Something happened recently that triggered an age-old feeling in me of “I don’t belong here; this is not my home.” It was a tiny little thing, but the feeling that came up in me was huge! I started to wallow in it, but then stopped and thought: “Well, clearly this is not only about what just happened . . . so, what is going on here?”
And I started to look at where this feeling came from and what it meant.
Firstly, it was triggered by a desire in me for something sweet that actually could not be satisfied, because somebody else had eaten my stash! And I have come to learn that, when this desire arises, it’s because I am already feeling a sadness that I don’t want to feel.
I feel this sadness (and then the desire to sweeten it) any time I do not get my own way. When I don’t get what I want, I feel like I am missing out, I feel that I am not part of something, I feel different, isolated, not understood, not heard … any time, in short, when I make it all about me.
If I make it all about me, sooner or later I have to feel different, isolated, alone; because we are all different at the level where we are individuals.
And this is how most of us have lived, for a very, very long time, perhaps for longer than we care to remember. But I have some friends who live in a different way, and I am re-learning to live this way too.
What I am learning is that I can live in the misery and suffering of my self-centred creation when I choose to do it my way, get what I want, go it alone…
Or…
I can live in the joy and harmony of feeling and knowing that I am but one person among billions, all of whom matter just as much as me, and not only that, but that we are each part of a vast Universe of beings, all connected with each other and all part of a vast oneness.
Now this is quite a big jump, so are there steps we can take along the way?
For me, it starts with my body. Now this is something I have tried to ignore for quite a long time. I have indulged it, pushed it, used it, driven it, but listening to it and honouring it… that is a whole new thing for me.
When I listen to and honour my body and live in a simple loving way that deeply cares for it (and for me), I start to feel some things…
There is a physical reality to this human body, and to life on earth. I am made of flesh and blood, which is made of molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles that have been here since before the beginning of time. They have made up countless bodies before mine… and will make up many more to come. They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body. The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.
If I really stop and feel this, I realise that I do belong here: in fact, I belong everywhere!
We are an inseparable part of the Universe, and we live in a great illusion that we are separate, because we have tried to separate ourselves from it. But we are still in it! The separation only exists in our minds. Our arrogant pride refuses to see the blindingly obvious and refuses to feel the un-numb-able fact that we are part of a stupendous whole, and that we live in a body of love that one day we will all come to know as God.
And the way back to this knowing is the stuff of which we are made, the particles that make up our being, the sparks of God’s flame that we call ‘us.’
When I live this way, in the knowing of this truth, life is joyful and full, and if the old feelings of sadness arise, they can serve as a signpost that I am choosing to live in the old way again, the way of desire, of self, of separation, of individuality… of me.
And I can choose to wallow in the misery of this again, or I can make a choice to come back to who I truly am, a great and equal part of the one glorious whole… a fellow human being, equal with everyone else, who lives in love, in truth, in brotherhood, knowing that none of us can do this alone, that we are all in this together, and that this is the way life is divinely designed to be.
I am forever inspired by Serge Benhayon, his family and friends, Universal Medicine and The Way of The Livingness.
By Anne Malatt – wife, mother, grandmother, eye surgeon, Australia
Further Reading:
Developing a Relationship – with my Essence
Living From My Inner Knowing
Living medicine starts with the body
“The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars” Thank you Anne for very inspiring words reminding us that we are all an integral part of a magnificent All.
I’m learning that not only as you say Anne
“We are an inseparable part of the Universe, and we live in a great illusion that we are separate, because we have tried to separate ourselves from it. But we are still in it! The separation only exists in our minds. Our arrogant pride refuses to see the blindingly obvious and refuses to feel the un-numb-able fact that we are part of a stupendous whole, and that we live in a body of love that one day we will all come to know as God.”
That this body of love we call God or the Universe is actually an intelligence which far exceeds anything we could ever possible know. To me thinking that we think that they are our thoughts is the biggest lie we have fallen for. This lie has us all completely controlled to stop us from actually connecting to the intelligence we come from.
Stopping and allowing ourselves to feel what is underneath the misery, hurt, sadness, anger instead of reaching for food or social media or telly or anything other than to feel what we can feel! Very cool you did that … and then wrote a blog about it!
Thank you Anne, as we are all re-kindeling our inner-most spark or essence and as this is happening to us all we feel the natural-ness so is it any wonder we feel at home when we return to our most divine quality or essences.
God is inside us and until we stop looking outside of us there will always be a deep un rest.
We always have a choice, one is to see yourself as individual and the other is to see how interconnected we all are and that everything we do has an impact on another. One asks for no responsibility and the other embraces responsibility.
We do belong here, and everywhere as you say in this blog Anne, ‘ I am made of flesh and blood, which is made of molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles that have been here since before the beginning of time. They have made up countless bodies before mine… and will make up many more to come.’
When we start to listen to our body, deeply listen, we find a different way to live. After all our body is what carries us around and without it we wouldn’t have a physical life so it makes sense to let it navigate our way rather than the lower mind that has little respect for the body and what we need to nourish , nurture and evolve.
Exploring that moment where we have a choice.. to wallow in what we feel or to clock it, feel it and move on. We are only stuck in our past patterns for as long as we choose to perpetuate them. It literally is our choice, moment to moment- perhaps not obviously so to start with, but bit by bit as we develop more awareness, our choices become more obviously reflected back to us, and felt in our bodies.
“a fellow human being, equal with everyone else, who lives in love, in truth, in brotherhood, knowing that none of us can do this alone, that we are all in this together, and that this is the way life is divinely designed to be.” This brings such a feeling of joyfulness and reveals the isolation and separation of clinging to the individual to the ‘Me’.
We will never feel like we belong if we don’t feel our true selves.
When we live fully claiming who we are and appreciate what we bring, this feeling of ‘I don’t belong’ doesn’t come up because when we are ourselves we naturally know we are all deeply connected and a part of the grand Oneness. It is when we play small and go into comparison and jealousy that we can feel very alone and out of place.
I am recently being far more aware that of how we all live in our own little bubbles and not living knowing that we ‘can live in the joy and harmony of feeling and knowing’ we are 1 person among billions. It is quite eye opening!
“The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.”. These very wise words totally shatter the belief that we are simply individuals having a human experience for how can we be when we share all we are with the Universe? And the understanding we share all of us with everyone around us, this planet and the Universe offers us a sense of our universality, our grandness and what we are here to bring to the world.
I can relate to the feeling of not belonging but what I am connecting to reading your wise words is how often I have not allowed myself to be in my body and how this has exacerbated my feelings of not belonging. Becoming willing to be more open to my body’s communication although not always comfortable has allowed me to feel more settled and connected to myself and the universe.
What each one of us bring is very unique and really valuable. Once we are open to deliver it we may realize and be surprised about our true potential. It is infinite and very powerful.
Absolutely and we each have our part to play and when we truly feel that, it connects us to others in a beautiful way.
We have felt so many times different, isolated, sad because we don’t fit in…but what if our uniqueness is our actual strength? Not because we are more special than others but because we simply bring our innate abilities in such a natural way to the whole. There is an exquisite humbleness in accepting how grand we all are. It’s an acceptance that embraces all and unifies us.
Whenever we feel we don’t belong, we have already separated from ourselves first and from this, we then feel separate from everyone else around us. This feels very unsettling in our body because it is not natural for us to feel this separation and our body lets us know this immediately.
Sadness is not a part of who I truly am, I am love joy harmony stillness and truth, sadness is something I have taken on to serve me in my separation from my own divine self and the fact that I and all human beings are an important part of the divine whole of which we all belong equally.
Thank you Anne – valid point. We all have felt once that we do not belong here, because we are in fact energetic by essence, not a physical existence. Yet, we have a body where we live in and we need to treat it with the absolute knowing of this fact, with the honoring to the best we can to our physical body in this life.
Great reminder that when we deeply care for the body we are able to feel more- and when we abuse it, we desensitise ourselves. Our bodies always register everything but when we are abusive towards ourselves it’s like we’re choosing to numb our awareness to what we’re doing- because if we paid attention to it and allowed ourselves to feel it then we’d have to stop making those choices, and sometimes we just stubbornly don’t want to change our behaviours, even though we know they’re destructive.
Thank you Anne, I hadn’t quite looked at those feelings of not fitting in like this before! It makes perfect sense though as you explain that “we are each part of a vast Universe of beings, all connected with each other and all part of a vast oneness.” That understanding certainly removes self to expand beyond into all we are truly connected to and a part of.
It feels very arrogant to think of ourselves as individual and separate when our entire life on earth alone is dependent on others to make it work. Someone has to grow the plants we eat, make the computer we use, supply the electricity to our home etc etc. We simply cannot do it all on our own!
After spending so much of my early life feeling like I didn’t belong, anywhere, it was so life-changing to come to understand that “The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.” This understanding blew apart the belief I didn’t belong, that in fact I irrefutably did, as I was part of everything, part of the magnificent whole.
Looking at the size of our triggers compared to the amount of energy we use to react in can be a telltale sign of unresolved feelings and hurts. When I feel hurt and then and there claim it, it goes away. If I explode or feel deep sadness from a ‘small’ thing then it tells me something has been unexpressed for quite a while.
I love the sense we are part of a one beautiful whole, that we are part of the Universe and part of a body of Love. It gives me a sense I am held wherever I am and whatever I do and there is an equality in that. No-one is left less.
Beautiful Lucy, when we feel deeply connected, we can feel we belong everywhere and we can also feel the Oneness and grandness we are all a part of.
Exquisite Anne. I can feel how empowering it is to live with this awareness and how learning this at a young age would have saved many years of suffering in search of what my purpose was in being here, and instead just lived with confidence and power, guided by my inner-knowing.
” There is a physical reality to this human body, and to life on earth. I am made of flesh and blood, which is made of molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles that have been here since before the beginning of time. They have made up countless bodies before mine… and will make up many more to come. They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body. The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe. ”
Its so wonderful to read this and it explains alot thank you.
“we are each part of a vast Universe of beings, all connected with each other and all part of a vast oneness.” With this clear understanding we have a responsibility to walk in Brotherhood with all.
“If I really stop and feel this, I realise that I do belong here: in fact, I belong everywhere!” Many of us can feel like we don’t belong, yet as your beautiful blog suggests when we connect to our bodies and feel in our inner heart we know we are part of the all and the utter majesty and grandness that this equates too.
I can relate to this feeling of missing out too Anne. But what I am truly missing out on is connection to God, my divinity and multi dimensionality. Now that is an omission that’s going to be difficult to fudge. No wonder cravings, angst etc come in when this is not there.
Wow Jospeh, this is so true. When I am deeply connected to God, I know I am never alone and where I am is exactly where I need to be to learn and grow.
I love this blog Anne, for often I still feel I don’t belong here, but you are right we do and we do belong everywhere as we are all connected, it is just me being stuck in my individuality that keeps that not belonging feeling alive.
Yes, it is a really good idea when a disproportionately large feeling or reaction comes up to question what is going on here and look a little deeper.
‘For me, it starts with my body. Now this is something I have tried to ignore for quite a long time. I have indulged it, pushed it, used it, driven it, but listening to it and honouring it… that is a whole new thing for me.’ Yes, a completely new thing I agree and I have the feeling I am only in kindergarten as there is much to explore in learning to listen again and honouring what the body knows.
Great blog Anne. I am learning that any hurt whatsoever is a barrier to letting people in and embracing all of everything in life. Essentially it comes down to the fact that a hurt serves as an excuse to isolate ourselves from the gigantic whole we live inescapably in.
There is proof to what your saying Anne in feeling One with everyone and that is how amazing you feel after a Esoteric Modality healing session. These sessions bring you back in alignment to the order of the magnificence of the universe. Hence I cherish every opportunity I have to mark in my body new depths I can surrender and learn to live in during a healing session.
“We are an inseparable part of the Universe, and we live in a great illusion that we are separate, because we have tried to separate ourselves from it.” And how we love to indulge in the idea that we are separate from everything and everyone, even when we are hurting. It’s the perfect way to keep ourselves away from what we know to be true, so that we don’t have to take full responsibility for the choices we’ve made that have led us to be where we are.
We are all part of a great Universe and all connected, even though at present we can’t see the energetic connections that are always there, ‘We are an inseparable part of the Universe, and we live in a great illusion that we are separate, because we have tried to separate ourselves from it.’
” I Don’t Belong Here…. Or Do I? ”
When I was a child , I had a similar understanding but in a different way. I knew I was not from here even though I am here , I knew I was more than just physical.
I can very much relate to what you have shared here John. There was always part of me that felt very out-of-place here in many ways, and when I did not fit into any groups in school, I reacted by feeling even more different and misunderstood, diving deeper into a pool of separation from others. But what I am feeling now after reading Anne’s great blog is how much I do belong here and am needed in a big way, regardless of how crazy the world seems.
“If I really stop and feel this, I realise that I do belong here: in fact, I belong everywhere!” – This sentence is a game-changer when you stop and feel how the particles that make us up are shared with the rest of the Universe!
Me too!!! I am sure it is something we all feel and then make a choice to dull that feeling and work hard to fit in – whatever that looks like at the time.
Beautiful John, I too recall feeling the same way when I was a child and I had no words to describe what I felt. Now, I understand what I was connecting to and it was so clear and true, something I deeply felt from my inner knowing.
Thanks Anne, yes we always have a choice, ‘ I can choose to wallow in the misery of this again, or I can make a choice to come back to who I truly am, a great and equal part of the one glorious whole… ‘
When we get attached to how we feel in particular when we feel alone and or miserable we actually hold ourselves back from truly feeling our bodies and the amazing vehicles we reside in. This not only temporarily holds us back from the awesomeness we are and the beauty of our imperfect ways but also from seeing that we are indeed never alone and our connection to our hearts only ever holds us as one and leaves us open to discover and explore forevermore,
That is a really big part, learning that we actually can’t do it alone and that we are designed to be together and work together with others in harmony.
I agree MW and the fact that our bodies are constellated of particles, that in essence are one and he same in us all, and have been in us all at one time or another, completely annihilates the ideas that we have that we are or can be separate from each other. If we redirected our focus from resisting this fact to embracing it, we will then see what true advancement is all about.
I love this – simply you always have a choice, you can choose to be miserable or you can choose to love and cherish your life and know we are all part of something magnificent here.
Tuning into the fact that the universe is naturally constantly expanding and we are exactly under the same pull, how much do we need to call in as a counterpart to not move along with the universe. The disruption mankind lives in accordance to the universe must have its consequences- no wonder of all the diseases and extremes that show up in current times.
This Blog really lets me connect to the fact, that I am practically not only knowingly part of the universe but in fact physically. The way you wrote this Anne is exquisite and has a deep understanding felt in your body. That´s why I can align to it so easily. Thank you!
” What I am learning is that I can live in the misery and suffering of my self-centred creation ” Wow this is huge, self- centred creation of misery and suffering , this describes a lot of the way the world is.
Yeh it’s a brilliant description, because often when we’re miserable we blame the world, rather than taking responsibility for the fact we crested that situation and made choices that led to that misery.
This paragraph is an absolute gem that deserves to be repeated . . . .
‘There is a physical reality to this human body, and to life on earth. I am made of flesh and blood, which is made of molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles that have been here since before the beginning of time. They have made up countless bodies before mine… and will make up many more to come. They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body. The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.” . . . absolutely priceless Anne.
I have also often felt that I don’t belong here as the way most live on this planet is completely off track to how we are supposed to live in harmony with each other, so no wonder it feels alien to so many of us.
I completely agree Kev I also remember as a child often wondering what am I doing here and feeling I don’t belong here. As you say that is not surprising as none of us belong in the loveless and disharmonious form that we all too often witness.
What if we could all get our heads around the fact that we all matter just as much as everyone else, and we are all connected and not the individuals that we are so hell bent on clinging to. It is mad to think in our material world that so few have so much and so many have so little when in truth even the particles that make up our bodies are on loan and everything belongs to the all.
If we don´t go for the obvious solution and numbing- going for sweets etc, the truth will be presented in front of us. We just need to look for it.
Truly knowing that we are all deeply connected is a profound life changing reflection that becomes the fulcrum of our relationship with everyone and ourselves
Yes, it changes everything because the level of responsibility goes deeper. Imagine a spiders web where the slightest tension on one thread affects the entire rest of the web whether seen or not, what do we offer to the web?
A glorious contribution – “I belong everywhere” and we do indeed. It is only the mind that tries to tell us otherwise … and only succeeds if we allow it to run the show rather than handing over to the body.
It is undeniable that in today’s world much energy is going into advancing our technology – all the while we still have much to learn about the art and science of the energetics of human life.
“I don’t belong here” – such a familiar old feeling from when I was younger. “If I make it all about me, sooner or later I have to feel different, isolated, alone; because we are all different at the level where we are individuals.” As you say in your post this is where so many of us live from. Making my life now about purpose and service – and a newfound level of responsibility – has changed all that. When I feel individual I know something is up – a work still in progress…..
“…. when this desire arises, it’s because I am already feeling a sadness that I don’t want to feel.” I too have recently become more aware that when I have a sweet craving there is something I don’t want to feel – be it a new level of responsibility and love – so I’ll try to numb myself, or an old pattern of indulgence returning. Either way I need to deal with it!
I often have had the sense that I don’t belong here, what I am realising more and more is that this sense has a degree of truth in it. It is the lovelessness of our society that I know I, or any of us, truly belong to, and in fact feels completely unnatural for us to fit into a loveless culture. We are, as you have so wisely shared Anne, universal beings and as Soul in a divinely designed body we are here to bring the light of who we are through all we do, and restore the ways of love, truth and Brotherhood here on earth.
I can relate to what has been written here as for many years of my life I had this deep seated despair of life and it’s purpose and often I would question ‘Why am I here’ or ‘What is the point’. Then about six months ago I had a huge feeling of old grief release from my body and what I could feel was that I had not accepted being here on earth.
I always had a similar feeling when you say ” I don,t belong here ” but my feeling was ” I am not from here ” and as long as I can remember my question ” but why am I here”
And what you say explains it beautifully
” the particles that make up our being, the sparks of God’s flame that we call ‘us.’
We are not from here but we are here. Our ” duty ” is to return from whence we came.
We have a massive part to play here, we’re here for a reason and once we firmly accept our responsibility and step forward knowing we have an important job to do life begins to make so much more sense.
Even we can make life about helping people which still can be about ourselves. As long as we make it just about the other or just about ourselves we are in separation. The moment we include ourselves and are in connection with others we can truly serve.
There is a truth to the fact that we don’t belong here – certainly not in the lovelessness we see in the world. However, it is more true to say we need to be fully here with all our love and commitment to show another way.
I just love knowing that “the particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars” as when I feel the truth of this I can no longer feel like an individual. I know that I am not only part of the stars, the universe but that I am a part of everyone else too as we have all shared the same particles. There is no separation between you and me unless we use our minds to make it appear so.
When we wallow in self pity or see ourselves as separate or alone we begin to see all these crazy thoughts come into our heads that mirror this way of being. When we move, express and feel that we are a part of a much grander picture and one that means every single person on this earth has a divine purpose and one that makes up a huge universal puzzle, that self pity goes out the window and our way of being becomes more about truth, responsibility and the love that holds us all as one.
I do love this blog! When I pick blogs at random to read and come back to one that I have read in the not too distant past, I feel there is more for me to learn from that blog. The main thing that stands out this time is that it is such a matter of choice, we can choose joy and harmony and oneness or stick with the ever unfulfilling highs and lows of self.
The thing is, Anne, that so many people do feel this, this extraordinary sense of alienation and it results in so much aberrant behaviour in our societies. The path of return to knowing who we truly are to know our inner being, this really is, as you say, the only thing that can heal this deep separation
I love particles… I love reading about particles, I love feeling my particles vibrate and align, I love that we are re-cycling masses of particles in our bodies, and I particularly love that particles love aligning to the Divine.
I agree Chris, when you consider we are all particles, that everything is a mass of vibrating particles it levels the playing field and there can be no comparison just responsibility.
What a joy to find this blog again and to feel how I am connected to the Universe just like everybody else. We can create our own misery and stay stuck in this but knowing and feeling we are equal Sons of God, a sparkle in the universe changes our way of living and will bring harmony and brotherhood back in the world.
I got a warm feeling in my body reading this blog especially when reading that we are all made of the same stuff and are undeniably interconnected with each other and the Universe. Although I have the knowledge of this, I felt an inkling of what it feels like to not keep going it alone all the time.
Thank you Anne, it was a completely different read for me today because I can understand my own desire for individuality so much better now, it’s pretty much exactly as you described, and I appreciate the inspiration your writing has provided to go beyond the smallness of self and reconnect to the universe and beyond.
Sometimes these feelings arise because we have allowed in an energy that results in us doubting our own magnificence. Enter sweets, behaviours, emotions etc and that’s it, where gone. What I loved here is that you stopped Anne and felt what was going on and why did you feel your drop. This is responsibility in action, not so much for ourselves but what happens to everyone when we allow this to happen. When we acknowledge this then we can get up, dust ourselves off and keep living life in full, to the best of our ability.
We only need to keep it really simple to see that we are of course an inseparable part of the universe. We’re in it, we’re part of it, so to think we are seperate from it is as you say Anne, a complete illusion. Like you, whenever I decide I don’t want a bar of being part of something and I just want everything my way and make it all about me, I just end up frustrated, sad, lonely etc. It really is interesting to observe just how much we are not designed to be a solo act.
It’s kind of like an ant going off and doing it’s own thing and then wondering why it’s so miserable – it is born as part of something, as we all are. It’s amazing that we don’t naturally feel this as human beings, that we are part of something vast and magnificent, and that our part makes an equal contribution. It shows how individuality is such a strong foundation currently for human life on earth that we don’t naturally feel the immenseness we belong to.
The more I am willing to let go of the need for identity of self, security, protection and all the traits that have separation as the end result, the more I sparkle from my unique essence and come fully into myself. This isn’t a riddle but a universal law of connecting deeper to what is true with-in our bodies and not live what the mind constructs and have us thinking how we need to be. We are already magnificent, we just have to be allowing and appreciate of this truth and choose it for ourselves.
I used to get that feeling that I didn’t belong here too, especially when I was unhappy or life was not going my way, or I was struggling to relate to people. Really it was a way for me to withdraw from life, make it about me and not about people. I now know this to be the opposite to how we should be, life is about people, we know brotherhood, it is in every cell of our body and it is this that is calling us to make the changes and live in a way that supports the whole. It is still a work in progress but I know for me I no longer have the feeling that I am not meant to be here.
