370 thoughts on “Journeying Across the World with Serge Benhayon”

1. Thank-you Anne for sharing your journey. It is wonderful how much love and harmony we are reflected back to us when we are open and accepting of all others. So much more purpose to your holiday than ‘just’ having a holiday.

2. What a way to travel Anne, and how inspiring to feel like the world is your home with all the connections with others along the way … this is how we can be.

3. Thanks Anne – I think this is the way we would all like to be with one another, open and not seclusive.

4. My last break from work also was planned around connecting with friends and family and this was a beautiful way to celebrate and deepen what I cherish in our relationships. Whilst the setting might have changed each time and I enjoyed reconnecting with different landscapes, the purpose was always about the connections with others.

5. Even when I travel and don’t meet any other students, I carry with me a way of life that supports me where ever I go. I realised today, whilst on a business trip and sat with my colleges discussing their sleepless nights, how the presentations of Universal Medicine have supported even in the most seemingly mundane and simple aspects of my life – I travel with the same rhythm I have at home, bringing a candle, incense, aspects of my wind down routine that put me into a rhythm that my body knows well and sends me into a restful sleep with ease.

6. Thank you Anne and family, the love and care you experienced by those inspired by Serge’s work is a hallmark of The Way of the Livingness – the life of the soul in earth. And what a great gem of wisdom to share, to have “the understanding that love is greater than any hurt we may be individually feeling.” I had goosebumps reading about your relationship with your in-laws and how the relationship between each family’s children was constellated.

7. ‘How Serge Benhayon lives and what Serge presents is global in nature…’ Your travel certainly lays testimony to that.

8. Regardless of race, culture, or religion we are all the same within. This is nowhere more apparent than when traveling and learning we all face the same challenges in life, and ultimately desire the same things.

9. This is a good one for me to read as I have five days off and going to a very hot country so it will be had not to lay around and do nothing after I have been working extremely hard.

10. Beautiful Anne, you have shared how it is possible to live with this purpose and in harmony, it is not some out of reach nirvana, but very simple choices about being honest and open to others and what the world brings.

11. This is evidence of the fact that what truly unites us is love. It is grander than nationality, culture, belief, ideal, concept or anything else from this world simply because love is grander than anything of this world.

    1. So beautifully expressed Joshua!

12. Beautiful Anne. There is so much to be experienced in life when we make it about purpose and responsibility. The holiday offers a ‘snapshot’ of what is possible for our life as an everyday experience.

13. This is absolutely key Mary. Without this connection to ourselves we do not have a good chance of dealing with life.

14. I take Serge Benhayon’s audios and books with me wherever I go, as they support me in my daily life to not get caught up in the rat race of life but to stay connected with myself. When I feel connected to myself I am much more able to cope with everyday life, it becomes like water of a ducks back as I have increased my awareness of the unreality of it all.

15. True testimonial of what it is like to live The Way of The Livingness, a religion based on love and truth. A way of life that brings people together and is not brought down by nations, cultures, understandings and beliefs.

16. That sense of beholding from someone like Serge is truly heart-warming. It often melts me to see that someone has a greater level of love for me than I have for myself.

17. I am travelling in uncharted territories at the moment and I realise that when we are travelling we really need to fully support ourselves, and then I realised we are always travelling uncharted territories and if we are looking at every new moment with an open heart and fresh eyes, unclouded by ideals and beliefs at how we think life should be, then every moment becomes a new opportunity to learn and grow.

18. Very inspiring, bringing purpose to every aspect of life including travelling. It makes for a much richer experience all around and inspires us; inspires us to be more and keep unfolding ever more of our true nature.

19. A significant and beautiful insight into what life will be like when we see beyond our boundaries, cultures, genders, nationalities etc. to our innate and totally natural unity.

20. “Regardless of the country we were in we could feel a oneness with all the people we met, including shop assistants and tram drivers.” The Age-old way of relating to and being with ourselves, people, the world and in fact the Universe, as inspired by Serge Benhayon, deepens the quality expression and experience in every single area of life.

21. “These changes are not prescriptive as a result of Serge’s teachings or presentations, but are the result of choices we have made to deepen our connection to ourselves, our families, the wider community and to God.” I couldn’t agree more Anne, God is as much a part of life as family or community.

22. When we connect from the heart our family grows and grows. In general we live and act as isolated beings though we are in essence the same, and in rebuilding our connections with others we get to experience our oneness.

23. What you have shared Anne, is a journey of discovery, connection and deepening of relationships. A ‘holiday’ with purpose. So often holidays can be more of an escape. Being out of our familiar can open doors and be expansive.

    1. I agree Victoria, more often than not holidays are to totally check out from life and abandon all sense of responsibility but maybe holidays with purpose will become more of a common occurrence now that the standard has been set.

    2. ‘A holiday with purpose’… not a check out or need to recover from life to that point, but a willingness to open up to people and opportunities around the world… very cool indeed.

24. Having purpose in life feeds you energy to do so much more, and when we work in connection to our Soul, there is much that needs to be done and much support in completing it.

25. It makes such a huge difference to our day to day experiences on so many levels, to be able to stay places where we feel truly supported when travelling.

26. Anne your blog brings a whole new meaning and deeper awareness to the opportunity offered to us as we journey through life. Every day is a journey of sorts and we travel to work or elsewhere even if a short distance, so embracing your way of being and discovering and bringing that awareness into everyday is an opportunity to develop and deepen – thank you for sharing your unfolding with us.

27. This article gives an insight to the magnificent way life can be lived when love, joy, harmony and the knowing we can and ultimately will live harmoniously together holds greater focus than the hurts we have hidden inside.

28. It always amazes me how much quality can enrich an experience.

29. Its great to know that we have a globally increasing true family network, with us all on the same path, besides look at the accommodation costs we will save.

30. I love that you planned your travel and holiday around people and connections rather than sights to see.

31. And from now and forever journeying across the universe with Serge Benhayon. What a great travel company.

32. What a beautiful experience to be able to move around the world, meet and connect with open loving people and whom open there homes and offers you a space to make your home. This is a very special thing indeed.

    1. I agree Natalie, very beautiful, life and love flow when we drop those barriers and connect with each other.

33. I used to love travelling too, seeing beautiful places and meeting all sorts of people. But now there has to be a purpose and this blog gives perfect examples. For me now it needs to be about connection with people, purpose and inspiration.

34. Anne, this is a truly beautiful sharing. Having been one of the many who met you on your journey I know how open you are to the world, people and to healing. Fantastic that you took you and shared that with the world 🙂

35. The ideal holiday is often sold as a solitary beach somewhere, or lots of activity and entertainment. Yet the quality of relationship shared about in this blog, which in itself is for more nurturing, supportive, enriching and expansive, can not be packaged and sold. It is a way of living which actually offers us so much more than the pretty pictures most of us tend to go for.

36. What has struck me so much about living with the globality you have described Anne is that it feels very natural and extremely delicious.

37. It is beautiful to read Ann, how this holiday appreciates and values the connections and relationships you had along the way more than the sites or countries you visited.

38. Traveling is about connection and relationships, in doing so it highlights to all of us what connects us, not what separates us.

    1. Confirming our innate togetherness rather than our superficial differences is a great way to approach all our interactions with others.

39. This journey log book is beautiful to read and very inspiring to bring the focus to connection and relationships – so different to any other travel guide, where places and what to do is the focus.

40. An incredible sharing and a beautiful template for how we can interact with people all across the world with the same connection and love

41. Making life about connection is deeply enriching and tells me more about life than anything else.

42. “Journeying Across the World with Serge Benhayon” – is journeying across the world in the understanding and buoyancy of love…Which makes any trip however long, short or geographic stretch, worth the everything that it is.

43. I was looking at the sky this week, feeling big sky, small world, we get so distracted by what is happening on the surface of this planet and neglect the grandness we come from; space, light, universality. Serge brings all of that because he lives it and does not live small but grand. This is so inspiring, to live the true power and wisdom of universality and not be blinkered by what we have created on this small planet.

    1. Beautifully expressed Samantha. What I find gorgeous with what you describe: “being inspired “to live the true power and wisdom of universality and not be blinkered by what we have created on this small planet”, we know with an absoluteness within us that there is no separation between us all and what Anne has shared becomes our natural way of being with one another.

44. I have been to New Zealand three times myself and only to visit and meet people, and I have never felt like I missed out on something because I haven’t visited the beautiful nature or any other important part of NZ (yet). The beauty of New Zealand is anyway clearly felt without going on special trips.

    1. Yes, I like that Lieke. Traveling is so much associated with seeing places and everything there is to see and visit, but do we truly take in and feel the beauty that is there or are we onto the next thing already.

45. The nature of Anne’s trip is the antithesis of why most people travel and go on vacation. Typically we are trying to escape or ‘get away from it all’. But how can we possibly get away from a life we are living in, no matter if we are at home or abroad? It feels much more supportive to approach life from the standpoint of engaging fully, being yourself, and seeing that it is a giant school for our evolution.

46. To truly know that love is greater than any hurt is an enormous blessing. We may hold this as an ideal though to actually see this truly lived, such as with Serge Benhayon, is truly inspiring.

