yourself most of the time, you would not need to search so hard to find your place in the world. You would simply feel at home wherever you were.
When a snail forgets that it is always with its home wherever it goes, and sets off on a desperate journey looking for one – I guess it will then be called a human.
Life is full of symbolism – we can let it go by without batting an eye or we can stop and take notice and learn from a humble snail.
Home is really only a breath away – a revelation that has changed my life. For if I’m ever ‘out’ or not feeling myself, I can always return ‘home’ by connecting to myself. I love the simplicity.
I also love nature Michael and that whenever we are open to the messages that nature constantly offers us, reminding us of and confirming our Soulful way, our lives are enriched to no end.
The magic of Nature is a wonder to behold. Recently at a course we were studying the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus and even over 10,000 years BC he was telling us that God communicates with us constantly in two ways, through dreams by night and through signs through day e.g.. birds and the sacred oak i.e nature. It is a deeply beautiful and grace-giving science that is all around us.
Remaining open to the many reflections nature is constantly offering us allows us to feel the enormous love and divinity that surrounds us always.
‘Just Be’ is what came to me reading this but when I first started reading I had a thought of ‘where is the snail getting to?’… but that’s the point, the snail is not getting anywhere, it’s just with itself. I can see where I can get caught up in an outcome or an accomplishment to tick my day off as successful… and it’s just not needed.
Thank you Michael for a beautifully simple blog, the magic of God in nature is constantly reflecting back to us his messages of Divine love.
I am someone who doesn’t like change, but have had to move home 4 times in the last few years. I too have discovered through the discomfort of several moves that there is something within me that is solid, dependable and foundational, even when things are constantly changing on the outside.
The Magic of God is all around us in nature when we choose to be aware of all that is being shown to us.
Perhaps we live in the magic of God but just do not live this magic.
Seeing nature as a constant teacher opens up our world and allows us to feel just how interconnected we all are and that is pretty cool.
The snail is an amazing symbol that all we seek is already within us. I’ve always admired the steady, consistent pace the snail moves at, completely in its own rhythm, and never trying to be anything other than that.
How simple and beautiful, how our home is always with us, within us, through our connection to self. We don’t need to go looking for it. As we surrender and connect it’s all there for us.
Beautiful blog Michael, home is truly wherever we are.
Observing snails is something of interest to me, there is no rush simply presence in their movements, seeing them turn counterclockwise naturally is beautiful to witness, nature is there always to reflect the magic of the Divine, that which is within us.
Thank you Michael for sharing this beautiful reflection given to you by this little snail, by just being who it is gently carrying its home. A reminder that our home is always with us, where our heart is, no need for looking out anywhere but just being within in our home.
Sometimes we all need a reminder to come home to the great love within our hearts. Our Father speaks through all that he creates. We need only attune our senses to this heavenly and oh so familiar voice.
Home is within the inner heart, this is beautiful reminder we do not need to look outside of ourselves, we have everything within. Our soul resides within us, the beauty the connection the stillness.
We can spend a lot of time trying to find answers and solutions to our life via outside sources but the beauty and truth lies within the walls of our own hearts. When we live from this knowing its amazing how our heart walls expand and allow more space for so much more love too.
How we are within our home (body) and how much love we have for ourselves and care we give ourselves each moment also determines the quality of everything else in our life from relationships and how we are with others, to what we eat and drink and how we work. This has been lovely to help me appreciate just how much I have evolved from years of looking outside of myself and not loving me to now connecting to the deep love and warmth within, with thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for this reflection and the support in allowing me to be me 💖
This is such a deeply beautiful reminder,that our home within, our inner-heart, our essence, is always with us wherever we are, and is already filled with everything we could ever need or want to know in order to live a Soulful life of fulfilment and absolute joy.
How delightful that we can be inspired by so much in this world… Even a snail!
Home is where the heart is as they say and it resides within us all. Thank you Michael.
Stopping and experiencing the silky gliding of the snail over the grass is a beautiful choice enabling the deep connection with the wisdom you have shared Michael.
It is amazing to consider that we already have all we need inside of us. The outside world simply reflects the strength of the connection we have with the home inside.
A simply gorgeous reminder that we are home wherever we are, whenever we are connected to our inner-heart, to our Soul as we then can feel the grace of God’s eternal embrace.
You cannot but be in awe of nature and the lessons it can offer to guide and support us through life should we be willing to see it. I love the wisdom that can be found in the reflection of one that feels their way through life, nurtures themselves when needed and lives knowing everything they ever need is a part of them.
That feeling of being at home in your own skin is priceless. I am getting better at maintaining that feeling regardless of my physical location and this has come about through honouring the connection I have to my body.
“It is light and yet the safest and most solid place I can imagine” Yes, when I walk with myself with the knowing of being at home, I have the support to deal with every situation, since there’s no other place as my heart where to find stronger foundations.
Beautiful sharing Michael, and the snail does look like it’s having lots of fun just doing what it does.
‘just living each moment, without a goal to be reached’ these are wise words, and something that nature does so well. Funny that human beings have divorced themselves from that simple truth and spend a life striving for this and that.
I love this beautiful simple observation and knowing that comes through seeing a snail – that ‘my heart is were my home is’. It is an acknowledgement of the ‘law of correspondence’, ‘as above so below’ . . . and that truth is all around us if only we open our hearts and eyes.
A beautiful reflection Michael. As I read, I couldn’t help but think of the saying “Home is where the heart is”. There is a deep truth in this saying, Our heart…actually our inner heart is always with us, no matter where we are and it’s our connection to our home, which is for all. It’s not a physical building or a place outside of us in which we feel safe. It is where we can deeply connect to everyone around us. Maybe it should read the other way around…Our heart is where our home is.
I agree Michael, My home is a light, safe and solid place, very delicate too. I wonder why do I leave my house so often but there is one thing I know for sure it is always there when I choose to come back home.
‘ a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me.’ I can feel the beauty and the truth of this. It allows me to be anywhere in the world knowing this connection is there to choose wherever I go, whomever I’m with. Beautiful.
The beautiful picture you paint with your words Michael allowed me to see so clearly what you were seeing that morning that I actually didn’t need the photo to confirm it. This little snail was certainly offering you, and all of us, so much wisdom in that moment: not just a magical reflection from its gracious and joyful gliding, a reminder that we too can move just like that, but also a connection to our inner knowing that no matter where we are or what we are doing, our home is always with us.
To most seeing a snail would simply be overlooked, but what you’ve shared here Michael is that what if there is more presented to us in life than we currently acknowledge or appreciate?
Even the snail, something deemed as ‘small and insignificant’ has a purpose. What if there was so much more in life being communicated in the finer details we have dismissed in favour of only wanting the ‘bigger and grander’ images of life to occur? It feels like waiting around for the big pictures takes the joy and fun out of learning what’s being shared in the details.
So beautiful Michael, nature is constantly reflecting us a way to be that is not weighed down with our emotions and troubles we choose to go into, but the ease and simplicity that it can be. It is beautiful to be reminded of this, and you are great at reminding me to look and feel into everything there is to see and feel.
“I love nature and what it allows me to learn in every moment.” As a child I loved being out in nature. I would observe any insect, animal as I was brought up on a farm and I was always taking to school wild flowers and plants picked from the hedgerow. As I got older this connection faded even though I married and chose to live on a farm. Today, I am beginning to rekindle this connection committing to working and being outdoors on the farm. There are pockets of resistance especially in the garden which Michaels’s blog has brought a deeper awareness in my body to giving me the opportunity to feel and ponder on more deeply. Thank you Michael for sharing such a beautiful and simple blog.
Thank you Michael, so beautiful to read these words, our home is always with us, one I need to visit more often, and what I love about nature is, it just is living and being in the moment , no thoughts of past or future like us humans, just being in harmony with the all, as all is provided.
I too feel I need to allow myself to go to my home within more often. There is never any excuse for not choosing this as every thing I put in the way is my own creation.
We can so easily get caught up in distractions in life that we forget where our true home lies. Keeping ourselves busy running on autopilot is a common distraction but pausing and making a different choice to surrender and connect to our home, our inner heart is all that it takes to break this momentum.
What strikes me as amazing, is how everyone is able to read nature in this way, that is, to find personal messages in it that always confirm who you are. This is the gift and the constant love that nature brings to life.
“I had a deep realisation of the fact that my home is also always with me. It is not made of brick and walls, but a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me”, beautiful to read and feel Michael; the reflection of nature is indeed divine and magical.
Animals offer such a beautiful reflection because they are always just being them selves. Never trying or striving to be something that they are not. Actually it’s quite crazy to consider a snail striving to be something different, like a lizard that it passed down the road. Unfortunately humans do do this, often we compare to people or ideals that we see and then spend much of our days and our mental thoughts striving to get to or be what we have seen, when in truth it’s impossible for us to reach the ideal, because it’s not who we are. Surrendering to who we are allows us to also reflect the beauty that animals do.
Yes, I agree Brendan. This realisation is indeed deeply supportive, empowering and healing. I came to this realisation when I became committed to learning and living the teachings of The Way of The Livingness.
The feeling of home is felt when my heart is open, my body in stillness and I embrace brotherhood.
For sometime I thought my home is my body. And it is – for some time. But I felt that I owned it and that doesn’t feel true anymore. It belongs to something grander and I am here in wonderment of the tenderness with which it loves to be cared for. It loves to be touched like silk and pearls and it doesn’t like to hit anything harshly. Even getting up from a chair can be hurtful for the body, when it is done in a rush or abruptly. How preciously have the snails manifested their gently flowing bodies!
Yes these snails certainly have a lot to teach us.
“It [my home] is not made of brick and walls, but a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me.” Re-discovering ‘my home’ is the greatest blessing that I have had in my life and I thank Serge Benhayon with all my heart for guiding me to it.
Beautiful to re read this blog and feel the truth in your words, there is nothing more solid and light than our home full of love and stillness that is within.
Our home is in our heart, I had never seen a snail to show me this meaning. We so often overlook natures treasures and wisdom, thank you for this simple enjoyable read.
Yes this blog shows that in everything there is meaning, and we so quickly overlook them. It is great to be reminded of this.
It is beautiful to read how you observe nature Michael, I can feel the truth that is reflected by this beautifu snail. There is a place inside us that is our home, never left behind, it is only a choice to go there more often and feel this solidness that is always there.
I guess seeing a snail will never be the same Michael and it will remind me whether I am in my home or not. It is all about being present isn’t it.
I like this, I too will see the snail and check in with myself to see if I’m home or not.
When we live from our inner-heart, we know we are home and like the snail this feeling stays with us where ever we go.
This is great to re-read Michael, as it again confirms that wonderful sense of ourselves, that quality and feeling of warmth, presence and joy within and from the centre of our body. Walking and moving WITH this feeling you really do feel like you are ‘home’
Yes, I absolutely agree Johannebrown17 our home is within us, all around us and part of us. It is through connecting to our essence that we feel at home everywhere.
“Our home is always within us” – so true even away from our normal homes and environment we can still be at home within ourselves
When Michael writes about allowing himself to go to his inner-heart, which is his real home, I see how this is a choice he makes. A very simple practical choice to re-connect to something greater that lives inside of him.
Yes, Shami so beautiful to read this blog and the amazing comments reminding us where our home is.
Thank you Michael for this beautiful article. Home is in the inner heart and we can return whenever we choose.
What is also lovely – is inviting others into that home. Into that warmth and care and sacredness. Letting people in. I tend I find to make that difficult for myself sometimes. But it really is very beautiful and our natural want – to share that glow with each other. My house, your house – they all have the same preciousness that we love and as such we really don’t need separate ones. We can all simply live together.
We all yearn for togetherness Simon and the extensive support we feel when we commit to being open and transparent with one another.
I too strongly feel the call to open my home and share meals with those around me. This can be done without any extra effort as each person brings a plate and we end up with a delicious array of foods, connection and great conversation.
Be the snail! Take it everywhere you go. So very simple. I love the way you described the snail ‘Constantly stretching out it’s feelers to engage the world’. It has a child like playfulness about it. That feels like a beautiful way to engage each day. Build a home deep from within that has a solid foundation and then playfully take that with you everyday. What a way forward.
I love that you pick up the child-like playfulness of the snail stretching out its feelers Simon. The snail is there, the world it there, the feelers are open to observing ‘What goes today?’ ‘What will I meet?’ . . . with no guardedness as it traverses the blades of grass. Very much ‘at home’ in the world, yet gliding over the top of it.
In and with this house there is no place for seriousness, I can feel the joy and playfulness when we glide as a snail.
And don’t rush in honour of the foundation you carry..
As the saying goes ‘home is where the heart is’ perhaps it needs rewording after reading your blog Michael, maybe it should say ‘home is within our inner hearts’.
What I love about your little story Michael, is the familiar experience of being in one moment of love, in your case being in a beautiful Skype meeting with your friend, only to move into the next moment of reflected love, appreciating what the snail symbolised for you.
The last two houses I moved from which were beautiful homes attracted comments from people such as “don’t you miss your beautiful home?” and I never have because as you’ve reflected here Michael, home is always with you, as our true home is from a connection within.
The endless search for something ‘out there” takes us on many winding paths. We’ve been tricked to think it is in a job, a holiday or another person, when all the while it is in a relationship with ourselves, it always has been and always will be, it’s just how long will it take to discover this mystery.
Living from the ever glowing warmth we carry within. That is a beautiful home to reside in.
I love your truth Michael that your home is not the bricks and mortar but the love and knowing of your inner heart.
Beautiful Gill, that warmth we can feel when we are with our Soul, is the home we are from and we can be with whenever we choose, no matter where we are.
When I feel hurt I often react and choose to eat food that is numbing and harms my body. This blog reminds me that I carry true healing inside of me all the time. There is no need to medicate with something from outside.
Thank you Michael for your blog. I love the analogy of your home and the snail’s home and especially, “I had a deep realization of the fact that my home is also always with me. It is not made of brick and walls, but a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me”. How true are your words.
. For so many of us the grass always looks greener on the other side. For me once I felt the depth of the love within my heart I knew my true home is within me.
I love the detail with which you talk about the snail and relate it to your life and your home Michael, and the photo really captures the essence of what you felt and completes your observations beautifully.
I like that Brendan, inspiration for true magnet support 🙂
Just what I needed to read this morning Michael, not just about the reminder that our true home is always within — also about honouring what we feel, creating space to let those true feelings sink in deeper and be consolidated so that we really do know that our home is always inside, always with us.
Creating space and realising that this space is endless. There is always more to feel, ways to go deeper and further steps to be taken, but one at a time and by solidly building on what is there and appreciating each and every moment.
I just love this photo!
Michael what a wonderful sharing – thank you so much. I love every word you have wrote as I could feel through them what you have experienced – it was like I was with you on this lovely walk.
I agree, you took us all with you Michael, opening up your heart and letting us feel and see your gorgeous true home.
Yes how easy is it for us to connect with what Michael has presented simply through a snail and its journey across the garden. Connection with the home of our soul is not that complicated is it?
I know this feeling…”This little snail has been an amazing reflection and inspiration… of coming home to my soul, my inner wisdom, and to my inner-heart.” My life has turned a corner where all of this wisdom is available to me..or, to be more precise, where I am now available to listen to it!