You have expressed what so many have felt Anne, that we do not belong here. And how accurate that is in many ways. We do come from another ‘geographical place’ literally and what we don’t belong to is also this: What I am learning is that I can live in the misery and suffering of my self-centred creation when I choose to do it my way, get what I want, go it alone…’ So beautiful to go deep and explore what is calling us when we get a thought running through our heads, such as ‘I don’t being’ here’. As you say we all belong to this choice:’ I can live in the joy and harmony of feeling and knowing that I am but one person among billions, all of whom matter just as much as me, and not only that, but that we are each part of a vast Universe of beings, all connected with each other and all part of a vast oneness.’
I love your sharing Anne that , “The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe,” and all that that signifies. It expresses so simple that we are all interconnected and part of the Universe and that we can either choose to perceive ourselves as isolated individuals or part of the whole. Truly appreciating this, as you share, empowers us to live in the choice of our self-created suffering or immerse ourselves in Universal joy.
“We are an inseparable part of the Universe, and we live in a great illusion that we are separate, because we have tried to separate ourselves from it.” Unless we choose to disconnect from who we are and our essence, it is impossible to question “do I belong?” It is purely a man-made drive to divide life into parts and I imagine anything exists in isolation of the other parts.
I am no fun to have around if I do not get what I want….to realize that I am also not truly joyful when I get what I want was a process of willingness and increasing awareness. It comes out at the end, even the latter with a bit delay maybe. But ‘to get what I want’ is and will be never enough. We belong to our soul and our soul belongs to God. Over this fact we are all connected and in truth One. So I agree, as long I make it about me, I have lost already. Also it is not about sacrificing myself. I am a part of the whole. I am worth and I count. My choices support all our healing and so ‘coming home’ one day – or not. My choice. Every second.
What I truly want is being united again with you all and God – I am just very good in disguising this fact. Even for me.
After reading your article I asked myself how it would be to feel the connection with the whole Universe. The first thing that I felt was, this is actually the truth, so everything that asks us to be individual in life, is going against this truth. And if we all adhered to this truth, there would be a flow and order of a one movement. This feels like a design of utmost beauty, harmony, and support.
Since starting my new job I’ve had repeated ‘I don’t belong here’ thoughts. But when connecting to my essence, to the intelligence within my particles, an intelligence that formed the planets and stars and the human body that knows in utero how many skin, liver, bone cells to make to form a baby. Then I connect to this I get to feel where I am needed and where I am not and no mental story and the reasons why I don’t belong have less ground to stand on. It feels right to be in this job and that makes more sense to my body then believing that I don’t belong.
The truth is that living from self is so normal for most of us, that it is hard to imagine there is another way. But that is the great thing about your beautiful article, Anne: this different way is clearly felt just as the fact that we are all part of the Universe, that we are held in love.
Loved to read your article once again Anne! Inspiring. For me the difference is so clear: the living from self, from individuality only leads to misery, struggle and problems while the living as a part of the whole, with no self, is filled with love, power, joy and a connection to every single human being. How difficult is the choice?
The living individually is so normal for us, that for most of us it is really difficult to grasp there is another way. Another way where there is no struggle, where is joy, love and an interconnectedness to everyone and everything. It is a great feeling, and once we have felt this, there is no turning back.
“It was a tiny little thing, but the feeling that came up in me was huge!” I can relate to this Anne. Sometimes something small happens and it makes me all upset more than just the thing that happens would normally need to trigger. I felt it was a hurt of people not being honest and understanding at all times – something I would love to receive. But I could also see that that is how it is now and that this gives me a big responsibility to not react and go into hurt (yes acknowledge it but not going in to it) to show everyone this way of living and that it is possible. We are in this together and that is how we have to get out as well – together. Very beautiful.
Thank you Anne for sharing a beautiful understanding of the particles of which we are made that are a part of the Universal whole.
That the ‘stuff’ that we are made of is making a bee-line on its return to the source of all, is an ancient and known wisdom that is there for everyone to feel, if they so choose…. And it is a choice.
Thank you for making a such a huge concept so simple and relatable Anne. I really appreciate your sharing on where to start and my body is glad I’ve started to listen to it.
I can relate to having a very strong feeling when I was young that I did not belong in my particular family and yet grew up to realise that many others felt like this in their own families. And yet when you link the micro of our being as particles and space to the macro of the universe it makes perfect sense that we belong here and everywhere and our family is the whole of humanity and beyond.
Anne; I love how you described the particles of the universe: “They have made up countless bodies before mine… and will make up many more to come. They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body.” We are so inter-related and interdependent of each other, to think we’re alone is complete denial of our very essence.
“The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.”n How beautiful is this, our particles are part of the whole Universe, when we leave this body, our particles rejoin the universe.
I am very deeply inspired by what you write Anne Malatt, and as you write below, my heart equally says:
‘And I can choose to wallow in the misery of this again, or I can make a choice to come back to who I truly am, a great and equal part of the one glorious whole… a fellow human being, equal with everyone else, who lives in love, in truth, in brotherhood, knowing that none of us can do this alone, that we are all in this together, and that this is the way life is divinely designed to be.’
I have no other words than to say: It is good to be home, home to who we are, no matter where we are.
To know that I am/we are all from the one Flame of God gives my life purpose like nothing else. Awesome evolutionary blog Anne Mallat.
I love what you share Anne, the way back to us is re-connecting to what we already are is so simple. I can see how the mind identifies with it’s own unique prowess and want’s to make this far more complex, it has sent me on a merry goose chase and still does if I choose the chase. Because the simple choice is connection with my body – and allow myself to feel what’s there to be felt and not go for a complication in covering, sweetening, numbing, rejecting, denying, blaming or any of the mind tactics.
Life is all about a choice, we either make it about oursleves living in a constant fight or flight – pushing and driving ourselves, reacting and being the victims of life or we can make it about our relationship with evolution where it is not about self but our part in the bigger picture of the Universe where we can surrender to the divine plan.
What I am learning from my body is that when I force myself to do things, all the ‘have to’s and ‘should do’s is very VERY taxing and draining on my body. Whereas when I claim what I feel, the lightness and joy in my body that does and naturally has a place in this world I feel more energised. Fighting the love in my life, pretending that it doesn’t belong or can’t survive is a battle my body doesn’t need nor want to fight.
So true Anne – thanks for pointing out that we’re all made of the same stuff as everything else in the universe – makes it much easier to accept that we’re all part of the same thing, the whole, it’s scientific evidence in fact which always helps me along in my understanding rather than just believing what people say! You are right though, it’s when we take everything personally that we can really hurt ourselves with life…. Good reminder to not do that !
‘We belong everywhere’ – that’s a huge step out of the illusion. It’s where the institutionalized religions sell us a lie, the concept of a stupendous place in the Universe we all have to reach sometime, where problems and pain are gone and don’t belong. How cruel, if we allowed ourselves to feel that this concept itself ingrains our problems and pain.
It is incredible what our bodies are made of, how you’ve described this Anne inspires me to love and care for my body more deeply. It shows that we all do belong, not just to this world but to the universe and we are never really alone.
That we are all in it together is awesome and we are constantly reminded of this in interactions with others and also what happen between nations is a reminder that we ought to be open and inviting and not the other way.
This beautifully highlights the arrogance we show toward our own bodies when we are not their owners but their custodians. I love the call to return to responsibility.
Reading this again reminded me of the responsibility we all carry towards the universe as we have our bodies made up from various particles of the same universe. When I consider this I can’t help but feel expanded. And if I am feeling out of sorts then there is an indulgence in being self-centered in a body that on the particle level wants to live universally as energy is constantly moving so whats to say our particles stay with us and never go anywhere? Making life about ourselves is actually a way of welcoming illness and disease into our lives.
The connection between not wanting to feel something and wanting something sweet to eat is great to realize as it breaks that automatic cycle of just satisfying our need without looking at the underlying cause. It is only through identifying the underlying cause can we bring true healing to our behaviours.
Great and joyful to connect to the whole, to the Universe, and your story has this energy where I can align to. Loved it! Indeed our minds want to keep us individual, and that feels really normal, but so much different than feeling as
that we are a part of the whole, knowing that we can do great things together for humanity on a big and small scale.
I know this place of misery well, I also know the place of divine love from which my body is part of. Anne you have given a gift to many sharing a slice of wisdom on a truth that if we all lived by, would erase the misery we choose to dwell in.
I know that feeling too Anne and what you bring in this blog is really interesting for me to look into. To me I can only feel to not belong to when I am not aware of the fact that I do belong, and as you say, through our physical bodies we are undeniable part of the universe, but something in me is trying to hold me from that truth I live in and not want me to be aware of.
The blog highlights the importance and the power of group work. How, when we come together, true service to mankind may be known and acted upon. But what I essentially love the most, is how it points out that we are never not part of the group that makes up the whole.
Thank you for the reminder Anne, that we are all part of the universe and I have found that the more I appreciate I have in my life the more I can embody this fact of my intricate connection to the grandness of the cosmos and God.
“We are an inseparable part of the Universe, and we live in a great illusion that we are separate, because we have tried to separate ourselves from it. But we are still in it! The separation only exists in our minds.” This is such a trick that our minds love to play on us, and we can get so easily caught up in what is being played out. But as long as we keep coming back to what we know is true, and that is the deep connection to God that we have within ourselves and in our bodies, we can stay present and focused on what needs to be done for all, and not just for self.
There are two ways of living, one with love the other in self imposed separation. It’s great to read this to start to clock every time I go into the world’s against me, I didn’t get my way etc. Today this happened and I started going down the indignation route but I stopped myself as I knew this meant I would go home and over eat or stay up late in an effort to compensate myself for my troubles! I would hold the world, those involved and God to ransom. This scenario I knew well and it didn’t end well. So I stopped and appreciated the moment and the fact that it didn’t matter what I was doing it was my quality that gives me quality of life and being.
I have often felt that I didn’t belong here. That there was something about who I was, that left me reacting to the world and everyone around me. The hiding and self doubt kept me ‘existing’ but I was constantly convinced that I was not fitting in and had no part to play. This blog reminds me of the games we play and the way we can so easily separate from our truth when we make is about the ‘me’ and not the ‘us’.
Being a part of the whole universe is something I feel to be true, and therefore, nothing can stop me from feeling I am a part of you. We may not be close in distances or we may have different lifestyle choices, but if in my daily life I choose to honour the rhythm of me and of the Universe, there is only closeness that I feel with everyone. If I feel individualized and have issues and concerns, then life is telling me somewhere I am not living a rhythm that honours me and the Universe.
Coming to the realisation that we are all part of a great sea of oneness is as you say Anne, quite a big leap! I know in my heart that this is the truth, and I have many friends who know this too, and we support each other together, but it seems incredulous that we, the human race that is, have chosen to separate ourselves from our power and live in total arrogance of the fact and continue to spend almost every waking moment trying to numb and distract ourselves from feeling it and putting our bodies into disharmony in the process….. doesn’t make sense does it. What would our bodies do if one cell decided not to co-operate with another, disharmony would result leading to illness and disease I suspect, and that just doesn’t make sense either. So as long as we continue to separate ourselves from the Universe, we will continue to suffer going around and around in circles until we make the choice to stop delaying our evolution and come to the realisation of who we truly are and where we belong, because we don’t just belong everywhere, we ARE everywhere.
‘What I am learning is that I can live in the misery and suffering of my self-centred creation when I choose to do it my way, get what I want, go it alone…’ – This is so true, and something I assume a lot of people will recognise, I certainly do. I used to live my life thinking I was an island. How very different it is when we acknowledge that it is about ALL, the whole, and that every choice we make affects not just ourselves but equally affects everyone else.
‘If I make it all about me, sooner or later I have to feel different, isolated, alone; because we are all different at the level where we are individuals.’ I certainly recognise this Anne and when in it I have felt very small and disconnected, shutdown from the world I am part of. What I am learning is that it is a choice and the more love I bring to my body the easier it is to make that loving choice that says yes to belonging to the grandness that is the Universe.
“They [the particles of my body] are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body. The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.” This is a truly awesome realisation – that what makes up my body does not actually belong to me but is part of the Universe. I find this really huge and significant as it truly brings to my awareness that I have a responsibility and a connection to everybody and everything, that what I do to myself has an affect far greater than just upon myself.
How can we ever feel alone when we are made of up particles, particles, the same particles that make up the universe. As human beings are so connected yet for many isolation and aloneness exists, even when we live amongst others such as family. Its internal and its because in our minds we think we are alone, we are seperate from others, from life. I know this from my own experience. I said to a friend the other day. ‘Wow, i have not felt lonely for years’. Not since I began to connect to my essence, and opening up to everyone and life, knowing i am part of a whole, a significant part as we all are.
Amazing to reflect on the fact, we are always searching for God, whether consciously or not. What I’m coming to learn is that God reveals himself in many ways, If I am willing to pay attention I will see him in people and nature, but If I make something about me, or an issue then I can’t access this same knowing and awesomeness.
“If I make it all about me, sooner or later I have to feel different, isolated, alone; because we are all different at the level where we are individuals.” This is such a hook that we have all been and can still get caught in. But as you explain this does not have to be the case. We all have a choice to either stay in our own misery, or we can choose to connect to what we know is inside us and accept that we are so much more, claim it for ourselves, and share that with the rest of the world.
So do we surpress feelings that come up and we don’t want to feel with food, drink etc? YES!!!!! What you have shown here and what I know from experience is that when we feel the feelings instead of going for the food with the intention to get underneath it so to speak, it is not a big deal in fact it takes more energy and time to not feel it! I loved what you expressed here ‘I am made of flesh and blood, which is made of molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles that have been here since before the beginning of time. They have made up countless bodies before mine… and will make up many more to come. They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body.’ It’s beautifull because it gets self out of the way to see the wonderment of who we truly are and that we are all part of the all and ultimately the Universe. How can you feel sad after feeling and knowing this? ????✨
“When I don’t get what I want, I feel like I am missing out,” This is such a great line Anne. That feeling of being deprived is familiar to me. But it’s so true that we are not alone and so it can’t be all about us. To pause and step back to see the bigger picture allows me to realise when I don’t get what I want there is so much more at play than my needs.
What you have written here really does sum it all up for me, thank you for expressing so beautifully and for sharing your wisdom;
“And I can choose to wallow in the misery of this again, or I can make a choice to come back to who I truly am, a great and equal part of the one glorious whole… a fellow human being, equal with everyone else, who lives in love, in truth, in brotherhood, knowing that none of us can do this alone, that we are all in this together, and that this is the way life is divinely designed to be”.
I have just reread your blog. Any time I’m ever feeling isolated or alone this will be a great antidote. When I think of my particles belonging to the universe, I simply have to smile.
Living in our individual bubble of misery doesn’t work in truth…. it is all based on the physicality of life, while there is so much more, we are interconnected. Through the wisdom that is within our bodies.
‘Going it alone’ is something that many in the world feel is their lot in life – that this is normal – and we have to admit that as a humanity we have made it so. The amazing group work we do heals so much and brings brotherhood back into the hearts of mankind.
It’s like life is set up like an amusement arcade with a million games and rides. We seem to believe that the art of life is to win the prize or at the very least, go very fast. Truly this place should be called the arcade of abuse. For when we get sucked into the halls of mirrors and rollercoaster of what we think is ‘reality’ we start to think this is all there is to see. Yet what you show Anne is that there is actually a door we can open and actually exit this crazy arcade into the clear and clean night air. This door is always there, should we choose to stop playing the empty games of emotion.
I definitely belong here and my purpose has more and more clarity everyday. Reading this article supports awaken to the truth of who I am and how connected we all are. Let’s get on with it!
The greatest thing I can offer another when they choose to go it alone is to be with me in everything I do; it is the only way.
Reading this blog again today – For me, it’s clear to not wallow in our own self-indulgence, this supports no -one and creates more unseen sticky mud for us all to walk through.
Wallowing in self doesn’t support anything, it just makes us waist deep in mud, and completely blind to people.
When I realised that ‘knowing that none of us can do this alone, that we are all in this together, and that this is the way life is divinely designed to be’ it took off the pressure and allowed me to truly feel the awesome beauty of realising that we are all one part of the same whole. I am becoming more aware and accepting that we all may have different paths to tread but that eventually we will all arrive at the same destination.
Great points for people who have ever considered they don’t belong here.
Boom – said it in one ” The separation only exists in our minds.” enough said.
‘And I have come to learn that, when this desire arises, it’s because I am already feeling a sadness that I don’t want to feel.’ I can very much relate to this and the use of sweet food , to not feel this, it’s an after effect of not wanting to feel or deal with whats really going on, for me this has been a huge sadness and jealousy of others. For a very very long time, ancient in fact I have used food as a mask and an excuse to not feel whats really going on, another pattern is reaching for food or going to eat / eating when I don’t like what I feel, which is not love. I have found connective tissues a great support in helping me to clear the sadness and also being open to take the next step to address, feel whats going on that I am not dealing with / avoiding. I know for me when I deal with this, then the food thing won’t be there anymore.
Gorgeous Anne. So we might as well make ourselves right at home, because this is where it is at. Here and the whole universe, our home:-)
“Firstly, it was triggered by a desire in me for something sweet that actually could not be satisfied, because somebody else had eaten my stash! And I have come to learn that, when this desire arises, it’s because I am already feeling a sadness that I don’t want to feel.” I agree, when I don’t want to feel I eat something sweet, something I would never dream of eating if I was feeling myself or if truth be told actually listened to my body and loved myself, so along with sadness or whatever that may be there is also the energy of self loathing to look at, for if we loved ourselves deeply we would not make such unloving choices to abuse ourselves. But also, it’s a good question to ask, is this why sugar is so pushed and nearly in every form of processed food in this world? To stop us from knowing our truth and light?
Misery and suffering in self-centred creation versus joy and harmony in the equal oneness of connection with billions – the choice is as simple as it is stunning.
‘The separation only exists in our minds.’– this is gold. To deeply consider what this means for us, as a humanity, would mean that we would truly have no reason for war, cause for persecution, racisim, or abuse, except for when we indulge our minds. For in our hearts none of these forces exist, only the oneness of love that we are, where the light of our Soul when surrendered to guides us to live in truth as Brotherhood, with God, as we are all born to.
Anne, when you write about us being one part of a vast sea of beings in the Universe I realised, that even when sitting alone in my living room, I am not alone. Even though I sometimes feel alone, I realise that everything I do, say and think, and every movement I make affects everyone else, and maybe it is this enormous responsibility that makes us want to go to the fridge so as to not feel the magnitude of what we are missing out on….. the Love we all truly are.
“They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body’ This awareness that our body is not ours alone but belongs to all is a powerful realisation and brings deeper understanding that we are the way we live affects not just ourselves but the whole of humanity
Knowing our bodies are made up of ‘molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles’, that we share this truth with every other human being puts life into perspective. I love this sentence ‘ I belong everywhere, ‘ when we feel at home in our own bodies, this sense of belonging becomes part of us.
When we make it about ourselves life shrinks to a small dense point but when we allow the feeling that we are all part of the stupendous whole, and share the same particles as the stars there is joy, purpose and a knowing that we are all equal and a glorious spaciousness – it’s crazy how I often settle for less by going back to old familiar self-centred ways.
When we can fully understand that we all have a vital part to play in the universe, and that everything that we do matters, however small it may be, it becomes clear that it is actually really arrogant to think that we can make our lives just aobut ourselves. It has taken me a while to understand this because I haven’t wanted to accept how arrogant I have been, but the more I am willing to do this, the more I am able to simply clock it and choose to not be that anymore.
I am finding that the more space I create in my life the more I have to do and therefore there is only time for me to be in what ever I am doing. When I get caught out I find that it is becoming simpler to find my way back to my divine connection or inner-most.
Anne great points you make and in my experience as well, the more I live knowing I am part of the Universe and everything I do affects everything else the more I know I belong here as do all others, albeit just until we all realise we don’t belong here in this form. But the magic of the Universe is all around, the more I feel it in myself the more I see it everywhere.
If I trace back all my hurts and miseries they all lead to my investment in being self. Not accepting that I am an equal part of the One whole and there really is no ‘self’ creates much angst. We are the custodians of our own physical body in which we inhabit for the duration of time we call life, and it is our responsibility to care for and express what comes through this configuration of particles – but they are not for us to own or abuse. And it is our body that keeps reminding us the truth of who/what we truly are.
To wallow in self pity is such an easy choice to make, it has been for me a little bit of a default, and yet it is also easy to flick the switch instantly and be engaged in life, to look beyond my own boundary and see what is happening in the world, to engage in it and say yes to being part of it and to contributing positively to society, people, community, humanity.
‘The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.’ And all the stars are letting us know we can shine just like they do and light up the world together.
This is so sweet to read and something that I am familiar with “When I listen to and honour my body and live in a simple loving way that deeply cares for it (and for me), I start to feel some things…” I find it deeply alters the quality of the thoughts I have when I care for myself, it has a impact in all areas of life.
I love this phrase, Anne – “I belong everywhere”. It is quite something to open up and accept that you are a part of something so grand and divine, that every particle is pulsating in accordance to greater rhythms, as is everyone else’s. This takes us out of any self-filled dilemmas in life to a more surrendered and expanded state of being, which can be lived and connected to in the most ordinary daily activities through the quality of our movements.
Anne, this is very interesting and helpful, ‘if the old feelings of sadness arise, they can serve as a signpost that I am choosing to live in the old way again, the way of desire, of self, of separation, of individuality… of me.’
I noticed how sometimes I feel sad at what is going on the world, when I feel this sadness I can also feel overwhelmed, that it is all wrong and not as it should be, I can also be in judgment of people, whereas if I am present and feeling my loveliness and stay with this feeling then I see the beauty in people, the potential and I have understanding and life is fun, no matter where I am or what I am doing because I am with me and enjoying me, the difference is huge, so thank you Anne, when I am feeling sad I will know this is a signpost for me.
“For me, it starts with my body. Now this is something I have tried to ignore for quite a long time. I have indulged it, pushed it, used it, driven it, but listening to it and honouring it… that is a whole new thing for me.”
This I can really relate to as I’ve found that a lot of what I’ve done in the past was totally disregarding of my body. As I relearn what it means to be loving with my body I find my body responds, it becomes more open, aware and able to feel even the more subtle things that used to go unnoticed.
So beautifully written Anne, As I was reading it was like a penny dropped, how our bodies are not ours but a part of something much grander. I can feel and understand why I feel tension when I try to live separate and make it just about me, because its just not possible to live seperate.
Hello Anne and this certainly brings some perspective to our little tantrums at times, “I can live in the joy and harmony of feeling and knowing that I am but one person among billions, all of whom matter just as much as me, and not only that, but that we are each part of a vast Universe of beings, all connected with each other and all part of a vast oneness.” When we miss out on something or it doesn’t go our way we can retreat into the poor me corner or we can bring awareness to the greater part we play as a small part of a greater plan. Bring things small and you have something to cry about but make it bigger and you have everything to appreciate.