47. This is a beautiful example of the fact that we can feel at home anywhere. If we stay with ourselves and bring care to everything that we do, we create a loving space to step into rather than leave it all to chance. The people we meet are then a reflection of the care we have given ourselves.

48. “As our travel continued, we could feel the imprints of what Serge Benhayon has presented over the last 18 years in the lives of everyone we had met up to this point.” If only one man can do this, to leave these lovingly imprints in in so many people, what are we then able to do as a student body as we are with so much more.

49. ‘It is because of Serge Benhayon and what he is sharing with the world that we have met and shared experiences with this amazing network of people on our travels.’ I have had the same experiences travelling to Australia and other parts of Europe, meeting some truly gorgeous new people and also deepening my connections with those that I know. I have just come back from a short stay in Brighton and had the delight of staying with someone I only met in passing, but who I now consider a friend.

50. All around the word – Beautiful Anne! – and this is what we take to everyone around the world.- and so it becomes the new normal.

51. I love the global-ness of this community… truly border-less… thank you for sharing, Anne.

    1. Thank you Matilda for highlighting this aspect of the student community. As this global-and borderlessness that can be felt in the way we naturally connect to one another, proves to me once again the ridiculousness of the borders people tend to put up around countries, cultures, skin colour, languages, rich and poor and developed or undeveloped to name a few.

52. We learn so much about ourselves and others if we are open to seeing everything as a reflection. One cannot blame a reflection or make it wrong, as it only exposes something about ourselves that needs attention.

    1. Very true. It enables us to feel the solidness in our body and how we can be at home wherever we go.

53. Wow, a true holiday which allowed you to feel universality. Just gorgeous.

54. This is such a beautiful and confirming way to show the impact of Serge Benhayon’s work and what he has presented… a global family opening up to one another… very remarkable and all of our natural way.

55. When we are open and allow ourselves to meet others and be met there is no separation. One world – One heart ❤

56. What a beautiful sharing and what strikes me is the quality of truly meeting another. As you describe, at the start of your journey how truly and deeply met you felt in your conversation with Serge Benhayon. When you are truly met like this, you not only meet the other person, you meet yourself and then as you move on you bring yourself to others and meet them too.

    1. So much in the word ‘meet’. Are we simply acting out perfunctorily, abiding by the rules of politeness and etiquette or are we really going there, enriching life with the quality of how we meet and open up to people.

57. Isn’t it grand what can happen in our interactions with others if we are open and willing!

58. A beautiful sharing of the amazing love across the world and the sharing of this from the imprints of Serge Benhayon and the global community as a result.

59. Travelling can prove to be a great opportunity to learn and evolve as we step out of our comfort zone and are faced with new and often challenging situations that are not so easy to control as they may be in our own home.

    1. Very true. It enables us to feel the solidness in our body and how we can be at home wherever we go.

    2. Great point. We can have it all running smoothly at home but may not be exploring or expanding the way we are with people and different situations… a trip away from our familiar can highlight and inspire new insights and opportunities.

60. I take Serge Benhayon in my pocket everywhere I go – and when I am wearing something without pockets, he is still therein my heart.

61. Our purpose is people and connecting with them to help us all support and grow. All the other parts are just the window dressing of the world. Holiday, work, party or funeral – it’s always about us choosing to evolve. Thank you Anne.

62. How we are in the world affects everyone all the time, what if we were to plan every day as you planned this holiday Anne? It matters not where we meet our neighbours or people the other side of the world, our physical presence is irrelevant when it comes to energy.

63. Journeying across the world: globalising the network of relationship with humanity.

64. Gorgeous Anne, sharing ourselves with the world!

65. Travelling is a beautiful opportunity to meet people in all their diversity due to ethnicity, culture, nation, religion.. and nevertheless recognising the sameness in all of us, the core of love within.

    1. Yes and our common inner nature to connect and work together.

66. The amazingness of connecting with others truly and globally is so beautiful and something Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are showing us in a true way how to live in the brotherhood and oneness in the world, supporting us to see and allow this in our lives naturally and the appreciation of this that is the key also.

67. I am constantly amazed by my ability to reach out to people across the world and connect with people with ease and openness, its true community and it’s amazing to be a part of

    1. Distance is an illusion in the world of energy.

68. If we remain open, we can learn so much about ourselves when we are with others, either through the appreciation of it, or what is triggered by way of reaction.

69. I always felt vacations are about going home rather than leaving home, and you have described that in your trip of going home to our Truth, our purpose in life. It feels much more fulfilling.

    1. Yes in truth when we are not connected to that love, our essence within, we are never truly home as WE are not there. Whether at home or on vacation we will feel empty without this connection.

70. A world with no borders when it comes to relationships… thank you, Anne, for sharing this adventure and all that you learnt along the way.

71. Holidays are often seen as an opportunity – people often say ” I need a holiday” because we need to check out of the tensions of day to day life and seek a relief. But the example of living with purpose you offer, would make every single day one of joyful connection, no holiday ‘needed’, simply a beautiful opportunity to explore and physically be with people further afield.

72. Beautiful to make it about people not places. When people become our focus so much richness can open up and so much understanding that we are all deep down wanting the same things irrespective of where we live…

73. It is fabulous to live life with purpose “We feel there has to be a purpose in everything we do that supports us to always go deeper in our awareness and our relationships and it was no different when we planned this overseas journey.“ To make it about this and not just what we fancy or what we can get out of life for ourselves brings a depth and meaning like no other.

74. Having friends and connections all over the world is so awesome. With over 7 billion people scattered over 195 countries, when we’re open to learning, meeting new people and building relationships we can easily feel a part of and join the international community.

75. “These changes are not prescriptive as a result of Serge’s teachings or presentations, but are the result of choices we have made to deepen our connection to ourselves, our families, the wider community and to God.” – We can be inspired by another to reconnect more deeply with who we are in essence and then from there we can bring about changes in our life from within us, of our own accord.

76. ‘…we planned our holiday around people and the connections we would make rather than the sights we were going to see.’ When I did a bit of travelling many years ago, I did see a lot of sights but even then it was about the people I met. Now travelling would be to go and see people, but that quest to see famous monuments and cultural tours has gone and done in the energy of sightseeing feels very empty. There are a few places I feel drawn to visit and may honour one year. Wherever I go, whether it’s to work everyday, there is a meeting of people and openness that I can live no different to if I was travelling.

77. People living their lives based on the similar principles of love, care, honesty and openness to their best ability, obviously creates a foundation whereby seemingly strangers can meet and be very familiar with each other – this is a really global or universal way of being.

78. Serge Benhayon’s unwavering example has certainly been a key influencing factor in my turnaround, the realisiation that I am an invaluable part of the world and my choice to re-commit to life, people and the society and to choose to live with purpose.

79. The beauty of beholding someone, there are no physical bounds.

80. Your journey is living proof that we are all family and the whole world would become such a smaller place if we could all accept we are all connected as living sons of God.

    1. So true Kev. And how much more harmonious would the world be as a result.

81. So true Anne, holidays are advertised as an escape because in the desperate need for people to ‘get away’ from difficult work or family situations – the the ‘solution’ is presented as the holiday. But if we choose to live connected to the truth of ourselves the holiday would be a completely different situation, as you have described. It has the loveliness of an adventure and expansion of many pursuits of life – meeting with and connecting to new people and places, while also being aware of the energetic expansion that is constantly happening whether on holiday or not. The different rhythm can help to wake us up and refresh us if we have settled into a rut in everyday life

82. Incredible, in a world that is so divided by race, colour, culture, gender, age, sexuality etc etc etc, its truly ground breaking, the unified quality and commitment to love that can be found across the world through the work of Serge Benhayon

    1. The absolute love, wisdom and dedication to humanity with which Serge Benhayon lives and unwaverlngly reflects, is a great testament of the natural qualities at the heart of every one of us. It shows how the many set-ups that promote separation, discord, inequality, and lack of love or honouring of one another are false creations that do not represent the truth of our essence.

       1. I agree Golnaz, it truly blows out of the water the seemingly concrete ideas we hold about the differences between us that cannot be surmounted, and place them in perspective as the created separations they are.

83. I used to love travelling to see new places, eat the local food and meet people. I now have the same feeling as the writer, that travel has to have a bigger purpose than ticking off seeing the great sights of the world. Travel for me now is about connecting with people and acting on whatever inspiration comes from that connection.

84. Your blog makes me so thankful that we are living in a time where we can just take a plane to the other side of the world – we literally have access to everything, and there’s nothing worth traveling across the world for more than the truth. What I also really love about your blog is that you approach life like an unfolding adventure, where there’s always more to learn and discover and grow from.

85. When we approach everything we do with the joy of connection and service first we are naturally in purpose.

86. This goes to show we are in fact one single family. No matter who we are or where we come from, we are all made of love so when we connect with it, the result is always unifying.

87. I wonder if this shouldn’t just be natural in life? Why is this felt to be special when connection is natural within our hearts, and how the world has chosen to live is a way devoid of it. Awesome your trip reflected it and touched you and those around you.