I totally agree Shirley-Anne. It’s just a choice to be open and willing to see what is being reflected to us!
I’ve been feeling the deep connection there is between the home that is my true home – ie, my body, my self – and the physical home that I live in.
Do I take care of my body in the same way that I take care of the house?
Are there areas of the house that are not as well cared for and is this the same for my body?
Are there ways I can show deeper appreciation for the house I live in right now and consequently for my true home?
Michael I love your blog, this is a great marker, when we are with ourselves we are at home, and when we are not, we are out.
I love the simplicity yet profound message here Michael. We all left home and some have returned, many are returning and all, in time, will return home to their soul once more.
Well said Brendan.
I love this beautiful reflection from nature that you have shared Michael, and feel the deep stillness and joy that it brings. We are already everything when we dwell in our innermost.
in reading your comment Brendan I felt home beyond what I hold within to the essence of where I come from. Our inner connection brings not only the grandness we are but the grandest of what we belong to and are always a part of.
I agree Carolien, I felt in those few simple words, the expansion of what I am truly part of, and that is the interconnectedness of the oneness held within the universe I come from. That is grand and we are part of it.
This very simple but incredibly wise blog has come at the perfect time for me as I have been working 2-3 days a week away from my physical home and staying at my bosses home for those nights. I realised that I have not felt out of place, in the way or uncomfortable while sharing their home and I realised while reading your words of wisdom Michael that is because I have taken my home with me. My home is always with me unless I allow the separation, and once I do the emptiness and ache inside me soon lets me know that it’s time to return home again.
On my way to work commuting on public transportation in London I noticed the majority of people were racing snails! The amount of stuff they have on their backs… and hand’s, shoulders and in numerous bags! In all of this stuff we transport daily… like a women’s large purse that goes everywhere… how much of is sees the light of day, daily? The snails shell has only what is required and can always just move forward… what a delightful and freeing way to live, something we can all inspire to be.
Wow! I felt so gentle, and humbled to read this today Michael. This would make the most gorgeous read for a bedtime story. Appreciation of nature and the joy of really coming home, the ‘home’ that we have within us all the time. Beautiful thank you.
There is such a yearning in society to belong to something – group, culture to have a purpose. Our home is our inner heart, it is where we belong and our purpose is lived fully in that. Nothing from outside is needed, but when we reflect to each other our amazingness it inspires all around us to do the same.
I loved this line and the reflection it offers: “It seemed to be so full of joy gliding through the meadow, just living each moment, without a goal to be reached or something to be fulfilled, just living and being.” I have never seen a depressed snail gliding through the grass! Nature is offering us many lesson to learn from if we are open to see them.
Your comment made me smile Lieke and it is a great reflection to stop and take in; life telling us that really it is so very simple and it is each moment that counts. I love the notion of living every step in full presence and then one day you will find yourself in a whole different place. Something I am learning more each day.
Yes it is very beautiful Carolien, the snail does tell us to just be in the moment, taking step by step (or glide by glide) and living like that brings more appreciation to every moment.
So true Lieke, in fact I have never seen a depressed anything in nature. You just don’t see a leopard sulk and have an issue with God when it cannot catch a meal, hating itself for being slow and hence being hungry that evening. We would say that is a very human way of dealing with it, but nature has a humbleness we can all do well to learn from
Yes that is just something you don’t see! Observing our behaviours in this way show how silly they can be.
‘ I had a deep realisation of the fact that my home is also always with me. It is not made of brick and walls, but a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me.’ thank you for this very lovely reminder Michael.
I have never been attached to bricks and mortar and have always felt my home is within, I feel this has been a great support as I have moved around homes, not getting emotionally caught up.
To be able to get all of that from watching a snail… If we simply observe the world we can learn so much.
I love this simplicity Michael,
I have often felt this to be true that my real home is on the inside and at one with God and all humanity.
The key to opening the door however is one of self love. Thru self love we find our way back home and the deeper we go the grander and more solid access to our real home is.
We are all one and thereby all this competition and striving for more just does not make sense. We should be walking together instead of trying to outdo each other.
‘It seemed to be so full of joy gliding through the meadow, just living each moment, without a goal to be reached or something to be fulfilled, just living and being.’ Nature gives us such an amazing reflections when we are open to see its magic which support us to feel and live the grandness that we are,
‘Home is always with me’ is such a perfect description to the quality and feeling of being with yourself. Whether it be walking, out at the shops or in the work environment, there’s no need there, for feeling that you want to get back home (your house), or get to somewhere else other than where you are right at that moment. Its a very reassuring feeling.
Such beauty in that steady stillness in knowing our home is always with us whichever piece of grass we might be gliding along.
Amazing inspiration of what nature reflects to us and how everything is there to support us come back to what we truly are. I love the solid stillness and contemplative nature of your blog, please write more.
Michael, thank you and gorgeous analogy of the snail, his way of being and his home. To live knowing our home is within would bestow the individual with an innate sense of security and confidence knowing that wherever they are no one can take this home away. But we can leave it simply by losing our connection and then we are on our own.
A sense of home had always been very important to me, for as long as I can remember. As a kid, I moved around a fair amount and it was unsettling to pick up and leave everything and everyone familiar to me to start again somewhere else.
In my 20s my husband and I moved to a place that felt like ‘home’ and I decided I would stay there for the rest of my life.
But years later, we did leave that place, because we wanted to and were ready. I can remember the day when I knew and felt deeply that no matter where I am, I always have Me. That is my home.
This feeling has stayed with me ever since. And now, after several more house changes, it’s not such a big deal.
Thank you for your inspiring blog, Michael. What you write is so very true.
I can relate to what you have written here Julie, as my parents were in the army and we moved from country to country, and then I married a man who was in the military and continued to move around. I always found moving unsettling as a child and resented having to go to so many different schools.
Our very recent move to London, getting a new job and learning to cope with the traffic has been very smooth and I felt instantly at home, so I know something within me has changed.
When I don’t feel comfortable in my own skin I can’t possible feel comfortable or at home in any physical place. When I am connected with my inner heart and feeling the love that I am I feel at home. It is this love that I express in my physical surrounding that supports me to connect with humanity and belonging in the world. My body is my castle knowing this inspires me to take deep living care of myself.
Beautifully said Margaret.
So true Margaret, we always try to make our lives more comfortable or joyful on the outside, always searching for more to have, or something fulfilling to do. What we do not see is that true joy and fulfillment can only come from inside of us. As you state ‘When I don’t feel comfortable in my own skin I can’t possible feel comfortable or at home in any physical place’.
‘When I don’t feel comfortable in my own skin I can’t possible feel comfortable or at home in any physical place’. Yes knowing this simplifies life so much more and puts an end to the relentless outer search.
I love what you have expressed here Margaret: ‘When I don’t feel comfortable in my own skin I can’t possible feel comfortable or at home in any physical place”. When connected to all of me; my true essence, it doesn’t matter where I am because I am there with all of me. I am home wherever I am.
Margaret ‘When I am connected with my inner heart and feeling the love that I am I feel at home.’ And it doesn’t matter where in the world we are because we are able to be all that we are, and feel at home with ourselves and others.
Stunning Michael Kremer.
It doesn’t matter where we walk – as long as we walk with our hearts! That again was felt tonight walking at a business event – there are no worries at all if I am with me. That’s the simplest truth for a homey life*
Beautiful Christina! In walking simply with your heart at your business event you would have given everyone a chance to feel that ‘homey life’ – letting people know that all is not lost, that love is still there! I am confirming this with a ‘Snail award’ of the day!
I find this too christina, the simplicity, appreciation and stillness is so natural and easy when I am with myself. It shows how all the worry, anxiousness and upset just is not who we are.
This is a great way to be at a business event.
Beautiful Michael. As they say, home is where the heart is. “It feels like I just need to allow myself to go there more often.” I loved reading this bit. Meaning it’s all up to us, we can feel this ease anytime we want, we just have to let ourselves.
Me too, Emily. In our heart is our ease, our warmth, our love. We just have to go there more often.
At the risk of repeating myself, I love this blog.
Haha Jeanette. That’s gorgeous.
Ha ha! I’ll just repeat that for good measure – I love this blog!
Repeat and repeat and repeat yourself away, Jeanette!! This is truly worth it. Michael has delivered such a beautifully simple reminder of where our solace lies, it deserves being celebrated again and again.
Michael, I cannot help but return to this very gorgeous sharing. We surround ourselves with all this material stuff, entertainment and spend a lot of time in our heads with images of the way life could be, when we have it all within. Such a simple knowing but we are never told this! Thank you.
Such a great point Anne, if only we were shown this truth from a very young age, then the current levels of anxiety would be much lower I suspect.
katechorley I agree this would lower our current level of anxiety and with that also the cots for the health industry . . .
But instead we are taught to chase everything outside ourselves with the promise of peace and fulfilment when we reach it – but never truly experience this when we do.
This is beautifull what you have shared ‘It is not made of brick and walls, but a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me.’ And a complete gamechanger in life if we all remember and allow ourselves to feel this. We are so much more than what we present ourselves as.
So true Vicky, we are so much more.
If it is inside of us, it is always with us. Where else could it be?
I agree Vicky, “a place of trust, love and inner knowing” that we all have, and can connect to if we make the simple choices to allow it to unfold from within. not always easy, but simply worth it.
Yes Annie, it always feels so amazing when we choose to come home, it surprises me that I hold out so often.
Me too Sarah. We know how divine it is. Why stray?
“Why stray?” Well my theory is…. when we stray we are running, we are distracted in the struggle of running, when we stop, we feel the damage our body is in and feel why we were running in the first place. That sounds hard, in truth it’s not but in the stop we have to take responsibility, and while we are running we think we are free of this but we are simply delaying it.
A good theory Sarah, and having to acknowledge that fact that at some stage in the face of absolute truth and enormous love we have turned our back and walked away from it. That’s gotta hurt.
But there is also nothing to be gained by carrying the hurt and shame of having walked away, God isn’t holding it against us, so why should we. If we cut out the self-judgement, then learning or rather remembering the love we come from is an ever unfolding ever deepening journey back home. One that can walked with joy as we re-embrace true brotherhood.
Why are we so hard on ourselves, ‘But there is also nothing to be gained by carrying the hurt and shame of having walked away, God isn’t holding it against us, so why should we.’ It is time to drop the self bashing and judging, and allow ourselves the space to enjoy the joy as we all return home.
I love this because it shows an amazing little creature in all its glory, a very joyful image. It reminds me of how important it is to show ourselves in full, ‘to come out of our shell’ and enjoy life to the full.
What a beautiful and refreshing comment Elaine. The feeling of early morning dew on the grass, the first sun shining through the branches, and the snail showing all of itself.
I’m starting to come out of my shell and life is pretty amazing when you live it from truth. Everything feels more vibrant, alive and colourful.
Thank you, Michael, for sharing your beautiful reflection, which so lovingly expresses that rather than looking externally for confirmation, true confirmation lies within ourselves.
Exactly Jonathan, everything that we cannot confirm from within ourselves cannot be truly lived, as we can only truly understand what we can truly feel.
“everything that we cannot confirm from within ourselves cannot be truly lived, as we can only truly understand what we can truly feel.” Beautiful comment Michael.
I agree Margaret and it is very sobering as it shows that anything that is not felt first will be empty knowledge at best.
Wise words Michael, for every thing that is not felt and therefore not lived then becomes empty talk… there is no true inspiration in this.
I have spoken from knowledge and I have also experienced what it feels like to be spoken to from knowledge. It is separative and a horrible feeling in my body. I am beginning to call out when I do come from my head by stopping myself and observing another when they are not speaking from their body. It is becoming easier to observe and read.
It’s funny – we see other people on the outside and somehow assume they feel the same way we do on the inside. But like you Michael recently I have started to enjoy moments of true tenderness and warmth inside my body. Wow – it is divine and something I never lived with in this life up until now. Whilst we walk about every day looking like we are ‘living’ – is this so? What would it be like to live with this warmth – the ‘home’ you describe with us everywhere we go?
This is the beauty of relationships, as we learn how unique we all are in the way we see, feel and express in life. As we get to know the natural strengths in others, so too do we learn more and appreciate our most innate qualities.
I have often questioned that myself Joseph about bringing that warmth around with me throughout the day. In the moments I have it’s always been the same, a steadiness and a warmth that carries on regardless of what’s occurring in life. But all too strong still there is an attachment to everything outside of this home within to avoid the fact that going outside wasn’t ‘it’ in the first place. But even that doesn’t matter when we reconnect to what’s inside us.
A good point bringing in the attachment to the world around us Leigh, we have invested a lot in the illusion that is now the reality around us and giving that up is not something we do easily. It still surprises me as there is nothing outside of me that ever feels as yummy as I am within. It is simply the pride and comfort in and of our creation that we are delaying to let go.
That pride and comfort and living in delay which from experience is about beating myself up for making choices that result in situations of tension, drama, emotions (getting emotional about getting emotional – crazy!) all of this is a choice that then holds us bound as if that were the only choice to make. But asking and feeling how my body feels about letting go of the pride there is an ease rather than a pressure to let go. The body and how it moves has been moved in a way to attach but if we ask it and connect to it we can feel that it wants to let go.
Very true Leigh, the body knows home like nothing else and is always asking us to move in a way that will lead us there. Listening and surrendering to the body and what it holds within is the way out of the merry go round, of the comfort.
‘What would it be like to live with this warmth – the ‘home’ you describe with us everywhere we go?’ Absolutely divine and gorgeous, I look forward to allowing this in my body all the time instead of just for small spaces of time.
“This” is my home. This place I am right now, in my body, as a being of love, here in this place and at the same time one with planets and stars. They are my home just as much as this planet and this body. Thank you for the beautiful reminder, Michael.
Its great to see the emphasis on the simplicity of the fact our home is first and foremost about how we feel in our body before any physical place. With that as our true home its inspiring to take deep care of ourselves.
Well said David. If our body is lacking in some way, it would be hard to truly feel at home.
The first part reminds me of a song Naren. ‘This is my home, this is my home, and in my heart I know that I belong’: when we are with ourselves it’s hard to ignore the feeling of absolute belonging to where we are and what’s around us~ including the stars.
Gorgeous Naren, Home is where the heart is…
being truly at home is being truly with ourselves, full of ourselves and there is no feeling like it!.
as I write this I am reminded of the saying ‘being full of yourself’ (at least in the Dutch language) is a very negative phrase, meaning you are arrogant. Is it not interesting that we have created language that will make the one thing that can bring humanity back to love .. the being full of ourselves, our essence, our soul .. as a negative?
Yes Carolien – we also have that phrase in English, that was used in my childhood in a derogatory manner – so great to turn it on its head – how wonderful to be fully of yourself!
Absolutely, Carolien. It is the greatest shelter that we can possibly have.
Yes, that phrase to be ‘full of yourself’ is one that we should be celebrating, not taking as an insult.
Absolutely Narem and if we are not full of ourselves then what are we full of considering that everything is energy? If it is not us it is an energy from outside of us that will always be disharmonious to who we truly are.
Yes Naren, I love Michael’s words’ my body, as a being of love, here in this place and at the same time one with planets and stars.’ so beautifully said.