I love this line, Ray – “Bring things small and you have something to cry about but make it bigger and you have everything to appreciate.” You could make a song out of that…
I spent years thinking I did not belong. It was, I realised an excuse to not take responsibility for my part in this life. I kept blaming outside and not understanding I had so much inside to share, and we all do equally. This habit is turning itself around and it feels good. I belong, I am connected, I am more at ease then I ever have been and this is from a reconnection, not anything from outside, but beautifully the more I reconnect the more is expressed and shared with all.
I have sat with this, ‘in my life, how can there every really be special ones’ … I have never felt there can be, however I have been caught in separation from others. My son asked me about war and governments recently, and asked how can the governments say it is wrong to kill people and then go to war and kill people? He is 5 and wise. My answer – because we tell ourselves and others that we are different from each other, this is the way we can hurt another, we hurt inside ourselves and it makes it easier to see difference rather than what truly brings us together. However there is always another way, my choice, my truth. “I can live in the joy and harmony of feeling and knowing that I am but one person among billions, all of whom matter just as much as me,” We all matter, it is a fact that we are all family.
We all belong here till every last person makes the choice to re-turn home.
What I am being shown more and more each day, thanks to God, is how our choices have an effect on everyone else, it’s very very beautiful and amazing to feel we are all held in this level of communication and love, that there is way more where this came from – this is only touching the surface. And the level of divine responsibility God is calling us to re-turn to.
The key I find is to not be hard on ourselves and this just makes things worse, yes okay we can stuff up sometimes, but God doesn’t not chastise, he holds us in absolute love, it’s like getting a giant big hug.
“I can live in the joy and harmony of feeling and knowing that I am but one person among billions, all of whom matter just as much as me, and not only that, but that we are each part of a vast Universe of beings, all connected with each other and all part of a vast oneness.” When I read that, my particles start tingling, and I know the truth of it. It is still a journey for me to fully live that, but what a wonderful journey it is to be on. I love how you expressed that Anne, and can feel how important it is for me to truly care for myself, I am far, far more than just this body, but while here on this earth, it is important for me to honour it.
Its a strange thing… to feel like we do not belong. And yet I’ve felt it, as have many others. Reading the blog reminded me that at times its simply because I’m not really ‘here’, in some way I have become disconnected and that is the underlying reason I might feel like a square peg in a round hole.
I relate Simon but I am more like a spherical peg in a square hole. I have so many feelings that are saying that I have been here before as this feels familiar!
When I listen to and honour my body and live in a simple loving way that deeply cares for it (and for me), I start to feel some things…Yes Anne, our bodies speak very loudly when we are ready to stop and listen to it speak. This one simple choice to start to listen and be more self caring is immeasurable and can ripple out to encompass all aspects of our lives in the simplest but no less powerful ways.
How about teaching in school that feeling sad, angry, lonely etc. are actually signposts, markers to know that we’re in fact not connected to the love we innately are. Getting to know ourselves is starting to admit when we are ourselves and when we’re not. That the feeling of loving ourselves is so so graceful, tender and loving to feel. But we can only feel that when we’re connected to our hearts and body. So the question if I do belong isn’t relevant in the sense that we ALL do belong, it’s up to us to learn to live in a way that supports feeling this.
I would love to go to a school like that Floris. One that Truely supports students to know themselves first before everything else.
“I feel this sadness (and then the desire to sweeten it) any time I do not get my own way. When I don’t get what I want, I feel like I am missing out, I feel that I am not part of something, I feel different, isolated, not understood, not heard … any time, in short, when I make it all about me.”
These lines really do explain a lot about my sweet tooth, its so easy to become self focused but so much more interesting and enchanting when we see our part in this whole wondrous universe.
Presenting this knowing is so beautiful Anne as it offers us the truth and brings a real understanding to how we feel and what we feel and the choices we can make ” I can make a choice to come back to who I truly am, a great and equal part of the one glorious whole… a fellow human being, equal with everyone else, who lives in love, in truth, in brotherhood, knowing that none of us can do this alone, that we are all in this together, and that this is the way life is divinely designed to be.” And not to live in the isolation and separation we can easily slip into otherwise.
Dear Adam, you bring a new level to the forum here. Every one of us can relate to the limitations of the physical body and the seeming encumbrance of physical life with its perceived restrictions on a being that is used to being weightless, formless and imminent, moving faster than the speed of thought and living by a law of ‘think it and it is’ – all this is a reality for the spirit but not so for one that is in a body governed by the material realm. The spirits homesickness, resentment, arrogance, frustration and lack of acceptance of the realities of physical life eventually, at some point, often many rewards and indulgences later, gives way to the return to the soul life you speak of, that the soul so humbly, effortlessly and joyfully lives in full accord with, diminished not.
Do I belong here or don’t I? It is a question that betrays a certain level of unfoldment for the true initiate. At first, there is the initial awareness that we are much more than just this physical body, and in that there is a reaction to the limitation of being human. Such an awareness often leads to a foray down the spiritual path, as one seeks to escape physical life and immerse themselves in a world of energy. And because that world of energy is seemingly so much more enticing than the world of physicality, such an initiate can find themselves lost for a long time – lifetimes infact – in the illusion that they have found the answer to life. And by a spiritual path, I include the many religious experiences people have that seemingly connect to something otherworldly. So how does one avoid such a path of incarceration? Simple. Keep your feet on the ground. Turn the soil. Keep life simple, and make sure that whatever otherworldly revelation you have, that it in itself can relate to physical life. If our true nature is to be revealed, then it must in itself make sense of the physical life we lead – for the physical life for now is not something that we can escape. And that is the revelation that sets one on the path to being free from illusion – in that we realise that the greater truth is that we must learn to live a life that is fully committed in every single way to the physical world, but in a way where we are are not owned by it. In other words, as Serge Benhayon has always presented, be a fish in the water, but do not get wet.
We are all part of the Universe, and do we all play our part? The Universe expands when we emanate and live the Love we truly are
We are all connected, we all have an equal part to play, and that means all we have to do is express ourselves fully in our lives (and not want to be living someone else’s) to bring that unique quality to the world. Life could not be simpler!
Thank you again Anne, for such a lovely sharing and the reminder of our connection to the multidimensionality of the universe, the stars and that we are not separate beings but are always in a movement connected with the all.
Although I know that I am an inseparable part of the whole I sometimes conveniently ‘forget’ and make life all about me. Until such time as more of us on this planet are living in such a way that confirms we are all one, then life will continue to be a struggle, this is where the Way of the Livingness comes in, to show us how to return to a way of life that is called Brotherhood, where we will all live and co-operate harmoniously with each other on our journey back home to where to came from.
More and more I realise it is not about me, my needs, being separate, but about all of us as a whole, about connection, how can it not be when really we are just ‘one’, we just can’t see the energy that proves we are all connected at present, but we can feel it.
Thank you Anne for the poignant reminder. We fight hard for our individuality but does it bring us the joy, love, stillness, harmony and truth we seek? No – it never has and never will. Connection is life affirming.
It is amazing and somewhat crazy how we as humans have chosen a self-centred creation wanting life to be a certain way, go it alone, believing that individuality brings us happiness and success. Instead it brings us misery and suffering.
The riches lie within, and only in our reconnection to our true essence and soul do we find truth, joy and harmony.
It is a choice.
A great and equal part of the glorious whole. I love reading this blog. It gives me such an awesome sense of why making things all about me leads me down such an unhappy path. This makes sense of all the unhappiness that I lived with for so long and gives me the instant solution and recipe for joy and deep connection.
When put like this it really is a no brainer, ‘What I am learning is that I can live in the misery and suffering of my self-centred creation when I choose to do it my way, get what I want, go it alone…
Or…
I can live in the joy and harmony of feeling and knowing that I am but one person among billions, all of whom matter just as much as me, and not only that, but that we are each part of a vast Universe of beings, all connected with each other and all part of a vast oneness.’ Thank you for presenting this truth so succinctly Anne.
Wow the choice to be in misery is a choice of being an individual and separating myself from my natural connection to my true self, others, nature and the universe. Seems crazy but we choose this over and over again thinking it will not result in suffering only to relive it yet again.
Thank you Anne, I know I have read this before but what a gem to read again today. A constant reminder of the all we are part of.
“. . .separation only exists in our minds” but it can seem so real to us when we walk around in this belief judging, comparing and feeling different from, better than or not good enough. Living like this we are separate from our own bodies and we often ignore their need for attention until we get some serious condition that we are forced to pay attention to. As soon as we bring our awareness to the body it lets us know what is needed and there is no denying the fact that we are connected to everything and everyone around us.
I love how you bring all of this back to the bigger picture that is the universe and our actually undeniable part we play in this whole. It isn’t truly about us, its about living in a way that serves our purpose within the all.
‘The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.’ Beautifully shared Anne, knowing this changes everything the responsibility we have to live with love and harmony within our own bodies and the flow on effect this has to everyone around us.
What a great understanding you came to Anne, ‘I feel this sadness (and then the desire to sweeten it) any time I do not get my own way. When I don’t get what I want, I feel like I am missing out, I feel that I am not part of something, I feel different, isolated, not understood, not heard … any time, in short, when I make it all about me.’ I can relate with this, as I am sure many can.
Reading your blog again Anne has made me realise that I do not own my own particles, I am a custodian of them. In this way of thinking there is a greater responsibility to take care of them and make sure the quality of their vibration is maintained!
What I love about your blog Anne is how it so simply highlights the fact that the quality of how we are with ourselves actually is what enables us to embrace living with all in the wider interdependence we inescapably belong to.
“What I am learning is that I can live in the misery and suffering of my self-centred creation when I choose to do it my way, get what I want, go it alone…”- I have done that too, learnt the hard way. Nowadays it is so much more joyful knowing there are family, not even blood family that I can share with, learn new ways and be inspired by, thanks to all the teachings and presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
“If I make it all about me, sooner or later I have to feel different, isolated, alone… “- so true, how can it be any other way? Only in connection can things flow and this starts with us first so it can be lived with others.
I wonder how many of us actually feel alone most of the time? Even when surrounded by family and friends, work colleagues or even strangers, there can still be an overwhelming sense of loneliness. I have felt it before and you’ve expanded on this feeling so beautifully in this blog Anne. The relationship with belonging or feeling alone always comes back to our relationship with ourselves. For me, if I don’t feel myself or feel disconnected then I feel very alone. But that is only because by not being connected to myself I am actually cutting myself off from the Universe. I am the pathway to the all – and once I feel that within, I can really recognise it everywhere and in everyone.
The word ‘wallowing’ really brings a lot to the surface for me. It’s what I’ve chosen to do to deal with whatever feelings are there, well, I thought I was dealing with them! Just from the first paragraph alone, where you could choose to continue wallowing OR ask the questions and be active in feeling what is there. Asking ourselves questions seems to be the key to get out of the sucking state of wallowing and back into the drivers seat.
“When I listen to and honour my body and live in a simple loving way that deeply cares for it (and for me), I start to feel some things…” It is amazing how our bodies speak to us all the time. It is whether we are willing to choose to listen that is the key. If we do, it gives us so many gifts, if we don’t, the messages just get buried deeper and deeper within until there are so many layers of numbness covering up our true feelings that we can totally dismiss the fact that there is something physically wrong, until it gets to a point we cannot ignore it. By which time it can be irreversible.
I love those ‘signposts’ they seem to get bigger and clearer every year that I continue to be a student of The Livingness!
Oh so true Greg, I find that too and I observe them with joy s they show me where I am at all the time, either gently reminding me of awareness or playfully acknowledging or showing support.
When we make it all about ourselves we have a narrow, dense perspective on life or the incident that just occurred – we become hard like rock and our words can be knife-edge sharp. However, when it is about all of us together with life, ie a dance of particles in form, we become so expansive and spacious that time stands still and all can viewed in perspective and joy is our way.
‘And the way back to this knowing is the stuff of which we are made, the particles that make up our being, the sparks of God’s flame that we call ‘us.’’ Beautiful Anne, we are sparks of God , and so must return to that which we are made from.
To stop and deeply feel that we are part of the all- the stars, universe, God, there is a responsibility to look after our physical body to allow our divinity to impulse us through life and be part of brotherhood and the evolution of humanity.
We all play a special part in it, therefore it is time to claim our power and not hold back.
I used to be so stubborn with wanting it my way without even being aware of what I was missing out on. Today I enjoy another view and take on something, which is often so very enriching and supportive.
To re read your sharing Anne and take in your words is to know we are indeed all connected to the all that is, as you say, the stars are made of the same ingredients as we all are! It is impossible for us to play small!
The truth is that when we feel that we don’t belong it is a true feeling as it usually means we have separated from our self and are therefore in a space that is foreign to us.
A timely re-read. thank you Anne.
I have never had the feeling of not belonging here but definitely the sense that something, not everything, is wrong about how life is lived. Today I would say everyone should have that feeling as there is not much in life that resembles who we are and the way of living we are supposed to and longing for to live. It is crucial to divide oneself out of the equation of today´s reality, ie. to detach from what is not true and develop a relationship first and foremost with what is known deep inside to be absolutely true.
I agree Anne, it can be a great leap to realise that we are not who we think we are, there is no separation, and we are all part of the all. I am sure it can seem like a fairy tale concept to many who are not ready to hear it but in my heart I know it to be true. So I ask myself, how do I know this? Because my heart is part of the all too and if I stop listening to my head and connect with my body then this knowing will become stronger until there is no escaping the fact that I AM PART OF THE WHOLE and my particles are everywhere and my purpose is to reflect this to everyone. Thank you for reminding me that I am too part of the whole and life is not just about me.
When we realise the truth of how great and grand we truly are it feels impossible to conceive that we ever left ourselves to become enmeshed and diverted with becoming an individual. We cling to being separate because we have allowed ourselves to believe that this is normal when the truth is that our origins tell us quite the opposite. As we learn to expand our experience we can feel the space that surrounds us and that is supporting to us – and that in this space resides God and all the magnificent Universe that is forever evolving so that we too can vibrate with the rest of the universe as one.
Not everything we see on this planet is lovely, in fact most of what we encounter is not love. Acknowledge all that does not feel lovely, every single thing, and it expands into a miracle that I actually really love being here, I really love every single person as I understand why they are how they are, we are really very similar and I am absolutely a part of them as they are of me. There is no separation, they do not find me different and I embrace them absolutely. The only difference is in having this awareness, there is more responsibility to take in living even deeper the truth within myself, as indeed, the truth in all of us equally.
When looking outside I find that everything feels overwhelming, bringing the focus back to my body, it is all very simple. Truly caring for this body, this care when expressed outwardly is powerful and it is what the world is desperately asking for.
Do I or don’t I belong here?” The answer is really Yes to both questions, for on the one hand we do belong here because we have chosen to incarnate on earth and so we may as well commit to life and get on with it rather than avoid fully living in our bodies. On the other hand, we all have a sense at times that we don’t belong on earth, not because we want to escape, but because we know deep down that we are divine and our essence is much vaster and finer than this world of physical existence.
The saying: “We’re all in the same boat” reflects that we do in fact know that whatever one does affects the other, yet we choose to ignore it until such time as we are brought to account for our actions and realize that we are all in this together.
How true Sandra, sooner or later we are brought to our own awareness of this fact, we are humans all together in this journey of life, which Anne has aptly expressed.
“If I make it all about me, sooner or later I have to feel different, isolated, alone.” Anne, this is common sense logic yet we just don’t see the connection and how wanting our own way separates us so much from humanity. We are like a ‘free radical’ wandering by ourselves creating havoc in the world by the energy we have chosen. In fact it makes me wonder if the free radical that causes cancer is just mirroring our separatist behaviour.
“The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars…” – we use to talk about being global players or world citizens but in fact, we are literally Universal beings ! Wow !
Wow indeed – how awesome does that feel when we truly connect to this truth, and then with the awareness of the responsibility that comes with this…
Love what you say about particles being the common denominator in what makes us all connected to and part of the whole, the aggregation of all the particles. Taking it down to this level of composition and construction serves to expose the illusory ways in which we can package up separation and lose the one-ness of life.
Living life relying purely on the intellect and knowledge keeps us separate to everybody else, it is all about survival, competition and bettering self. It is only until we choose to connect the our innate quality of love and tenderness that we understand that it is just about self but the whole universe as one. Thank you Anne.
When I break through the habit and need to be special, different, exclusively me in some way I find myself unhampered by any sense of isolation or competition with others and in a place that belongs to a much bigger picture, responsibly moving alongside approximately 7 billion people as we navigate ourselves back together and to God.
‘For me, it starts with my body’. This is also relevant for me but I feel to isolate it to a starting point of it firstly being about my breath and my breath is continually a focus as part of me staying connected. Then it is how I move in conjunction with my breath!
we have the choice to make every move a confirmation of Divinity, and an expansion of the Universal order of the cosmos. . . or we can choose to move against this – confirming and entrenching the individual in its own bubble of creation – a creation that fosters separatism and individualism that inevitably result in the eternal crisis and chaos of this world we currently inhabit.
Believing that we are alone on this journey is a great illusion to keep us in separation from each other and fighting against each other in comparison and competition when in fact the truth as you deliver sweetly: ‘ that none of us can do this alone, that we are all in this together, and that this is the way life is divinely designed to be’
After reading this blog yesterday I was left with a deep appreciation of my divinity and the understanding that my relationship with the divinity I hold within is the key to letting out the love I am and allowing love in. I held this truth during the day and could feel how open and receptive I was. The joy was beautiful. Thank you again Anne Malatt!
I have often wondered down the street and as I’ve passed strangers I wonder why they might be so important to one person and yet I’ll never say a word to them – and my whole body feels the imbalance of this – in the sense that we all have the opportunity to connect with each other but still we pick and chose and judge who we connect with. And yet we are all made up of the same stuff – we are all here to ultimately support one another. And we are all the same, it is just our choices that make our expression different.
This blog is a great reflection to all of us and the potential we have to see the bigger picture – it provides an opportunity for us to eliminate the idea of self – to knowingly live in a way that is connected to everyone. That being in self is to be in separation which goes against our DNA. What we are made up of is no different to the next person – but we fail to live this way. So here is an opportunity for us each to ask ourselves why this is so if we naturally are drawn to each other.
Moving away from self and into brotherhood is an essential part of our evolution. It will happen and is just a question of when, which is based on how much we resist, react and fight against the natural pull to work together.
Making life all about me has been a default position for me for a very long time – ever since I lost a true connection with myself and hence with others. Coming back home again to be able to feel my true connection which is as a part of a greater whole – a whole that contains the whole Universe and the way we respond and interact with one another.
There is so much beauty in your writing and I love the simplicity in which you describe the two different choices and to be aware of it, honest about it, that we have at every moment, with everything. “When I live this way, in the knowing of this truth, life is joyful and full, and if the old feelings of sadness arise, they can serve as a signpost that I am choosing to live in the old way again, the way of desire, of self, of separation, of individuality… of me.
And I can choose to wallow in the misery of this again, or I can make a choice to come back to who I truly am, a great and equal part of the one glorious whole… a fellow human being, equal with everyone else, who lives in love, in truth, in brotherhood, knowing that none of us can do this alone, that we are all in this together, and that this is the way life is divinely designed to be.”
And I can choose to wallow in the misery of this again, or I can make a choice to come back to who I truly am, a great and equal part of the one glorious whole… a fellow human being, equal with everyone else
‘And the way back to this knowing is the stuff of which we are made, the particles that make up our being, the sparks of God’s flame that we call ‘us.’ Divinity explained!
Anne, I have reread your blog this morning and pondered deeply on your wisdom. I relate to every word you have written – you have articulated my experience of life to the letter! Another confirmation that we are indeed from the same ‘vast oneness’ Thank you so much.
It appears that ‘getting our own way’ is a mindset that we never grow out of and leads us and the world into much disharmony and conflict.. We use the amazing gift of free will to separate from love and from unity and from harmony and think it more important to get our own way. This causes our bodies great dis-ease and perhaps one day science will be able to prove that the underlying truth around illness and disease is the choice to be individual rather that part of one whole divine being.
I once used to apologise every time I walked into a room, verbally or with how I was until someone lovingly said it’s a blessing when I walk in in my fullness. Through connecting with my body as you describe I’ve discovered a delicious essence that now I can feel is most certainly lovely to be around.
Of course I have off days and carry energy that’s not lovely but even with this I now know that is not me or who I am and I can let what’s not me go.
This brings a whole new level of responsibility, that we are made up of particles in the Universe and these particles have a Universal order and harmony for us to be – so we have the choice by free will to align with this harmony or choose to work against the natural order. This world of ours clearly shows the result of choosing our own individualistic way, but we only need remember that there is the other choice – a way to live in true harmony with the all.
Beautiful Anne. I loved what you shared about our particles being the same as those of the stars above having belonged to many more bodies before they were in ours now. Wow, if humanity knew this and understood it. How different the world would be. To tend to our bodies with tender care is tending to the particles that belong to the universe. There is such grace and awe in what we are inextricably a part of when we surrender to the knowing that we are simply a vessel for God’s love.
Once I can come back to a place where I can feel that ‘we are each part of a vast Universe of beings, all connected with each other and all part of a vast oneness’ I can begin to let go of the ‘me’ and expand my experience of the full beauty of being at one with the rest of the Universe.
‘I can live in the joy and harmony of feeling and knowing that I am but one person among billions, all of whom matter just as much as me, and not only that, but that we are each part of a vast Universe of beings, all connected with each other and all part of a vast oneness.’ This is beautiful to read when we are indulging in the belief that we are separate, wallowing in our own unique misery of individualism.
Very beautifully said Anne. And taking in deeply your words about all the cells of our body being part of the universe allowed me to accept more that my body is part of the whole and I feel myself embracing my body more.
This is an awesome blog Anne, thank you. It is a brilliant sign post to realise that when I wade into the sadness, or the frustration of not getting my own way, or need that comfort food, it is because I have separated from everyone in my mind. As you say, we are made up of the stuff of the universe, we are all the same and all a part of the universe so separation is an illusion. We live in this one body, we just need to live this wonder all the time.
Anne I love how you allowed yourself to truly feel that apparently ‘small’ thing, and how this lead back to you reconnecting to universality. Every detail in life is important and can lead us to truth when investigated.
This is a beautiful blog Anne. Reminding us we are all an intrinsic part of the whole, we share the same particles and we are connected by divine design. It also reminds us when our particles choose to separate and think they are on their own, the impact is felt by all of us. As you say, we are in this together.
It’s possible to feel the resistance in humanity, to truly be aware of our oneness and connection with each other and with the universe. I can feel in me the attempt to hold this as a mental concept and not feel the truth of this in my body, deep down without a question. The moment we truly feel this fact that we are all one and that every choice effects everyone and also be willing to feel everyone elses choices not just our own then life cannot continue how it is. So staying in the ignorance is a way to hold life the way it is. About self.