88. Bringing purpose to our activities is such a lovely way to deepen our connection with all people, and is the opposite of seeking relief from the tension of disconnection we can often feel in life.

89. Making connections with people as a way to plan your trip is very beautiful. Often times I see holiday advertisements that promote an escape away from people, a respite in isolation. But the reality is that we can never truly leave each other behind, our relationships and our connections are always with us, so why not delve in and explore to what depths these can go and let that be the fuel of the adventure?

    1. Beautifully expressed Shami. And the bonus about choosing this exploration and expansion of our relationships as our adventure in our trips or breaks, is that the gift of that stays with us afterwards, while when we go on holiday as an escape, we will always come back to the same situation we escaped from.

    2. Yeh spot on – holidays are advertised as escape, but what if they are an opportunity to jump into a different part of life?

90. A true and beautiful journey of life, so simple and all encompassing, not leaving anything to chance but every step with purpose and every moment and encounter cherished and honoured.

91. The true expression of your journey with its joyfulness fully claimed is a joy to read.

92. Such amazing transformations occur when we truly connect with each other, so much opens up beyond what we could possibly imagine.

93. Anne, instead of going on holidays to check out you went on holidays to check in, with yourself, your family and everyone you came in contact with. This is beautiful.

94. Tensions naturally occur between in-laws but to express when these tensions occur, whether when living together or in every day conversation I find is greatly inspiring. Unless we express how we are feeling, tensions get held in the body and escalate if we are not careful. When we do lovingly let go and express, relationships change enormously in one way or another.

95. Serge Benhayon has inspired a family network world wide… and to visit this network is a joy indeed!

96. This just is the coolest way of travelling. I love having the purpose and the connections with people instead of escaping from life, just expanding our normal everyday life to more parts of the world and situations.

97. Serge Benhayon is indeed inspiring us all to be students of life and the livingness we all know with our love inside us and he is the real role model as is seen here so beautifully throughout the world as one.

98. The more I embrace the people in my life the simpler life becomes.

99. Its great to know that where ever we travel we are never far away from true family if we are open to it.

100. “Our conversations barely touched on the mundane such as the weather, but rather we talked about aspects of our living and what we were bringing to the world through our work. The food was nutritious and simple but very tasty, and water was the desired beverage.” Now that’s my kind of gathering. What a greatly evolutionary holiday you prepared for yourselves and all who you met. It’s time we ventured deeper than just discussions about the weather these days. So much to share and enjoy on a deeper level for all.

101. Life truly is about people… and this is a great example of our innate connectedness.

102. Pretty cool and confirming to travel across the world to encounter a consistency because that consistency lies within you first.

103. When we live with this ‘bigger picture’ we are instantly closer to the truth. It doesn’t matter which country or town we are in, the real reality is all about connection and space on a grander scale. A great reminder here Anne of what is possible when we ‘live big’.

104. I love travelling with a purpose- to be honest I can´t without anymore. People are always included in that and the learning and inspiration we all can give to each other is endless. No matter if you are a a student of the livingness or not. Actually it is like my daily life, the only difference is, that I am somewhere else and meeting possibly many new people. But the openness is always there, no matter where I am in this world.

105. What about a beautiful sharing of how we in essence, are the same when we drop the borders and nationality.

106. When we plan our holidays around people and connection, the joy and enrichment experienced brings added value that many of our traditional indulgences simply cannot match.

107. When we make life about purpose and “to always go deeper in our awareness and our relationships” life becomes so much more natural to our being and we feel that we are all actually one and the same, wherever we live in the world or whatever our skin colour, race or culture.

108. ‘We were able to have a few minutes of personal sharing with Serge at the end, which is not always a typical situation at workshops or conferences whereby the presenters can appear unattainable. ‘ Serge Benhayon’s availability to humanity is so loving I’m blown away everytime I see him and feel the dedication and love that is there for everyone equally. It’s truly humbling.

109. It is remarkable how much awareness, love and responsibility is inspired simply by the way Serge Benhayon lives the light of the Soul in every moment and so reflects how glorious and possible it is for the rest of us to do the same. This reflection is the greatest gift we can offer another.

     1. Absolutely! We should be all “Serges” to another. What I always loved: he always supports us to be the same, as he knows, he can´t do it on his own.

110. Feeling how people are the world over breaks the barrier of languages and nationalities being foreign and different. Being with other students who follow The Way of The Livingness is proof of how we can live in true harmony and love with each other.

     1. Yes because ultimately there are no boundaries or borders (these are only what we have created) in truth there is only love and that we are all one ✨

111. This article has made me cry… simply because of the simplicity and beauty of allowing ourselves to be open in relationships and the absolute boundary-less-ness of love. I love what you say, Anne, about the global nature of what Serge presents… literally limitless and borderless… thank you.

     1. Yes Matilda, thanks to what Serge Benhayon is constantly presenting in his teachings and workshops, as by the way of his livingness, we are given back that part of us, that global nature, in which we are all one and the same.

112. Many, many, many of us have journeyed across the world to attend Universal Medicine Presentations with Serge Benhayon because he is the real deal and there is no one else delivering the truth of The Way It Is.

113. How beautifully you have pointed out that it is all One Life, Anne!

114. As a student of The Way of the Livingness, It is amazing to know that when you travel there are going to be places to go and people to stay with in so many parts of the world now, where you will be welcomed as family with no expectations or conditions other than you bringing your whole self.

115. Thank you for sharing your journey Anne, this is beautiful to read. So simple, so enriching and so natural, a way of being that is deeply inspiring.

116. We can learn so much about ourselves and from one another – at home, at work, socialising… and travelling is no exception.

117. True purpose is so important in our lives… without it we drift through life or give up on it.

     1. And I used to think that purpose had to look useful and busy, but now understand that it is the quality with which I do anything and everything… a conversation with a child, picking up dog poos, running myself a bath… am I attending to things with care and respect or dismissiveness and disregard… and what is the ripple effect of those two choices in my relationship with life, myself and others?

        1. A great reminder of the ripple effect caused by our choices – clearly and beautifully stated Matilda
           “am I attending to things with care and respect or dismissiveness and disregard… and what is the ripple effect of those two choices in my relationship with life, myself and others?”

118. I love the title of this blog, because when you have been touched and inspired by the work and presentations of Serge Benhayon, you feel naturally inspired to make changes to the way you live, to become a student of life, to discern and observe with Serge in your back pocket.

     1. I agree with you LucindaB – Serge Benhayon is a deeply inspiring person and a true role-model for being a student of life.

119. Wouldn’t it be amazing if all holidays were like this?
     ‘Our holiday has been truly amazing and totally enjoyable. We have learnt much about ourselves and our patterns of living and can feel that there are some changes to be made now that we are back home again’.

     1. It would Lyndy- In this case you already live a truly joyful and purposeful life in general, so that you don´t need relief by way of a check out as holidays usually are seen. Recharging your batteries, staying focussed and reposing your body for a certain period after a long period of hard work, is very nurturing and prepares you perfectly to get back to work then.

120. Beautifully appreciated Anne. Purpose and holidays are not used in the same sentence very often but it would be great if they were! I used to feel that making everything about purpose was a burden but your experience shows how rich and full life can be when we bring purpose to every aspect of it.

121. We can make our trips all about the locations, about the sights to see about historic monuments etc, but what really brings these things alive is the people, and so when we allow the people and connections to be the focus, it allows a trip or travel to a place to unfold in ways unexpected, and we then get to hold amazing memories that are held in our hearts rather than just the mind.

122. Anything we do in life including travel and a holiday as such, is very valuable when we give it a purpose and a purpose in terms of supporting our learning and growth – I love how you made the trip about connecting with people and families Anne!

123. We have a spare room in our apartment, and we love providing space and support for people travelling through London. It is gorgeous to open our home to our wider family in this way and we meet and get to know so many people and develop new relationships. Truly wonderful to live with this openness and be part of other people’s travels.

124. Thank-you Anne for sharing the beauty of your journey, indeed the love, understanding and acceptance is a palpable global footprint.

125. Sounds like you had a wonderful holiday based on real purpose and true connection with others, I have loved hearing all about it. Many World wide connections based on real love and true friendship have been made from the inspiration of Universal Medicine.

126. Travelling with purpose to learn, connect and potentially teach/support others is so very different from ‘holidaying’ to get time off. The latter can actually make us feel much more exhausted than a working week, if we choose to bash ourselves with drink, overeating, drugs, party or other disregarding choices…

127. Connection with each other is what is largely missing in the world today. A disaster makes us drop all our differences and come together. However, Serge Benhayon has gently introduced us back to ourselves and so connection with other people has become natural. There is no need to wait for a disaster to be genuine, caring and understanding with each other.

     1. Spot on Fiona! We often wait for the disaster or the cataclysm for us to be united, but Serge Benhayon has been the most gentle and loving cataclysm around! How blessed have we been to have encountered him!

128. To work though our tensions as you did with your daughter-in-law, shows that there is another way to be when we come across difficulties with another. Rather than going into bitterness and blame, knowing that love and truth has to be the marker, ways of resolving anything can be found.