‘I had a deep realisation of the fact that my home is also always with me’ – there is something very beautiful in knowing that our home is within. This brings instant stillness, warmth, holding and untouchable support. What is also unifying is that we all hold this same connection to presence within if we choose. The foundation of Truth doesn’t get much stronger than that. Thanks Michael.
Wow! ch1956. I can feel the power in truth as a foundation, and the undeniable responsibility to hold the inner heart as our ‘untouchable support.’
I can relate to what you are saying here ch1956 I was away from my house for the week when I first read this blog and was feeling completely at home, so complete steady supported by my foundation of Love in my unfamiliar outer surroundings. I felt a deep connected to the warmth, stillness and unparalleled support I felt emanating from within me.
ch1956 yes what you write is so true. A foundation that cannot be rocked because it is always within, untouched. I know this is where I can choose to return to to build and foster so that I no longer leave my presence but am home wherever I go.
Beautifully expresse ch1956. Once we have chosen to reconnect to our ‘inner home’, we cannot deny it’s existence, even if we choose to ignore it from time to time. It is our foundation and is simply a matter of choice as to whether or not we stay connected to it or not, but it is unwavering in its presence and never leaves us.
I have found when I am running out of kilter, and not looking after myself, it is hard to connect to that beautiful warmth, and then the whole world of my life starts to spiral out of control, but when I make the equal choice of absolute tenderness and love for this body, then it doesn’t matter where I am or what’s happening, I can feel that warmth and being absolutely held in love, then I am home always.
A great point and reminder Annie, to be always tender and loving with my body wherever I am.
Yes Annie, when home we feel solid and nothing is ever too great not to master or overcome. At the moment I can feel that I am allowing myself to be pulled from the outside with something that has come up in fact many times before but this time it feels different because I can feel there is a greater love for myself. It is challenging and sometimes I can go into doubt but deep down I can still feel a solidness in my body; I just need to nurture this.
Well said ch1956. I also love how when we connect to our home within we recognise what richness actually is – this is no price one can place on this feeling.
yes, Abby so true the meaning of richness changes when we find what lies within. There is nothing in our physical world that could compare.
No-one can take this richness from you. It’s yours for forever. We all carry this same richness within us and when two people connect with their richness, it grows and the power can be felt by all and even inspire others to look within.
I love this reminder that our home is always with us, a great opportunity for mr to check in and see how well am I attending to my home.
Absolutely as a Son of God our inner heart is always a place to check and see if we are home.
Beautiful comment Greg “As a Son of God our inner heart is always a place to check and see if we are home.” that is so true, our home is within our inner heart.
Thank you Margaret, to feel the inner heart it is so divine it is a place that I hold with such preciousness that I will never leave!
That is beautifully put, Greg.
Yes Nicole When we don’t maintain our home with love and rhythm the weeds quickly grow over to obscure the pathway in.
For many the weeds have become so thick the home on the other side is no longer visible and the pathway in has been forgotten.
This leaves one feeling empty and homeless regardless of the grandness of what may be available in the outer world.
In all the seeking it is this inner home we look for. In every moment we desire to numb or distract ourselves its the pain of being homesick that we attempt to avoid feeling. Every branch we cut is a clearing and an opening that lets us see and feel the warm glow that emanates from the home. Every act of self love is a stepping stone that leads us back to the place we call home.
Beautiful analogy, sometimes the weeds seem so high and thick we forget there even is another side.
Beautiful analogy, Nicole. In the same way that it can be difficult to distinguish the weeds from the flowers, so it can be difficult to distinguish the Truth from the lies and re-interpretations. However, with a true gardener, such as Serge Benhayon, to guide one and with reconnecting to our inner-heart the flowers shine out.
Great analogy Nicole . “When we don’t maintain our home with love and rhythm the weeds quickly grow over to obscure the pathway in. For many the weeds have become so thick the home on the other side is no longer visible and the pathway in has been forgotten. This leaves one feeling empty and homeless regardless of the grandness of what may be available in the outer world.”
It seems so crazy to be searching outside of us for something or someone else to complete us and fill the emptiness we feel because we have abandon ourselves. We only know what we know when we are in our head it isn’t until we re-connect with our essence we feel complete with our own love.
Well said Nicole – bringing it home!
I love this reminder as well nicolesjardin – it is so palpable what Michael have shared. It is really a great invitation to attend more often this wonderful place inside myself.
How beautiful is it Esther to be invited by someone’s livingness instead of told by someone’s knowledge?
Wow Carolien I love what you have shared – I would always prefer to be invited by someone’s livingness – this feels more lively and joyful if I may answer your question.
it is what I felt from your comment Esther, the beauty of the invitation which leaves is absolutely free to make our own choice in our own time whilst having a true reflection to be inspired by.
Yes me too as I read this I reflected on work and how I can lose myself during the day when its stressful as I get caught up in things and sometimes at those moments you look forward to going home but this changes that. Its about being with ourselves everywhere we go so we don’t need to retreat from anything.
For aeons we have sought and not found for what where we were looking was anywhere but within. Those who did look within have found their way back to where they came from. Those who looked and are still looking outside of them will only stray further and further.
Yes, how can you find out who you are by looking outside?
Great point Christoph, but we do keep looking and searching to one day ‘find ourselves’ but just get further away as Carolien states.
agree Christoph, we won’t find who we truly are but what we will find is an endless amount of pictures, images ideals and beliefs that we can adopt and try and live up to. We can fill the emptiness of missing our essence by constantly looking for the next thing to be, to better or to look like.
Perhaps the only way is by looking into a mirror, into your own eyes deeply.
very true Christoph it makes no sense at all to look outside of us to find out who we truly are the answers are within us.
No amount of studying theology and text books will deliver the truth that is already known within the inner heart. It can only be known through reconnection to our own Soul.
and hence the true meaning of being an esoteric student: being a student of your own inner heart.
Absolutely Anne, the key is to be open to that reconnection to our soul, then our soul supports us to know the truth as we all know it, it is just buried within us. The more I have connected to my soul and my stillness and with the support from Universal Medicine the more I have become aware of my knowing. It continues to be an amazing journey and along the way I have been healing so much in my body and my life.
Yes Annie – so true. And that warmth that Michael spoke of is the warmth of our inner-heart. My body warmed up when I read this blog and reconnected to my Soul.
So true Carolien The search is over for me finally after life times of being lost I am on my way back to where I came from.
Yes Margaret, we’re all on the same path of return, and if we can move with the same simplicity, commitment and grace as the snail Michael saw, “just living each moment, without a goal to be reached or something to be fulfilled, just living and being”, we can return without too much struggle on the way.
The endless search for answers is continually encouraged to be carried out by going out into the world. There is a glamorousness that we find in going to foreign lands “in search of yourself”, but truthfully, where else are we to find ourselves but where we are at this very moment?
I love that Naren “where else are we to find ourselves but where we are at this very moment” this so true and we need not travel or seek far and beyond. It starts right here. This is what Universal Medicine has shown me and it was an instant turn in my direction. Now it is simply a question of continuously unfolding what lies within.
Yes, Carolien, the revelation through Universal Medicine that my search for myself in all of the books and external pursuits was doing the exact opposite of bringing me back to myself was a huge change in direction for me as well. It was a big STOP sign that gave me the moment to look at where I had been and ask myself which direction I wanted to continue in.
isn’t that just awesome Naren, to be given an actual choice to which direction we go next? Before I thought I had a choice but it was just all different flavours of the same choice, now there is two very clearly distinct directions : straight back home or the long way around.
Awesome is an understatement! We are continually presented with choices, but as you say, they are all just shades of the same thing. Those choices may look enticing, they may look different, but eventually we realise that nothing has changed, because we have been looking to change the wrong thing. Changing the stuff outside is like changing our clothes, it doesn’t change what goes on on the inside. Returning home to ourselves and the realisation that it was all here all along is where the choices that make a true difference can be made.
I’m discovering this for myself Naren too. I always had a belief that if I lived in a certain location I would be more supported, it would be a safer environment to be the true me as people in this location live a similar lifestyle to me and an opportunity to be a part of a community. Now I am discovering that it doesn’t matter where you live. If you are truly connected to your inner heart, all that you need will be presented to you. The learning, self discoveries and your healing never stops if you choose to look within rather than looking out at your geographical location.
It really is so obvious isn’t it Carolien. We had this reflection; we have had this knowing for many thousands of years as a race, as a community. And yet we still see so much searching of the outside and pretending we don’t know.
What is it that keeps us from understanding and applying this to our lives as individuals and as collective?
Good point Simon, we have always had the reflection of who we truly are available to us and yet many keep choosing to look the other way. We have subscribed to a way of living and a quality of energy that is pulling the strings for us now and that will make sure our head is turned the other way each time a reflection passes. Until such time that we feel the light within and make a clear choice to to take back control of our choices.
I love the way you describe the puppet of ignorance end denial Carolien.
I remember the very first workshop I attended with Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon asked the group the question why were there and to share our answer with someone next to me. All around me I could hear all kinds of answers but all I could say was..because now I am home. This feeling of coming home, I can now see, came from the deep recognition and realisation that Universal Medicine would show me the way straight home, the way back to my soul.
Knowing that our home is within us let us live in the true beauty of life without any need to get anything confirmed from the outside. That way, specifically nature can be enjoyed from the inner stillness that resides inside of us and is the feeling of being home and not from the need to achieve this stillness, that nature reflects to us from the outside.
Michael thank you for such awesome wisdom you have shared. I love the part when you said, ” This little snail has been an amazing reflection and inspiration…of coming home to my soul, my inner wisdom and to my inner heart”. It is a beautiful expression of natures simplicity how we can bring everything back to our home, having all that we need from within and that our soul is always there to keep us safe, provided for, truth and love.
This is such a beautiful blog to read again. This is an exquisite reminder that we are home in every moment of the day when we connect to trust, love and our inner knowing.
We do not have to wait to get home, as we can choose to be home in every single moment.
The sense that everything is already within us and around us is deeply felt and profound. It is so contrary to what we have come to believe and the momentum of our way of life and yet it is here waiting for us to stop believing in our own creations and just feel what is already here. Thank you for your gloriously simple reflection Michael Kremer.
I love the essence of just being that you share here Michael Kremer. As we rush around in our world looking for whatever it is we are seeking, we miss the very beingness that is probably the thing we are in fact seeking. It is right here within us and reflected back to us – once we stop to look in the mirror.
And we all can feel this Brendan because that home is there in each of us equally so, if we are aware of it or not. It is that steadiness we can feel from deep within and when we live in constant connection with this by our own choice, the guidance that does comes from it will lead us to a joyful life where we can learn all that we have to learn in this life and to evolve to a greater awareness.
I love what you have shared here, that our home is not bricks and mortar, ‘but a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me.’ If we all subscribed to this, knowing that there is an inner wisdom, a truth we carry with us always, there would be a lot less attachment to material things and more alignment with connection and who we truly are.
Love this little blog Michael. I’m with you in acknowledging the wisdom nature offers us and the fact that yes, our home is always with us within.
I love the simplicity of nature and the gorgeous reflections it offers.
Do you know he smileys on smartphones that have hearts in their eyes? That’s how I just felt while reading you blog. It’s a warmth in my, a joyful sparkle feeling the truth of your words and feeling the knowing if this inside. I travel a lot and have to work often not sleeping at home – and this I carry with me everywhere… I am home being me not where I am at! Big revelation, Michael*
How gorgeously profound to feel this Christinahecke. Reading through these comments shows the magic of nature and the unique connection we all have to it.
Lately I have been feeling how no matter whether I feel good or bad that God is always within and with me – it is my home. While I still find the “bad” days – when I feel delicate and raw – more challenging to be okay with, I am open to now having a relationship with this part of myself instead of avoiding it and pretending that I am always having a “good” day. I love how the snail served as the reminder that our home is always within Michael. Thank you for sharing. I too love the gorgeous messages in nature.
“The striving for goals and the expectations I have had towards life”……
Michael, this striving is really inhibiting us from getting back to who we truly are and yet we strive everyday seeking some form of achievement. I am going to hold the picture of the snail with me when I find myself striving, to remind me it is all there within me – there is nothing else to do but to surrender to what is there.
Grat idee Anne, the picture of a snail is indeed a great reminder for us that there is nothing in life to strive for and that we only have to surrender what is already with us living in our inner hearts, to surrender to our soul and to live with its harmony.
Knowing that our home is always with us, gives such deep sense of surrendering. Wherever I have to be or where I am needed, my house may not be with me, but my home is.
This little snail has been an amazing reflection and inspiration… of coming home to my soul, my inner wisdom, and to my inner-heart. A beautiful reflection and knowing for my day and life forever 🙂 thank you.
Choosing to be more aware of the messages nature and life shares with me has deeply enriched the quality of life and and my understanding of it.
Yes and in this how everything is connected and all parts are equal to another and have a part to play. Knowing this helps me to take notice in life.
Absolutely even if some of the messages are not instantly known in my head, I love feeling the magic of them and that they are perfect for the moment. What a gift to appreciate. Its certainly enriched my life as well.
I feel the same davidsonsamantha, and it shows me time and again that I am never alone even if completely by myself. The support is unwavering and omnipresent.
It’s crazy how so many of us have got caught up in a home being a physical building. When in truth home is within us, we carry that with us. The snail is a great reflection of simplicity, nature showing us life can be simple.
I feel like this, thank you for your beautiful expression “It is light and yet the safest and most solid place I can imagine.” I can feel the steadiness I carry within my body, any situation, any issue comes my way and I have have my home, my connection, my foundation right here to hold and support me. It is awesome, and I know the difference, I used to once have what I would describe as a gapping hole inside, I felt empty, no more is this the case, warmth, light, steadiness and fullness are now with me, my home.
Very easy to forget this Katie, and it is almost like a muscle to be exercised and built – that is the muscle of our inner strength and wisdom.
I love this blog and what it is saying. Yes, I know my home to be within me when I allow myself to surrender to the loveliness that I can find in my body and my heart. It is like sinking into an abyss of warmth. Where else can we go?
I know where we can go Rebecca, it is that other place in disconnection from my inner heat where I used to live for a long period of my life. But I will not choose that anymore now I have found my home within, that has been always already there, just waiting for me to come home to.
I have to say I have never been a huge fan of snails but your blog Michael has given me a new appreciation of them and reminded me that nature is constantly communicating with us all the time in ways we sometimes perhaps do not expect.
Indeed Andrew, snails where also not my favourite’s but what I learn from this is that we have to appreciate nature for the grandness that it actually is, a grand reflection for us human beings showing us by magic the way back to the amazing intelligent and delicate beings we actually are and have to return to.
Me too Andrew – I’ve always been just the slightest bit frustrated when I’ve come downstairs to find a whole rug covered in slime trails from some snails! But maybe there is a message in that! Snails are cool creatures, and this blog has made me appreciate them much more than I had previously.
Thanks Michael your blog has reminded me that we put so much effort into trying to achieve things on the outside – like the perfect environment or home believing that one day we will attain this perfection, not realising that everything we have ever wanted has always been within.
Nature has so much to show us if only we would bother to stop and listen.
As well as stop and listen, if we were aware of how much nature has to say we would probably be astonished. It is a constant support.
Very true Heather. Nature finds its way into all sorts of places. I was in a shop recently, with nature no where in sight, and I looked down to see this tiny white feather sitting on a shelf. Yep, as you say, a constant support.