I think many of us have these moments Anne where we feel that we belong to something bigger than this one body and the mind’s incessant drive to own life and its experiences. To connect with nature and its natural order and harmony is a great reminder for me that I am just one part, spark, of this beautiful universe.
I love this line – “They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body” – we come from the stars but are custodians of this body and what it leaves behind… responsibility at the deepest level…
It is wonderful when we can begin to see the bigger picture about our ingrained behaviours and the deeper controls that pull our strings.
To belong or not to belong’ , ‘to be or not to be’, theses are the questions that beg for us to make a choice, a choice that effects everything one way or the other. A choice to indulge in the ‘I’ or take our responsible place in the ‘All’. Great blog Anne.
Seeing ourselves as an equal part of the universe is certainly a shift we have to make because if we see ourselves as equal we know we have a responsibility to it.
What I love observing in human life is the fact that ultimately all that we do has an impact be it small or big on others and that it is ultimately all of us that we all depend on to allow us to live and express as we do. We need the computer guy, the farmer, the cook, the bus driver, the teacher, the accountant, the lawyer etc. Every single person is super important in one way or another to the benefit of the whole.
“…The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe….”
Wouldn’t the world be a different place if we all knew this to be true? Such a beautiful blog Anne, one I will share with my daughter.
Unless we see the strangeness of when we see the world for what it is – a disconnection that we can choose not to enjoin – we may be led to becoming estranged from ourselves.
A beautiful and inspiring piece of writing that exposes the futility and devastation of our living in isolation from the big picture. How can we not take responsibility, treat ourselves and each other with tenderness and respect when we realise and accept that we are inextricably connected and essential parts of a very glorious grand plan? Thank you, Anne.
“I feel this sadness (and then the desire to sweeten it) any time I do not get my own way. When I don’t get what I want, I feel like I am missing out, I feel that I am not part of something, I feel different, isolated, not understood, not heard … any time, in short, when I make it all about me.”
I really take what you have shared to heart and I pondered on this” my way”. Often I detect myself going to eat something is when I reacted to a certain situation, certain behaviour or words from somebody, when I was not aware enough in the first place to understand and observe.
What a trickster the mind can be when it separates and leaves the body behind, as it is through the body that we can reconnect to the source of our making and our universality. As you say “We are an inseparable part of the Universe…” and to feel that is the greatest joy.
Coming to understand that our particles are universal, that they are only ours for a set period of time puts a totally different perspective on the ignorance and disregard we have for ourselves.
Yes, Michael, from this perspective how could we not be more responsible of everything we do, say, think?
“We are an inseparable part of the Universe, and we live in a great illusion that we are separate, because we have tried to separate ourselves from it. But we are still in it! The separation only exists in our minds.” When this is read and really taken on it makes absolute sense to pay attention to our bodies and the quality of them rather than what our mind is telling us most of the time. After all it is our bodies we take everywhere, therefore a receiver of all the energy around us. And all of our body is part of everything so staying aware to what we are feeling, rather than separating, is super important.
“I feel this sadness (and then the desire to sweeten it) any time I do not get my own way. ” This is such a revelation to see this spelt out to me. Thank you.
Beautiful Anne, what an inspiration to read this. I love what you share about our particles. “They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body.” Ah this is gorgeous, thank you.
I love this line too. Responsibility in a nutshell.
The attachments we have to food can be so insidious.
Being aware of our reactions and questioning our behaviours can bring so much clarity and loving change to our lives. I have become aware recently of how easily I go for food when I get home from work, and your blog has been a timely reminder to truly feel what is going on at this time… thank you Anne.
Over the years of studying with Univesal Medicine I have found myself feeling more and more connected, not only to myself but to everyone in my life and everyone I meet. It is a remarkable thing, that today I know without doubt who and what I belong to, that I have a deep sense of home within my heart and strong knowing of God’s love that embraces us all, all the time, and that even when we feel intensely lonely God is always holding us.
When we think of our particles being part of the universe made up of stardust it seems so precious and magical that you want to treat them and therefore yourself more lovingly.
The contrast between choosing to live a life where you get everything you want, and to have everything your way, and a life that is not just about you but about everyone who deserves equally the same as everyone else is enormous. And when it comes down to the nitty gritty, it’s amazing that we even question the choice we are presented with.
A sense of belonging has to come from within us- this is what I have learned, after years of thinking other people had to make me feel like I belong.
Choices. Choosing a desire or choosing truth? There is an infinite difference.
“I feel this sadness (and then the desire to sweeten it) any time I do not get my own way. ”
In the last days I was pondering on this and I was feeling when I am in the mood of wanting to eat snacks or sweeten my life, I am not living in the rythm which supports me. I often live in having pictures and want to live up to the pictures and this brings me in a lack of connection with me, which gives me a craving for food.
The amazing science of life that makes us who we are and connects us equally to every other human being is miraculous to behold. But when we become self-centred and withdraw into our inner world of hurt, we lose connection with the magnificence of the Universe and all it offers.
That separation in all its form is an illusion is a truth which can never be overstated, because separation and all its offsprings, from nationalism to competition, are the seeds of destruction continually sown on the planet.
A grand revelation – the choice we all have to wallow in our individualism and associated misery or to be part of the all that we in truth all are a part of; like it or not, deny it or not, the all is the all that we are all a part of.
Thank you Anne a great blog to read, we have a choice to choose to be individuals working against the universe or choose to work together as one with the universe, I am choosing to work together as one with the universe and my brothers.
‘If I really stop and feel this, I realise that I do belong here: in fact, I belong everywhere!’
There is enormous responsibility in realising that we are a part of everything, as everything is a part of us.
This is one that got me to stop and ponder….”I feel this sadness (and then the desire to sweeten it) any time I do not get my own way.” When ‘I’ do not get my own way, confronting, it a great way….when I think I am suffering or things aren’t woking out the way I thought they would…hey presto…a desire to numb. When I make it about the ‘I’. This is a wake up call and a celebration, a wonderful blog.
I can go into, feeling alone in this….as you say however “If I really stop and feel this, I realise that I do belong here: in fact, I belong everywhere!” Exactly our physical forms is made of star dust, we are made it and we share it with everything that come before and after us. This is exactly where we need to be.
Absolutely Gill. We get continually sucked back into the small version of who we are, like an addictive and trashy TV show. You can find yourself on the couch with your popcorn binge watching episode after episode before you know it. You can think ‘How did I get here, when there is so much more to life and me’? Thankfully through Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine many of us have been shown there is a remote, to switch off the saga and return to our true universal beauty that deep down we know. This is the true and eternal story.
It can seem to be the be all and end all to make life all about ourselves but from experience I know that is not it. It is important to care for ourselves deeply first and have that as our foundation but when that foundation of ever deepening love for ourselves is in place, then to feel even greater it is to go out and make it about everyone else equally. To serve, work and be connecting with everyone in life to the best of our ability.
A beautiful blog Anne which brings such an understanding to the separation and emptiness of living and bringing life about me and the isolation of this as apposed to the oneness of us all and feeling the pulse of the universe that we are all part of and belong to espcially supported by nature with the expansiveness beauty and stillness it offers us..
“The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.” This is beautiful we are all part of the all, we are made up of the same particles that make the universe, there is no difference between one person to another.
‘a great and equal part of the one glorious whole’ This is so lovely to feel. I love how you could identify the steps from misery to belonging to the whole universe. It’s helped me feel yes, when I connect to my loveliness I can also feel this equally in others (and people more often than not respond with being more at ease and connected).
There is a ridiculousness in the way so many approach life and I have and still do at times fall into the role of self-creator. But to take a moment and step back and receive what is outside in the day and night lights being reflected back to us is a moment to understand and appreciate the universe we belong to, as you share Anne down into our particles. We are part of the cycles, rhythm and flow of the magnificence of nature. To resist this means a lot of self-creation has to be produced – this is very exhausting and eventually our bodies become quite debilitated from the futility of avoiding a our true purpose.
Truly beautiful to read Anne giving us the bigger picture, that life is not all about us but the bigger whole of which every single human being is an equal part of. We don’t own anything the particles of which we are made are heaven sent and belong to the oneness of the universe living in the body of God.
When you break it down to the fact that everything living is made of the same matter (stardust) it seems crazy that we can feel as though we do not belong anywhere.
We have all come into this world the same way; we are all part of the brotherhood of man. As we grow and are pulled to become something we are not and individualism creeps in and we develop tunnel vision of our brotherhood. No matter how far away we get from brotherhood… it is always just a choice away.
This part of us that can be called ‘spirit’ really does love to rave it up, play poor me, need to have things its own way, get sulky when it doesn’t. It feels compelled to prove itself and if not acknowledged, gives up. This part of us that affects the body in such harming ways to get a thrill or fulfil some ideal about how to live. Really studying this individualised self that has a wall up between itself and others is a very difficult thing, because we call it “I” and own it as who we are and it is so easy to slip into this bed that we have made and snore away – until it isn’t easy any more. Then, the very tangible and deep work begins because it is intolerable to be caught and stuck in the spirit’s manipulations, yet it will not surrender its play ground without a fight. So owning that we belong here to play this battle out is a great step to take, rather then let ourselves believe we are that which does not belong and gives up on life.
I love what you mentioned about how our particles are the same particles that make up other planets, stars and the rest of the universe. If we cared for our particles and bodies in the same way we would a star to keep it shining, would our behaviours and choices be any different?
The world has been set up in a way that we make life about being an individual and succeeding in life but all this is at the expense of our bodies as in order to achieve this we must harden our bodies and not feel the messages our bodies are constantly communicating asking us to be more gentle and live in a way that is more honouring of our tenderness and light within, for it is only until we start to develop this relationship with ourselves that we understand that it’s not just about the self but that we are all part of a bigger picture after all and are all equally important in our evolution back to love.
I love what you share here Anne about the fact that our particles do not belong to us, but they belong to the Universe. To really allow ourselves to stop and feel this, and to realise the impact of how we treat our bodies and even the way we think, presents an opportunity to reflect on the consequences these choices will have on everyone else. To put it simply, our bodies are just a differnet combination of cells being recycled, time and time again, and each time we are put back together in a slightly differnt way but we still have the same format. As recycled green glass bottle always has the same components, but it will have certain details that will differ from the last time it was a green glass bottle, its the same for us!
I get more and more aware of how my body gets tense when I want to control life and want to have it like I desire it to be. When I want it my way and make it about myself. When I start to obseeve this I can take a concsious choice to release the tension and look at the pattern which is controlling me, allow to feel my anxiousness and sadness.
Because we have separated form the grander whole we all belong to and chosen to live as a multi dimensional being in a three dimensional world and with that we lost the connection with that grander whole we still belong to. But luckily our bodies are part of that grander whole and are a great help to finding our way back to that grander whole we still belong to where it does not matter if we feel it or not. Understanding this fact makes life so much more joyful and in that we allow ourselves to experience a multi dimensional life in a three dimensional body… how awesome is that!
When I feel disharmony within myself, I would ask myself where it is that I have separated with myself?
When we are one and connected with the universe, we are in the movement of evolution which is always joyful, as it is how naturally our particles want to move. Only when we want to go against the natural movement of evolution will our particles be in tension
I so love what you have said here : ” The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.” When I truly ponder on this and feel deeply into myself, the awesomeness that is revealed and the expansiveness of what is on offer is so huge, how beautiful is it to have that realisation and to become aware of it more and more, until it is just felt and ‘normal’ to live in a way that honours this deeply.
A blog that gave me a timely reminder about the responsibility I hold towards the borrowed particles that make up my body – ‘They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body’ – and to reflect on the fact that any form of self-abuse is an abuse on the whole and not just the part.
“They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body.”
I love how you have described our particles, Anne. This makes us so much more responsible for how we are living as our bodies are part of the greater universe. This is huge for us to feel.
Gosh, Anne it’s so beautiful to read your blog again and connect myself back to the greater whole and to realise the enormity of the fact that ‘The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe’ As we realise the truth of these words we can feel ourselves melt back into becoming part of the whole and letting go of the need to be individual and separate.
Anne I would often get the feeling that I don’t belong here, like there was something missing or that I was out of place. I could not make sense of it, life was confusing and nothing seemed to add up. My answer, ignore, dive into what made no sense in the hope maybe it would. Today, after a decade of changing the way I live, express and listening to my body I can relate to the fact that I belong everywhere, first and foremost this is what I feel when I am at ease and in connection with myself, that feeling in my body when I am not trying, simply being. Then no matter what the location or situation I belong.
‘If I really stop and feel this, I realise that I do belong here: in fact, I belong everywhere!’ This is our universal nature and connectedness to everything.
When I get the feeling of ‘I don’t belong here’, it means I am trying to run away, to avoid life and this feeling stems from a deep sadness of previously choosing to disconnect from myself, from people and from the Universe. When I connect to truth, I belong everywhere, there is no such thing as I don’t belong as I am undeniably part of everything, the entire universe.
If you don’t belong here, why would you be here?
‘I feel this sadness (and then the desire to sweeten it) any time I do not get my own way.’ what a great understanding of the reason so many of us eat chocolate etc !
The idea that we are teensy constellations of subatomic particles that are part of everything everywhere really ups the ante on responsibility.
Frankly, this blog has been a life changer for me. I cried deeply after reading it as I could feel how much I have had similar feelings throughout my life, never feeling like I belong here or that I ‘fit in’ to society. But the key to understanding why was in this paragraph: “I feel this sadness (and then the desire to sweeten it) any time I do not get my own way. When I don’t get what I want, I feel like I am missing out, I feel that I am not part of something, I feel different, isolated, not understood, not heard … any time, in short, when I make it all about me.” While I no longer eat processed sugar, the desire for fruit or dried fruit in these instances to make me racy and not feel what is going on for me is strong, and I can see how much I had been choosing to feel different than other people, as if I had some kind of arrogance and self-righteousness about the situation that triggered this feeling of alienation. I can not thank Anne enough for exposing the root cause of these emotions and look forward to unraveling it further with more honesty.
Anne, when you speak about the particles it’s so obvious that “We are an inseparable part of the Universe. When we see life from this angle we get a whole new perspective on the part we play for these recycled particles “are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body.”
“. . .we are all different at the level where we are individuals”. Individuality is the cause of much of our suffering for a soon as we try to make ourselves special by doing things for recognition or looking to others for approval we separate ourselves and then we look outside ourselves for something to give us a sense of being loved. When we connect to ourselves we connect to everyone and we realize that we are in essence all equal.
What you present here is stupendous and I find myself feeling that the wisdom shared is beyond me but it then becomes obvious that this is a little game of ‘beyond me’ is simply something I use to avoid the responsibility that comes with the acknowledgment that we are all one.
Re-visiting this blog today I am reminded to explore in more detail what has been happening in the time immediately before I go to eat something that I know will dull my awareness – what was I feeling? Anxiousness? Tension? Me? Am I avoiding feeling me? Am I avoiding feeling and being in my power? What is my power? I know that when I allow it, I can feel and read everybody. Sometimes that feels too uncomfortable and I feel ‘driven’ to stuff down those feelings with food. Other times I have disconnected myself through focusing on doing and not feeling and the separation I feel is unbearable. The more I can understand and pay attention to what I have been feeling, the less powerful those food cravings can become, and the less addicted I am to numbing those feelings.
“They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body. The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.” When I read this Anne self no longer becomes the focus, I can feel the enormity of being connected to something much greater than us, and the responsibility we hold in keeping this connection. Knowing that we are part of something much greater than what we perceive life to be here on earth brings a joy to my heart, for we are indeed much greater than we allow ourselves to feel.
Coming to understand and experience that there is another way to live that is in celebration to where we have come from and returning to is a total game changer. Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon have been presenting a way of living since 2000 and until you actual try it for yourself you wouldn’t believe the difference it actually makes. I never would have thought that I could feel so amazing but I do and I know that the depth of my Soul is endless which puts a huge smile on my face. The deeper I can connect with the stillness within I feel the breath of the whole Universe and we are one.
“They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body.” I love this sentence, it shows the grandness we are from and the responsibility we have.
We are all deeply connected and every action, word or behaviour which is against this connection is hurting us.
We are our own worst enemy! Or, we can realise our importance of being one of the many. We all belong here and waiting for the same bus to move forward, no matter how long it takes.
The given-up-ness is felt in many. Be it the feeling of not belonging, the tatooing, the drugs, the absenteeism, exhaustion, pornography with its more and more extreme versions… no matter how intensely we try to cut ourselves off, we do belong. We belong to God.
Anne, you spoke of particles, atoms, subatoms, all of these being a part of us, these things make up our body, they are also what makes up the universe. “They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body.” Love what you said here, that we are no different and our true responsibility to care and love for our bodies.
Isn’t it shocking that so many people do feel lonely, isolated and seperated from their fellow beings and the incredible world we live in. And there is such a simple way to begin to address this, as you say Anne, by choosing to begin to truly, deeply care for our selves, to make a deep connection with our bodies, for they are the keyhole into the whole universe.
Great comment, Rowena, about our bodies being ‘the keyhole into the whole universe’. It’s simply a matter of us accepting that our all-knowing nature can be accessed so easily!
I know that sadness well Anne. I remember when I fell in love for the first time and ended up getting married. I totally ‘believed’ in the myth of ‘happily ever after’, and had no conception of working on relationships! And on Sunday nights before the working week this infinite sadness used to come over me. I had never ever experienced sadness before ( I was now at the ripe old age of 17) and it was so strong and I had no idea where it came from or how to handle it. And so I began to fill my life with wildness to numb it down. Now, thanks to the work and presentations of Serge Benhayon I know exactly how to deal with this sadness without burying or denying it – simply name it and fill myself up with my own love.
“If I make it all about me, sooner or later I have to feel different, isolated, alone; because we are all different at the level where we are individuals’.- Recently I have been advised to follow an autoimmune diet by my naturopath. I have been in resistance in following this; stubbornly wanting to hold onto certain foods I deemed were Ok for me, only to be shown 3 months later in a blood test that it is not Ok. I have realised that wanting to have control over what I eat for pleasure, comfort or reward has played a price in my body and is stopping my evolution. By seeing food choices as an unfolding process and needing refinement according to what my body needs is taking responsibility and a self loving act.
Basically my whole life I’ve denied how sensitive I am and how often I am actually touched by things that happen in my life. Often it is showing how much I care about things or people. To not feel / allow this sensitivity I’ve got to harden and protect myself. And in doing so I’ve told myself that love doesn’t exist, yet somewhere inside me I know that the complete opposite is true. That I do belong. Allowing myself to be truly sensitive is truly beautiful. Yet, I am to get used to it once again.
‘And the way back to this knowing is the stuff of which we are made, the particles that make up our being, the sparks of God’s flame that we call ‘us.’ – and the spark never dims, is ever patience and present. Once the spark of God is re-connected to and felt the question then becomes – why would I ever choose less? Beautiful Anne, thank you for sharing
I don’t have a stash, I just over-eat the yummy foods that do not have a reaction at this point of time.
‘If I make it all about me, sooner or later I have to feel different, isolated, alone; because we are all different at the level where we are individuals’. Today I had a meal, which left me feeling tired and lethargic so by ‘listening’ to my body I am learning not to put too much food on my plate. Also seconds are out!
This blog has been a ‘signpost’ to deepen my experience so to add another level to my healing and after 12 years of being a Student of The Livingness there is much to feel and learn!
It helps makes sense of the world to understand that our cells, our particles are part of a greater whole, and that those we have in our physical body are really on loan to us, and changing all the time, expanding or being squashed by the choices we make. How would it be if we lived life on this planet with this knowing, perhaps we would no longer look to peace as our end goal but something much grander and more all encompassing instead.
Certainly takes the responsibility away from the individual, when we realise we are part of the whole, being part of the evolution awaiting our return to universality.
I had never before considered that my particles are from and part of the universe, no different to anyone else’s and that I do indeed belong!
” And the way back to this knowing is the stuff of which we are made, the particles that make up our being, the sparks of God’s flame that we call ‘us.’” Realising we are from a greater spark clearly puts the limitations life presents into perspective, we are part of a greater plan and the limitation we get caught in are of our own making.
Recently I was feeling hungry and a bit irritated and I had already eaten – I took a moment to pause and ask what was going on, was the hunger really about need to supply my body with sustenance or was there an emptiness in my body that I didn’t want to feel. Understanding that our bodies are vessels and pausing to ask the question opened my eyes to to be able to change a whole set of behaviours and choices that I no longer needed to support myself.
‘ They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body. ‘ Beautifully said Anne knowing this changes everything, when we claim and live this truth we are reminded we are part of everyone and everything and every choice we make affects us all in a loving or harming way.
When we love and care for ourselves to the best of our ability we feel like we belong and yet when we allow our self-care to slip we feel like we don’t belong. It’s an interesting difference…quite profound really especially given the fact that we inherently belong to the all in the first instance. The highlights how important self-care an then self-love is for deepening our own connection to ourselves and to life.
This is just gorgeous, to read, and in turn feel in my body. The particles we are made of are not ours, but part of an undeniable grandness that is the universe. This show we do belong, although it us who can choose to feel differently, and move away from this knowing in the arrogance of the separated human mind.
To the mind this sounds far out: “I can live in the joy and harmony of feeling and knowing that I am but one person among billions, all of whom matter just as much as me, and not only that, but that we are each part of a vast Universe of beings, all connected with each other and all part of a vast oneness.” Yet I find whenever I choose, witness or am the recipient of a loving act, there is a recognition within me. There is a knowing that we are far more than what meets the eye, that there is something beautiful at the foundation of it all. With every loving choice I feel closer to exactly that which although my mind considers far out, my heart inherently recognizes, knows and welcomes.
It feels awesome to read your words Golnaz – to sense the expansion and wonder I feel as I connect to that ‘knowing that we are far more than what meets the eye, that there is something beautiful at the foundation of it all’. This confirms all that we know beyond doubt deep within – that we are more than what meets the eye, and are part of the infinity of the grand Universe. That the Universe is not something that is way up there in heaven, but that we are part of that and undeniably interconnected to the greater whole that is beyond our human understanding.
When you have the feeling of belonging that comes from your heart, you can feel it in every part of your body, it a total ease and contentment with you are.. In that belonging there is a sense of belonging to something so much greater than being human. And there’s a deep connection to everyone and everything around you – you know you are part of everything.
It is quite incredible that we can feel so isolated and alone, when we are so immutably connected to the world and the Universe we inhabit. I know I have in the past, but the more I have chosen to resume my responsibility to look after my body, address my issues, heal my hurts and build a relationship with myself, the more I have naturally opened up to other people, my community and connection I have with everyone.