129. It is a wonderful thing to travel the world, to be taken in by strangers, to get to feel and know the great vast canvas of life that is lived in every country, and it is even more wonderful to have Serge Benhayon and the Ageless Wisdom by our side who will take us on a journey through the universe while still in the world.

130. When we feel that level of love in our bodies we are never alone.

131. The more you can share this experience with your wider group of friends the better. I really feel that people are craving this way of being and yes, most people still do go off on holidays of escapism, but when I talk to them about it afterwards, they know, they feel, that it wasn’t what it could have been. There is an emptiness that is palpable and undeniable to them – so to be introducing this way of ‘holidaying’ into the world conversation is super powerful and I truly feel that it is a conversation that will be heard by many.

     1. Hear hear Otto.

132. Gosh this is beautiful. I love how geography, nationality, age, creed and length or relationship seems to have had no bearing on the connections that you felt. Boom, if each person is open, it is immediate. Undeniable proof of the fact that we are all One.

133. Whenever we embark on any activity with love as its intention and expressed in all our movements, we can not but come away with an experience of a greater level of love, oneness and expansion. It made me smile that you chose the title of your blog as Journeying Across the World with Serge Benhayon, because no one reflects such way of living more consistently than he does.

134. The decision to make the holiday about connection and the purpose that this then offers is beautiful, for it set up the time of travel with an innate knowing that what would be shared, could and would only be evolving.

135. Thank you for sharing your holiday and the honesty and openness of lovingly connecting with people. Definately the way to life every day.

136. “We feel there has to be a purpose in everything we do that supports us to always go deeper in our awareness and our relationships and it was no different when we planned this overseas journey.”
     When we set out to do this for ourselves we give ourselves the opportunity to make so much more of life. It feels like everything would open up for you with such commitment to life. Especially for holiday trips which can be so over-indulgent and leave you feeling exhausted and empty.

137. It’s amazing how things fall into place for us when we make choices around true purpose.

138. Anyone who does an Esoteric Connective Tissue course as part of their holiday is very blessed indeed – that particular part of the holiday was not so much the travel across land, but an inward journey facilitated by the fact that all the imposed obstacles to contacting inner space would be gradually unwound in the body by the therapy and the destination would be universal Love and Intelligence. Wow! What a trip.

139. Holiday used to be get as much distraction as possible, by doing a lot, seeing lots of things and reading piles of books, but boy oh boy did I feel lonely. No connection to myself and my body, nor to my partner or other people. What a difference with nowadays where the body and connections come first.

140. Over time I’ve heard friends complain they’ve gained weight over the course of their holiday yet what you’ve shown here Anne is that when the focus is on deepening relationships, simple, clean eating and enjoying the company of new and longstanding friends and family, the outcome is very different. – A different kind of holiday.

141. One unified – this what the Way of the Livingness brings.

142. Anne, I love your openness to learning more about yourself, others and the world in every part of your journey.

143. We totally underestimate the ripple effect of what we leave behind us when we go out into the world in our every day lives, whether it be down to the shops or the other side of the world.

144. As well as meeting and feeling all the loving imprints on the earth that Serge Benhayon has left behind him, I get the sense when I read this blog Anne, that you and your husband have left many of your own loving imprints wherever you have travelled, which will also have widely felt and far reaching effects on many people.

145. The best holidays I have experienced are those that have a purpose, even if that purpose is that I need to rest deeply for a couple of days. The purpose may change once I have rested and what is next tends to show it self as long as I stay connected to and listen to my body

     1. This is very healing for me to read and feel … that there can be purpose if we need to rest deeply for a couple of days. I know my body needs this.

146. Living our lives with love and purpose invites us to evolve, to go deeper with our relationships, our interactions with each other, to be constantly refining our movements …… Everyday becomes a celebration of all that we all truly are.

147. ”Regardless of the country we were in we could feel a oneness with all the people we met, including shop assistants and tram drivers.’ …. sharing the love that we are and feeling the connectivity between us all is the most beautiful way to live together, it is our natural way of being, and one day, it will once again be normal for us to live this way.

148. ‘These changes are not prescriptive as a result of Serge’s teachings or presentations, but are the result of choices we have made to deepen our connection to ourselves, our families, the wider community and to God.’ … and through the power of reflection, you are now inspiring others to feel there is something different in the way that you are choosing to live, a truth that they too can feel inside themselves.

149. The word ‘journeying’ brings a whole wealth of life experience on many different levels… compared to ‘going somewhere’ when we travel.

150. That’s the beauty of focusing on embodying the teachings of Universal Medicine. They are an international language that transmute our borders, culture and language differences and establish a universal way of life.

151. Thank you Anne, your holiday showed the difference between trying to fill a void and have a break from life, or making everything about love and bringing more love into life. Your holiday was to build upon something beautiful reconnected to within yourselves and with a purpose to further enjoy living the love you are, and to deepen this love. The connections you made with everyone sounds truly delightful, and how lovely about your daughter-in-laws parents! A true healing journey and celebration of love.

152. I agree Alison – when holidays are simply for a relief it can become boring and often I find them more exhausting or I get sick. When I make my time off productive but restful, I find it so much easier to return to work and not be out of rhythm.

153. Life lived with purpose brings in another dimension to our livingness. It was very lovely to read the unfolding of a family reunion and how relationships deepen as we live life with transparency and love,

154. When we travel in the awareness that we are all equal and the same, it leaves us much more open to those we meet, which can be immensely enriching and joyful!

155. This description of a couples travels and interactions with people feels so natural and so real and yet this is not what we typically experience in this world.

     I know it is natural to be open and learn and connect with everyone we meet (not just family and friends) because having also been inspired by the Ageless Wisdom I have made new choices for myself which have supported me to open my heart, to feel and know how to be more harmonious ‘with’ people.

     Where I once suffered feeling empty, needing entertainment and stimulation I now feel a sense of purpose and beauty in life which is felt by others.

156. I know so well what you have expressed in this phrase: “It is difficult for me to describe the love felt from this gorgeous man, simply what he shared with us was so extraordinarily ordinary and real that we both felt totally met in those moments.” It is inspiring enough just to see and listen to Serge Benhayon, he reflects so beautifully that we could all be living the light of the Soul in the world and is an amazing teacher in supporting you to discover how to do that in your own life in the greatest detail. I am constantly touched by the depth of love that consistently pours through him and the absolute equality and honouring with which he holds people. His example has profoundly changed my relationship with life and continues to do so.

157. Traveling with purpose completely changes the whole experience of going on holiday. I love how meeting other people and staying with them offers the opportunity to deepen our connections and let go of movements that aren’t loving.

158. Beautiful to read of your travels Anne and how you brought how you live everyday to everywhere you went. Isn’t it interesting how many say after coming back from a holiday that they need another holiday to get over the holiday. I find when I go on a holiday that doesn’t really have a purpose that I feel drained. Your holiday sounds like it was full of connection, love and purpose, that enriches your life and those you come home to.

159. I love how you went on the Universal Medicine courses and then shared that deeper connection with yourselves and life with everyone you then met around the world. The ripple effects are lovely to feel.

160. The holiday that you describe here Anne is the holiday that most people can only dream about and that is a holiday filled with love, connection, intimacy, relationships and fun.

161. ” Without the wisdom of relationships which Serge has bought through to us we may not have had the understanding that love is greater than any hurt we may be individually feeling. ”
     This is so beautiful and true , nothing has power over us unless we give it power, thank you so much for sharing.

162. I agree Anne, what Serge presents is Universal. There are no boundaries for Love.

163. ‘Without the wisdom of relationships which Serge has bought through to us we may not have had the understanding that love is greater than any hurt we may be individually feeling.’ and this is life changing, as you have experienced Anne as the more we live this the more connection we feel to each other and the one true family humanity is.

164. There are now hundreds of people living in a way that they know supports them because they have experienced the results of their choices and know them to be true, across the world. So when we are travelling or visiting different places/countries, if we are able to stay with others who live their lives in this way it is literally like going home from home. You are welcomed, supported and loved, and treated as part of the family.

165. Thank you for sharing honestly about the challenges that arose with your daughter-in-law when you first arrived and how you both committed to working through these so that harmony could be restored within the family unit – a beautiful re-impriniting of the traditional view of difficult in-law relationships.

166. Such an inspiring story. Serge Benhayon has inspired so many people across the globe to live lives full of love and care. How wonderful to experience this first hand on your travels.

167. I love to read your blog Anne this morning and what a delight it was. I could really feel how much you made it about love first and with that connected deeply and shared all of what was there to be shared by how we live our lives and how supportive it is to share and meet others who make it about life about love without perfection of course.

168. Thanks, Anne. This re-defines what it means to go on holiday…how much richer and purposeful than going away to escape from life and check out.

169. Reading this blog you really get a feel for the steps Serge has taken and the people that have listened to him, and how this has changed their lives. I love how the appreciation for the people Anne met shines through in her writing.

170. I can really appreciate the change in focus of what a holiday can be after a short holiday with my wife last year. It felt so odd to try and have a holiday in any way how I used to and there is now a feeling that I want to feel a deeper purpose in why i/we go on holiday.