Exactly Vicky! About a month ago I unlocked my car and got into the driver’s seat to find two green grasshoppers sitting on my steering wheel. They had not been there when I got out of the car the day before and locked it and I only have my windows open when I am driving. It was such a strong message!
Not one but two Grasshoppers perfectly placed in your locked car on your steering wheel. Now that is divine magic Lyndy. The moment we feel these messages from God it is like an instant expansion. They can immediately remind us that we are so much more.
Absolutely Vicky – those communications remind us that we are so much more, and we realise that God is only a breath away, that blocks and weights can be cleared in an instant, that beauty reigns. It is entirely magical!
Yes Heather, God’s impulsing ‘being’ and activity is always there. Our bodies are constantly receiving and registering the timeless movement and emanation of this divine, multi-dimensional energy from within us, whether we are aware of it or not.
Thank you for taking a photo of this snail, it appears exactly how you have described it.
Michael what you write about your observation of the snail feels very beautiful and true. It is indeed magical and joyful to read what nature reflects to us. That reflection is always to be read fresh in each moment for each person. A snail for example might provide quite a different message to another person on another day!
Exactly Nicola. It is for us to discern and feel in each and every moment what nature is reflecting to us. Whatever it may be reflecting can be a massive support if we are prepared to honestly observe and accept what is being reflected to us.
Thank you Michael it shows how important it is that we do feel at home in our bodies and thus make sure we truly feel comfortable with and in our bodies.
Ah Esther I love this simplicity ‘feel at home in our bodies’ as this is something most people do not as we are constantly looking out rather than connecting to what is within. In feeling at home in ourselves why look elsewhere?
Not only is the analogy of the snail most beautiful but it is in your quality and presence that you share as the way you live that gives this blog the depth and realness that then resonates within me and obviously everyone else here commenting.
You are spot on Alex. Michael’s words echo the depth of love and wisdom he feels in his inner heart. The love that we all know to be true.
There are people that are shopaholics that are perpetually trying to fulfill themselves with something they feel they are lacking. Perhaps if they slowed down they would find that what they perceived they were missing has always been with them.
What a joy it was to read this, Michael….I’ve long been a snail medicine advocate, and love their simple message to be at home within. I loved your connection to what home truly means, “It is not made of brick and walls, but a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me.” Super powerful and inspiring to have read this today. Thank you, Michael.
“The striving for goals and the expectations I have had towards life suddenly seemed like a big distraction from the ease and stillness I could feel, if I would be constantly aware of the fact that my home is always within.” Well revealed Michael, we have to become more honest about our intention and motivation on how we are living every day.
I agree Janina, with gentle steps of appreciating who we are from the inside, we can also open up to gently being honest with ourselves about our motivation and intention. If we are driven from the external influences we miss connecting to our natural flow.
Like yourself Peta- I loved the simplicity and powerful symbolism that the snail reminded us of, which is that our home is also solid like the snail, but is a “place of trust, love and inner knowing ‘ which we carry everyday within us all.
Lovely to read your blog Michael, home is where we are in any given moment if we choose to connect to it. Thank you for the beautiful reminder.
What this blog reminded me of Michael is how there are all kinds of signs that are given to us through Nature and when we stop and ‘read’ or feel what they may mean for us, the answer is usually very appropriate and timely for what is going on with us at the time, or with an issue we are dealing with. I feel you have given an excellent example of how to utilise this blessing and I have also realised that the same opportunities to learn and grow are provided by different key moments during the day that arise with our interactions with people where we are offered a chance to express ourselves in a way that either expands our awareness or suppresses and degrades it. The key for me in this has been to not hold back how I feel, even if I may be off base completely.
So true michealgoodhart36, there are any messages offered in life and nature for us to read, they share so much, they allow a moment to ponder and reconnect and confirm our relationship with all, the universe and the divine.
Beautiful blog Michael. How great it would be to be able to ‘leave the striving for goals and the expectations’ and glide through life as the snail through the meadow.
This reminds me of the saying…’home is where the heart is’ – it’s not about putting our hearts/love into our homes, but us being at home in our hearts, in our love.
‘The striving for goals and the expectations I have had towards life suddenly seemed like a big distraction from the ease and stillness I could feel..’ When I read this my body let out a sigh and I could feel myself surrender. Life is a lot simpler than the way I choose to live it. Your blog is a gentle reminder of that.
“The striving for goals and the expectations I have had towards life suddenly seemed like a big distraction from the ease and stillness I could feel, if I would be constantly aware of the fact that my home is always within. It feels like I just need to allow myself to go there more often.” Knowing that if we are not in that place of stillness then all it takes is to allow ourselves to surrender to our home within. I have had a similar experience to what you share here Michael but the words for me were ‘Heaven is within’ and feeling that no matter what is going on around me or how long my list of things to do is, that place of sweet stillness, joy and grace is always a constant within, there to surrender to in any moment I choose to go there. Reading your blog this morning is a fabulous reminder Michael – thank you.
A reminder to stop looking outside of ourselves. Everything we need is already within. The word ‘home’ is very apt as it says that we can feel the warmth and safety of that place, wherever we are.
Its extraordinarily comforting to realise our inner heart is a well of love that is always there.
As Jesus said ‘ the kingdom of God is within’. The kingdom of God is our true home, and it here that lies within the heart of every man. (with man I mean all people)
Beautiful gyllian, and no amount of running will ever get us there, but instead surrender to what is already there waiting for us to return to it.
As I am sitting to write this I am aware of the beauty of life awakening around me, a symphony of birds are communicating, the kookaburras celebrating the dawn of a new day and in the distance I can hear the roar of the ocean. I love the beauty of nature I am a part of, such a joy to feel.
Just observing a funny little detail: When the snail turns towards its home, it moves anti-clockwise in its house deeper and deeper towards the center. In Sacred Esoteric Healing we also move anti-clockwise to support to reconnect with our inner-heart within. That’s God’s fabulous perfect engineering!
“The striving for goals and the expectations I have had towards life suddenly seemed like a big distraction from the ease and stillness I could feel” – this is so exhausting to live this way, it makes me think of a person running down the street (really a real life treadmill going no where, but round and round again) with this thought bubble filled with a love heart, representing everything they want and crave, when right behind them all the way is this huge big love heart saying why are you running away from me.
Hi gyllianrae, What a sweet lovely description of how we can so simply reconnect with the stillness we have access to within and around. I can feel in the past I had a momentum in life, that was driven that pushed me forward, lead by my head and eyes, not my heart. When I walk now my body stands balanced and I walk with all of me, I am learning to be still and live in all of my body it is a very different experience from that which I had in the past.
Great point gyliianrae. We live under the illusion that we are in pursuit of love, when in truth we are ‘running’ away from it. Very wise and very true.
Awesome picture Gyllian..can see and feel this so easily. It is so simple but when we are crashing around in a spin, it is impossible to connect to that love… there is no stillness and therefore there can be no clarity to see and feel what is right there with us… yet all we need to do is stop running and remember we are already there.
I feel the grace and appreciation of natures loving reflections in your writings Michael. I equally share your appreciation and love of nature’s wise blessings.
Beautiful, pure and simple Michael. It reminds me we take ourselves, our true home wherever we go in life. Our inner home is with us in every moment and life itself becomes our outer home, not confined by bricks and mortar.
“After a few metres I suddenly saw a snail, which was graciously gliding through the grass. I could feel a stillness, beauty and clear focus in those movements that felt very similar to what I felt in myself.” The way you have described the clear focus of the movement of the snail Michael, has brought to me an awareness of how important it is to bring our complete presence and awareness to each and every movement we make, as that movement and the quality of it affects the rest of our day, and our life, and all those around us on this planet.
To me a snail symbolizes how vulnerable we are outside of our home (the snails shell, where it is safe and protected) our home being our connection to ourselves our hearts and the love we are from. Like the snails shell or home that is always with it, so is our connection to the love we are and God’s love, and we can choose to connect to that at anytime.
Nature is a constant reflection of our evolution.
Yes it does – it is magical to feel the endless reflections each moment in mature offers.
There are pages that could be written about this comment… how does nature reflect our evolution, and even that we are evolving and nature is our constant wing man showing us the way.
that’s beautiful Gyllian, if we tune into this reflection, we have constant learning and potential for greater awareness to accelerate our evolution in every moment. Nature really is God’s gift to us.
How you describe the snail Michael is a wonderful reflection for us all: “ It seemed to be so full of joy gliding through the meadow, just living each moment, without a goal to be reached or something to be fulfilled, just living and being.” We get so caught up with where we are going and what we want to achieve in life, that we forget to live each moment, enjoying and taking all of life in, stopping to feel all that is there to feel.
Michael your blog was a beautiful reflection for me, and just what I needed to hear this morning, the fact that all I need is inside of me an not an outer picture that I have to strive for or achieve, feeling this allows me to be more present in the moment and with my body and not so driven with an idea from my mind of how things should be in life. I felt a letting go and trust of myself, knowing that I can connect to this inner knowing no matter what life presents to me.
Yes, letting it in that we are always at home, that everything is always there, and we can live that at any time – it takes a bit of time but every step in that direction makes a big, positive difference.
No matter how far we may stray or how far we may go, our home is always deep within our heart, this has always been known.
And as our home is always with us, we can never get lost and always have a shelter – even if we are walking through a thunderstorm.
The fact that we can feel lost in our homes and save in foreign places shows that it is not about the place geographically – it is about the inner feeling of love. Loving ourselves, not feeling rocked when the outside is “against” us. Always knowing – nothing happens for no reason and I am here to learn. It’s me. And being me is being home.*
That we do Gyllianrae, we try very hard to find love, seeking for it in the opposite direction, outwards.
What a beautiful thing Gyl, that home is always deep inside all of us, no matter what, no matter when.
And no matter where 🙂
Everything offers a reflection constantly – if we trust this as our barometer we will always know where we are. Welcome home Michael.
Yes it is always there Ariana – that big mansion of love – patiently waiting for us to move in on a permanent basis – no bond or tenancy forms required – just a commitment to be the love that we are.
How true that is and what a joy to really let ourselves see all the true beauty that is all around us. As I continue to develop my awareness and let myself be connected to God in every way I can feel that there is no place he is not.
Maybe what we have within is even something as grand as the pyramids? Wow! What a residence that would be!
I love this Ariana: “more like a mansion that we all have got within”. This expresses the hugeness of what we have inside if we choose to access it. Sometimes we keep certain doors closed of the mansion so we think we are living in a shack, however when we deeply connect we realise that all the riches and jewels are waiting within our doors, we just need to open them.
The beautiful simplicity of this blog is reflected in the comments here Michael, it has inspired simplicity in others. Awesome, thank you.
Hello Kate and great comment. You have said so much here and it all relates perfectly to this blog and to us all, “It’s easy to forget that we have everything that’s needed within ourself regardless of the situation and when we connect to this our eternal home can very much be felt.”
Hello Michael and it’s amazing what you can see and bring out in the smallest of things, “This little snail has been an amazing reflection and inspiration… of coming home to my soul, my inner wisdom, and to my inner-heart.” Thank you.
The simple things in life can bring us the greatest lessons.
I re-read your blog again Michael and deeply appreciate the profound simplicity in what you allowed yourself to connect to as a reflection of your own love and embracement of yourself.
Another gem form you Michael, thank you. Isn’t is wonderful, how a tiny creature like a snail, a ladybird or a spider can give us some of our greatest lessons in life…? I simply love that, and I love the simplicity of your blog here, reminding us that we have everything that we need right there within us.
Beautiful Michael, so simple. And how exquisite the snail is with its light shell and subtle colours. Its home is on its back, yours and all of ours are on the inside, yet the feeling is the same, — of delicacy, flow of movement, no hurry, just being, nothing to aim for, responding to the environment. Nature does sure give us reflections of our true home and natural state of being.
Michael thank you for this simple and magical expression. Everything in nature offers us an opportunity to deepen our apprecation of oursleves and life. You have reminded us to pay attention to the details and open our hearts to these reflections.
Home really is where the inner heart is 🙂
Michael I love your words referring to the home we carry with us “It is light and yet the safest and most solid place I can imagine.” What that light connects us with is the all and where can we not take this? It reveals the absurdity of time and yes even space we get locked into.
We spend so much time searching for something which is actually with us all the time. The snail is here to show us this. I have never really liked snails but will view them very differently now, thanks to your gorgeous sharing, Michael.
Wonderful blog Michael and a great reflection the snail provided, “…of coming home to my soul, my inner wisdom and to my inner heart.” Beautiful.
I love the appreciation of the snail. Snails are a pest in my garden and they eat my lettuce before I get to. In recent years I’ve hunted them, thrown them far away and not stopped to appreciate them. I still don’t want them eating my lettuce, but I may be more kind and carry them far away!
I feel the same Michael, what ever happens or wherever I am, my home is in my heart, my connection with myself and how I support myself in every moment.
When we realise this is our home, nothing in life can take that away from us. The external world can have very little impact on the internal.
My Home is Always With Me, Your Home is Always with You and, most importantly, Our True Home is Always the same one.
There is no place like home, as everything we need is inside us.
The joy and stillness you have experienced within this morning is shining through what you write here about the magic of the moment, when a snail was reflecting to you. When I am “with my home”, my soul and my wisdom and love, I have experienced, that every moment is as magic as the next. Life becomes the enormity it is, because I am opening up to the enormity I am. Despite the enormity it is never overwhelming, when I am with “my home”. So beautiful, what you share: “The striving for goals and the expectations I have had towards life suddenly seemed like a big distraction from the ease and stillness I could feel, if I would be constantly aware of the fact that my home is always within.” Becoming aware, that everything, we think and make matter in life in truth is a distraction, from who we truly are, this has a sense of humor and an amazing liberation within. Thank you for bringing your wisdom with such an amazing playfulness too.
Just stunning Michael, you write with pure grace. All I’m left with is a powerful confirmation of my own inner knowing that all I need to do to come home, feel safe, feel me in all the gorgeousness that I am, is to go within.
Nature is amazing reminder of the awesome love we are from. Yesterday it was snowing here in England and wow it was magical, I felt like child again in absolute awe of God’s expression.
I love the stillness snow reflects and brings, it asks everybody to slow down.
Beautifully expressed Michael, Samantha and Gyl, to me the stillness that can be felt as the snowflakes are floating down, is like an angel’s wings hovering, forever hovering, which is inviting us to return to that place of inner-connection so I can return to be the Son of God.
Beautiful Greg!
I love also to re-read your beautiful blog. I also feel we can learn from the snail, it may be slow, but it makes steady progress & that’s because it’s connected to itself and in his home.
What you have shared is very cute, having that kind of openness and relationship with what’s going on around you is very fun, seeing something more than just a morning or a snail, but an opportunity to learn something important.
What a simple and beautiful reminder that we always carry with us and within us everything we are and everything we need to see us safely through this life and beyond.
So simple and so effortless is the love that resides within us. The home of my inner-heart is a very beautiful place to be.
I love the reflection of nature to support our understanding we are all from the one ‘all’ – indeed our home. Children reflect this to me too – where the yearning to make ‘cubbies’ is very strong for them, and whether it be under the dining table, in the cupboard, under a tree – it is always home for them because they have that natural sense of connection to themselves and the ‘all’, just like the snail.