“When I listen to and honour my body and live in a simple loving way that deeply cares for it (and for me), I start to feel some things…” I have purpose in life and no longer feel alone.
“The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that have made up stars. I share them with the whole universe.” What an amazing fact that can only open our eyes to the bigger picture and remind us that we are a part of the whole.
I have noticed recently that when things get intense around me I can go into feeling “I don’t what to be here” and I usually do this by not being present and thinking of something else to avoid feeling what I am feeling in the moment. What I am realising as this kind of checking out never works it may seem to give momentary release away from the intensity yet it is far more productive to stay with it be aware, open and read the situation for what it truly is.
I love this. It leaves no room for indulgence but instead asks us to be responsible in how we live. It’s empowering. ‘When I live this way, in the knowing of this truth, life is joyful and full, and if the old feelings of sadness arise, they can serve as a signpost that I am choosing to live in the old way again, the way of desire, of self, of separation, of individuality… of me.’ Thank you.
“If I make it all about me, sooner or later I have to feel different, isolated, alone; because we are all different at the level where we are individuals.” I live my life defending this individuality, understanding that we are all equal and all family has changed the way I live. Once I felt that interconnectedness in my body it was clear that living in separation and defending the individual was not true.
‘When I live this way, in the knowing of this truth, life is joyful and full, and if the old feelings of sadness arise, they can serve as a signpost that I am choosing to live in the old way again, the way of desire, of self, of separation, of individuality… of me.’ – I have come to realise that when accept all the bits that make up the whole of me, even the bits I don’t like to see about myself, I am naturally accepting of everything and everyone else. To me it feels like learning to fully accept ourselves is the antidote to separation.
Not belonging and looking for situations and incidents that then confirm this belief is quite a dirty trick, really. And if we don’t probe more deeply, it is quite easy to wallow in and identify with it.
In reading this Anne I realise as adults when we don’t get what we want we still have tanties (tantrums) only that we have crafted such a way to disguise them.. who are we kidding we can all feel when someone is reacting.
This is so true, Anne. The self creations of the mind keep us disconnected from the unity and harmony in which we all live. How far removed are we from this simple and natural way of living which provides joyful meaning and purpose each day, by being connected to and playing our intrinsic part in the bigger picture?
Thank you for your beautiful description of how every particle in us is part of the grander universe and has been part of so many other bodies before and after mine. I can feel how much wisdom we are capable of accessing through our bodies that have known so much before and how innately connected every particle is to every other particle in the universe. My particles are all smiling as I remember that my body is a heavenly body, just like the stars.
The example of not getting your own way and needing a sweetener to deal with that shows how powerful it can be to simply observe ourselves. Quite often it can feel like we are goosestepped to the cupboard or fridge, with no understanding of why we are doing it. Being able to step back and observe allows a little light to shine on the situation and the potential for another way to be explored.
More and more I am seeing that we have ‘go to’ reactions or thoughts when we are challenged or feel out of our comfort zone. Perhaps we believe that they offer us something steady and known at a potentially wobbly time, when we are being challenged to grow. We may not even like the reactions or behaviours that occur but the part of us that likes status quo loves it.
The first paragraph opened up so many things to consider. How many times have we had a thought pop in and found ourselves down an ugly track of reaction? How empowering to actually stop and question what is really going on. I find this alone can stop the spiral into an old behaviour or thought pattern. It’s like saying that thought or feeling isn’t me so what’s it doing there? It confirms who I really am and the loving person I know myself to be.
“I can live in the joy and harmony of feeling and knowing that I am but one person among billions” This is gorgeous Anne, and it’s so true that although this means we have a great responsibility to contribute and support the rest of humanity, there is a lot of joy to be felt within this role.
It is amazing when we see that sadness for what it truly is, how we can let it go and what we experience in the return to the oneness and completeness we chose to leave.
I know this feeling of not belonging here. I realise that I don’t feel like I belong to the many ways people are living and behaving yet in essence, as you say Anne at atomic level and beyond, we are all the same even the same as the universe and when I connect to that, yes than I equally belong here just like everyone else.
Oh wow Lieke, the penny just dropped for me. I used to feel that the world was loveless and I did not belong. That is ridiculous, it’s like saying love does not belong here. Of course Love belongs here, it is lovelessness that is at odds with the divine order of the universe. Each of us shares the responsibility for bringing love to where it is scarce.
Thank you Anne, I love your living example of when we make it about ‘me’ how we get lost in the emotion and reaction and the individuisation we bring upon ourselves. To remind myself that I am part of a vast Universe is to bring myself back to the fact that I am part of something far greater than the ‘I’ I liked to think I was.
I will visit this blog many times Anne! The expansion in my body when I read it confirms the truth that we are all one. It is only our mind and the illusion of individualism that keeps us from living this truth.
I will do that too Bernadette and Anne, I have read it a few times now and every time I feel more and more how important it is to confirm that we are all one and not the individual that we are led to belief we are. Living from the truth of oneness brings such joy and connections to all – how can we not…
‘If I make it all about me, sooner or later I have to feel different, isolated, alone; because we are all different at the level where we are individuals.’ What a simple truth with profound meaning Anne. I love the way you encapsulate a lifetime’s worth of pondering and inspiration in this one sentence!
What a great responsibility we have. If we are part of a whole, then that whole is also part of us, and so every move we make effects everything and everyone.
Yes it is easy to live in our own little bubble, and not really paying attention to the world around us; understanding our part in the Universe takes our perception wider and enables us to see ourselves as an equal part of the whole.
I agree, Anne, with all what you share. My experience is that there are moments where it is all about me and because it is so normal I sometimes even do not clock it. But as there are many people on this earth it is about everybody, not just a single person.
When we appreciate that we are a part of the universe and therefore have a responsibility and big part to play in it, then the way we act and behave is completely different compared to when our actions are for self or personal motives. The latter can be exhausting; as if we are swimming against the tide of how we’re naturally meant to be which is not selfish or individual at all.
Re-reading this one Anne I was struck again by the familiarity of ‘the stash’, the just in case go-to that serves many purposes but the most important is to numb what we feel.
We are all made of the same stuff as they say. Maybe that’s why I love looking to the sky every night and watching the stars shine for we are kin always. Thank you Anne a beautiful blog indeed.
To know and claim as truth – the particles that make up ‘me’ are the same as those in all others, in the universe and the stars – how can we ever feel alone or separate. This exposes the choices we make to separate and it is a beautiful reminder that we are all ‘one united’ before all else. Thanks Anne.
“And the way back to this knowing is the stuff of which we are made, the particles that make up our being, the sparks of God’s flame that we call ‘us.”. This is a beautiful reminder that we are connected to the same and one source of God, the fire the flame of this connection is felt within us all.
It is through Universal Medicine that i actually started to understand the importance of listening to my body and honouring it, prior to that i use to abuse it and push it around. Now i listen to how it is feeling and what it will need to function on a daily basis. I now am more aware of what I put into it so it supports me in my day and how I rest it and nurture it.
This blog really blows me away Anne, I have most definitely felt I do not belong and also wallowed in the sadness of this but having it explained how we are all connected in such a way as you have done here and we are all part of the whole gives me such a warm feeling of actually belonging.
This science of the way life and the Universe is awesome Anne. Every particle is part of the whole be it the stars, humanity or God, all equal with the free will to choose which energy source we are going to connect and emanate from. Absolute Responsibility with no exceptions.
“And the way back to this knowing is the stuff of which we are made, the particles that make up our being, the sparks of God’s flame that we call ‘us.’” Love this sentence Anne. When we can feel and connect to the warm inner flame of God, then we also connect with an inherent knowing that this flame lives within us all, therefore the issue of whether we belong or not dissovles into enjoying the fact that we cannot but belong, because we can never be separate from this awesome Universe and all who inhabit it.
And where you say : “When I listen to and honour my body and live in a simple loving way that deeply cares for it (and for me), I start to feel some things…” – I am realising I am a bit out of my rhythm – so thank you for reminding me to step back in.
I can so relate to it all Anne, I just returned from Europe having spent 4 glorious months there and on returning to Australia the feeling is still so strong that I don’t belong here in Oz – still working on it …
Is it possible that the choice so often made to either dull life or to simply freak out about it is down to the simple fact that sometimes it seems impossible that the immensity that we know we are is being crammed into a body which feels infinitesimal compared to all of that? When I make it about myself, then yes. When I realise that I am not the only one with all of that going on within me, and that every single life on this planet is exactly the same, each a point of light like the stars, making up vast constellations of expression. Then no, it does not seem so hard to fit the entire universe within the vastness of us all.
Yes, Naren. This perspective is so true…our bodies may be small but we are as grand as the entire universe within the depths of our being.
Beautiful article Anne, thank you!… Yes, We are made up of atoms, molecules and particles… The God particle is within each and all of us.
If we realised who we truly are and identified with nothing else, we would realise how precious is every Son of God and our daily experience of each other would be truly beautiful, no matter what rough edges we had to encounter (including our own). As you say Anne, ‘I can live in the joy and harmony of feeling and knowing that I am but one person among billions, all of whom matter just as much as me, and not only that, but that we are each part of a vast Universe of beings, all connected with each other and all part of a vast oneness.’ Benign relationship with others can only increase our joy.
This reminds me of how often I will reach for food because of a tension I feel from something else… the food (or whatever else can distract me) dampens the feeling and my ability to get a really good sense of the why. In effect this makes it much harder to feel what is going on and proves to be an escape from something I will sooner or later have to face up to.
So true Simon, I have found that at as well at times, reaching for something little after a totally sufficient dinner – great reminder to check in before actually consuming…
” I am made of flesh and blood, which is made of molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles that have been here since before the beginning of time. They have made up countless bodies before mine… and will make up many more to come. They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body.” Goodness Anne, what a wake up call for us all. If we all truly understood this, there would be no question about the responsibility that we have to take care of our bodies. What a great and inspirational blog, thank you.
How wonderful to read this right now, as I am going through some sadness. Life is not about me, but about all of us all those billions of people. I get a smile on my face when I write this. Thank you!
It is amazing reflecting about the particles we are actually made up of. Our thoughts can take us through such complicated loops and turns and have us believe the games we have chosen to play in life are a confirmation that we are separate from each other, God and the Universe. Yet all of those thoughts become a distant waffling rhetoric in comparison to the deep certain knowing of the oneness and connection when we consider the irrefutable fact that our particles are connected to the All, our awareness is not constricted to the limits we tend to put on it, and in truth there is and can be no separation whatsoever.
I would say that most, if not all of us in the world have at some stage felt that we do not belong… and the moment we feel this, we are lost in the seeming separation, the desolate isolation that we have all felt when we live in disconnection to the love within our hearts. Anne, your gorgeous love-filled words call us back to all that we left, but that has never left us.
This line melts me – “And the way back to this knowing is the stuff of which we are made, the particles that make up our being, the sparks of God’s flame that we call ‘us.’” Amen Anne. We are truly born of Heaven and I too am learning that the way back home is not through lofty spiritual ideas that send us sky high away from Earth and our bodies that walk upon it, but through our earthly physicality, the very same ‘stuff’ that stars are made of. As Hermes told us long ago: “As is above, so too below”. The fiery flame of Thy Father burns within us all.
Brilliant article Anne. It really does reveal that because we are in separate bodies that we can consider ourselves separate or apart from each other. In the world of energy, our energy/quality is never contained to just the physical body. We know this because we can feel someone’s anger, just like we are all in a big swimming pool of energy together.
It feels amazing Anne when we realise how often we have indulged in being lost in creation and the individual experience that isolates us so rapidly from all around us. In connecting to our body we can feel that ‘There is a physical reality to this human body, and to life on earth. I am made of flesh and blood, which is made of molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles that have been here since before the beginning of time. They have made up countless bodies before mine… and will make up many more to come. They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body’. When I realise the magnitude of the Universe I am only beginning to reach out and let go of the ‘me’ that has preoccupied my time for aeons, and to feel this amazing shift in perspective has allowed me to feel the expansion of not only me but how this contributes and reverberates outward to the rest of the Universe.
What I really understood from reading your blog this time Anne was that when we feel hurt it is when we make it about ourselves and our own needs and expectations. I know when I feel hurt it is usually because I think I am not feeling seen or understood or recognised as significant in some way. And then I think I have a right to react and go into the hurt for a while, because having this issue defines me in some way as being special and more significant. But if we understand life from a grander perspective as you suggest then there is a greater responsibility and plan that can supersede our own personal issues and hurts. We would understand and appreciate more just how significant we are every moment that we are alive, not in a big headed, individualistic way but in a way that accepts our grandness and our true place in the universe as beings equal to God and to each other.
Well Anne thank you, this is a fantastic article for inspiring us to see the bigger picture. I know I can get lost in individualism and thinking its all about me, reading your article is a great antidote and reminder that we are all one and if we are not feeling this joy and oneness which is in truth our natural way then we have disconnected and need to start to choose differently so we come back to the love we are.
The rhythm of the universe can also be found in our body when we truly deeply honour it.
sometimes when I am out, or at work I have a similar feeling of “I don’t belong here” or “I don’t feel myself here”. Accepting that I DO belong was simple as accepting myself as I am, and not needing to be anything – and still a work in progress. It is when we are full of who we are that we can know the world around us and see what is truth.
Sometimes, when life all seems too much and I’m stuck in my stuff, I remind myself that the very essence of me started along with everyone else as the stuff of stars. Everything kind of snaps into perspective then, and those things I’m stressed about don’t seem to feel quite so big and scary.
‘And the way back to this knowing is the stuff of which we are made, the particles that make up our being, the sparks of God’s flame that we call ‘us.’’ This is beautiful Anne. Coming back into connection with our bodies and the particles that they are made of is the most joyous, warm, and strengthening feeling. It is as if when we were just talking heads we had been cast out into the cold, like the famous ‘spy’. I am full ready to come out of the cold and into the warmth of love which only the innermost heart and the habitation of one’s own body can provide.
‘What I am learning is that I can live in the misery and suffering of my self-centred creation when I choose to do it my way, get what I want, go it alone…
Or…
I can live in the joy and harmony of feeling and knowing that I am but one person among billions, all of whom matter just as much as me, and not only that, but that we are each part of a vast Universe of beings, all connected with each other and all part of a vast oneness.’
I know which way I would like to be living – the way of harmony and oneness with all! This is an ongoing journey which is full of joy,even though it has its challenges . . . but the challenges come, not from the way of joy but from the me that lived the old miserable way who unaccountably wants to hang onto that way a bit longer . . . as crazy as that sounds! Let’s go for it!
It’s all in our choice of how much we would like to be aware and what suits us at any given point in time. More awareness = more responsibility. Yet it also comes with the gloriousness of living love and being together in brotherhood…the very thing our particles are calling us to every single day.
We all know where we are from…yet live in the stubborn denial of the fact. Your description is beautiful Anne – ‘And the way back to this knowing is the stuff of which we are made, the particles that make up our being, the sparks of God’s flame that we call ‘us.’
Love it Anne, especially your point that we are inseparable from the Universe, no matter how much we try to separate from it we are always within it and nothing will ever change that.
Gosh I needed to read this today… especially this bit….
“What I am learning is that I can live in the misery and suffering of my self-centred creation when I choose to do it my way, get what I want, go it alone…Or…
I can live in the joy and harmony of feeling and knowing that I am but one person among billions, all of whom matter just as much as me, and not only that, but that we are each part of a vast Universe of beings, all connected with each other and all part of a vast oneness.”
As a person who does not mind a bit of wallowing, this is a great reminder to get out of the pit and into the world. Thank you Anne.
“You are not from this world, but part of it” – I heard those words/they came to me in reflection a few years back whilst walking to work in one of my favourite parts of London [Piccadilly], where I had been feeling this issue of belonging aspect coming up with sadness, and then feeling those words immediately began to feel a surge of commitment to this world, to this life, to people, to myself, knowing the essential importance in really truly connecting to this fact. It made me no longer ‘long-for’ being anywhere but here and far away, but right here, right now, in that moment, in this world, at this time. Getting committed is getting responsible, and anything to sabotage that commitment through any rejecting, is but a sabotage and reject on responsibility.
‘When I live this way, in the knowing of this truth, life is joyful and full, and if the old feelings of sadness arise, they can serve as a signpost that I am choosing to live in the old way again, the way of desire, of self, of separation, of individuality… of me’. Yes. this is true Anne. Sometimes when sadness arises it is coming up to be seen and cleared because you are living in a new and joyful way. Whichever it is the observation of it and naming of the sadness is the key step to be ourselves even more.
Growing up as a child and into adulthood, I used to have years of not feeling like I belonged anywhere, alien-like almost, because I never looked like everyone else with my mixed background, and stood out, and thus the hugest need for acceptance or approval by people to feel a part of them, be included, not left out. Yet even when I was included later on in life through friendships I still felt like an outsider, this feeling of not feeling 100% part of ‘the group’. It was only until I started to learn to accept things, aspects in life, about myself, that this need for inclusion to ‘the gang’ aspect wilted, and I began to feel really ok and care less about being included, and by whom – because of acceptance, which has given me (and continues to today the more I deepen this) a sense of home, of being my own person, no matter which part of the world I live in, today this being Singapore, and formerly London. When we find we belong to ourselves, we find we belong to everyone.
“If I really stop and feel this, I realise that I do belong here: in fact, I belong everywhere!” What a phenomenal thing to feel and completely simple and just as it is, no big deal.
When we do connect and feel the unity and grandness that we all essentially are and what we bring , every issue we hold on to , be it big or small, becomes impossible to hang on to.
Absolutely Anne, this world of Me vs You is just not true. These boundaries of ourselves are just as fictional as the lines we draw on this world, saying one country is different to the next. Ultimately it is just a way of slicing up and minimising life. So let us no longer wallow in our individuality and our personality, when we can feel and know and breathe our true divine universality. This ultimately is the true picture of life.
“The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.”
When I admire the beauty and divinity of the stars in the sky I am feeling that they are truly part of me and I can feel the universality of life and not the separateness i have chosen to live in for so many lifetimes.
To disconnect one body part from another is as harmful as disconnecting one human being from another.
No matter how hard I try to think my way back to reconnecting to the truth of who I am – who we all are – equal Sons of God – I end up going in circles and feeling separate from everyone and everything else. The moment I make it about my body – caring for it, listening to it, nurturing it – I feel connected not just to all of me but to everything else as well. The way to universality is through the physical, tangible, real and imperfect vehicle we are enhoused within. The mind cannot get us anywhere near this.
Seems like the ‘I do not belong’-thing is a great excuse to not take responsibility. I do not belong to this country, this culture, this religion, this gender, this continent, this field of work, …. and so I can turn away from the problems ‘this people’ have, can ‘tolerate’ them and …leave them in THEIR problems. Comfort. Comfort is one of the most evil things on earth these days I say. And it is not true as well, because we are not really comfortable with feeling separated and ‘not belonging’. We want to belong – but without the responsibility of it. This does not work.
Everything around us invites us to separate from the glory of who we are and immediately that happens the emptiness of what we are missing drives us to fill it up with something, anything just to escape the discomfort that has arisen. Your description of the universe and the particles take on a whole different meaning knowing that the particles in me are the same. It is amazing to claim the beauty of all knowing that I too am beautiful.
When I know love, it becomes less important whether I belong here or not. When I know that I am love, then I know the truth that I belong here.
It is so clearly mapped out by you Anne for us all to see, that never are we without the choice to be responsible and to accept the learning on offer to us.
There is a definite order and flow of life that is reflected to us strongly from nature and indeed the workings of our own bodies are miraculous symphonies of flow, order and chemical exchanges- we can go with the flow on offer or we can create an obstruction to the true flow by creating a way that is of our own choosing but never in harmony with the whole of which we are part.
How true it is that if we keep our sights narrowly focused we may miss the grander picture with its infinite detail.
“We are an inseparable part of the Universe, and we live in a great illusion that we are separate…” Nothing compares to feeling the connection to the All through connecting to our essence and honouring what is being communicated.
It is amazing to feel the interconnectness of everything so why do we still chose to make it about self? For me it feels like I slip back into old patterns when my level of self-care drops and before I know it I am reacting and taking something personally and wallowing in feeling sorry for myself. Building consistency has been key to breaking these old patterns and appreciating the changes I have made so far as well as not beating myself up when I slip but making a conscious choice to deepen my relationship with myself.
‘We are an inseparable part of the Universe, and we live in a great illusion that we are separate, because we have tried to separate ourselves from it’ – This is so profound. We do indeed live thinking that our actions are both not a part of the universe and do not affect the universe, but as you’ve shared we are made up of the same particles as everything else in the world, solar system and entire universe, so what we do is impossibly separate.
I love the reminder here that we can only ever be made up of re-cycled molecules from Outer Space, so even when we might feel completely isolated and alone, our bodies in truth feel the immense connectivity with all that surrounds us. We are and will always be an immutable part of something awesomely huge, immensely wise and deeply loving and these qualities are constant within all of us and I know now that its just a choice as to whether we want to re-connect to them or not.
Yes, Jane, there is indeed an eternal pull back to something greater, and to feel that puts everything in perspective, no matter how disconnected we have allowed ourselves to become.
Anne you raise a really great point here with “If I make it all about me, sooner or later I have to feel different, isolated, alone”. If i reflect on growing up in my late teenage years I certainly felt different, isolated and very alone. At the time I thought the answer was something outside of me and so I dived into everything I could find, but all of these things were about me and me trying to find me. At no point was this about the whole, the bigger picture, the purpose or about connecting with myself first. Even the purpose of connecting with myself today only feels complete, when its about the bigger picture, the bigger purpose not just about connecting to me for me.
The love which flows through us in understanding that we are divine and realizing how we are connected to everything, nature, other human beings , the world and the universe is showing the immense power we have in truth, but often we ignore this or neglect this truth.
I love the way the divine photo by Gyl, of the Light of the World, the Sun, interacts with the text which takes us from our little misguided human utterances and expands us out into the glory of the divinity of our particles and our being. Beautiful perspective, both written and visual.
This is beautiful Anne, how you have showed the anatomy of a reaction in such detail. Beautifully caught and recorded for all who so wish to take this way of responsibility with their lives and live in harmlessness, without adding more emotional toxicity to the world. Great blog!
Belonging is a huge topic in our world – do we belong in this family, to this group, in this country, on this planet? It is so big that this is even an area of study for students doing English for the HSC (final year exam in NSW, Aus) Belonging so often implies that someone belongs and and another doesn’t, that someone is left out, yet the true belonging that you speak of Anne is simply a surrender to the ‘all that is’ which we come from. Very beautiful.
Anne, I love what you have shared here at the outset: “…clearly this is not only about what just happened ”
Acknowledging something we feel emotional or reactive about as potentially being a part of a deeper pattern than the situation that is immediately before us, offers us a grand opportunity to go deeper and understand so very much about ourselves and also others.