171. What you have shared is very inspiring because you are proof that there is a different way to live and be in the world which encompasses everyone and that this idea of being individual is so out dated.

172. The title of this blog could just as easily be – journeying across the world with yourself. That’s what you’re describing here – taking the whole you to wherever you go, not to escape or find solace in the world’s wonders but to bring the wonder of the real you, to the world.

173. At the end of the day, it is the joy of our connections with people that last far longer than any souvenir, which ends up being just an object – a tick-box that proves (to whom, and why do we need to prove anything anyway?) that we have been to a particular place.

174. Having true purpose redefines our lives.

175. Anne a great sharing about how we can use our holidays for a greater purpose than purely time away when we use the time to deeply connect with those in our lives.

176. The word holiday has to be reclaimed. For some it is no longer a means to escape the ordinary life but to connect more deeply with others. Over the past three years I’ve travelled to spend time and re-connect with family and friends overseas. It has been richly rewarding to be with them, living simply, preparing and sharing meals together, walking, swimming, not visiting sites and museums but being with them in their everyday can be very healing.

177. Its beautiful to know the extent of the wonderful extended family created worldwide by Serge Benhayon and how wherever we go now we take the ancient wisdom with us and wherever we go we can connect with that family and feel right at home.

178. Making Life genuinely about people never goes wrong. It always has purpose and connection as the foundation.

179. What a gorgeous sharing Anne. Thank you. From reading your blog I got a strong sense of all the seeds Serge has supported people with all over the world for them to live truer to who they are.

180. This blog proves to me that we are so much more connected in quality then we are in our day to day relationships we tend to understand as functional.

181. Wow Anne, a truly inspiring holiday that was full of opportunity to grow and deepen together. Your solidness in your livingness shone through beautifully and supported what took place and confirmed that no matter where we are or what we are doing we are working in service for the all.

182. Thank you Anne for this inspiring sharing. “Love is greater than any hurt we may be individually feeling” that is gold as it showed that we do not need all the dissensions and that there is a way out of it.

183. How open we are, how lovingly we express, how truthfully we stand – this impacts life whevever we go. So someone who like Serge Benhayon, inspires others to change has a huge effect all over the world. Every choice and movement we make is affected. Your words here Anne make me wonder what impact I am having on others I meet.

184. What you travelled with is the deep and natural knowing of brotherhood and connection, something that is natural within each and everyone of us, meeting people through universal medicine who knows and practices this too is like a dream come true, which in fact, should not be special at all. And thus Living this way no matter where we are, we are offering this much needed reflection in the world, not everyone may practice this but we are offering this reflection for them if we consistently live as such, to connect back to Truth.

     1. Very true.

185. I loved reading about all your interactions with people you’d never met before, how natural and beautiful it felt when you connected with each other. Also, your open-ness offered a depth of connection that allowed you to share very openly and personally about meaningful experiences in your day to day lives, thereby supporting each other to grow from the conversation. So often when meeting people for the first time it can be a little awkward while we ‘work’ each other out and feel if it’s ‘safe’ to share our true selves.

     1. Yes meeting without the awkwardness says a huge amount in itself.

186. ‘How we live has changed immensely in the last 10 years, largely because we have felt the natural integration of the Ancient Wisdom teachings into our life.’ …. and through the quality of your livingness, you are then sharing these teachings through the power of reflection everywhere you go.

187. Yes Anne, and this is a very good practice for when you and all of us will be ‘Journeying around Space’ when we pass on from this realm (life). We will be pulsing through the Universe in joy and harmony with Serge Benhayon, each other and with God and we will never be apart. WE ARE never apart.

188. What an amazing holiday Anne – soaked in purpose and relationships and evolution. Wow – what if we took these principals into all our travelling – it would totally change the dynamics. This sounds like such a supportive trip that allowed you to be all of you and have honest conversations so no stone is left unturned – isn’t that just a brilliant way to live and be and reflect to each other.

189. Anne my experience of meeting many students of UniversaL Medicine around the world is the same, the openness and real family feel with people I may hardly know, deeply inspiring for how humanity will one day be as a whole.

     1. Yes DN, I can sense that too, that the quality of love, openness and equality we as Students of Universal Medicine live and meet each other in, will be one day the normal for all of humanity. Will that be Heaven on earth?

     2. Yes I feel this too DN. There are many many open and welcoming sparks of light all over the world. Super gorgeous to feel the worldly footprint of this.

190. Comfort and relief has been a road well travelled for me, and one that I still find myself walking if I don’t pay attention to the signs!

191. No awkwardness while meeting people you have never met is beautiful to feel and something to appreciate in yourself Anne, when you come with an acceptance and openess there is no space to feel awkward or react on something that would be considered awkward by others.

192. Thank you for sharing, I understand that this is your normal, as it is for so many people around the world now. To travel with purpose that is not charity driven or motivated by box ticking but rather a purpose which is focused on love and relationships, is an education and understanding I have also learned from Universal Medicine presentations. For it is inside relationship that healing and growth occur naturally and that alone is far more valuable to me than any souvenir that I could pick up on my travels.

193. Holidays to escape feel very empty now, so wonderful to plan journeys with purpose including meeting up with friends and family. I’m always aware what I am reflecting to people and how that can inspire them if they so choose, or if I am confirming something not true.

194. The world post coming across Serge Benhayon is so much smaller, because now my awareness, appreciation and the love with which I can hold people is so much greater.

195. Whether travelling across the world, or in our day-to-day routine, it seems the opportunities are always there to live the Ageless Wisdom, connect with people, evolve our awareness and more. I went on an amazing trip to India last year, where one of the clearest lessons for me was that is does not matter where we are, we can make the choice to learn and grow in awareness. And of course the fact that I can be all that I am in India, at home or wherever I am.

     1. And constantly reading the reflections we are met with along with connecting with many people is very cool to feel.

196. Amazing – these teachings transcend age, culture and nationality and truly unite everyone not by a rule book or set of doctrines, but by a shared commitment to a living quality.

197. When we make life about people we live, we learn and we grow with each other. There is a joy that this brings that cannot be matched by material possessions or temporal achievements.

198. The beauty and absolute grace of the Universal Medicine students – not knowing each other but coming together with the purpose of love. It’s also living proof: we are equal in connection; of the religion of oneness The Way of The Livingness.

     1. Absolutely, Rik, there is proof in this, that we all come from the same source and have divinity in our essence and when choosing that as the focus in life there is unity.

199. I have stayed in different homes of Universal Medicine students around the world and have had several students stay in my home in the UK and the level of harmony has been amazing. The awareness and non-imposition has been beautiful to be around, the conversations have been evolutionary and the students themselves lovely to get to know in greater depth.

200. A holiday diary Anne that redefines ‘Holiday’, showing us there’s a continued connection and purpose to deepen wherever we go in the world.

     1. A ‘holiday’ that leaves you revitalized and full, not drained and looking for more time off.

201. “It is difficult for me to describe the love felt from this gorgeous man, simply what he shared with us was so extraordinarily ordinary and real that we both felt totally met in those moments.” This is a great testament that it is with, in and over the small and everyday things in life, that bring opportunity to know and connect with universality.

202. I used to travel a lot and always enjoyed being in a new place, but now when I travel I stay with students of Universal Medicine. I get to learn so much about myself and about others, whilst deepening my understanding and living of, The Way of The Livingness…. it feels far more purposeful and enriching way to travel to me.

203. Thank you for sharing your appreciation of all that you experienced on your travels and the depth of the connections that you made with everyone you met. In being willing to surrender to what was there to constellate you allowed for this deeper understanding of how it is One Life wherever we are.

204. Thanks, Anne. This is a gorgeous illustration of what one man living as a soul on earth can bring to humanity.

205. It is so amazing to be continously open to working on our relationship with ourselves and each other.

206. “Our holiday has been truly amazing and totally enjoyable. We have learnt much about ourselves and our patterns of living and can feel that there are some changes to be made now that we are back home again” – when there is purpose in a holiday it becomes not a holiday of escape, but a holiday of healing and real rejuvenation – a quality to continue life in.

207. “we could feel the imprints of what Serge Benhayon has presented over the last 18 years in the lives of everyone we had met up to this point. The tranquillity and stillness and the total acceptance and love we felt from my nursing colleague, the beautifully prepared food, to how our rooms were presented at the Lighthouse and the very warm welcome from everyone, all had the hallmarks of lives lived with care and a loving presence.”
     This is such a confirmation of everything that Serge Benhayon has presented over the years, that there is a way to live which is simple and encompasses everyone equally. For me there is now no other way to live. I would not ever want to go back to my old way of living.

208. Had to have a look at this – holiday is derived from the two words ‘holy day’. So do we treat it as an opportunity to up our relationship with God? Or do we find a million distractions along the way…

     1. Thank you Simon. Another example of a word bastardized beyond all recognition. A lovely reminder that we can re-claim its true meaning: our holidays can be sacred time to be with God, and in essence no different from any other day.