A beautiful blog and sharing of nature and our inner beauty and grace, thank you Michael . Our home is something we deeply miss when not connected to it and this is hurts us more than anything I am discovering. The reflection and immense gift of nature and all it holds us in and reflects to us is magical and there for us all to see.
Agree Tricianicholson, re-connection with our inner heart is a true home coming for without this inner connection our home is empty, and we are truly homeless
Thank you Michael, Tricia and Victoria, I agree, my life before Universal Medicine was like an empty shell, no one at ‘home’, so I was completely lost looking for a new shell! When my eyes were opened to the magic of God my eyes nearly posed out of my head, just like the snails eyes, as I felt the lost truth that was still and always had been in my Inner-heart. The work of Serge Benhayon has definitely been an eye opener for me; as ‘eye’ see myself returning to be the Son of God, as I humbly crossing the ‘meadow’ to reconnect with my “soul”!!
Gorgeously playful Greg. I can see your eyes popping out of your head and your humble traversing of the blades of grasses and plants as you cross the meadow to God, surrounded by God.
The striving for goals, for perfection, to live more and more to achieve is so dissatisfying. I have always found such tension in trying to attain recognition or status. I love what you connected to Michael, that knowing that you are enough as you are, there is always a balance to be struck between giving more of ourselves in what we do and not giving ourselves away.
How inspiringly simple and beautiful Michael – to know that our home is with us wherever we are in every moment. When we allow ourselves this depth of trust we know we have truly come home at long last.
I love the feeling of returning to read this blog a second time – a beautiful reminder that we are never alone and loving support is always available when we choose to connect to the stillness within us.
True Katie, with the constant bombardment to get the latest computer, game, runners we can be so caught up in striving for what we don’t have we miss out on the innate magic we do naturally have.
Absolutely true David.
Many people have expressed that The Way of the Livingness has supported them to come back to themselves, and that it feels like ‘coming home’. The greatest joy I have felt is in re-connecting to the deep love and beauty that has always been there inside me.
Beautiful Michael. I am currently visiting my family having moved overseas many years ago. This visit, I have found a deeper steadiness within me in connection to my soul has left me feeling and knowing too that my home is with in me and as a result I know I can live anywhere in the world. It is not the country, state, county, village, home which brings us our warmth and love, it is our connection to our soul. Home really is where the heart is.
That re-connection to the truth and beauty within myself has been the best (and very welcomed) ‘wakey wakey, rise and shine pulling back the curtains moment’
Same here Janet…there is no greater joy than that!
Yes, and then we realise that we never left home, we just shut our awareness from that fact.
I agree Janet, and that joy continues to expand as our connection increases, with no end in sight.
Gosh, when we feel in the body a ‘coming home’ feeling there is a sense of unrivalled beauty that is very peculiar but that we cannot but recognise all the way. This is a clear indication that we are pretty clear of what feels like home and what does not.
“I had a deep realisation of the fact that my home is also always with me.” I bless the day I met Serge Benhayon who has guided me, countless others, home.
Me too Jonathan. Serge Benhayon reminded me of what I already knew, had always known but forgotten for a while. That amazing reminder and reflection of the truth is now with me always and I will never look back.
I felt very warm inside as I read this gentle yet profound sharing this morning. Just like that snail – No matter where we go we have our home within us all the time. The more self loving, self nurturing I bring into my life the more doors of opportunities that open within my home and allow humanity in. Thank you Michael.
Beautiful analogy Marion, of understanding the key to opening more doors to our home lies in our connection to ourselves through self-love, self-care and self-nurturing.
I did too Marion… I am feeling very warm inside as I read this beautiful blog. The words you write are not the only blessing in reading, Michael, but your sweet sensitivity and light feather touch comes through your words and graces all who reads. Simply powerful in delicacy and beauty.
Is not nature… Gods playground where everything has its purpose and just a reminder that we are a part of it also?
Yes it certainly is. We are showered with reflections of who we are every day, if we only stop to take a moment and appreciate all that is there. Thank you for the reminder Michael.
I’ll turn it around a little and feel to say that nature can certainly be a playground and school for us “where everything has its purpose and (is) just a reminder that we are a part of it also” and no question mark.
Yes Steve, I believe you are right! We are getting reflections from God in nature in every moment of every day….
Hello Steve and I agree. It’s not something to get lost in but use as a “reminder” or reflection as Michael has done here, everything is a part of everything.
Yes Steve, as I have become more open, I can see how there are reflections all around us in nature that are constantly confirming that we too are part of the magic.
Thank you for sharing Michael, indeed our home is always with us. Feeling fully content within myself and not needing to constantly think I need to be more has been huge for me. I have everything I could possibly want and more already within waiting to burst out – I spent so many years exhausting myself trying to find it from outside and from others but now see that I have put so many layers over it, I simply need to let those layers dissipate and then allow myself to be all the love that I am naturally – so much less effort involved!
Gorgeous Michael Kremmer, thankyou.
I like the description of our true home, Michael, and the reminder that we have everything we need inside.
I love the simplicity and stillness of your writing, very inspiring and super profound. You describe with such a beauty the absoluteness we all are. It shows so clearly how we bring so much exhaustion and force into making life about the things we do and have to do and how unnatural this is. Surrendering to who we are is the true joy of life.
Imagine having an inbuilt machine where we can read how much vital energy we have spent trying to achieve the impossible: feeling home without connecting truly and deeply with ourselves.What would you make of the reading?
Beautifully put Rachel, the key word for me in your comment was surrender, as I surrender more and more to myself and allow myself to simply be all that I am with other people, my life becomes simpler and more joy-full.
‘Surrendering to who we are is the true joy of life’ – these words are pure gold Rachel.
I love this Michael and these words I just have to share again as the message about our true home is so profound and one to never forget. “It is not made of brick and walls, but a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me”; and inside me it will always be, I simply need to constantly remind myself that it is there.
What a beautiful blog Michael. It made me stop and feel my own solid home, the inner heart -appreciate, and listen to my own inner knowingness and trust that I am enough.
Very beautiful lorettarapp. I often forget about the home I have inside of me. I can feel that this home can be taken anyywhere and everywhere and the doors were made to be open.
And the beauty that shines to the fore with every step forth on “The Way of The Livingness” is that we learn to stop and listen. We also inspire others to stop around us lovingly, so that they feel understood and loved – not judged.
Beautiful blog and realisation Michael… our home is always with us… I will remember the snail next time I look outside myself for approval or need. Thank you.
The simplicity of life this blog brings is enormous, awesome blog Michael.
Such power to be found in simplicity.
I feel the stillness in your writing and the reminder to be present in each moment and to treasure this.
Yes, the stillness (and solidness if I may add) Michael has imprinted his writing with is truly beautiful to feel and to appreciate.
I’m reminded of that old saying ‘Your Home is where your Heart is’ …..
It reminded me of this too Alison, and the image shows how our home is always there just waiting for us to enter.
The esoteric in its essence, captured in just one of many millions of reflections given to us by nature (the magic of God) to support us human/spirits to realize what is so obvious but nevertheless unrealized by many for lives after lives.
“This little snail has been an amazing reflection and inspiration… of coming home to my soul, my inner wisdom, and to my inner-heart.” Deeply beautiful Michael thankyou.
After re-reading this gorgeous article, I felt to comment on exactly the same line, Rebecca … I can really feel how any expectations and goals I may have, however small, are putting a constraint on me and how I am in my life, they take away from the natural flow of life. I know that nothing is a coincidence and that everything happens for a reason, therefore, to just be and allow the magic of life to constellate around me really does seem like the way to choose. To do otherwize is just a means of avoiding what there is to learn, a delaying tactic that will keep me in the same loop, until I choose to see and feel what is there for me to understand.
What a beautiful blog Michael. I love your description ‘which was graciously gliding through the grass. I could feel a stillness, beauty and clear focus in those movements that felt very similar to what I felt in myself.’ This brings me to a stop as I feel the graciousness of the snail sliding through the grass and sit and connect with my own stillness and grace. Your expression of nature is such an awesome reflection of the magic of god.
I love this log Michael. I have just had to be reading some Shakespeare and was pondering on the lines where the exiled Duke in the forest of Arden talks of tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, and sermons in stones. We could now add ‘wisdom in snails.’ I love it when we are aware that nature is speaking to us, which it is continually, bringing the ceaseless communication from God.
Yes Lyndy, all the wisdom and support we need is both within us and reflected in nature all around us.
I love the freshness of the image Michael and the photo is gorgeous with the juiciness of the snail and the greens and variety of grasses that the snail traverses as its world.
I love this photo too Lyndy. I am struck by the way the snail navigates the varied terrain, casually pondering the next move, simply gorgeous.
Oooh yes Leonne, you’ve taken me even deeper into that timeless moment of the snail feelingly pondering the next move. So pure.
Yes me too, the image is very vibrant and fresh.
Such beautiful symbolism that makes me appreciate that we carry around with us all that we need in that ‘safest and most solid place’ within and apart from a little nourishment taken along the way and keeping our feelers out to have awareness of our surroundings, that’s basically the simplicity of life. Born with full self-sufficiency to support our purpose.
The image that comes to me is after this realisation, is to look around in the energy of realisation and just feel the illusion we have so hard to try to sell to ourselves… and how much we had succeeded.
Michael this was beautiful to read and I love the picture. ‘The striving for goals and the expectations I have had towards life suddenly seemed like a big distraction from the ease and stillness I could feel, if I would be constantly aware of the fact that my home is always within.’
How gorgeous is this Michael! Such felt observations that cannot be denied about the snail traveling with its home, so true, all we have is with us, already….And the snail reminds us too the patience that is required in understanding and living this fact.
Yes, on one level patience to develop such way of living, in that sense referring also to time, and maybe also the sense of timelessness that opens a space of pure beingness.
Having everything we need inside us gives us a solid foundation to stand upon and act from. Like there is a whole backup team with us all the time, everywhere we go.
I love that Monika – we are never alone when we choose to be in connection to our hearts.
I agree, Michael, we feel ‘never alone when we choose to be in connection to our hearts.’ And it is us who make the choice to connect or not, for God and support is always there, even if we choose to not feel it or connect to it.
The magic of God and it’s reflecting messages are so precise to let us evolve I can only say: thank you and stay open to God’s communication.
“coming home to my soul, my inner wisdom, and to my inner-heart”
How absolutely beautiful Michael, a gorgeous sharing, thank you.
A brilliant reminder that my home is with me always too.
Michael your blog highlights for me that we can feel the reflection of our inner being in anything. If we are not connecting with our innermost first, the reflections are much less. It seems so many things will literally jump out to confirm exactly where we are at, even a snail.
I love how we are provided with great insights if we are open to observing nature and contemplating what it is reflecting to us.
I love nature too Michael. After reading the first two sentences of your blog, I looked out my window and a kookaburra landed on the fence. It felt solid, strong, powerful and confirming of the “inner warmth and stillness” that is within us all.
Simply beautiful Michael, home is where the heart is, our inner heart we carry with us always. Thank you. Nature has so much to offer us by way of reflection.
I am away from my house for a few days at the moment and have been feeling quite at home with being away. This beautiful blog confirms for my “my home is always within” and as you say Jill “home is where the heart is” and that is just how I have been feeling. As long as I am connected with my inner most I am at home.
Yes, Rebecca, we do make things so complicated and hard for ourselves in our lives. How irresponsible we are in how we distract ourselves from our inner truth. All we need to do is to simply be still and be with ourselves, as you say, “the more present I am in my body, the more simple and lovely life is”. It really is so simple, how silly we are to make it so complicated.
Beautiful Michael. I definitely resonated with ‘…my home is always within. It feels like I just need to allow myself to go there more often.’ Spending time just with myself, to appreciate the love that is here, and that I don’t need anything external, really is important. Thank you.
I agree, Amelia, I also feel I would like to spend more time ‘at home’ with me, knowing I have absolutely everything I could ever need, there’s nothing to do, other than appreciate all that I have, in me.
I love your comment Amelia. The part you’ve highlighted reminds me to do the same too.
It’s super important Amelia and I really appreciate the opportunity to be reminded of this – both by this gorgeous blog and your comment – thank you:)
I love snails. Love them Michael! As a little girl I would play with them, so very gently because they are such tender little things. I love watching them come out to play after the rain…tiny messengers from God showing us that life is simple and we have everything we need, right with us.
Rachel your comment reminded me of how much I loved snails as a child. So much so that I would collect as many as I could find and place them all over my body. Then I would lay down and close my eyes so I could feel them all glide over my skin. I loved being with snails in this way. I loved feeling the grace and power of their movements. Yes I agree Rachel ‘tiny messengers from God’ indeed… reflecting how we too can move with the graceful power of knowing that we have with us all that we need, and as such all that we are.
They are so tender and vulnerable yet strong. And also very graceful. I used to love (and still do love) their tiny eyes on stalks that retract with every touch. Nature is our grand teacher, offering beautiful lessons in every moment.
I also used to spend a lot of time within nature as a child and was fascinated with playing with animals and insects observing there interactions and actions for hours. I feel I could possibly attribute my connection with nature to connection with God and to my survival as a child.
More than possible Margaret. We are wise beyond the measure of an adult mind as children.
Beautiful Rachel, ‘tiny messengers from God showing us that life is simple and we have everything we need, right with us.’ How wonderfully simple and true, it makes me feel how we can make life so complicated and think that it is what we own that is important, it is not this at all, gorgeous blog and comment.
The messages are all around us. In every moment we are receiving them. I wonder do we pay attention? I’m pretty sure I miss most of what I am offered…
I loved that too as I was growing up. There is an order to nature that I admire, I connect with it, it makes sense. I am not quite sure why we, as a human race, are not more inspired by the reflection in nature. No senseless bashings, No mass killing because of a difference in religion, no greed, no jealousy that I have seen on my travels. This blog reminds me that I can be inspired by nature and live that way in my life.
It is the most beautiful of teachers Lucy, offering lessons that we may choose to ignore, but it continues to offer them anyway. Unstintingly generous with its teachings, containing the fullness of everything we need to know. Dear me I do love nature, and as I type this a family of magpies have come to land on the trees in my view – now they are carolling to each other. This is the centre of a busy city.
Michael, I just love the following. “When seeing the ease with which this snail carried its home and how solid that home seemed, I had a deep realisation of the fact that my home is also always with me. It is not made of brick and walls, but a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me.” That is so very evocative for me, what a wonderful realisation you had here, yes, our homes are always with us. It is deep within us, as you say, a ‘place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me’. And it is there for us all, all we need to do is stay connected with ourselves. How blessed are we, to have been shown this. It is so awesome to be reminded of this. I will carry it with me throughout my day. Yes, deep within me is my home, always there for me to go to, and with God’s help to stay there.
Within nature lies the lessons of the universe. A beautiful and profound sharing Michael on the snail.
“This little snail has been an amazing reflection and inspiration… of coming home to my soul, my inner wisdom, and to my inner-heart.” A truly beautiful blog, Michael, I love the reflection and inspiration that you received from this little snail. We receive so many wonderful gifts from nature, don’t we? Yes, the snail is a beautiful reflection of the way for us to live on this earth. A slow and steady pace, pausing as needed to feed a little, no rush, no need to be somewhere, just moving on as and when it needs to. I can feel the surrender in this.