It’s a choice isn’t it – indulge in what’s going on, or, acknowledge and hold ourselves in a deep understanding that there may be an older hurt or feeling of injustice that a situation has triggered in us.
In this is the opportunity for true healing.
From self-driven angst to being an indelible part of the whole – what an amazing treatise on how letting go of our self-driven ways, with loving awareness, reconnects us to something so vast and great, that we cannot but know that we are always truly ‘home’.
The signposts you offer are very relatable as is our choice of steps to the bigger picture and working together. We are of the same origin – all of us, and choosing to deny this denying the divinity in us all.
This is a great article to read and connect to. It also exposes the head, the mind as being the source of self centeredness and not feeling that I belong to the whole. For a very long time I have been living from my head, living in my mind, and never did I think that it was THE source of feeling separate to the Universe and to God. Thinking about where to find God and how to connect to God took me even further away. Now I know that the key is to make it about the body, care for the body and live in the body to the best of my ability. Then I will feel my connection to God.
As you describe being made of particles that belong to the all i can really feel how I am part of the cosmos and that it is a choice to feel and re connect to this truth or to go I to the illusion that I am separate from it all… And this, for me, can bring such touturous anxiety, fear and suffering…
It is a beautiful feeling this lovely truth of being a part of it all; thanks to Serge Benhayon I am coming back to this now instead of later.
Anne, this is a great reminder, ‘the old feelings of sadness arise, they can serve as a signpost that I am choosing to live in the old way again, the way of desire, of self, of separation, of individuality… of me.’ I can feel how I can choose to live in the old way, a way that no longer serves me, that I have evolved from, when I choose this old way it feels awful and not true and is very clear that this way no longer works.
I love this…Our human body is… “made of molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles that have been here since before the beginning of time. They have made up countless bodies before mine… and will make up many more to come. They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body…” There’s no doubt we are a part of the universe when we recognise this!
I appreciate your honesty here Anne and the way you pulled this so called issue apart. It’s ironic it seems to be that same deep hurt that’s triggered each time. Why is it that same issue each time when you are really triggered? Why cannot we just let it go or know the truth of it to heal it? And the thing is I know what it is. So, I cannot invest that it just goes away… It’s a consistency to build and accept the true way of absolute decent quality love for myself in my body that will then become the norm I will know and not that ‘deep hurt’ when I make it about that hurt and solely self. Love thy neighbor is to love you first.
What a gem of a blog you had stashed away. To me finding the spark of God that lives as my divine essence and the fact that we are all universally one and the same, definitely changed my approach to life. Like all things in life this is easy to say and simple to understand but living it to the full is still something I am working on, or maybe I just have to find what I have stashed away so I can accept who I fully am!
We lose our sense of belonging when we become individual and seek this from outside of ourselves for in truth we are from and are returning to brotherhood – our true sense of belonging.
For most of my life I made it all about ‘ me’, which just made life complicated, fixed and narrow with no connection to my body and no connection to others, such was my life. Thankfully, I found The Way of the Livingness presented by Serge And Universal Medicine, to which I have committed to and now my life is super simple and now have a deep appreciation for myself and all others.
As I begin to make the switch from living a self-centred creation that includes a feeling of deep unsettlement and discontentment to one of joy and harmony I realise more and more how invested I am in living in the former way. This is quite a startling revelation to know that there is part of me fighting to not live in harmony and joy and fighting to stay individual and not connected to the whole. And yet when I do connect to the whole there is nothing more settling, more still, more fulfilling and a feeling of being home. Once experienced it doesn’t make sense to be having this internal tussle and yet there it is…so its just a question of each moment making that choice and making that switch.
This is such a gorgeous blog Anne. How can there be such things as separation, comparison, jealousy or racism if we are all in truth made from the same particles and material?
Gorgeous blog, Anne! Making it about us as individuals seems so small and insignificant compared to the vastness of the Universe that we come from. It makes sense that we would feel “different, isolated, alone” in our bubble of illusionary protection.
“I can live in the joy and harmony of feeling and knowing that I am but one person among billions, all of whom matter just as much as me” this is so wonderful to read Anne, it brings into focus that we are not alone, that even when we feel we want to make life just about us, there is an opportunity to feel how connected we are to all.
The beauty in life is not in controlling events, time, occasions, what we want to happen and playing our our ideals and pictures that we hold, it is in letting things unfold, being at one with ourselves and recognising that when we are in this place of stillness and contentment that the beauty is seen to be so much bigger than us and the people around us and the universe all contribute to this.
If we are universal beings connected to a vast ocean of oneness then that means we know what is going on for us. The body will have a way of showing us when we are connected and when we are not.
A beautiul reminder Anne that we can stay small in ‘our stuff’ or we can reconnect to the grandness of what we are all part of. It is always a choice in every moment.
‘The separation only exists in our minds’. So true Anne. As I have come to see it, our minds are very much complicit in creating our desire for individualism. They frequently lead us on a merry dance, and far away from our bodies, the universe, others and love. And I agree – when we start to feel that separation creep in, the body is the way back, for it is always aligned with the all.
Our particles are not ours to own and belong to the universe and are of the universe… I can feel how the individuated part of me wants to argue the lack of ownership this understanding brings us but the greater part of me loves the universal nature of it, and being part of a much grander scheme, plan or intelligence. The call to the divine nature of the big picture wins hands-down!
‘If I make it all about me, sooner or later I have to feel different, isolated, alone; because we are all different at the level where we are individuals.’ Good observation and one that demonstrates individualism will ultimately and always result in an unsatisfactory ending for the individual – a ‘self’ fulfilling prophecy, one could say!
‘…it was triggered by a desire in me for something sweet that actually could not be satisfied, because somebody else had eaten my stash! And I have come to learn that, when this desire arises, it’s because I am already feeling a sadness that I don’t want to feel.’ Great reading Anne of the need behind the need to eat something sweet. I agree – food has always been a definite first stop for me when ‘unwanted’ feelings arise. Since working with food in a very concrete way over the last few months I have felt much more sadness come up.
I have recently realised that now if I go into wallowing or indulging in my own ‘stuff’ that I am now recognising it much more and seeing that that is not me and I just ask myself where did that come from. Sometimes the answers are there straight away and others not. But the important thing I feel is in recognising the behaviour and bringing it to a stop. For where it takes me is so far away from how I know I can feel.
For me it’s often soft foods I crave, especially at work where tofu and egg are on the menu. But what I am finding is that no amount of food or self judgement or controlling my cravings quell that unsettlement within. The only thing I have found to bring a respite and space to question whats going on has been reconnecting to my body, how it feels, the quality of my movements (stomping walk with ‘got to get this done’ thoughts vs gentle and present in my body) And connecting to others and being with them and not focused on being elsewhere. When we focus on the ‘me’ we are alone but the fact is we share this world with others just like us sharing the same particles. With this focus life opens up, Thank you Anne.
So true Leigh, that when we focus on the ‘ me’ we are alone, I have just really understood what you have shared having spent most of my life feeling alone and cut off from others! This old and outdated belief that I was alone in this world kept me small, kept me in hiding, kept me in irresponsibility.
Anne, it is wonderful to re-read your article, this feels very true and is very timely for me to read, ‘if the old feelings of sadness arise, they can serve as a signpost that I am choosing to live in the old way again, the way of desire, of self, of separation, of individuality… of me.’, This makes me aware that I can fool myself and indulge in feeling sad and feeling seperated and different from everyone else, but actually at this moment I’m in seperation, wrapped up in me and not living how I know I can which is lovingly, with understanding and acceptance of myself and others.
The knowing of the grandness we share our particles with is deeply humbling, it makes it a less big step to choose surrender, surrender to the universe we are so deeply connected with.
This is gorgeous Anne, it is we who can choose to live this seperate way, but what you present here is totally the opposite, we also have a choice to live a different way, live connected to the whole knowing we are al from the whole, seperated from the source, but still deeply connected. This is bringing the divine back to living.
Yes Anne, when I make these choices I feel a warmth that flows in my body, like someone turned on the central heating in a cold house. This warmth gradually connects one bit to the next. If I choose to accept this, it starts to grow and I can feel that this warmth extends way beyond me, to the people and the spaces around. Wow, this really is powerful and the absolute opposite of the ideas and beliefs we grow up with and you so accurately say, wallow in. Today I feel a new choice in me to leave wallowing behind for good and enjoy this wonder and warmth all the time.
Lovely, Joseph…here’s to fiery warm houses radiating out to the world and no more cold or dampness within.
I love the idea that I am looking after, custodian for the particles it brings another layer of responsibility into my understanding! It really quashes any idea of individuality – such an illusion.
It is connecting to that knowing and accepting it. But there is also a simple way: just be in the body. When we are more present in the body we will be feeling this oneness, God that was there all along all by itself.
Anne, this is such a beautiful article. It touches my heart deeply as I can feel through your sharing how true this is that I am made of particles of the universe and how blessed I am to be here.
When you feel he vastness of us, it does feel like you are everywhere, and you feel everything. Then you know where your particles belong.
I love what you say Anne about being an integral part of the whole universe, and that we can’t separate from it. It’s actually quite ridiculous to think of ourselves as separate living on this planet when we are part of a ginormous universe. And to separate further into countries, cultures, nationalities, religions, class, colour, gender…and so on is just a way to not embrace that we are from the same place and below all of the external differences, we are all the same and of equal value.
We are all in this together on this planet we call home – gosh, we’ve got a long way to go to bringing life back to a way that is based on living in harmony, not peace.
I love re-reading this blog to reflect further on the choice we have in every moment to remain different and separate from everyone else, isolated and suffering in the illusion of being individual, or to see beyond the self out into the world around us, where we can only find love, harmony, joy and stillness. Dropping the self brings an undeniable experience of confirmation, that what we feel deep within our hearts is actually all around us, as it always has been.
“We are an inseparable part of the Universe, and we live in a great illusion that we are separate, because we have tried to separate ourselves from it. But we are still in it! The separation only exists in our minds.” Well said and so true and I love your realisation of the sweet cravings coming in when we have started to loose our connection or are wobbling and can really relate to this so much and all your share . We belong and are part of everything and we cannot however much we try truly separate ourselves from who we are.
So if we do belong to life, what is it that we so often don’t live from here, if at all? Could it be that we like to think that we’re in control? Where the fact is, we’re not in control at all and life’s teaching us very lovingly everyday that we’re not. We’re experiencing going into reaction to show us where we’ve disconnected from love. This is a loving science to give us the possibility to re-turn to be and live our love on a daily basis – as this is exactly the responsibility we are to obey while we’re living on this planet. It’s up to us to accept the fact that we do belong and to come back to our natural humbleness to surrender to life, rather then – ignorantly and arrogantly – trying to control it. We do belong. We are to make that choice. If not, these are just words.
This blog really does bring home to me how the hurts and issues that arise within me are pretty petty when I think of and feel the bigger picture. The hurts are real, they come up and go, some more difficult to let go of than others but indulging even if it is for longer than a moment I realise is nothing but for self. It makes me realise that every choice in every moment I make, is aligned with the all or not.
So true Caroline, I am doing this less and less, but sometimes still catch myself indulging, not for long though, but normally it is around ‘ family’. I can see now all I need to do is take a step back, breathe gently and connect with my heart…..it can be that simple!
Beautiful to be reminded this morning in a practical sense of what my physical body is made of and that it is made up of the same particles as of the whole universe. As I stop to allow myself to feel what is actually being presented here it is impossible to feel any separation to another or thing for we are all one of the same.
Anne you wrote: “And the way back to this knowing is the stuff of which we are made, the particles that make up our being, the sparks of God’s flame that we call ‘us.” I absolute love it and my question is what if more people would allow themselves to feel these inner sparks? How would our world would look like instead?
I enjoyed reading this blog as it was a great marker to remind us all that when we feel that we are doing things on our own we just have to look honestly at the person in the room beside us, a neighbour as your greeting them each day, the person filling their car with gas at the gas station, the person doing their weekly grocery shopping and the myriad of people just like you and me that are not doing it alone but are right here with you.
You can’t read this line and not stop and consider where you are in relation to it – ‘The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.’ – when the truth and science of who we are and what we are made up of is the same as the Universe then we have complete responsibility in how we are living to reflect back to the Universe, which is equally showing us the grandness of our one source. Oneness.
On the surface we are all separate, but that’s if we rely only on what the eyes can see. When we allow ourselves to feel energy there is so very much more at play. It’s no wonder we are fascinated with the stars. We are made of the same stuff.
How fortunate that you were not able to have your sweet stash Anne. Allowing yourself to delve beneath that feeling for something sweet ended up with this blog you have shared with us all. It’s certainly worth being curious when we feel uncomfortable to see what the root cause could be.
‘The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.’ I have never allowed my awareness and truth of who I am to go to this depth – claiming this means living the essence of tenderness, delicateness and purity that is no less than the stars. We are all so much more than we are choosing to live and there is much sadness in that. What is to be celebrated is that we have a choice, one like you are making in the moment of writing this article – the choice to acknowledge that we do indeed belong. Thanks Anne.
What a huge step from thinking we don’t belong anywhere to feeling we belong everywhere.
‘I can live in the joy and harmony of feeling and knowing that I am but one person among billions, all of whom matter just as much as me, and not only that, but that we are each part of a vast Universe of beings, all connected with each other and all part of a vast oneness.’ This is huge but then on the other hand it completely makes sense when I stop and think about it…the only thing here is to accept this as a truth and then live it … now that is the tricky part.
I find it curious that we can spend so much effort to keep making sure things go as we want, and it is an ongoing effort. Yet as you say “I can live in the joy and harmony of feeling and knowing that I am but one person among billions, all of whom matter just as much as me, and not only that, but that we are each part of a vast Universe of beings, all connected with each other and all part of a vast oneness.” And this is already happening naturally so, no trying and no effort necessary.
So true Anne, how can we ever really think we don’t belong. How can we not belong to the Universe, it’s like a grain of sand saying it doesn’t belong to the beach! We are a forever part of this infinite place, and as you so beautifully put it, every day of our lives we have a choice to indulge in being separate, misunderstood and aloof or “come back to who I truly am, a great and equal part of the one glorious whole”.
I recently experienced something beautiful. As my daughter and I started a ‘little fight’, I chose to connect to me on a deeper level, rather then expressing my hardness towards her. It was a simple choice, but happened to be very powerful as within seconds she dropped her guard as well. No more words needed to be spoken at that moment and we continued our being-together in a lovely way. What I’ve learnt from this experience is that words aren’t always needed. That it is much more the energy that counts then the words that are expressed. For someone who had the strong belief that any disharmony needed to be spoken about, this is huge. Being in my heart tells already so so much. There’s an unconditional love, for each and everyone. How precious and special is that. We do belong!
‘They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body. ‘
We often choose to ignore this fact, choosing to use and abuse our bodies however we like – instead of appreciating that we are custodians and never owners in the first place.
It’s so bizarre how the one thing we all miss the most, we are all so self obsessed or self centred to really connect to the brotherhood we all once knew. So great reminder Anne that brotherhood is the only way to truly evolve.
The timelessness of space is a reminder and reflection that we are infinite and forever energy.
“The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.” Love this Anne it is so gorgeous when we really accept that we are part of the universe whole.
Anne, when you say that ‘none of us can do this alone, that we are all in this together, and that this is the way life is divinely designed to be’, it reminded me that I’ve often lived independently in life, feeling that I needed to ‘figure things out’ for myself or that seeking help was a sign of weakness in me. Although not as often as in the past, there are times when this old feeling comes up.
Lately, I’ve found that it’s been easier to accept and appreciate that I am never alone and that none of us ever are nor can we be. This truth is just so deeply beautiful and touching in a way that is hard to put words to. I am beginning to feel deeply that seeking and offering help is the natural way we are, and that there is true brotherhood in lovingly supporting each another.
I love this re-reading this blog Anne – yes, all around the world there are beginnings of heeding the big wake up call to the fact that we are all accountable and can only evolve in this life T O G E T H E R and in brotherhood equally-so for all. It feels true and strong to understand and know we cannot ever do this alone – we need each other.
“I can make a choice to come back to who I truly am, a great and equal part of the one glorious whole… a fellow human being, equal with everyone else, who lives in love, in truth, in brotherhood, knowing that none of us can do this alone, that we are all in this together, and that this is the way life is divinely designed to be”.
Anne, it is beautiful to connect to what you have written in this article, This feels so true, ‘We are an inseparable part of the Universe, and we live in a great illusion that we are separate, because we have tried to separate ourselves from it’, it seems crazy when I really ponder on this, that we have seperated ourselves from the universe – that we are so grand and amazing and yet we are choosing to live individually, making ourselves small and no where near living the grandness that we all have the potential to live.
In my experience, when I got my own way I felt even more that I didn’t belong. When I didn’t I was too busy to notice whether I belonged.
As I am travelling abroad with work at the moment all I can feel is that I do truly belong everywhere. There is space and a particular space for us all everywhere, it is up to us whether we chose to embody this and use our time wisely so that we bring our all always and so that others may connect with us too – this never changes, wherever we may be.
Well said, Jenny. Bringing our all to every situation and place certainly does mean that home is where the heart is.
‘If I make it all about me, sooner or later I have to feel different, isolated, alone; because we are all different at the level where we are individuals.’ This is a key lesson for us all – whilst we need to be looking after ourselves, being self-loving, it is also good to be in Brotherhood, living and communicating with others, because that way we can help each other to evolve.
I love the way you go everywhere at the same time, and with everyone Anne, to embracing the whole Universe of which all of us are a continually moving and integrating part. The moment humanity gives more importance to the material world and possessions, the denser and more disconnected they get and everything becomes about “me”, hence competition, judgement and blame, whereas knowing that there is always the energy of Love we are all part of and have always been, and feeling it through our bodies, lightens our whole being, and we are everywhere at the same time and with everyone, for they are us and we are them. How then can anything be “mine”?
When I live this way, in the knowing of this truth, life is joyful and full, and if the old feelings of sadness arise, they can serve as a signpost that I am choosing to live in the old way again, the way of desire, of self, of separation, of individuality… of me. this is so true Anne a great marker to be aware of.
Yes beautiful blog Anne. I found we can live in the misery by how we move and think or we can live in confirmation of all that we are – it is a choice not fate, character, just the way it is etc. etc. as I once thought before.
Woah! This is huge! If we are feeling any emotions such as sadness and hence resulting cravings from it to cover it up it is highlighting a much greater issue and that is the fact we are in self and not in brotherhood with all at that moment. It reveals that if we are truly in brotherhood, such cravings are simply not part of our lives or at least nearly not as dominating as they would otherwise.
“When I listen to and honour my body and live in a simple loving way that deeply cares for it (and for me), I start to feel some things…” This is so true Anne and I chose to ignore my body for many years and as I redevelop a connection with myself and body I feel how I am not limited to just this physicality but so much more. I love how this is summed up here…”The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.”
“We are an inseparable part of the Universe, and we live in a great illusion that we are separate, because we have tried to separate ourselves from it”… thank you Anne for the reminder that although we are all from the Oneness we are all suffering from the pains of separation, hence the state the world is in today, blaming this and that, but not wanting to look within and making the choice to come back to this Oneness. As you share, this is a big jump for us to consider, but nevertheless with baby steps, the Oneness will return once we acknowledge that there is no separation at all, as separation and individualism is only what we have chosen to believe, or been fed to believe.
I have lived the vast majority of my life with an underlying feeling of sadness that I just accepted was part of life as I had and could not find an answer or reason to it. It was ‘just’ there. However, when I met Serge Benhayon he presented another way of understanding life that did provide and answer and which you have so succinctly beautifully expressed, Anne, with:
“We are an inseparable part of the Universe, and we live in a great illusion that we are separate, because we have tried to separate ourselves from it. But we are still in it! The separation only exists in our minds. Our arrogant pride refuses to see the blindingly obvious and refuses to feel the un-numb-able fact that we are part of a stupendous whole, and that we live in a body of love that one day we will all come to know as God.”
‘I can live in the joy and harmony of feeling and knowing that I am but one person among billions, all of whom matter just as much as me, and not only that, but that we are each part of a vast Universe of beings, all connected with each other and all part of a vast oneness.’ This is humbling and in appreciating this truth the human arrogance of making it all about the individual is exposed.
It is easy to think that we are all separate from each other and from the planet and the universe because that is how it looks to the eyes in physical three dimensional life. However if we reconnect with out bodies and our sixth sense, the ability to feel and discern energy then we can actually feel that we live in an interconnected soup of energy which is one whole not many parts.
I know that feeling also of craving certain foods or having an insatiable hunger and it always means that I am seeking to not feel something or not take that next step of responsibility of knowing that I am connected to the whole and therefore how I am matters.
Thanks, Anne. This blog exposes the folly of human life, in choosing misery and suffering over joy and harmony. Protecting our hurts and making life about self is a sure fired way to miss out on all the beauty, connection, and shared experiences of love that we all long for, which begs the question – is it really worth it, or is there another way?
I love this image Anne – that we are sparks of God’s flame. And we are capable of becoming the same fire as God equally so. Beautiful.
If I belong everywhere, the piece of sweet does too. And so does the person who ate it. So, I did eat it after all (at least a part of it). 8:)
It is really sad that everything that comes from needs does not do anything else other than feeding a way of moving in life that is not true. Hence, that we get our satisfactions from feeding a false movement.
Life offers us many situations where we can increase our awareness about it. We tend to either eat them or drink them away.
Life offers us many situations where we get to experience how it feels to be left behind. But we make it about self. And so, we do not learn.
Nothing is born as an issue; it becomes one only if we choose to assign that status to it.
Thank you Anne for your great sharing – now no one on earth can ever say again that he/she is alone . . .
In deep contemplation of what you shared: that the particles of which I am made are made of the same stuff that make up the stars… I am filled with the enormity of being so much more than I allow myself to be… and with that…reminded of my choice to live that in each moment. A stunning reminder of our ability to shine.
It is curious to feel the difference between ‘enjoy’ – when defined as take ‘delight or pleasure in’ – and being in joy. In the first, I see a force that drives us to seek an emotional response and it is the same force as that which drives the separation from the all that Anne writes about and the sadness of making life about self. Then there is a quality of joy that is more related to connection to the greater truth of who we are which naturally confirms itself in our bodies, through confirming that caring and nurturing our heavenly bodies, need not be selfish at all and actually is about connection to all.
Feelings of isolation can easily arise when we isolate ourselves, keep apart and separate from others and make it all about ourselves – I appreciate your ponderings here and the deeper probing into the truth of the matter and the fact that, not only is no man or woman an island, but we are part of a vastness that we have been ignoring and turning a blind eye to; and may it be added, to our own detriment.