     2. Oooh. I like this; very brilliant and very focusing. Thank you for digging that one up.

209. When we bring a true purpose to everything we are doing, our lives are so much richer as a result.

210. A great travel blog Anne, and a reminder to all of us of what a holiday can bring to our lives to enrich, rather than check out.

211. ‘Love is greater than any hurt we may be individually feeling’ indeed and it is our hurts that are largely responsible for us feeling individual, rather than a part of the All.

212. Loads of people go on holidays and eat heaps, drink heaps, party, lie around in the sun and basically not do much at all and then come back home and wonder why they do not feel rested and ready to go back to work. I know this was how it was for me until I attended presentations by Serge Benhayon, and now like you, I have a very different out look on what I deem is a great holiday.

     1. It is a total shift in consciousness that is being presented here. To feel energised there needs to be a sense of purpose – there is no purpose in switching off. Like you, Mary Louise, I have felt depleted when I have switched off and haven’t felt particularly motivated but rather more reluctant to get back into the swing of things at the end of a period off work, but what if we were always in the swing of things – bringing purpose even to our repose?

        1. I agree Michelle, when I lived without purpose, I had given up on life and was only going through the motions. We also have to be careful that we are not living a life that we think is purposeful, when actually it is not. I was trying to live up to a picture that I could never attain, so gave up on life thinking that I had given my all, to no avail.

        2. Iteresting point you make here, yet very valid. I have learned that having pictures is a killer too! In my early days in my career as a teacher, whilst on the surface I came across as a very good one and I felt that this gave me a sense of purpose, I was also using my career to feed me back confirmation of my worth as an individual. In this sense my purpose wasn’t a true one because my actions weren’t wholly stemming from the love in my heart but in a need that needed servicing!

213. There is so much love in accepting where we are all at. At times I can allow judgement to creep in, judgement in myself but this is just because of a lack of love. Bringing love and acceptance for where I am at, knowing I am a student and there is no such thing as perfection, eliminates any judgement confirming to me yet again that love begins with the love for self.

     1. Beautiful Caroline, bringing it all back to love.

     2. Thank you for this reminder. I found myself in judgment of someone today – not pleasant, but as you say it’s just a question of appreciating that other person’s qualities more and deepening in my own connection – bringing more love and understanding in.

     3. As soon as we judge, we know we have gone into separation, which then takes us further away from the love that we are. Whilst we may observe that the choices we, or those around us, are making may be harmful from time to time, what is being called for is more love. Staying with any form of judgment just increases the separation. Loving this reminder, thank you.

214. This reflects the quality of true family not being limited to blood lines and genetics but rather we can all live as the true family that we are, re-unified by the Ageless Wisdom lived and presented by Serge Benhayon.

215. What a beautiful testimony of how the teachings of Serge Benhayon bring love, unity and growth to students of Universal Medicine all over the world.

216. ‘How Serge Benhayon lives and what Serge presents is global in nature and it was this universality we felt on our holiday’. Thank you Anne for a beautiful sharing of your experience of living the wisdom that Serge has shared with us, that we truly are deeply connected to all humanity.

217. Integrating the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom as presented by Serge Benhayon into one’s life brings purpose to everything one does, including holidays.

218. “… all had the hallmarks of lives lived with care and a loving presence.” To me this is the signature of the teachings of Universal Medicine that Serge Benhayon presents with such an embodied commitment, a quality that is lived the world over and instantly recognisable, a warm welcome indeed to all who walk through the door.

219. What I am getting from this blog is a great example of how responsibility lived with more depth offers support for communities. The Ageless Wisdom Teachings inspire this interconnectedness and support for others, a natural invite to go deeper in relationships.

220. This blog shows how we can go on a vacation with true purpose that is actually even more joyful and fulfilling than the one where we just went around sightseeing and used the vacation to ‘get away from it all’. Because what are we really getting away from; our issues or problems? All those issues will be there waiting for us unresolved upon our return, so it only makes sense to fill our lives with purposeful activities that allow us to feel what is there to be felt, and connect more deeply with people as Anne shared in this blog, because life is about relationships, not landmarks.

221. And I was just thinking too Anne , that yes Serge Benhayon is at the back of all of this. Without his presence on earth I , and no doubt many others, would most certainly be lost and very lonely on this planet indeed.

222. Such a beautiful blog of exploration and expansion with great purpose. The Universal Love to which we all belong -known as the Hierarchy – is always there supporting us – not when we are in it for self and individuality, as this is not something that the Hierarchy can ever support . . . but when we are there to serve all, then the Hierarchy and universal love itself is right there at our backs.

223. ‘The ease we felt when we were with them may have been hard to explain for many, but we knew that we had possibly met in lives gone by and that the similarities in our lives today were not there by coincidence. It is also no coincidence that our children have constellated together from opposite sides of the world.’ This ease you’ve written is felt, as is the beauty and naturalness of constellations. We are deeply held and looked after.

224. The welcoming you experienced world-wide Anne is an example of true brotherhood, that we are one big family.

225. Travelling to see sights can be totally empty because it is the connection with people that truly touches our hearts and stays with us afterwards.

226. ‘It is also no coincidence that our children have constellated together from opposite sides of the world.’ No it isn’t, they make such an beautiful couple.

227. ‘Without the wisdom of relationships which Serge has bought through to us we may not have had the understanding that love is greater than any hurt we may be individually feeling.’ – I love this, knowing this truth allows us to surrender, feel our vulnerability and express our truth, inviting the other person to do the same, so any issues can be discussed, openly, without reaction, deepening our connection with each other and our understanding of each other.

228. ‘the beautifully prepared food, to how our rooms were presented at the Lighthouse and the very warm welcome from everyone, all had the hallmarks of lives lived with care and a loving presence.’ – the quality with which we live is deeply felt by all.

229. ‘We feel there has to be a purpose in everything we do that supports us to always go deeper in our awareness and our relationships and it was no different when we planned this overseas journey.’ – So often holidays are used as a means to ‘check out’, a reprieve from daily life, which says a lot about how we are choosing to live as a society. It’s very beautiful and inspiring that you approached your trip with a connection to yourselves and everyone else, allowing you to meet everyone with the love that you are.

230. I love this blog Anne as it demonstrates just how we have all been deeply touched by the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom as presented by Serge Benhayon. It also demonstrates and reminds us of the power and responsibility within us all to imprint everywhere we go with our livingness so others can feel the imprint and be inspired by our movements to change anything that does not serve the whole.

231. If one were to study and examine the student body it really does show the true quality of what Serge Benhayon presents. In most situations who would travel across the world to meet someone or others who they may of never spoke to before or briefly known via email etc and have such a deep and loving connection with the other? I’ve done this in my video gaming days meeting up with online acquaintances but none of those matched the depth of love I experience with those in the student body, living the Ageless Wisdom teachings to the best of their ability.

232. There is always a deeper purpose to everything but for the most part, the majority of us are choosing to ignore the deeper purpose and to keep life happening on a very superficial level. We seem absolutely committed in fact to not allowing ourselves to take life deeper and yet it is in the deepening that we discover the absolute gold.

233. The impact of one man, Serge Benhayon, on this world is rather big and felt all over. He is not special, he only shows us what we too can live.

234. What you are describing here Anne is true community.

235. This is very much an important point for life ‘love is more important than any hurt we are carrying’. This is something I am looking at much more deeply in my life at the moment.

236. Such a beautiful sharing of your trip to Europe Anne a testimonial of experiencing how we are all one family, a oneness, where ever we go can be felt when we are open to meet each other in who we are.

237. Thank you for the reminder that “love is greater than any hurt we may be individually feeling”.

238. Having the purpose in life to deepen our connection to the Universe (God, me and absolutely everyone) is a truly loving purpose for All equally.

239. Holidays done differently, with purpose and true connection with others. I love it. I personally no longer feel the need nor desire to take holidays that ask nothing of me but to lie on a beach and do nothing for days on end. It just feels like there is so much more to life than being completely removed from it.

240. The details of your trip are lovely to read. It is very different to other tales of travel, as the focus is not about things but rather relationships and evolution, now that is a way to travel thorough life!

241. What a great sharing and great holiday. I love the fact and outlining of how any tension was or is dealt with in relationships. In place of shying away from this tension or dismissing it or pretending that it doesn’t exist there was an honest and open conversation around what people are feeling. In having or living this level of care you are able to bring things or relationships closer together in place of carrying around the many thoughts of what you assume is happening.

242. Connection to God, and hence connection to all…beautifully said Ariana!

243. Funny how it is assumed that relationships with in-laws will be strained… and this is I suppose often what happens in our society, perhaps due to such things as expectations and impositions on ourselves and each other. I was blessed and pleasantly surprised to have a very loving relationship with my mother in law, and felt very close to her – testament to me that we had known each other in some way perhaps in a previous life and been there to support each other. Sadly she has passed away, but my relationship with her helped me understand that it is not the roles we play that determine the quality of our relationship, but rather it is about who we are and what we bring to each other that allows the relationship to unfold in whatever way it does. And no matter if there is harmony or not in the relationship – it is offered there as a learning for us all. Relationships are blessings in that they offer us opportunities to grow.