I could feel the surrender in this too Beverley; the allowing of the natural flow of life and the gentle unfolding of all that it has to present to us. Nature’s gift are bountiful and overflowing with beautiful messages like this that constantly remind us that it is the simplicity that brings us healing.
Very beautiful indeed Beverley to feel the surrender in your comment too. Michael’s blog and your comment highlight just how caught up in life we can become, rushing “to be somewhere”, always with our minds on the next thing and the next, but rarely with our bodies and feeling the world around us. A beautiful reminder to begin the day with, thank you, it brings a whole new appreciation of the humble snail and all the gorgeous qualities within me to walk with through the day.
Hello Michael, I love the simplicity of this blog and your appreciation of the reflection that the little snail was offering you by your connecting to feel deeply within yourself your own inner-home and stillness. The magic of nature is a wonder-full gift for us all to appreciate and learn from.
I agree Deidremedbury and it reminds me to stop and appreciate the beautiful reflections we receive from nature.
My home.. “It is not made of brick and walls, but a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me.” Wow, this touched me deeply.
I remember in the summer seeing a huge huge bumblebee on a flower doing nothing, like it was dead, and it did make me laugh how nature was giving me a nudge to get on with what I was delaying! Very playful but very true.
Haha love this Vanessa, the big fat bumblebee doing nothing, this is hilarious and such a playful and loving reminder. Isn’t it amazing how God communicates in this absoluteness and with not an ounce of judgment, just super fun and playful.
The Reflections of Nature are there supporting and communicating to us always. Your openness Michael has allowed what is true to make itself known to you – your home is within you. It feels amazing to know and claim this – the solid foundation it brings to your life and to those around you. Thank you Michael for sharing.
This is certainly a beautiful blog, we can always appreciated the reflections nature offers us and learn from them.
We love it when we have moments when our inner wisdom shines through and our whole being feels clearer. Yet, we then often lose sight of the fact that this is something that is constantly available inside of us and we return to the complexity that we make life. Despite this, there is a growing realisation that constant struggle and hardship isn’t living life as it is meant to be lived. Letting go of the ‘control’ reins doesn’t mean chaos and as our relationship with ourselves grows, so does that trust that the front door of our individual ‘homes’ are always wide open and welcoming. Thanks Michael for raising my awareness once more to this fact.
“When seeing the ease with which this snail carried its home and how solid that home seemed, I had a deep realisation of the fact that my home is also always with me. It is not made of brick and walls, but a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me.” This is a beautiful realisation and when we go a bit further with this it shows us the responsibility we have to take good care of our body and our connection with our soul so we do feel at home.
Great point Esther, the responsibility we have for our home, our body, that is the connection with our Soul to truly feel home. Very beautiful!
I love the simplicity of this blog Michael. Home is within, where our inner-heart resides.
Michael, I loved reading your blog – and it reminded me of the nickname I had as a child which was ‘snail’ in Finnish (Etana) – my mum would smile and called me that lovingly as I was so slow and took my time with everything. So now reading your blog brought that back to me as well as what you have shared about the reflection the snail brought to you in always having its home with it. So beautiful – thank you!
Dear Henrietta, This is just such a beautiful story about your mother smiling lovingly at you taking your time, and calling you ‘Etana’ (snail). This is a sure contribution to our collection of snail stories, ‘ Love Letters from God, via Snail mail’.
It is a beautiful quality you have Henrietta, of taking all the space you need to do a job beautifully and well, and yet getting it done super efficiently and well in time!
Thanks Lyndy – though I can’t vouch for always having the job done well in time! The quality will be there, but not necessarily in a “short” time frame!!! The integrity, the love, the attention to detail, the delicateness is there…Having said that, I am learning…to appear to speed things up without compromising on the quality! But I love it…as my home is always with me!
Absolutely Henrietta – all those delicate and beautiful qualities are there! And you are pretty fast with sending packages by snail mail!
The joys of our connection to nature never ceases to amaze and inspire me, through which there is always a reflection of our truth. In a world where many untruths exist this reflection of truth, of who we are and can truly live, is a God send in every sense of the word. We are Light, the Light of God and it is our purpose to be who we are and simply live this Love without hesitation in this world, together in harmony with all we are in Love connected to. When we choose to connect to our inner-heart we realise that we are home, a place within that never leaves us, where the door is always open, the Light is always on and an embracing warmth awaits. Thank you Michael for sharing this deeply beautiful reflection of us, for us all.
Gorgeous Carola Woods – “When we choose to connect to our inner-heart we realise that we are home, a place within that never leaves us, where the door is always open, the Light is always on and an embracing warmth awaits.” – and so very true!
Thank you Michael so beautifully describing coming home to ourselves: “a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me.” Where else on earth would I choose to be than where I already am?
What comes to me Michael as I read your blog is ‘Home is where the heart is’ and I’ve always felt this. Home isn’t a building, it is wherever I am.
Beautifully said Sandra, this is so true. I feel this too ‘home is where my heart is’.
I love that Sandra it really brings a new meaning to that old saying. It also made me think of how crazy mankind has been building all the churches and Cathedrals as Gods houses when the kingdom of God is inside each and everyone of us.
I had to laugh the other day when I saw something on a social media site showcasing a church built in the shape of a blue shoe in Taiwan (where else!) to attract female worshippers. It is not only patronising and belittling of women, but says a lot about how lacking in truth it is when a religion feels it needs to ‘attract’ people to come. We are constantly invited to connect to our own living essence no matter where we are.
Wise words from your dad Mary.
This is the most glorious description of the power of the love that we are constantly held in. I find it very useful to have lots of imagery and metaphors to keep remembering this when I lose my awareness. And this one is such a lovely example. My in home coming with me everywhere and like the snail I can choose to glide through life constantly feeling my surroundings yet maintaining the stillness and grace as I live each moment.
Isn´t it amazing how nature reflects EVERY truth for us. Truly magical and a constant reflection and lesson that is offered to us.
Your observant and open and very innocent view of nature is very inspiring Michael. There is a simple joy in you that I can feel when you observed this snail and it warms my heart to know how beautiful it is to be sharing this with the world. Most of us would just walk on by ignoring the snail or perhaps not giving it the full attention and appreciation it deserves. Thank you
I love how nature always confirms what is true for us at different times. This is such a simple and beautiful sharing, Michael. Thank you.
We are in the process of constructing a house right now and this blog reminded me of the fact that I don’t need to focus so much on the planning of what doesn’t seem to be there yet, but more on feeling, that my home is with me, all around me, providing me with everything I need. Planning with the architect then is more a confirmation of what is already there.
This is awesome felixschumacher8 – your architect will have a different understanding of your physical requirements for your house from your inner connection with your true home.
If we live from the simplicity of this home, the snail shows us the glorious ease and grace with which we can move through life.
What a beautiful rich confirmation Michael, when nature echoes our movements, our way.
This is a well timed reminder Michael… as I sit here a few thousand miles from home feeling unsupported. Yet I carry with me my rhythm, my love, my livingness and there is no reason why that should change. It does allow me to stay connected with that is the greatest support of all.
So true simonwilliams8, I travelled quite a bit this last year and everywhere I went I had everything with me that I needed…I had all the things you mentioned, my livingness, my rhythm, my love, my playfulness, my dedication, my tenderness for myself. The only thing that was forever changing was the outside, the location, the situation and the people. This blog gave me a great visual for that, thank you for the reminder to appreciate!
Often we seek in our physical home the security that we actually carry with us at all times. I know in the past I have been focussed on my home as a place of support and looked to it for security. But whilst the home can be a place of support, there is a fickleness in seeing our house this way. But the home we carry within offers a steadiness and security that nothing can affect.
This is beautiful Michael, reminds me of the saying “Home is where the heart is”. Thank you for sharing and reminding us just how simple life really is.
Who would have thought a snail could provide so much insight into our own lives. God provides if we open our eyes to see.
Very true kimweston2 the reflections of magic are everywhere if we choose to see them.
Michael I love your blog, it has ignited my fire and warmed my home.
Simply gorgeous Michael, a beautiful reminder that home is within and that being in life is where it’s at, not doing life as has been the predominant way thus far… thank you!
‘I love nature and what it allows me to learn in every moment.’ This feels written from one with the wisdom of one who knows that nature is here to support us, not to be something lesser than us.
This is a beautiful blog, powerful in its simplicity.
I just love how when we are open and in connection to ourselves the Magic of God is right there to support us and confirm what we know.
There is another great blog on the Magic of God here https://truthaboutuniversalmedicine.com/2015/09/04/love-letters-and-the-magic-of-god/
Yes it’s not where we are living that matters but the fact that we recognise that our home is within. Thank you Michael.
True deborahmckay, when we are with ourselves, we can be at home anywhere.
I love the simplicity, beauty and truth of what you share Michael, it really captured and confirmed in my heart that we carry our home within.
Gorgeous Michael. There is a wonderful feeling in this blog of the simplicity of our own love that is our true home.
“My home is always within” – thank you Michael for sharing this wisdom with such sweetness and beauty – truly touching.
Within our inner heart lies our true home. Forever calling us back to the truth of all things.
Beautifully said Liane
The steadiness of this home is unshakeable.
For my mind, it seems to be a conundrum that we find within our inner heart the All, for the inner heart it is as normal as Mary Poppins pulling out whatever is needed from her magic bag.
“It is light and yet the safest and most solid place I can imagine.” This particular line stood out for me, our home is not made up of any bricks or a certain place or location on the planet. It’s within us and its a certain energy that when felt is very much so solid and real.
When we choose to feel this energy it becomes solid and real, it may not appear outside of us in the world but it is felt inside the body. What our body knows and can experience by being aware of energy is massive and something that is undiscussed to a great degree in the world.It makes me wonder what could happen, like you mention Michael, if we went through life being aware of our home within..
What a great moment to share here Michael. I love how the smallest thing can catch our eye and have so much depth and meaning if we care to feel what it represents. The magic of God moment confirmed so much! “It is light and yet the safest and most solid place I can imagine. I can always go there to be warm and to nurture myself and I do not need to be provided for with anything from the outside, as everything I might really need will be ‘at home’.”
It is so beautiful Michael when we let ourselves get such an awesome reflection from nature. Often in its simplicity nature is one of the most inspiring and loving things we can observe.
“I had a deep realisation of the fact that my home is also always with me. It is not made of brick and walls, but a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me.” – We are already home in every moment.
There is exquisite beauty in the lessons that nature can reflect to us that when shared like you have, allow you to smile deeply on the inside warmly embraced by the wisdom they impart.
Our home is where our heart is and it’s a good thing it’s within us! : )
I love it when you read a blog and it is exactly what can support you in the moment for me it was this line “The striving for goals and the expectations I have had towards life suddenly seemed like a big distraction from the ease and stillness I could feel, if I would be constantly aware of the fact that my home is always within. It feels like I just need to allow myself to go there more often.” I have a lot going on right now and feel pressured which means I stop breathing, which means I go all tense and hard where as it is a choice to stop this and choose the ease and stillness, just reading this has supported me to relax and stop holding onto everything so tightly in my body.
What a great symbol of what you were connecting with Michael. I love how nature has so many reflections for us some very to the point! It is beautiful the magic around and in us.
Yes, we are love and love is all around us so what we are is always with us and around us and therefore we are always home. Beautiful.
“This little snail has been an amazing reflection and inspiration… of coming home to my soul, my inner wisdom, and to my inner-heart.” I just love this line Michael there is such beauty in your writing you capture this little snail so perfectly and the reflection it offers us all.
Yes Rebecca ‘the more present I am in my body, the more simple and lovely life is.’
This is so beautiful Michael and I love your description of home as ‘a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me.’ An awesome reminder to to support us everyday.
This is a beautiful little snail and all its reflections thank you Michael , a lover of nature and all it offers so true so real and there for all of us. Our home is inside us always.
Love love love this Michael. The simplicity of the experience, the depth of the reflection and the lasting visual. Thank you.
‘The striving for goals and the expectations I have had towards life suddenly seemed like a big distraction from the ease and stillness I could feel.’ It is when we start to trust in the process of surrendering to ourselves and stillness, instead of constantly trying to plan and make things happen, that we can effortlessly be guided by our souls as to what the next step is. Through surrendering there is no frantic need to control external outcomes, just a beautiful flow of evolution, if that is what we choose.
Snails go at a slow and steady pace, something I am having to re-learn. A great new reflection for me as a way of looking at snails and to make different choices for myself. Thankyou. Everything can provide us with an opportunity to learn and evolve.
A great point sueq2012, of how trusting going at our own pace, in our own rhythm, is what allows us to simply be who we are in full, without comparison. Choosing to be in connection with our truth is what builds a strong foundation that allows us to grow and develop so we can expand on living more of who we are.
Beautiful Michael. I love it! Such profound wisdom coming from the inspiration of a snail. It is amazing to see that all of nature, albeit big or small, carry reflections for us to learn more about ourselves so that we can deepen our connection within and surrender more to the love that we are.
I love how you write that your home is built of trust, love and inner knowing that you always carry with you. Of course. Our inner heart is our home, and no one can ever take that away from us.
I love the lessons that nature can teach us when we pay attention to the perfectly constellated details of wildlife, vegetation and the elements. Nature is one of life’s greatest teachers, we just have to listen.
So beautifully said Susie. I love it too as it constantly reminds me of how deeply connected we are, how magnificent and Divinely designed we truly are and how deeply loved we all are. Yes I absolutely agree ‘Nature is one of life’s greatest teachers, we just have to listen.’
Absolutely Carola. We are all connected, and in some ways all living under the same roof! It is not only other people that we need to learn to work and live in brotherhood with, and appreciate, but nature too.
So true Susie. I love how you have said “listen” – the lessons from nature cannot be seen and worked out from the mind but are shared from a deeper wisdom, from listening to the voice of our inner-heart and knowing.
There is something very beautiful in this blog Michael, you bring such an appreciation and wonder to the snail you encounter, it made me reflect on how we can be open and positive about all aspects of our lives or we can choose not to. It is very much like hearing two people experience the same thing and getting two entirely different perspectives, our world is very much ours to shape, we can live with a dark cloud over us or we can see the rainbow.
So very beautiful and profound Michael. It’s true if we just allow ourselves to return home to ourselves we have absolutely everything we ever need with us every moment. As you describe it is in the stillness that we feel it the most.
Simply gorgeous reminder Michael that all we need lies safely inside us, always ready and available, all it takes is a moment to rest and connect to know we are home. Thank you for sharing this simple, joyful reminder offered by a little snail, enjoying its morning walk with you.
I just laugh at thinking what would be the other side of the story, that is the story told by the snail to its friends regarding walking near Michael and feeling his stillness and delicacy.
“I had a deep realisation of the fact that my home is also always with me. It is not made of brick and walls, but a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me.” Very beautiful to read you blog Michael. We have already everything within us and just need to look in the right direction not outside but reconnect within.
A beautiful piece Michael, and a reminder for myself that home is always within and with us. That means no need to search to belong.
The simplicity and beauty of the natural world and all it is reflecting to us and how life can be. And yes everything we need is within us. I love the reminder of “It feels like I just need to allow myself to go there more often.” thank you Michael 🙂
The realisation is not only a beautiful one, but also feels beautifully. I am totally with you in this one. There is nothing like feeing at home in the body and totally at ease with the universe in a symphony of movements in sync with feelings and simply surrender to it, noticing at the same time how the body, like the Matryoshka dolls, allows us to connect to our true home.