This is one of the most remarkable things I have heard about our human body — “They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body.” There is more that completes this understanding in the blog by way of the explanation of the particles. It is a great insight and simple revelation that we do not own anything. We do not carry any objects with us when we pass over including our body. So what is the purpose of our body and why should we take care of it? Because we have the perceptions “we only live once” and “life is short” so, why take care it? Simple answer it effects the whole universe if we do not.
I really connected with Anne’s sharing about how our bodies atoms and subatomic particles have made up many bodies before and will make up many after this current one. It does call us out of the illusion of being separate to the hugeness of the Universe and from laws that govern life in many forms we as of yet have not discovered, but in our narrow perception of existence, can be arrogant enough to say cannot exist because they have not been proven in a laboratory.
Such a beautiful blog Anne, what I loved reading was how magnificent it is that we are made of these universal particles that do not belong to us but yes our duty is to care for them. When I care for and nurture my own body, I feel as though I am holding and cherishing the most precious thing on earth and this supports me to bring my understanding and awareness through when such sadness or other thoughts come through. We can support ourselves so much through understanding our physical bodies and how they communicate to us consistently.
I recently read in a book that if you picked a person apart atom by atom, you would end up with a pile of atomic dust, and as you’ve shared it’s absolutely incredible that our particles work together to make up who we are so it’s SO important to appreciate the opportunity we have to contribute back to the Universe through how we live.
This brings to light so beautifully, how unreal it is to think that we are alone, as in truth we can never be, and the symbol of our interconnectedness, our universality is with us every where we go. The heart of who we are can never leave us, it is only ever through our choice to separate from this Love that we entertain thoughts that we are anything other than Divinely Universal.
So beautiful to read Anne, how our particles are what the universe is made of, we are truly universal with everyone, energetically, the all is passing through us continually. There are no borders or boundries just a oneness in the body of God.
Every day I am in awe of how greatly our bodies guide us to know the truth, call us to know the truth, the universal truth of who we are and how we are living in relation to who we are in essence, whenever we are willing of course to really see and feel it. When we live in a way that is guided by this truth we live in a way that honors the Love that we are, the Love we all are of, as our bodies are a universal divining instrument of God through which we are born to emanate the Light of our Soul through the lives we live, together.
Anne you write with such wisdom that speaks volumes of what is in fact the truth of us all. When we are connected to our essence, our Soul, we move and express in a way that encompasses, reflects and honors the Love we all are and are connected to. And we are disconnected from our essence, our Soul and we move in a way that is in disregard, is absent of Love and only considers our immediate desires that seek to fill the space with what is missing, our connection to our essence and as such to our universality.
I love the consideration that you allowed for yourself, to feel what was going on, to go deeper and not dismiss all that you were feeling. This is such an honoring and an act of Love in itself through which being honest about what you were feeling led to you to know and understand the greater truth.
“The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.
If I really stop and feel this, I realise that I do belong here: in fact, I belong everywhere!” – haha brilliant Anne, love this, stopping to feel.. that our makeup IS the same quality and material as the stars, wow that is so grand and so huge, and it is the human mind that gets in the way of accepting this universal fact.. because if it didn’t [get in the way] then this world, our world, would be an entirely different place.. in fact – would we all be here at all if we did all feel we were of the stars and not of created earth yet at the same time residing on earth, committing to that very fact …the fact of heaven being on earth.
Great thoughtful post Anne, i have felt as you have described on and off since a child, and can at times still get that feeling today, and your words here: “When I live this way, in the knowing of this truth, life is joyful and full, and if the old feelings of sadness arise, they can serve as a signpost that I am choosing to live in the old way again, the way of desire, of self, of separation, of individuality… of me” – you put it so easily and so well, especially about ‘the old way’ — and in this your insight brings light to the spark of simple choice; of the choice to return.
This article has inspired so much. I can feel how in my relationship with others, my self imposes so much to fill the emptiness and sadness which has come from living from self. It was deeply exposing as I felt all the imposition – it felt like intense bullying and control as I expected others to complete my pictures of how life should look. But no judgement here, just a deeper understanding to know I do not NEED anyone to be any way to alleviate my sadness – I created it, it is not actually mine or there to be fixed it is instead a simple choice to realign; as I belong and am full (of love) already. Deeply healing Anne.
So clear to understand illness and disease now Anne – it is the body’s way of saying, you are filling me with the wrong fuel and I can’t run on that – we cough and splutter through life like a breaking down engine in a car. It is the body’s way of alerting us to saying, wrong fuel, I can’t operate fully with this. How amazing the body does this and when we stop and listen, it is communicating it to us ALL the time. Beautiful to return to this body and just LOVE and appreciate it – for it is not our body to abuse – we are from all and the particles and physicality of it are there to be nurtured and cherished for the loving and amazing vehicle it provides us to express the loving essence of who we are.
“I am made of flesh and blood, which is made of molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles that have been here since before the beginning of time. They have made up countless bodies before mine… and will make up many more to come. They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body.” – I found these sentences so powerful, for it is so rare for us to really stop and remember the fact that this body we so often taken for granted is not ours to own – it is a combination of billions of year old atoms coming together to form a body we call our own, but that will return again and again to the universe we truly belong to.
Wow, Anne. I am returning to read this again when I get home from work – beautiful. The expansion felt in the body as I read it confirmed everything you are writing about. The body craves this sense of all being one and from love and God because this is its natural state of being. I can feel how I have been running on self and not love – like running on diesel and not petrol. Thank you.
Wow Anne, reading your blog again I got to really appreciate how grand our bodies are. Every particle belongs to the universe and the stars, we don’t own it but are a custodians of it. It highlights to me how sacred our bodies are, inspiring me to take care of it to the best of my ability.
Understanding the fundamental building blocks of our bodies and how these pieces are in relation to the whole of the universe and beyond to everything that exists, is a pretty huge subject. But one that Anne Malatt has clearly mastered because I get what she is saying, it all makes clear and simple sense and in reading her words I can feel a sense of space throughout my body, like all the particles moved away from each other a little bit to give themselves more room.
I have just in the last two days given myself a massage and the difference this has made to my days following the attention and care for my body have been amazing. Really amazing. I love that loving our bodies is the way back to connecting to a far greater source of love and joy than we can possibly imagine with our little minds.
Loneliness and disconnection are serious problems today. People even feel alone and isolated within their families, relationships and marriages… Highlighting that our deep sense of belonging must come from within first – from surrendering deeply to ourselves and our own bodies. Without this, no external relationship or environment will ever be ‘it’, but will be fragmented and separated by the gap in our relationship to divinity and the all we belong to.
Great point Kylie and what a great realisation that loneliness and isolation in relationships actually comes from a choice to separate ourselves. How many of us go on the endless search for someone to fill the void when we are creating that void in the first place?
Disconnecting to our Universality will always leave us feeling discontent, unsatisfied and in need of something to fill the void.
Love this Anne , and the responsibility it brings to us . ‘There is a physical reality to this human body, and to life on earth. I am made of flesh and blood, which is made of molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles that have been here since before the beginning of time. They have made up countless bodies before mine… and will make up many more to come. They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body. The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.’
“Our arrogant pride refuses to see the blindingly obvious and refuses to feel the un-numb-able fact that we are part of a stupendous whole, and that we live in a body of love that one day we will all come to know as God.” This is a truly illuminating sentence that says it all, and I even feel a smile at ‘un-numb-able’. Gee I know how hard I have tried un-successfully, as do much of humanity to do this exact thing at the expense of us all, and then we want some other department or government to fix it.
‘If I make it all about me, sooner or later I have to feel different, isolated, alone; because we are all different at the level where we are individuals’. This is so so true and it feels so very different to when we are connected and we living in the knowing we are one.
When I am connected to the sacredness within and I spend my day ‘with me’ all the need for snacks and sweet things is no longer there.
‘We are an inseparable part of the Universe, and we live in a great illusion that we are separate, because we have tried to separate ourselves from it’. We fall for that illusion because we don’t want to feel the misery we created in separating, however, in order to return, we must clear and heal all that which was not love.
‘I don’t belong here’, I know this well, because in the past, I have felt that I did not belong here, because I did not fit in anywhere….Of course I did not fit in, as I was disconnected with my body which meant I had no connection with people. By reconnecting with my inner essence, and practicing the way of the Livingness, and healing many old hurts, there is no room or space for this old outdated belief in my body.
“The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.”
This should be taught to us from young and reiterated throughout our lives as this will always keep us on track knowing where we belong and where we are from. Nobody could lose themselves when what you share here would be our deep knowing and understanding.
Yes indeed, Judith. Holding this grander sense of what we are a part of is a foundational truth upon which to raise and educate our children.
“The separation only exists in our minds.”
We carve out a whole life based on the intelligence of the mind and to hear about its limitations is very challenging, but we know at the same time that the mind is capable of creating its own little world, that is completely in separation to the reality of our lives. This extends from having our own little fantasies about things to extreme cases of mental and psychological illness.
Isn’t it interesting how it starts out with bringing more focus to ourselves and our bodies and how we feel to actually learn that it is not about us, but about so much more and that we are so much grander that we ever imagined us to be.
“But I have some friends who live in a different way, and I am re-learning to live this way too.”
Amazing to have this kind of friends, but even more amazing is that you acknowledge them and what they live and aspire to that instead of going into comparison and closing off towards the inspiration they offer you, a behavior that can be often observed in the world.
’And I can choose to wallow in the misery of this again, or I can make a choice to come back to who I truly am, a great and equal part of the one glorious whole… a fellow human being, equal with everyone else, who lives in love, in truth, in brotherhood, knowing that none of us can do this alone, that we are all in this together, and that this is the way life is divinely designed to be.’ – Love this paragraph – such an incredible highlight of the power of our own choices.
The next time I feel sad I will remind myself what you’ve shared here, Anne including this;
‘When I live this way, in the knowing of this truth, life is joyful and full, and if the old feelings of sadness arise, they can serve as a signpost that I am choosing to live in the old way again, the way of desire, of self, of separation, of individuality… of me.’
Simplicity and joy are going hand in hand in this beautiful and wise sharing, when it starts to be complicated in our lives we know we have separated ourselves from our essence.
Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine has helped me understand what the deep feeling of unease I have felt all my life is all about. Now that I understand that it is about my disconnection to myself , I can move on with my life, and with support of Universal Medicine, truly heal and make a difference in the world.
Anne I love the way that you are always able to present the big picture in small enough pieces that it can be easily understood.
“And the way back to this knowing is the stuff of which we are made, the particles that make up our being, the sparks of God’s flame that we call ‘us’ “and Anne I would add that for so many of us it is The way of the livingness as presented by Serge Benhayon that has supported us to return to our particles.
The particles that I am made of also make up the universe. This takes responsibility to a whole new level.
As Anne says, when I am connected to my heart I am wherever I am needed and I am home.
This is true, we are never not without a choice of what we will align to.
Our particles are receiving endless communication from the universe – we can attempt to silence it or block our ears but never will this cease.
What a great blog. I love your reminder that we do not belong in one spot, our particles respond to a greater whole and as such we everywhere, grand and never not interacting with the all.
Great example Anne “I feel this sadness (and then the desire to sweeten it) any time I do not get my own way. When I don’t get what I want, I feel like I am missing out, I feel that I am not part of something, I feel different, isolated, not understood, not heard …any time, in short, when I make it all about me.” I realise recently that I have that reaction when I feel I’ve not done something ‘correctly’, I want the sweetness to take away the feeling of ‘not being good enough’, I want it to mask my own choice to not stay connected to the all that is greater than just the me in that situation.
I could stop for hours and contemplate what you have expressed here Anne! It fills my cup to overflowing! Getting on with living from this truth is the call though. Humanity so needs this understanding.
What a confirmation Anne that we truly belong here! It is the individuality and sadness that does not belong because in the end we must understand that feeling that way means we have been looking in the wrong places for the key realise our universal inheritance!
Anne what a beautiful sharing love the bit “a fellow human being, equal with everyone else, who lives in love, in truth, in brotherhood, knowing that none of us can do this alone, that we are all in this together, and that this is the way life is divinely designed to be.” we sure cannot do it alone is all together we return to where we are from.
Many people are searching for the harmony and joy that they know deep down they naturally are. there are so many self-help, self-improvement models and theories and modalities for ‘getting there.’ it has only been through listening to my body that I have been able to make real changes which actually support me to experience harmony and joy. Listening to my body are the only steps that count towards feeling connected to myself and everyone else.
Anne, I love reading this article and feeling the bigger picture and how we are all part of the universe, ‘We are an inseparable part of the Universe’, I can feel how if we surrender to this and do not try and control, if we allow ourselves to be then life is more harmonious and natural and true, because it is not about us as individuals but about us all and the universe and I can feel how there is a responsibility here because how we are affects the whole.
Anne another aspect of your blog that stands out to me is the fact that we avoid feeling this innate fact, the fact we are connected and part of everything. When Serge has presented on the importance of our relationship with self first it makes even more sense, as our connection to us then allows our connection to the all and the knowing of our part in the whole universe.
It is interesting Anne as you mention when you don’t get what you want you want to sweeten the moment. Just looking in the aisles of the supermarket – sugary foods abound, as someone pointed out to me the other day sugar is even put in chicken. It is everywhere. It would only be placed in most foods if we were asking for it – which shows to me that people are not content with life, that we as a society are struggling to cope. I know when I struggle I instantly want and desire sugar even though I know it is only a very short momentary fix. Nevertheless the thoughts and desire is there. My mind can say have sugar yet my body is saying no, take responsibility!
“I can choose to wallow in the misery of this again, or I can make a choice to come back to who I truly am, a great and equal part of the one glorious whole”. Choosing the latter is choosing to live in joy.
” Our arrogant pride refuses to see the blindingly obvious and refuses to feel the un-numb-able fact that we are part of a stupendous whole, and that we live in a body of love that one day we will all come to know as God.” So true Anne our pride and arrogance have got in the way of realising we are living in a body of love …God’s body, a body that emanates love to us no matter what we do. This is truly humbling and your blog have given me a stop moment to reflect and appreciate both the absurdity and the enormity of this.
It is so humbling to realise that our bodies belong to the universe and are simply the vehicles of our expression on earth. Especially when we discover that sub atomic particles move between atoms through all things before returning back to us – we are sharing all with all.
There is much to consider here in this blog, Anne, thank you. What strikes me most re-reading it today is how powerful we have allowed our thoughts to be, and the absurdity of the belief that we are separate from something that we actually live within and cannot get away from…God’s body.
And isn’t that the simple choice it comes down to. The question is why do we do it to ourselves ?
What an absolutely golden blog Anne. I loved these words ‘And the way back to this knowing is the stuff of which we are made, the particles that make up our being, the sparks of God’s flame that we call ‘us.’’ Science, philosophy and religion together.
wow, reading through your blog offers an explosion back into the depth of the whole Universe… Home… Re-connecting us back to the origin of Man, Soul and Space….
I absolutely can’t wait till the whole, or the majority of mankind wakes up to the fact of what you are saying here Anne, but the way the world is at the moment I feel that is a long, long way off with such forces trying so hard to keep us separated and in the arrogant ignorance of thinking it is all about the individual.
The feeling of not belonging here is a very common experience. I can certainly remember puzzling about what this place was and ‘where did I come from?’ because I knew most certainly that I had come from elsewhere – though I knew not where. I remember asking my mother why i wasn’t born in England, why was I born in Australia and she replied that she didn’t know but she knew I was here now! I soon learnt to ‘belong’ and love the earth and all its beauty – the high blue sky, the graceful gumtrees, the azure ocean. But you have taken us to a whole new level with the particle information Anne. Indeed we belong everywhere and how is it to know that!
Wow, what an amazing blog Anne. Simply out of this world, what you’ve shared completely blows out the idea that we are separate. ‘The separation only exists in our minds.’ This is so, so true. I have found my mind can shake me up and down like a roller coaster ride whereas when I connect to my body I simply know and can feel I belong to the universe, to everywhere and everything. Whoooohooo this is mind blowing.
I absolutely love what you have said here Anne: “They (the particles) are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body. The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.”
Our body is made up of particles that come from the universe, hence we can only be connected to the universe all of the time, and so as you have said, we can only belong. And you have so highlighted the fact of our responsibility over our particles/the body!
I cringe to think of all the ways that I do not fully honour or care for my body, because when we look at it as part of the universe and the grandness that we come from, I know deep within that it is so worth the honouring and the care on every level.
‘They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body.’ This understanding brings a whole other level of self-care into the equation of life. We are but the custodians of our bodies and it’s particles, yet how many of us know and can connect to the truth of that in our everyday lives? This is not common knowledge in the world, but it should be, why aren’t we taught such things in science at school? Children crave the wonder of the universe and the confirmation that we are indeed part of it all.
I love your way of expressing about the particles that make ‘us’ – “And the way back to this knowing is the stuff of which we are made, the particles that make up our being, the sparks of God’s flame that we call ‘us.’” Beautiful expression Anne, this is so easy to feel when expressed like this, thank you.
Great word Anne – un-numb-able… In all of the human advances in technology that have birthed more distractions from ourselves, all the food and activities and addictions we adopt in hope to numb out the fact that we have separated from the truth of who we are, never actually work in the long run. Sure, there may be a moment of relief but when that wears off we are still left with the yearning to return back to the connection within and with the all.
Oh this is such a beautiful statement Anne – “The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.” When we consider this truly and feel into it, how can we possibly ever feel alone or isolated? it is only possible as you rightly say, when we make everything about ourselves instead of feeling the whole that we are all part of. So if the part that is us is part of the whole that is the universe, then the part that is us will and does affect the whole, something deeply to ponder upon and adjust according to this universal truth.
When we choose individuality we avoid our responsibility to the whole. “We are an inseparable part of the Universe, and we all live in a great illusion that we are separate, because we have tried to separate ourselves from it, But we are still in it!….If I really stop and feel this, I realise that I do belong here: in fact I belong everywhere!” Thank-you Anne a great reminder of the loving responsibility we all have to re-connect to the love within, opening the way to reconnecting to the all.
Thank you Anne, I have no doubt I will be back to read and comment further because your comment about the particles that make up our body struck me “They have made up countless bodies before mine… and will make up many more to come. They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body.” I am not sure I completely get the magnitude of this comment but it resonates with me and I get a sense that I have lived like that and with that knowing on some level. I am really looking forward to getting a deeper sense of this from now.
Another wise saying ‘Remember: It is no use just wanting to have knowledge without putting it into practice.’ Anne, you have beautifully demonstrated putting knowledge into practice in your very relatable example.
In truth, everything makes so much more sense when we allow ourselves to see, feel, connect with and be a part of the whole and nothing compares to feeling this divinity through our bodies, it’s exquisite.
‘If the old feelings of sadness arise, they can serve as a signpost that I am choosing to live in the old way again, the way of desire, of self, of separation, of individuality… of me.’ – this is a gorgeous reminder, Anne. If we choose to recognise this and re-connect to the knowingness that we, along with everything else, are an integral part of the whole, of the All, we feel the endless love that is there for us, that is us, that is everything and everywhere.
I can’t put into words how I felt when I read this “The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.” Super expansive does not cut it but it is a good starting point.
‘There is a physical reality to this human body, and to life on earth. I am made of flesh and blood, which is made of molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles that have been here since before the beginning of time. They have made up countless bodies before mine… and will make up many more to come. They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body. The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.’
This paragraph above is one that will stay with me for my lifetime and I hope I know this truth in essence for many lives to come, powerful stuff!
“There is a physical reality to this human body, and to life on earth. I am made of flesh and blood, which is made of molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles that have been here since before the beginning of time. They have made up countless bodies before mine… and will make up many more to come. They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body.” This brings to mind a very old and wise philosophical teaching ‘I am not this body – it is an instrument for my use’.
Anne, I love your article about belonging and how you share when we see ourselves as separate, that’s how we feel, alone and isolated and when we connect to how we are actually a part a ‘vast oneness’ we feel the divinity in our selves and all around us. Thank you.
Wow – such an amazing blog Anne! Thank you for sharing your unfolding wisdom which is simple yet quite profound.
Our current state of the world shows our separation to who we are. There is much harm that people are doing to each other that shows the separation away from what is actually our essence. Our natural nature is love and to express this with each other- we only need to hold a new born baby to feel this strongly. How we live is now a long way from this and it is a denial of the oneness of us all.
Thank you for this beautiful blog, Anne. I have to admit that I felt quite teary reading it and it was the realization that the molecules that I am made up of make up the whole universe. We are a part of the all and to live in anything other than that truth is as you correctly say, something that we have created in our own minds and nothing to do with reality. This is a very humbling realization indeed.
I had to laugh when someone got to your stash before you did. A bit of an unintentional (or subconscious) set up it seems. Without the treat to numb your sensitivity, you were left with having to feel all that was coming up…and from that you were able to articulate it through this piece of writing. Everything happens for a reason.
There really are some fundamentals about our purpose in life that we so often prefer to ignore and avoid. We love to live in an insular bubble so we can try to get away with not being responsible for our many choices.
What you’re presenting Anne, is quite significant and quite confronting. It all makes sense, the only question is, what do we do with this information?
“Our arrogant pride refuses to see the blindingly obvious and refuses to feel the un-numb-able fact that we are part of a stupendous whole”; this is one big wakeup call Anne, and thank you for making it. Once humanity gets its head around this ginormous revelation I know that there will be a lot of waking up going on, and as a result this world we live in, together, will slowly begin to change.
Beautiful Anne – thank you for sharing this, as we are in the universe, thinking that we are not (how crazy).. but so well said. it is like saying to a dog that it is not meant to play.. Ironically so. We belong to a whole , a whole we know – a whole we can not escape.
We are all different as individuals – how we look, how we behave, what we do, where we live…this list is endless in our differences. But, and it is a big but, when we go deeper to our core, to our essence, we are all exactly the same. When we feel the connection at this inner level, there can be no issues between us but the second we focus on our differences, bingo, in come the issues.
‘If I make it all about me, sooner or later I have to feel different, isolated, alone; because we are all different at the level where we are individuals.’ This is profound and makes so much sense. We are brought up with the notion of individualism and gaining over another, so it is no wonder the large majority of the worlds population feel isolated and alone because that is exactly what we create. What if we were brought up with and educated in ‘oneness’ and the fact that whom we are and what we do affects the greater whole?
We are an inseparable part of the Universe, and we live in a great illusion that we are separate, because we have tried to separate ourselves from it. But we are still in it! The separation only exists in our minds. This is so true Anne, as our bodies will tell us loud and clear, we are way more than our minds will allow us to know.
Yes we are inseparable and something for me that I commonly hear people say and proves this in society is when two people are thinking about each other at the same time or if something happens with one person and others sense it without being told. Our everyday lingo tells me that we all do know that we are actually inseparable.