244. Anne, what a gorgeous way to travel around the world – giving each visit and each encounter a purpose and allowing things to unfold and handling things with grace. Travel offers us opportunities for learning and growth in more ways than we realise, and also helps us to broaden our relationships and realise how global we actually can be and are!

245. And when we travel this way across the earth we inhabit we can’t underestimate the healing that occurs for the earth itself. Rather than bludgeoning the earth for our gain, to ‘get away’ from the stresses of life into the seclusion of a faraway land, we are walking the earth in the fullness and glory of who we are, having reconnected back to our true essence. There is no escaping needed, no seclusion, no dumping our woes into the oceans and rainforests. Instead it’s about enjoying and celebrating what the earth has to offer us as a reflection of the beauty we know is within.

246. Wow, how everything in life has greater meaning and so much more richness and fullness when we make it about love no matter what. Travel is no longer about distracting ourselves and finding beautiful places we can escape in, it’s about connection, bringing the love we have in our own lives to others – spreading it, walking those footsteps across the globe so that this way of living is felt and seen by as many as possible.

247. Anne what an incredible sharing of the power of love and what society and the whole of humanity can be like if we embrace the truth that is within us and really start to build love for ourselves. Everything that ripples from this point is then filled with that love.

248. Having a true sense of purpose is deeply enriching and joyful in my experience; I can understand why you wanted to bring that quality to your travels!

249. What a beautiful sharing Anne. Yes, Serge Benhayon has inspired many around the world to live with greater love and understanding both for themselves and for others. To experience this, especially with those we don’t know so well is the most heart-warming of experiences.

250. So beautiful, to see and experience the impact of one man’s love and care on the lives of so many people all round the world. I love the open and embracing student body, it truly is amazing how complete strangers, united by a commitment to a loving and open way of living, can be so freely available to speak to, give support or advice and welcome me and others into their lives.

251. We are shown that constellations are made for us to learn and to confirm. We are wise beings and especially when we use our multidimensional intelligence that comes from a knowing inside you, never a mental excise or ability.

252. The secret to any relationship issue: ‘love is greater than any hurt we may be individually feeling’. So true, this allows you to connect to the bigger picture, get out of right and wrong and brings understanding and a big opportunity to evolve.

     1. It sure does Monika but my word how we love to be right and hate to be wrong and the interesting thing is both feel pretty awful in the body. We fight to be right but when you really connect to the feeling of ‘fighting to be right’, there’s an intensity about it that feels pretty awful. Love on the other hand doesn’t register right and wrong and feels like the most majestic of balms for the body.

        1. Yes, love makes it about all of us, takes everything and all of us into account and honors the divinity in that, whereas right or wrong stays at a one person’s perspective and that brings forth completely different movements and a different feeling in the body.

253. Beautiful sharing Anne, and proof that the physical body is does not limit presence.

254. What a beautiful account of our trip Anne, thank you. There is such a strong sense of the harmony we can all choose to live in within your words here – moving from country to country and yet greeted with the grace of a true connection in each new place. A reflection of a possible future for us all maybe. Life could be a very loving experience.

255. It is beautiful that we can make travelling a time of learning and evolving so when we come back home we feel enriched and ready for the time ahead. The key I feel is travelling with ourselves and keeping an eye on the quality that we are living in and staying responsible for all we do, think and say, so there is not that irresponsible period we have to get over when we commit again to our daily living.

256. This is very beautiful. What I love about your story is how you have taken the opportunity to really enjoy and make the best of the connections you have been making to inspire and be inspired.

257. A trip that confirms that people are one global family – Great Blog Anne!

258. Imagine have a Universal family like the one you have shared Anne, for this to me is what the teachings of The Ageless Wisdom have returned to so many students. True family where-ever we go, and when issues come up they are addressed then we can heal what is not True. Thank you for sharing your story Anne, as we can all learn so much from each other and as you have shared boarders are non-existent.

259. Hi Anne, thank you for sharing your trip with us, it feels great that you made it about connecting with people rather than places to visit – I have experienced a similar way of travelling, first by moving from the UK to Australia to be in a new relationship, and finding a warm welcome from all the students of Universal Medicine and also for a brief trip to New Zealand of 8 days in which every day I connected with new people, some of them students but also family members who are not. Life is about relationships and connections and, as you say, thanks to the presentations of Serge Benhayon we are able to make true connections with everyone we meet.

260. ‘How Serge Benhayon lives and what Serge presents is global in nature and it was this universality we felt on our holiday.’ A gorgeous confirmation that what Serge Benhayon presents is already there for us all – not just through students of Universal Medicine but ‘Regardless of the country we were in we could feel a oneness with all the people we met, including shop assistants and tram drivers.’ When we are open and receptive we naturally constellate people with these same qualities around us.

261. The greatness of what is here shared is that it shows the ripple effect across the globe of one man’s choice to go all the way and live his soul on earth. It is inspiring to see what one man can do and shows the potential of what could happen if many more did the same. In fact this potential is already showing in what you describe about our global family.

262. And it was an absolute joy having you both with us Anne. It is truly amazing how our family has expanded by literally letting the world in!

263. A beautiful example how connection is the one language we can all speak and that living from who we are unites us all no matter what our backgrounds are.

264. I have travelled reasonable amount and the parts that I remember most fondly are the ones of connecting with others, sharing space and time and getting to know people I would have never otherwise would have met. Places are beautiful but the feeling is completely different. Travelling is about people, relationships and understanding that there are no true differences between anyone.

265. You describe total universality in your travels throughout the whole world. What a flow to find beautiful places wherever you were and share memorable times with strangers who were not strangers at all.

266. “Thank you, Serge, for the true understanding of how life works.” And Thank You Anne for this blog, one that confirms the universality of the Ageless Wisdom as presented and lived so absolutely by Serge, that when lived our selves, enables us to dissemble our man made barriers of culture, borders, nationality and even religion so that we can come home to each other, all over the world.

267. Thank you Anne for sharing your journey and the demonstration of the interconnectedness of everyone wherever in the world and how the Teachings of the Ageless Wisdom, as presented by Serge Benhayon, supports one to connect to one another in true Brotherhood.

268. ‘This oneness is not exclusive to students of Universal Medicine nor is it based on our living perfect lives, but rather on human beings meeting each other with love, understanding and an acceptance of where we are all at on our life journey.’
     This is beautiful expressed Anne in a way that is all-encompassing of humanity. I am finding this too – the deeper the re-connection to the innate stillness within, the more open I am to others and there is an a different level of connection and response with them.

269. This is so gorgeous. A holiday with a purpose is so much more nourishing than pure comfort and escape. I love the appreciation you have expressed for everyone and everything you met along the way.

270. What you describe Anne is the essence of The Livingness so many of us now live thanks to our studies with Universal Medicine – a portrait of how we live everyday, playing out on your journey and beautifully crystallised in this blog.

271. Yep great sharing, this is the way it should be, our family is global and the welcoming and love has no boundaries. Serge has made this happen and it can only but grow.

272. ‘We feel there has to be a purpose in everything we do that supports us to always go deeper in our awareness and our relationships and it was no different when we planned this overseas journey.’ Living purposefully doesn’t necessarily mean something grand, it can be as simple as our food choices. The fact that we know it supports our growing awareness and that in turn allows us greater connection to the wisdom of the Universe is grand enough.

273. What I’ve found and I absolutely love is that when we start to live by the principles of the ageless wisdom is that everyone starts to feel like family, and it’s family not by name or blood or by invitation but through a universal quality.

274. What a beautiful blog Anne. How wonderful it is to be invited into the homes of people all around the world – and people we have never met before. This feels like such a natural and loving thing to do, yet sometimes we can get cautious of doing this,or be so caught up in the business of the day, or the things that must be attended to tomorrow. At the end of the day, Love is the expansive and only way to go.

     1. I agree and reading that was truly lovely. It’s funny as what I see is that if you haven’t met someone in person before we have like a set of rules for them or for the relationship with them, don’t trust them to much, don’t tell them too much etc etc and yet here we have the opposite occurring. When you read this you reflect on the many times where you have met someone for the first time and you have an instant connection and a feeling you have met them or have known them from somewhere before. When we feel this we often try and link it to somewhere or to something in place of simply honouring that very feeling.

        1. Totally agree Ray – we bring out all the justifications and let the spirit have a big dance around this as something ‘special’ which again asserts individuality and excess. We could instead (as you said) just feel it, and instead of instantly dishonouring it with an out of proportion exaggeration, we could simply deepen . . . and heavens above! we might even feel true intimacy.

        2. Were would things go truly if we simply stayed with the feeling and didn’t dip into the manner ‘rules of society’. There are many points in our day where we ‘feel’ things, possibly considered ‘little’ things and if we dismiss those and just get on with the day, then when it comes to points like this, we ‘pop’ out and leave that very feeling that truly supports us. It feels like we go around and around in circles with this, as many people come and go in our lives over time, giving us many opportunities to let go and sink into feeling what is truly there.