Absolutely beautiful, Michael. Not only what you share is simple and profound you also share so delicately how the world around us in a reflection which can so powerfully guide and support us – The Magic Of God at play.
A lovely reminder that everything we need is already within us. The more we connect to this the deeper and stronger it is felt, and our life gradually becomes steadier and less affected by the outside.
Michael, once again you have inspired me! I had exactly the same feeling around 2 years ago when I was contemplating moving house. I went for a walk and saw a snail right in front of my path. It was confirmation for me at the time that it didn’t matter where I was, but that my home was always with me too. Awesome.
Thank you Michael as I never got this when I would see a snail. I like signs and I saw the snail for me as a sign to slow down and have not seen one recently and it could be because I am taking the time out daily to have a rest and not go on fast mode.
I like the bit where you say it puts its feelers out ‘to feel its surroundings’. We could all do with learning this one from a snail and what I mean is how often do we FEEL something like we just know and then not make a wise move?
Yes I agree, everything we need is inside us and our body holds an incredible intelligence and I am amazed how advanced it is compared to what I think I know. In truth my body knows at all times what is best for me and it blows me away.
Example – I drink hot water when I wake up and one morning it was less than a cup. Of course my body KNOWS exactly what the day ahead was and I was going to be delayed on public transport and had a super long journey so it supported me to not drink as much. This sort of thing happens all the time and whilst many might read this and think I am talking twaddle, I know it is true. We do have the answers inside us as Michael says in this blog.
Hi Bina – very true – I have always read a snail to mean ‘slow down’ rather than to truly appreciate its stillness. The way Michael describes the snail is very beautiful and I really appreciate how something that so many of us can take for granted can be a very amazing reflection.
What I love is that one time it might be a sign for slowing down seeing a snail, the other time it might be: hey, where you are is your home- you carry it with you… another time might be the message: first feel before you move…It is every time very personal and right on the point if you allow yourself to read what message is delivered to you. Magic!
Bina this is a great example you’ve used about drinking just enough water prior to your journey. It isn’t twaddle. It’s the minute detail that we can go to in supporting ourselves when we listen and feel what is truly needed in that moment.
The wisdom of our body is not graspable by our mind yet.
Truth. A willingness to stay open to this truth is what will close the gap.
I love your example Bina of how the body knows everything and guides us if we listen. Another example is when I find myself needing to have a rest in the day which will happen when it is my day off from work. The body knows I can listen to the call to rest deeply as I have the space to do so.
Michael I love this reflection and deep appreciation of what “home” truly is.
Home is a state of being not a place.
Beautifully stated Alexis, this is what feeling truly at home with ourselves means to me.
You have nailed it to the point Alexis. Home is graspable in how we live and express. That is why nothing material can ever make us feel at home.
I always loved the phrase – Home is where my heart is….
I like this very much, Alexis. “Home is a state of being not a place.”
Absolutely Alexis! In a nutshell. . .’Home is a state of being not a place’
Love this too Alexis , it very much is a state of being, regardless of bricks and mortar, country or geographic region…And the snail represents that slow and steady gets us back home – to the beingness of the soul, and that we’ll get there in the end, no race required.
Michael, the delicacy that comes through your writing is exquisite. Truly.
I agree alexis there is a delicate quality to how Michael expresses, which is lovely.
I love the simplicity of your snail analogy Michael.Our home is always with us, no matter what.Thank you for this lovely reflection.
“It feels like I just need to allow myself to go there more often.” I can relate to this Michael – that that place of deep connection is always there within us (no matter how stressful life may be!) we just have to allow ourselves to let go and surrender to it. And having this connection supports us greatly to be fully engaged with life, not something to retreat or hide away with.
I agree Fiona, when we get stressed out we can come back to stop and feel “that place of deep connection is always there within us”. Beautifull!
When we have that connection, then we present that warmth, stillness and love to everything and everyone we meet no matter where we are.
This is so true Fiona, I too can relate to what you and Michael share. As the connection to our inner-heart, our home of truth and Love, is what allows us to be our true selves in life. The more I surrender to this connection the more I live from this true quality and the more fullness I then feel and share in my life. As you beautifully said – ‘having this connection supports us greatly to be fully engaged with life’.
Thank you for the photo. It is the greatest and most lovely picture of a snail I have ever seen.
Agreed elainearthey, I loved the picture too.
Yes elainearthey I like the picture very much too, very graceful and full of curiosity is this little snail.
Yes elainearthey I agree, that is one gorgeous little snail. He looks super happy in his home.
This is a lovely reminder that we already have everything we need within us, and that nothing outside of us can ever be greater.
Absolutely, Julie ….. and I’m feeling more and more the golden key is appreciation … to create the space each and every day to feel and appreciate all that we are, the little details that make our own unique expression, to in-joy our selves.
It just goes to show we have all that we need and nature is there to reflect to us or remind us that we do.
The magic of God in a snail. Thank you Michael. “the fact that my home is always within. It feels like I just need to allow myself to go there more often.”
I love it – the magic of God in a snail. How true that the most simple of little creatures can inspire a ‘big smart human being’ to reflect within – just gorgeous.
I love this phrase as well Mary…It is so simple and innocent.
How beautiful Michael to share your morning with us. Felt the stillness within your writing. Exquisite the glory of Nature and the reflections it shows us. I too need to go there more often.
If we would always communicate like that and be aware of what is all around us. Not only talking about facts – how the day was, what we’ve done during the day – but about what revelations we had and what signs were shown to us by nature. That would be a very heartfelt conversation.
This is so beautiful and tender to read Michael, my shoulders dropped down and back in total knowing that our home is within. There are so many divine signs from nature that are supporting us constantly.
This is so beautiful Michael. And it raises the question as to why we stray from home so often, when all it has to offer us is all that we will ever need, and it is with us always.
Yes Ingrid, it’s almost too simple!
Yes, Ingrid, Michael’s blog does indeed “raise the question as to why we stray from home so often, when all it has to offer us is all that we will ever need, and it is with us always.” How ridiculous we are that we let ourselves stray from this beautiful place that is our true home. How we let ourselves be distracted by all the unimportant things in life. Something for me to really ponder on today.
Gorgeous Ingrid. Why do we stray from home so often? We stray from ourselves don’t we? And in truth we can never really leave ourselves, we just choose not to be aware of the fact our body/home ‘is all that we will ever need…’
Brilliant comment bernadetteglass. And that activity which takes place when we ignore an choose not to be aware of the fact of the body ad that we are already home, is called ‘creation’. What an unnecessary thing is this loveless way of life that we have created!
Yes Lyndy, there is an emptiness in our seeking meaning anywhere else other than our own body which holds the wisdom of the universe in every cell!
I agree Bernadetteglass, so in reality by choosing to stray from that awareness, we are in fact ‘checking out’ – and choosing not to be present in and with our body can and has led to a very serious knock on effect, i.e. mental health issues. The growing rate of which shows us that this is a very widespread habit we indulge in.
Yes Heather and until we can grasp or understand that we are energetic beings and everything is affected by this, we will continue to believe that cause and effect belong ‘out there’ and we are victims of ‘bad luck or bad breeding’!
Nature is reflecting us so much, it shows that what we need to be reminded of, the gracious ease with which we could live when we choose for love.
This blog is a gorgeous and timely reminder that all we will ever need is already within. Through our body we have the opportunity to live life as if we are already home.
Wow Rachael, through our body we have the ability to live like we are already home. You just made my heart sing.
I love this line Rachael – ‘Through our body we have the opportunity to live life as if we are already home.’ – beautifully said. As it doesn’t matter where we are, for when we live from our inner-heart where ever we are is home.
Beautifully expressed Rachael! Pondering on my body as my home, confirms my responsibility to care deeply for myself and all that emanates from my body.
There was a moment today where I had a similar feeling – where I was at work counting down the hours till I could go home, then I thought ‘what quality am I taking home if I am trying to escape from here?’- probably the same quality I was in at work! So, in truth there is no escape since we carry ourselves everywhere in whatever state of mind or body we are in – if I’m letting my hurts get in the way of my day or absorbing and judging what is around me then they will stay until I feel it and choose otherwise.
So true, Rachael. We spend probably quite a proportion of our time waiting for the next moment we can enjoy ourselves or get some relief from the tediousness we perceive we are in. I used to count the hours whilst at work or the days until the next holiday, rush to get the shopping done, drive home as quickly as I could….the list is endless! All for what?! I was missing out on so much. Changing my perception and realising that I can enjoy my presence wherever and whatever I’m doing has been life changing, and it really is as simple as making a choice.
It really is life changing and it is a choice, a conscious choice to stop being in the doing and be present in the now, the rewards are great the other day I realised I wasn’t thinking, how amazing freeing that moment was, just very present in my body, not that thoughts are the baddies just that the incessant chatter was gone.
Absolutely Heather. You have described our ‘malaise’ as a race to a ‘T’. Enjoying our presence and ‘home’ wherever we are, whatever we are doing changes us dimensionally, and so changes all around us.
Great point Rachael, we are as you say with ourselves in every moment, to stop and really clock this is huge! It shows how important it is to be consciously present with ourselves in every moment, and to allow ourselves to feel why we may be reacting and not wanting to feel. A great reflection.
Yes, beautiful observation Rachael. It makes sense to make sure we feel at home again once we notice we do not feel at home anymore with ourselves and not wait until we are in a different place/situation.
Your words stayed with me and hit a nerve today Rachael when you said counting down the hours to go home and what type of quality were you bringing to your day, obviously not great! I can often find myself wanting to be somewhere else as I feel I have so much to ‘do’ so I start thinking about other things and how I will do them when I get a chance to do them! This is so disrespectful to anyone I am with and will be felt as a lack of quality of relationship. Not ok.
Great observation Rachael. There is no escape just an opportunity to reconnect and be at home within ourselves at any given moment.
Beautifully said, Rachael ….. we are not ‘escaping’ anything that we’re feeling inside, or anything that’s going on around us at work, by ‘going home’, to the safety of our ‘house’, that’s just an illusion. Accepting that we’re taking all of us wherever we are and living with that consistency day to day, knowing that there’s no going home to check out on TV – this is a beautiful reminder of the responsibility we all have in our day to day. It’s also a wonderful opportunity to surrender to whatever may be challenging us in our day and choose to deal with it there and then, or at least acknowledge what is going on, rather than put it off. I’m starting to appreciate that all the things I ‘put off’ is just a very comfortable way of not dealing with them.
Short, simple and so spot on, thank you Michael. Some days I can drive many miles in one day and with my job stay across the county in different hotels. Recently when driving I had a strong feeling wherever I was going was home, as I had a deep knowing that ‘home’ was with me wherever I choose to go.
What a beautiful and confirming feeling of your inner connection samanthaengland.
Beautiful Samantha, the term, “home sick” now takes on a completely other meaning.
I can’t help myself, ‘running away from home’ is another one that now takes on a whole other meaning. What a great slogan this would be for an addiction campaign. “Why are you running away from home?’ Every time you use that substance or behaviour you are in effect finding ways to run away from your own home. I love how everything is a reflection.
Ah yes Ariana – it always comes back to responsibility and choice!
Home is the ‘place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me’. This is incredibly inspiring and wakes me up to the simple responsibility of actually living this fact that I absolutely know when I read it.
Yes Matilda, I felt that true and actually I also know that but I don’t always live it, so lovely to be reminded by both you and Michael.
“When seeing the ease with which this snail carried its home and how solid that home seemed, I had a deep realisation of the fact that my home is also always with me. It is not made of brick and walls, but a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me.” This is gold Michael.
There is home, our place of repose, where we can work towards evolution, and there is HOME a place that melts you when you feel even for a split second the completeness of God and let your body surrender to it. Both are important. Can we make turn home into HOME?
Absolute Gold Tamara.
I agree with you Tamara. Michael has shared such a huge truth with us here. I have found it so inspiring for me, a knowledge to keep with me always, that deep within me, there is my home, a place of trust, love and inner knowing that is always there. I don’t have to look anywhere else for home, I carry it with me always. It is just there for me to connect. It is truly gold.
I agree Tamara this wisdom is super powerful. I once believed that my strength came from the things I did and the things I achieved or overcame. However I am discovering more and more how my true strength comes from my connection to my inner-heart, to my Soul, to who I truly am. And when I trust this loving connection the graceful power of knowing who I am is absolute.
Your blog feels very tender and sweet Michael and you have given me a new respect and appreciation of the humble snail (although not so sure I can extend this to the ones that eat our plants in the garden!). I love your description ‘which was graciously gliding through the grass. I could feel a stillness, beauty and clear focus in those movements that felt very similar to what I felt in myself.’
I felt that too Tamara and saw snails in a different light. The way Michael discribed this was beautiful.
So simple and profound Michael. The most safest home we have is always with us, wherever we go, whatever we do, on our way home to love.
What I love about this blog Michael is how it provided me with a great moment to just stop…and then allow myself to appreciate my life the way it is and feel what that would be like all the time if I let go of expectations or pressures I put on myself for the way ‘it should be, or how it should turn out’. This is a great gift, and I feel lighter for it.
I so agree Michaelgoodhart36 it offered a beautiful moment to stop, appreciate and confirm the fact that we are only a choice away from living this truth daily. An absolute gift for every reader.
Indeed michaelgoodhart36, we often put so much focus on where we might or should be if we did this or that and create lots of pressure through this instead of stopping and admiring ourselves where we are and just as we are.
How wonderful! Michael your comment made me STOP.
Why? … Because I felt exactly the same thing as I read this blog in that all of the expectations that we put on ourselves, robs us from feeling the beauty that we ALL have within.
Yes Michael that was my experience as well. I stopped and felt my home from within and it felt lovely and tender.
Yes, beautiful point michaelgoodhart36. This fresh and tender blog does bring a stop moment and refreshment, even in just viewing the divine photo in all its aliveness and green-ness. The very energy and space it brings allows us to drop the busy world of men, the ‘courts ‘and ‘haunts’ of men, and all the illusion and complications we promulgate. Back to the freshness of what is brand new and simple.
Yes, I agree michaelgoodhart36. I had the same experience with the ‘stop moment’ to appreciate the simplicity and grace life could be lived in when letting go of the complications of expectations or pressures. The Way reflected by Serge Benhayon and his family 24/7.
Michael, I really like the way you have described the snail’s inner state of calm and acceptance, how it stretches out and connects with the world – it’s true we can all have these aspects to our lives. Once we have dealt with our hurts – it is simply a matter of choice.
Jean so true we can all have that aspect to our life, the inner state of calm and acceptance it is a matter of choice.
Thank you so much Michael – your sharing is deeply touching and will certainty hold snails in a different light of appreciation in what reflection they offer us.
I cried reading your words feeling the absolute truth to your experience, ‘I had a deep realisation of the fact that my home is also always with me. It is not made of brick and walls, but a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me.
Stunning Michael as there is no true home other than being connected to our grandness.
I am deeply touched by how tenderly and graciously you were able to appreciate what nature was offering you with this little snail. You could have easily walked past without noticing it. I can feel your deep appreciation for and of yourself for you to be able to not miss the magnificence of what is in small details like this. Thank you for sharing.
What innate wisdom nature and your connection to love brings. Your blog just goes to show and remind, how all around us, there is potential golden insights offered by nature.
I love it, Michael. We may think we are going somewhere, towards a destination afar, or a home lost and forgotten, but when we stop – we realise we have never actually left home in the first place.
I loved your blog Michael, with its simple power-full message: “My Home is always with Me”. So much of our lives are spent trying to get home to that place where we feel safe, nurtured and away from the hurley-burley of existence but it is this seeking and trying that distracts us from the fact that we are already there – here.
When we come to be truly ‘at home’ in our own skin, it’s like we get to see a whole new spin in that saying that ‘home is where the heart is’. For we can bring, like you Michael, our heart to every moment, everywhere.
Wow, I love your blog Michael. Nature does indeed constantly reflect and remind us of who we are and the beauty and grace that surrounds us. We only have to stop and appreciate to receive its blessing.
In what you have shared Michael, I love how it shows that we are offered reflections in nature and all around if only we take the time to stop and appreciate what is being offered and the insight this provides for our life.
Lee this morning whilst out walking I was pulled up to an abrupt halt by the sight of a tree. I stood looking at the tree, completely mesmerized by it’s familiarity. It’s deep beauty was so known to me and then I could feel tears rolled down my face as I realised that I was looking at myself.
Celebrating you Alexis! What a beautiful moment with nature and its reflection to you.
Thank you Michael for this beautiful, tender and inspiring blog. I love the reminder you bring from the snail on your walk – our home forever with us – it only appears to be not there when we choose to check out and forget to be present with our body.
“I had a deep realisation of the fact that my home is also always with me. It is not made of brick and walls, but a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me”.
Michael I love what you shared here, that our home is within and not out there in the world with our strive and expectations. Great to have this reminder.
Reading this blog I was reminded about how utterly beautiful it is to stop and take stock of how we are feeling and then to have it confirmed by the magic of God, as you did Michael with the snail. To me this shows how utterly connected everything is to everything else.
I appreciate what you say Elizabeth, we are connected with everything and everything in nature is constellated for us to show us who we are, where we are from and how to return to that place.
A number of years ago at the first Universal Medicine retreat in Vietnam I observed a small snail on a hedge stretch itself from the leaf it was on to another leaf quite some distance away that I thought would be impossible for it to reach. It very slowly and gracefully stretched and felt and stretched and felt until it reached the other leaf, gathered much of itself onto the new leaf and then easily transferred the rest of its body and shell onto it. It was the last day of the retreat and as I watched this happening I realised that I had just been through the very same process and that this was a confirmation of it.
Thank you Nature for your wonderful reflections and thank you Michael for reminding me of this, what you have expressed gave me the opportunity to appreciate it more fully and expand further on what it showed me at the time.
A snail confirming your own evolution – how cool to understand this more fully Jeanette!
A great visual reminder that what we think may be impossible is not necessarily the truth.
Just stunning Jeanette! We could have a whole article on ‘Love letters from God, via Snail Mail’.
Cute Lindy Summerhaze.
Nature always blows me away with its wisdom shared. Our stillness within is a beautifully delicate and warm place to call home and it is decorated with our love. Thank you Michael.
Gorgeous blog Michael it was a delight to read, I love the way you were able to enjoy the qualities of the snail and relate it to your life.
This is a fantastic reminder that everything that I need is already with me, and to not distract myself with the need to go out and find something else to make me feel complete. All I need and all I need to know is right here with me already. Thank you Michael!
Simply lovely Michael.
This is glorious ~ what a beautiful way of seeing a snail and seeing the loveliness of home, being always there for us.
“My home is always within me”. This is so beautiful, we have everything we need within us, we do not need to look for anything outside of us, know and trust the self. When we feel lost, just stop and connect to the stillness within, we can be reassured our home is within us.
That’s why I feel at home anywhere I go. Because my home, my heart is with me.
Michael, what a simple blog on the beautiful reflection that nature provides us… I find it can be so easy to get caught up in the complexities and complications and overwhelm of life, and yet simple examples such as these reminds me of the flow and rhythm of nature and offers me an opportunity to re-connect back to that simplicity and flow. Thank you.
So true Angela – way too easy to get caught up in the complexities, complications and overwhelm of life. I appreciate how fortunate we are to have access to such a bounty of wonderful reminders such as this to remind us to keep it simple and go with the natural flow and rhythm of nature.
Nature is such a beautiful reflection of all that we are.
It is amazing that the simple, humble little snail could offer, so much insight and beauty to your day. I also find that home is always with us , our inner Heart . Thank you Michael.
Michael, this is a beautiful observation and awareness. I have never looked at a snail as symbolic that our home is always with us, but feeling what you have shared here, it makes perfect sense. There are some who say that ‘Home is where the heart is’, but I feel it is more correct to say: ‘Our home is within our heart’. Thank you for this moment of grace.
Beautifully said Liane and I’m with you in feeling to say that ‘Our home is within our heart’.
Me too Liane- I had not clocked this symbolism before but it is more then obvious now that Michael has so preciously pointed it out for everyone. How many of us will think twice before flicking the snails off our plants – without first feeling the grace of our home within..?
Haha yes Rachael! I will forever be feeling. . . ‘the grace of our home within’ . . . now before removing the snails from my plants. No more flicking without this reflection! Hahaha. I found this comment very amusing as we do often curse the humble snail when it is eating our plants.
We have an image of home as a physical place where we can connect to something true. But what if the real home is not physical but energetic and can only be access by connecting to the completeness of God through our body?
Lovely, Liane – ‘Our home is within our heart’
How much I/we take for granted in nature without seeing the deeper symbolism that it constantly offers us – now it has been pointed out, it is so obvious what the snail is bringing us to appreciate with the delicacy and grace of its movement whilst living firmly within its mobile home.
Michael, I felt in particular for me that when i go for those goals or have expectations that it really does take me away from my stillness. Thankyou for the reminder that our true home is indeed within
I love this blog Michael and your realisation regarding our true home – gorgeous.
Me to, and it is really lovely to feel just how true this is for Michael. Reading the blog made me see how much tension I am holding onto and that I wanted to feel like that too 💕
I agree, the tension that is present with me feels like it stops me being free – but in truth this is my choice, I am choosing to keep myself in this way.
I have never stopped to appreciate the beauty of a snail, but can now feel this snail joy very strongly. What a stunning moment you have shared here.
If we are able to be at home wherever we are, to maintain this connection moment to moment, the world takes on a different shape. There is no angst from striving to be seen, recognized or liked. We can let go of needing circumstances to be a certain way. There is a steadiness and a warmth that we carry that is worth more than any material thing. And it makes relationships so much richer.
To not feel at home, we have to make a huge effort to re-define space as in reducing to the point that almost we cannot breath our own breath anymore.
I love what you have expressed so beautifully here emmadanchin. Letting go of the ‘struggle’ of angst and striving for recognition to simply be in the “steadiness and warmth” of the re-connection with our true home changes our perception of the world.
“…a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me… I can always go there to be warm and to nurture myself and I do not need to be provided for with anything from the outside, as everything I might really need will be ‘at home’.”
Michael your writing is gorgeous, sweet and pure. I can feel the tenderness and aliveness of the snail in moist grass! Describing the opportunity we have every moment to be held in love by ourselves, not needing anything from outside of us.
I had a moment yesterday afternoon where I was craving something sweet and comforting to eat after being with others all day and when I checked in with myself, I felt both tired and vulnerable and yet I was downtown and felt unable to let go and have a rest in my car in the busy shopping area before doing my shopping. The thoughts were very convincing to the contrary. I will learn from this moment and remember the snail, with a deeper knowing that I can always find the warmth, nurturing and safety from within me, wherever I am, letting myself feel that vulnerability and honour it with a short rest and moment to reconnect.
Thank you for sharing this, Emma. Every time I stop at a traffic light there is that opportunity to check in with ‘home’ – the still, deep, quiet place inside – sometimes I go there and sometimes I don’t – what happens next is always affected by that choice.
Thank you Michael, I am feeling the ease of being in my home, reading your blog gives me a beautiful reflection of me and like you say ‘It feels like I just need to allow myself to go there more often.’ to feel the amazing support of my strong connection with God.
Beautifully expressed Michael.
‘It seems that I just have to allow myself to go there more often.’ Very true and inspiring me to do that too more often.
Thank you Michael for this amazing article and its inspiring message. Yes our real home is a deep place within that never leaves us and so we are always at home wherever we go just as the snail provides as a symbol.
What a beautiful and inspirational blog Michael. Short and sublimely sweet.
Michael this is really lovely. I’ve been contemplating about what is home to me these last few days when it seems a particular house won’t be there for me to visit in the future. I found that I was still attached to returning there and a process of letting go had begun that, though upsetting, was allowing me a beautiful freedom to claim being with me my home and an appreciation for this. So beautifully apt to read, thank you.
Beautiful blog Michael! I could feel the deep connection of your experience with that graceful snail gliding across the grass, stopping to nibble, stretching out its feelers. Such a delicate and natural symbol of your experience that your home is in your inner-heart.
I love this part you’ve highlighted Lyndy about ‘stretching out its feelers’ . It reminds me that we can do this too. As in we can also learn to feel our surroundings instead of being too busy to stop, but to take a moment to appreciate the little things in life. I am appreciating that learning to feel definitely assist us in finding our way around in life.
Oooooh, I so love the way you have described this Chan . . that beautiful sense and sensing of feeling one’s way around life instead of overriding it, trampling over it, and bruising our way through the day. Then the intricate and delightful detail that is revealed in this space can be felt and known, leading us to wisdom.
Yes, this is gorgeous Chan and Lyndy – I love how you have expanded on this – like the snail, we have our own ‘feelers’ and we can bring deeper awareness to everything using our ever-present energetic 6th sense to truly feel every moment.
It is very true Michael that life is actually not about striving for goals and expectations. Recently I have realized that the beautiful feeling and tenderness we carry within ourselves and how we move through life with this tender and still quality, no matter in what we do or say, is truly what life is about. If we call this safe feeling our home, we are always home within our own stillness.
That tenderness is in truth, the cosiest home we could ever imagine!
As Michael says, “the safest and most solid place I can imagine.” the sound pool within us.
We are blessed here on earth in how nature offers us a reflection back to our own divinity – all around us each moment nature is calling us back to the qualities of God and all we need to do is stop to feel this.
There is real magic in that, Sarah. To open up and let that communication from the world inform and guide us is truly divine.
Every moment has a message, we need only look, listen and feel. No creature is too small, no message too big. All is connected in the Oneness, if only we connect to the Oneness of All.
And there is so much fun to be had watching, feeling and really seeing what is presented to us in nature. Our willingness to be aware of this goes on deepening the opportunities to learn.
‘This little snail has been an amazing reflection and inspiration… of coming home to my soul, my inner wisdom, and to my inner-heart.’ Thank you for the very beautiful refection and reminder, Michael. There is so much wisdom to be felt when we stop to appreciate the little details in life, none more so than in the ever changing tapestry of nature.
Gorgeous Michael. I love the way nature provides reminders about our relationship with the world around us. Nature does not fight divine rhythm and impulse. Humans are a part of nature too and yet we find ourselves in a situation where we look to nature to remind us of what is true. This is confirmation that we have strayed far from our natural way. I feel blessed knowing that every plant and creature on earth can show me the way home.
I love this Leonne, that nature does not fight the natural rhythm but lives in accordance with its ebbs and flows. How easy my life is when I too follow this natural flow and rhythm rather than fight it. There is much to learn in the reflection offered through nature.
Beautifully expressed Leonne, I agree and I also feel the same.
Yes Leonne, the messages are there if only we pause to read them. Our body also gives us messages and can guide us in every situation if we do not “not fight divine rhythm and impulse”.
It’s like God leaves little messages for us everywhere, little signs and symbols that are constantly communicating ‘his’ great love if only we have eyes to see them.
So very true Josephine. Big messages, little messages, sometimes very odd or unusual but oh so playful. The joy of feeling God with us with every step we take.
It’s like God leaves little messages for us everywhere, little signs and symbols that are constantly communicating ‘his’ great love if only we have eyes to see them.
I was deeply touched by your sweet and tender article Michael, thank you.
‘I had a deep realisation of the fact that my home is also always with me. It is not made of brick and walls, but a place of trust, love and inner knowing that I carry with me, deep down inside of me.’
So very true, no matter where we are, we can always feel safe ‘at home’ in connection with ourselves.
Yes, really learning that I can feel safe no matter what is presented – that when connected my impulses are aligned to the natural order of the universe.
It’s when I loose connection with myself that disruptive thoughts get in and disturb this natural flow – currently it’s the thoughts of how will I fit what I need to do in the time I’ve got allotted that create unnecessary stress. This chaotic energy of got to get things done before I can be calm takes up space where I could simply complete the things before me.
Thank you Michael for the reminder that I have everything within me and it’s a choice to connect to the amazingness that is me!
This is a great point Sharon, it is all within each of us and it is a choice – our choice – to connect to this, or not.
It really is that simple Sharon, and how Joyful it is to live in connection to our true self.
Thank you Micheal, I love being reminded of those beautifully simple moments when we can stop and just ‘be’ that our awareness expands and reveals the inner knowing that has always been there.
Amazing Michael. This way of living has become so normal, for so many who are inspired by “The Way of The Livingness” as presented by Serge Benhayon. I know this certainly used to be a rarity for me, I was always chasing something for attention or stimulation. Nowadays I feel really at ease with my own presence, and beautiful moments like the one you shared with the snail are everyday occurrences.
This is a beautiful analogy Michael. Building and connecting to this home within is such a strength, and as you say it is always with us and we don’t need anything more. This really expands on the saying home is where the heart is!!
I agree Lee. I am learning that the more that I nurture what is inside of me, the more that everything else is taken care of.
Beautiful, gorgeous, loved it. I often feel like this as well, I return ‘home’ to a warm feeling inside myself, and the joy of this is all I feel like I ever need, it is the warmth of my Soul. Love how you say, maybe all we need to do is ‘be’.
So true harryjwhite. I love the feeling of coming home to the warmth within. This inspires me to never leave the warmth within, that is, the warmth of my soul. To always live and reside within this warmth would be delicious.
I agree Harry and Lee, there is nothing like feeling the warmth within. It is a coming home each and every time…it is the warmth of the soul and it is the truth of who we are.
Hear hear rachelmurtagh1 and so true 🙂
Brilliant Harrywhite, it is so simple, we have the ability to connect to this feeling and knowing when and wherever we are. This is innately within all of us.
I Love this also harryjwhite, so simple as we naturally are. Letting go of the complications that we can create is a well worth exercising as the way of living.
Michael what you share here is full of simplicity and a warmth that I feel deeply embraced and inspired by. The intricate delicateness in which nature portrays to reflect to us who we are and all the love that we are is amazing and profound and to know that this is always and solidly inside us leaves us remarkably blessed.
Being out in nature and seeing all the amazing reflections can completely change how I feel and help me to reconnect if I’m having a wobbly day. I love the confirmation nature offers that we are so much more.
What a beautiful delightful blog and sharing. Thank you Michael. It brings a warmth to me and a lovely reminder that we carry within our own home. It is always there for us.
Thank you for sharing your insight Michael, very lovely.