275. It is very beautiful and inspiring to feel the purpose of this holiday making it about people and evolution although at times it may feel uncomfortable. I get a sense that this is the choice we have… we either holiday in comfort or we take ourselves out of our comfort zone with no holding back and say yes to all that is on offer. The latter is what I love about this blog. Thank you Anne for sharing your journey (pun intended) with us.

276. Travelling for me is about the connections I make with people. Tho this wasn’t always the case. The ‘sights’ come second for me now, especially as I prepare to go away with one of my sons later this year. Journeying with purpose – yes.

277. What you have shared is extra-ordinary and yet should be so ordinary as we are all the same there is no separation, we do this to ourselves. The world would be a different place to live in if we all met each other with love, understanding and acceptance.

278. ‘…. love is greater than any hurt we could individually be feeling.’ Such beautiful words Anne, and so true. When we reflect this out, wherever we may be in the world then true healing can happen.

279. A holiday with purpose! How gorgeous Anne. Thank you for sharing your divine adventure with us all.

280. What a glorious account of your trip abroad Anne, the appreciation speaks volumes in your writing for Serge and the people you met along the way.

281. Beautiful. “human beings meeting each other with love, understanding and an acceptance of where we are all at on our life journey.” The truth of the Ageless Wisdom uniting us all with love wherever we are in the world.

282. This piece shows the boarderlessness of being a human being in connection with others. And so, brings up questions about what exactly is distance travelled to get somewhere.

283. Anne, this sounds such a beautifully wonderful and truly enriching holiday, …. and a holiday where and as many of us have experienced before not a holiday that is in any need of another/second one afterwards either from being worn out, tired and over indulged during the vacation. Your holiday sounds fun, revitalising and so healing.

284. I like the title of this blog:’Journeying Across the World with Serge Benhayon’ And after reading it I wonder… Do you mean journeying connected with love? You all were open to go deeper in every encounter you had, bringing your wholeness in them, and this is what happens when there is a bigger purpose in our movements. That we endlessly evolve in them, while bringing the same quality wherever we are.

285. Our love is truly universal. No borders can divide us when we live from the genuine love and warmth that burns within our hearts.

     1. This is true and how many of us or how many articles are written or holidays taken like this. I mean would this be a first or one of the few. It’s made me aware of holidays, their purpose and how we go about them. I really never considered a holiday like this and to be honest, part of me is almost reluctant to take a break, because in that you need to get going again when you get back. It’s like this up and then down that happens and so to avoid that you just keep going. I loved in this article, how in place of this avoidance of feeling something and then not looking deeper into it, you feel the tension and then speak openly around it. It seems I have done something similar with this comment.

286. Thank you Anne for sharing this beautiful adventure. This is what happens if we make life about people and base our life on the Ageless Wisdom teachings as presented by Serge Benhayon. You bring a purpose to your holiday I have never seen before and is for me an inspiration to take with me, that life is about people and when we allow that to be constellated as such that magic can happen.

     1. Yes, a gorgeous sharing showing that when life is about people it brings purpose to life.

287. What a wonderful journey Anne; an unfolding path of new connections and re-connections to people in your life and the joy that came with them. I love how you felt the imprint of Serge Benhayon’s presentations as you travelled holding you as the beautiful and wise anchor in life that he is for so many.

288. What you are describing here Anne is true brotherhood and what is gorgeous to feel is how practical it is and not just something that is far fetched and out of our reach.

289. : Reading your blog Anne I just got goose bumps because it just shows the effect that one person, in this case Serge Benhayon, can have on the world. We all make such a huge difference if only we were to accept that fact in full.

290. How we are in the world completely transforms when we make life and our living all about people.

291. Life is an amazing journey when we take ‘self’, the individual out of the picture, look at the bigger plan, our true purpose, and consider humanity as a whole.

292. Wow, what an amazing journey Anne… one with true purpose, evolution for all and brotherhood.

293. From connection and openness, purpose comes. We don’t have to plan strategically, but if we align to our Soul, every move we make has its place. When we live life this way, as you say Anne, there is no holiday we’d ever need to seek, because truth sustains our every step.

     1. Beautifully expressed Joseph, moving with truth in our every step connected to our Soul means exhaustion could be a thing of the past.

294. The Way of The Livingness, as taught by Serge Benhayon is a living way that we take with us wherever we go. And that is the truth for all of us, whether we are active in The Way of The Livingness or not, we each take the way that we are living with us, wherever we go. ‘Going on holiday’ has, for a long time fooled people into believing that something miraculously changes when we are away but in truth it is only the scenery and possibly the company that changes, everything else remains a constant. We may feel less troubled because we are not at work for example but those troubles haven’t gone away, they just haven’t been triggered.

295. Wow- lonely planet could not put together a travel guide that could even touch on the grandness of this adventure.

     1. For a start they would have to rename their business – ‘the not so lonely planet’ 😉

        1. Ha ha, I love your sense of humour Liane. So true, when we live and travel with love and openness to connection, the word lonely would not exist anymore.

     2. We totally loved our time away- no glamour just love and a true purpose.

     3. We are never truly ‘lonely on the planet’ this blog is one big testimonial of traveling with purpose is.

296. Anne this is such a glorious sharing. By going into the detail of your trip in the way that you have, it feels like you have expanded life itself. It’s such a long way from most holiday reports that I have read, as it feels so alive, it really does, it’s like the words that you have written are not one dimensional at all but that you have brought the limitness of life itself to the page. And it is that Anne that then has the the chance to play an active part in the body of others, it’s as if we can be imbued by the energy that you have shared.

297. Gorgeous blog Anne, I too recently went traveling overseas and found that the best part of my trip was my connection with people. I find it is my experiences with people and our connections that are the most cherished and most memorable.

     1. Yes chanly88, i think that we have to become honest with ourselves with the fact that we just love to be with people and to meet them everywhere in the world in which we can find out that we are all the same from essence.

298. I can feel your appreciation for all you live and are learning and I love the simplicity and the purposefulness of your trip and how you expanded as you went, and made it about people rather than just places and sights. And to feel your heartfelt appreciation for Serge Benhayon ‘It is difficult for me to describe the love felt from this gorgeous man, simply what he shared with us was so extraordinarily ordinary and real that we both felt totally met in those moments.’ touched me deeply and I can second and third this very strongly. He has indeed inspired many to come to the truth of who they are. A beautiful sharing Anne, thank you.

     1. I agree, the appreciation of life and everything that’s on offer is so palpable in this blog. It’s very inspiring.

        1. So true Meg. It is amazing to feel a world family and one that is not limited by DNA!

299. How awesome it is that we can bring true purpose, responsibility and learning to any day of the year and that we always have the choice to either indulge in comfort or continue to learn, grow and understand the world with depth, honesty and a willingness to go deeper anytime. Thank you Anne.

300. Purpose is the secret ingredient to living joyfully without the languishing and aimless drifting of old which only lead to discontent, disappointment and fatigue.

301. The possibility of deep connection with others is always there, regardless of how long we’ve known them for. There is so much to learn from one another – everyone brings us a reflection that we need to learn more about ourselves, and that is exactly how we learn- through connections, relationships, living our lives alongside others out in the world, and sharing our experience of that.

302. ‘This oneness is not exclusive to students of Universal Medicine nor is it based on our living perfect lives, but rather on human beings meeting each other with love, understanding and an acceptance of where we are all at on our life journey.’ This is very lovely. what I am observing is how open people are to this. Today, as I sat in a classroom at college with big windows where lots of other students walk past, a young woman walked past and made eye contact with me and we shared a very lovely smile. I have no idea who she was or probably couldn’t recognise her again but it was such a beautiful moment.

303. Anne – this is gorgeous – I feel as if I have been on your travels with you and inspired by every meeting you have enjoyed with Students of Universal Medicine in the various places on your purpose-full trip.

304. Really lovely to hear the flow and love of your journey as well as healings and understanding this is no coincidence since you clearly wanted to make it about people and connections from the offset and not about ‘a holiday’ I could not think of a better way to start a journey than with attending a course with Universal Medicine ✨

305. Beautiful Anne, the language of love is universal and we all respond to this. Our connections with others are more inspiring that any monument, and our reflections for each other can support is all to expand.

306. Reading this today was a total healing for me, I cried when I read that our love is grander than any hurts as so often it can feel the other way around, but that is not our truth. I cried in appreciation as I too have travelled and dined and stayed with fellow students of the Ageless Wisdom and been welcomed around Australia, and have welcomed in my home as well. It is seeding forth how we are all meant to be in this world.

     1. Yes Sarah it can be so hard to let our hurts go as we have invested in them for so long but so beautiful when we surrender to the love.

        1. And the love is always there patiently waiting for us to RSVP.

307. Thank you Anne for your loving wisdom and insights. Great timing as I’m just about to ‘go away’ with family and friends for a few days for a celebration. My saying yes to participating was for the purpose of deepening my connection with everyone, regardless of the ‘setting’ that was chosen. It’s not about the place it’s always about the people.

     1. I love what you’ve shared Sandra, ‘It’s not about the place it’s always about the people.’ This is the same for me, I love connecting with family, friends and meeting new people no matter where I am.

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