I have lived much of my life wanting to do it my way, thinking I know best. Even when I think I don’t know best there has often been a drive in me to simply have it done. The problem is that this kind of control, apart from being very self-centred, does not allow for the magic of what brotherhood brings.
When live in separation and in resistance to the fact that we are all connected, it causes a huge tension. Realising we “but one person among billions, all of whom matter just as much as me” is a beautiful thing. This realisation alone can change the world.
And this tension is always pulling is back to our natural harmonious way of being. Divinely designed even though at times the tension may not feel so great.
The way you have described how we are equal to the expanse of the universe offers great clarity and perspective on life. The difference to how we choose to live is the level of understanding we are willing to accept for our responsibility in the big picture. We can go universal equality or what’s in it for me, but being aware they offer very different realities worth taking a moment to consider.
If we feel the whole, we’re connected to the whole. If we disconnect from our feelings, we can only observe from our minds and we can’t feel part of the whole. As a belief we might think that, but we can’t feel the fact. There’s a magnificence, a naturalness and a stupendous joy in feeling connected to everything there is.
Yes Anne, when we fall for the cover story of life we tend to think of this sadness as ‘bad’. But when I keep coming back to the power of our particles, it is like there is an easiness I can feel because I never get fooled into thinking that this sadness is me. It’s more like a foreign object floating in beautiful clear water, which we can eventually filter out. Wow I love the science of what you share here about us and life.
I love what you shared Anne and can relate in many ways. More recently I have started to break away from the isolated seperate way of existing and open myself up to something much bigger. Reading your blog and all of the comments so far was a confirmation of exactly what you were writing about, that it is absolutely about all of us, that it is through brotherhood we will find our true way home.
‘If I really stop and feel this, I realise that I do belong here: in fact, I belong everywhere!’ – also changes the sense of responsibility we have as being part of ‘everywhere’. Maybe the perception of separation and isolation works very well when we want to decline all responsibility – making it about self its a very little world.
Thank you Anne and Alex, for what you have expressed and the way you have written has expanded my awareness, which means it must come from the Universe seeing it is also forever expanding!
The formula is simple: Make it about self and you have lost your Self, make it about the all and you are your Self as part of the all. The oracle of Delphi knew something about it: Know thyself.
Uni-verse: ‘All-turned into one’, that what is the all, entirety – how can we consider ourselves to be separate from that which is the all as in here I am I and there is the Universe or All. We are caught in the identification with the body nevertheless, it is via the body that we re-unite with the all to which the body (the particles) belong. So who or what aspect of us is it that has forgotten or is ignoring the immutable fact of oneness?
How simple and common sense, thank you Anne Malatt for bringing this wisdom into written word.
The notion of being part of the bigger whole stays abstract until we start feeling it with and in our body, then it is an undeniable reality that changes and expands our view of life radically, actually it opens our eyes to see what has been there all the time but was veiled for the worldly eye and intellectual mind to be aware of.
Wow Anne, this is very beautiful, ‘I realise that I do belong here: in fact, I belong everywhere!’ I love what you are sharing here, it is wonderful to remember that we are part of the universe and to feel the bigger picture, especially when I get caught up in an issue, reading your article really puts things into perspective and reminds me how divine we all are.
taking that step back and considering the whole of humanity – it is a humbling experience, and yet also it makes no one less – to see everyone as equal is an amazing thing to truly feel
Thanks Anne. Thanks for the reminder that all throughout the day there is a choice, to make things simpler, to let go. Quite often I have a way I think I am going to do things, and then end up doing them completely differently!
I think this one’s a keeper and one that I will re-read many a time. Thank you Anne.
Our Soul is like a secrete stash just waiting to be reconnected to and fully explored!
And I can choose to wallow in the misery of this again, or I can make a choice to come back to who I truly am, a great and equal part of the one glorious whole… a fellow human being, equal with everyone else, who lives in love, in truth, in brotherhood, knowing that none of us can do this alone, that we are all in this together, and that this is the way life is divinely designed to be. Oh, absolutely Anne. The more you connect, the more you feel aligned to everyone and everything, and you wouldn’t want it any other way, its so gorgeous.
“If I make it all about me, sooner or later I have to feel different, isolated, alone; because we are all different at the level where we are individuals.” – great point Anne, the minute we make anything about us, we’ve separated from others and that’s when issues arise.
Loved the truth of this article, thank you Anne
Thank you Anne. We absolutely cannot go it alone in life. Everywhere we go, we need to work with others…brotherhood is the only way.
It is true when we make it all about me we are missing out and it is miserable and exhausting. Who we truly are is another dimension altogether and infinitely and incomparable grander than the “little me” that is not grand at all.
Anne your sharing here of the body being made up of particles – ‘They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body. The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.’
This is just so important to understand – that all we have is a responsibility of how we live – we can’t own who we are, how we are, what we do, but we can take responsibility. And that is why we are here – that is truly the purpose of the body – to accept we do not own it, we are not individual – we are all equal – we are all the same.
What a beautiful blog Anne. I am so touched by the fact that our particles do not belong to us and that they have been here since the beginning of time. This has helped me to re-perspective things around the way I treat my body. I do not own these particles and yet I am still the custodian of the arrangement of them that forms my body, as you have said: ‘There is a physical reality to this human body, and to life on earth. I am made of flesh and blood, which is made of molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles that have been here since before the beginning of time. They have made up countless bodies before mine… and will make up many more to come. They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body. The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe. When you say this about the stars I can feel the stuff of stars within me and my whole being sparks on fire!
Love your sharing Lyndy – as I read your words, the words, God is in us and all around us, come to me.
It is a very different feeling in the body when we stop and feel how connected to everything and everyone around us we actually are. It immediately halts any thoughts of being seperate, in short it essentially brings me to a still feeling where I can simply breath and this action clears my head, opens my chest and my spine simply unrolls. I feel so very present and solid. I never feel this way when I have thought about only myself.
Leigh, this is beautiful.
Our whole world is geared to fostering individuality and I find it quite difficult at times to feel the power of brotherhood in my world. This is a very inspirational sharing for me, Anne. Thank you.
“If I really stop and feel this, I realise that I do belong here: in fact, I belong everywhere!” How can we not, we are made up of the everywhere. Mindblowing in a great way.
Belonging is such a strong concept and one that has left many people left wondering and sometimes heartbroken.
But to take the new approach as suggested by this blog, suggesting that belonging was never the issue but rather us trying to reject what we innately belong to.
When I feel sadness arising I welcome it as it is coming up to the surface to get released for ever out of my body.
How more I connect back again to the love I am and feel that in my body how more the whats not…the sadness of the separation ( effect of living in separation before in life) comes out.
More and more I feel that way that I belong to heaven and it can be lived on earth. Like Anne says it can be felt everywhere as it is in us.
“And I can choose to wallow in the misery of this again, or I can make a choice to come back to who I truly am” I could feel while reading this a part within me that has wanted the separation to be some finality, a completeness that would successfully sustain itself. But the fact is choosing to be a small ‘me’ eventually falls flat on it’s face and crumbles. At that point re-connection to the all I am inescapably a part of is the only option because trying to separate from something that is all around and passing through us isn’t actually possible. We cannot be separate from one another but we can choose the quality of our relationship. Thank you Anne.
‘We are an inseparable part of the Universe’ – absolutely – we belong to something much grander than we could ever imagine, wherever we go, whatever we think, say, or do – if we are connected we always belong.
To acknowledge and claim that I too am of the same sweet essence as others allows me to feel that in truth there is no separation from the divine.
When I am truly connected to who I really am I no longer get sweet cravings.
Beautifully said Anne, It seems that when I am wallowing in the I dont belong to this place I am so struggling against the grand whole that I am an integral part of and it is always waiting for me to stop fighting and surrender.
It is crazy to imagine why we would want to live in separation from the all and yet we have chosen too over and over again.
With regard to our particles – ‘They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body.’ I love this Anne for it brings us up short to acknowledge the responsibility we all have. If we don’t care for our own bodies, how can we truly care for anybody or anything else?
Thank you Anne, you have eloquently shared the difference between living isolated as an individual, and how miserable this feels, and living equal to everyone as a part of the universe, as precious, sacred and divine. A very powerful blog.
‘The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.’ Wow Anne, when we really check out the science of where our particles come from, it’s hard not to be in awe of the amazing bodies we inhabit. Seeing the big picture like this takes us away from it all being about us as individuals.
Thanks Anne. This is so simple and lovely to read and remind me of what is really going on.
I always love reading about particles and your paragraph on the composition of our bodies is quite humbling Anne, to consider that we are in a body made up of particles that are really on loan to us, that we have responsibility for passing on, that is a beautiful way to take more care of the vehicle we are currently cruising around in. And we all do belong here, and at times when I struggle with that it is good to remember that others need our support even more, and that brings me back to the responsibility I have on this planet to get these particles I’m looking after spaciously moving.
‘If I really stop and feel this, I realise that I do belong here: in fact, I belong everywhere!’ – It is huge when we start to realise that in fact we are part of the whole all of the time. That separation or ‘not belonging’ is utter illusion.
Gosh, I could very much relate to your headlines Anne – ‘I don’t belong here’ I have used that countless times in my life, like it was a personal mantra. Today I know that this was my way of escaping my life and not taking responsibility for it.
Yes, I felt like an alien from a strange planet growing up with my family, until I realised that it was my reactions to the world that were keeping me separate and lonely.
I have also noticed that when I crave something sweet or want to overeat, I have an anxiousness about not wanting to feel something going on in my body. Trusting that its OK to feel has helped me get to know myself and understand what triggers these reactions.
Hi Anne, I enjoyed reading your blog. Thanks for describing how you found by connecting to the body and honouring what it feels and caring for it lovingly leads to living in a more joyful and harmonious way.
I love how you say that you (we) belong everywhere. So very true and thank you for unfolding it for all to see.
“We are an inseparable part of the Universe, and we live in a great illusion that we are separate, because we have tried to separate ourselves from it.” – so true Anne. In our individualisation we remain separate, but when we connect to our heart and soul we can feel the grander connection to the all- God.
“For me, it starts with my body. Now this is something I have tried to ignore for quite a long time. I have indulged it, pushed it, used it, driven it, but listening to it and honouring it… that is a whole new thing for me.” I have found my experience to be similar to yours Ann. By simply listening to my body and becoming more aware of the messages and signals it shares and by taking greater care with it my awareness of the greater whole and interconnectedness of the all is returning.
When I was a child I liked nothing more than reading books about space, other planets and other dimensions. I used to wake in the night and ask ‘why me?’ and wonder why I was here on earth. I am sure that I am not alone in this, children are very aware and maybe they too, know deep inside that they are not from this realm, and there is more to life than we can physically perceive. But we are here, and we are all connected, and if we can acknowledge and accept this as true then we can begin to work together in Brotherhood and bring us back to the Oneness we all miss.
I am also a student of the Way of the Livingness and it is my responsibility to live what I feel to be the truth, and the truth is, like you have so beautifully shared, is that we are all part of the oneness of God and making it about self has never worked, and as I read your words I had another ‘stop in my tracks moment’ to not make it all about me but acknowledge that life on earth is all about all of us.
We can be brought up in a religion that tells us to believe in a God, with an image of a stormy, judgemental big guy . . . or we can be allowed and encouraged to feel within, to feel the truth of who we are and our relationship with God, all we have to do is be still and allow ourselves to feel… no distractions, no food to numb ourselves, no racy thoughts, just being still and allowing.
The most amazing direct-link explained – knowing ourselves as more than just flesh and blood, is the best reason ever to take precious care of ourselves: “I am made of flesh and blood, which is made of molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles that have been here since before the beginning of time. They have made up countless bodies before mine… and will make up many more to come. They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body. The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.”
“They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body.” This is beautiful Anne. When we stop and understand this the whole of our perspective on life shifts. Less self and more brotherhood.
Beautiful Anne. We are indeed an inseparable part of the Universe. How could we not be, although we forget this all the time. I love the depth of your reminder.
Do we forget that we are a part of the ‘Universe’ or do we keep it stashed away for later? Our soul is like a secret stash that when found is undeniable!
Thank you Anne, I love reading this – a magical unfolding that brings us to feel we are more than what we think we are as shown here…”I can make a choice to come back to who I truly am, a great and equal part of the one glorious whole… a fellow human being, equal with everyone else, who lives in love, in truth, in brotherhood, knowing that none of us can do this alone, that we are all in this together, and that this is the way life is divinely designed to be.”
As soon as I saw this Anne I knew it was saying something very important and this felt very strong inside . Sure enough I could relate to all you share with a new understanding and confirmation received so beautifully. “If I really stop and feel this, I realise that I do belong here: in fact, I belong everywhere!” Being part of the whole universe with every particle we are made of allows a really honouring care and responsibility to treasure and listen to and our belonging together with no separation trying to get in the way of what naturally and simply is . Thank you.
“When I live this way, in the knowing of this truth, life is joyful and full, and if the old feelings of sadness arise, they can serve as a signpost that I am choosing to live in the old way again, the way of desire, of self, of separation, of individuality… of me.” I love how you expressed this Anne, how beautiful it is when we live joyfully in the knowledge that we are made up of the same particles as everyone else, equally, and the same particles that make up the stars and the rest of the universe. From this, of course, we know that we truly belong here, we are a part of the whole universe. There is no more feeling that we are more or less than anyone else, in our essence we are all truly equal. Yes, we may slip into the old way of living from time to time, but once we have realised the truth, we know we can always come back to it. The more we live it in our daily lives, the easier it will be to return to the joy of the truth.
Anne I remember as a child asking where I fitted into the world, many things did not make sense to me. yet on a particle level you’ve shown clearly how we belong to the entire universe as we are made from the universe. The most powerful part for me was appreciating what you share in that we are all equal to everyone else, this holds a key to me. For if I think I think I am more or different in any way then I am choosing to not belong to the whole universe I come from. The power of the simplicity yet enormity of what you share is something that inspires the choice to live me in full.
A powerful and clear wake-up call here Anne – The basis of separation, isolation and loneliness that we CHOOSE for ourselves whenever we make it all about ‘me, myself & I’
“What I am learning is that I can live in the misery and suffering of my self-centred creation when I choose to do it my way, get what I want, go it alone…”
A beautiful blog Anne offering much insight and awareness as to how we can choose to be living in a self centred and isolated way or be part of the wider, universal picture, being in joy and harmony equally so with all others from the basis of the commonality of our particles. Wow….how super amazing this is.
The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.and in harmony.
Love that: “When I don’t get what I want, I feel like I am missing out, I feel that I am not part of something, I feel different, isolated, not understood, not heard … any time, in short, when I make it all about me.” I know this from my childhood when I did not get what I want I got this thoughts of ‘I must be adopted and some day my real family will come and will free me’. Or later I was thinking this group I am in is not ‘the right one’ for me, they are different, or that my partner is not ‘the right one’ and I have to find someone who is more fitting…. All illusions. All ‘made-up’s’ to avoid the one true point: I did not take my responsibility. I went away from my relationship with my divinity and end up ‘feeling alone’…my dear – no wonder! So I learned to take a little stop when I find myself in this drama again, take an inner step to the side and have look: what responsibility did I avoid? Here lies my next step of evolution.
Breaking it down to the sub-atomic particles is the humility that we all need to get to. It’s a very potent process to go through because as you break it down and down and down, our spirit, our ego has less and less traction on us. The science of this is a beautiful tool to the truth.
Anne – there is something behind the way that you’ve written your bio “wife, mother, grandmother, eye-surgeon, Australia” that so perfectly encapsulates everything that you have written. To me it makes you feel so ‘everywhere’ yet with zero attachment to any of it. I love it. “I am all of this, in absolute fullness and totality, yet I am actually none of it.” Not sure I’m expressing everything that I feel from this – but anyway, I get it – and it’s super cool.
I agree: Our particles do exactly know where they belong to: The Universe. That’s why our bodies do clear what is not belonging to us and supports us on our way back to accepting this fact and living in an appreciating way.
It makes so much sense when you put it like that Sandra. When we surrender, our particles come into line with the great flow of the universe.
I guess the question ‘where do I belong to?’ is old and in all of us more or less available. But…is maybe in the question already the crux of the matter to fail? In fact, there is no ‘I’. This is a creation from our spirit and that’s why we are here on earth learning to let go of it again. We do that together, not as individuals because this is part of the game, isn’t it? Yes this body is inhabited by ‘my’ spirit. The spirit is a split off our soul which again is a part of God. What reflects our steps we done away and have to go back. So, on this way there is this part-time we are an ‘I’, even this is an illusion. But we made it a reality and so it is. Searching for a belonging is part of the game of ‘going home’, becoming united again. Because in truth we are all ONE with the Universe. The moment I am connected to truth there is no question of belonging.
“In my experiences of meeting and conversing with the local community here- there are people who have lost their entire family to suicide related deaths and the younger ones are addicted to drugs and self-harming body issues.Given we all belong to the one universe and each one of us matters how is it that we allow this to happen?”
WOW I am glad you didn’t get to eat your sweet stash if this is the depths you go to and share with others when you don’t!!!! I really loved what you shared here ‘I am but one person among billions, all of whom matter just as much as me, and not only that, but that we are each part of a vast Universe of beings, all connected with each other and all part of a vast oneness.’ I very much know this to be true but do not fully live this knowing and food is for me one thing that I use to stop me being all that I am; I have felt this more and more over the last few days and am willing to truly get to the root of it so it no longer ‘owns’ me. I remembered in my body after reading the first line of your blog how when I was younger I used to cry and say ‘I want to go home’ many a time because of the lovelessness I could feel around me and I know as you do the bigger picture that ultimately we are all one and here to learn that. Great you are getting underneath the feelings of sadness and misery and how instead of feeling this or addressing them we reach for food, or drugs, or tv etc. This is what we all need to start to do with feelings or emotions such as these address, heal and clear instead of react.
“……knowing that none of us can do this alone, that we are all in this together, and that this is the way life is divinely designed to be.” Ever grateful that we have students such as yourself that are clocking their observations, their behaviours, their patterns, digging deeper and asking questions that truly bring change.
When we connect with our natural sweet, sweet nature we do not tend to crave sweet food.
So true and a great reminder that when we do crave it, where have we left ourselves believing we are not that sweet awesome being.
“The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.”
Seeing ourselves as victims of our choices, our lives is a ginormous cap on the empowerment and enrichment that can be chosen through self responsibility.
I don’t belong here…. Or do I?
So often i dabble around in the surface issues which are so often just excuses so i don’t have to take responsibility for the much bigger questions beneath and this is a giant one you have cornered here Anne. For the sadness is a confirmation that we do know that we are part of a stupendous whole!
I agree Ann it is always a choice to either disconnect from our bodies, which separates us from our divine connection or stay connected and remain connected with the all.
Hear hear – so clear and concise – no choice really is there:)
I have had feelings of not belong here too Anne and it is usually when I don’t want to take responsibility for what is going on in my life, and is usually followed by a feeling of giving up and the need for sugar or something sweet, almost as a reward for being here. I love the fact that you expose that this is about the need to be individual. Your last paragraph sums it up beautifully, Why would we ever want to be individual when we read this.. “And I can choose to wallow in the misery of this again, or I can make a choice to come back to who I truly am, a great and equal part of the one glorious whole… a fellow human being, equal with everyone else, who lives in love, in truth, in brotherhood, knowing that none of us can do this alone, that we are all in this together, and that this is the way life is divinely designed to be.” .
Thank you Anne for so simply communicating such a vast and complex concept.
It makes it so easy to really grasp it then – I love simplicity too and this blog is just awesome in what it contains, so simply and easy to get for anyone.
“When I don’t get what I want, I feel like I am missing out, I feel that I am not part of something, I feel different, isolated, not understood, not heard … any time, in short, when I make it all about me”. Anne -With these cravings, i too sense a sadness, a withdrawal that i don’t want to feel, its great to be reminded of how insular and individual this is – the dead end that we create for ourselves, every one of us is a custodian of universal particles, being responsible for the quality of these is what evaporates any self inflicted barriers that give us the feeling of not belonging.
I love this, Anne…”I belong everywhere”. Having lived a lot of my life protecting my self and my hurts, until recently I could not have entertained what you have written here, about surrendering to something much grander. But now that I have taken the time to truly heal those hurts, the space is opening up inside me and all around me to feel the undeniable truth that we are all part of the same divine rhythm and flow which can be felt in every particle. So, I agree that the body is a constant reminder of where we are from and what we are made of.
What a great reminder Anne that it isn’t just about us and our individual world, wants, needs and desires that are covering up the hurt and sadness that we have buried and not know how to deal with. That we are so much more than this and that we actually are responsible for a quality of living that is where we come from. Love that makes up the Universe.
I love this blog Anne I can feel a clear choice of wallowing in individualism or the joy of knowing we are part of something much greater. Choosing individualism reduces our ability to have greater awareness that we are made up of particles no different to the stars in the sky. This feels so light and expansive and opens up our world to so much more than what is offered within the constraints of individualism.
When we choose to separate from Soul, we choose to step outside the great grand divine sphere and whole we all come from to bask in the glorification, seperation and identification of the spirit and all that we knowingly call in with it.
So true, and with the emphasis on ‘ knowingly’ – doesn’t make sense at all does it? How much more joyful and loving to live in connection with ourselves and the all that we are and come from.
Thank you for sharing Anne, the more we listen to our bodies and honour what we are feeling the simpler life becomes. The moment we do not listen to our bodies we are effectively fighting ourselves.
At the same time as not in truth coming from here, it is important to not withdraw and isolate ourselves from daily commitment to life, as this conforms in others it’s okay to do the same. This lack of expression, movement, deep connection and building relationships with one another can have a knock on effect on our mental and physical health and can in turn change someone from the open and beautiful young boy or girl they were to someone who chooses to withdraw from life, take drugs, commit a crime or kill another.
When we live in as you have described the misery of the self-centred life, we isolate our self from what we are all meant to be part of, the brotherhood of all of us. It is ironic that the effort and energy we put into becoming an island in humanity, where just being part of the all is simple, by being our self.
I relate to what you have shared in a big way. The game of playing sad and small is up. Thank you Anne.
It’s interesting as I watched a video as part of a mental health course yesterday where a man described social phobia. He had felt from childhood he didn’t belong here, that he was here on earth but it didn’t feel right, that this wasn’t where he was meant to be, this was some time ago maybe in the 60’s or 70’s and growing up he didn’t get the support needed to understand this more, and withdrew from people, became isolated, but as the same time was not the image in your head you may think, he was super sensitive, gentle and very much wanted to connect and build relationships with people, which he was doing in his later adults years. So for me this again confirms that we all know there is something much bigger and greater than we can see, that we all know deep within our hearts we are not from here, the key to our return, is living in a way with absolute love and truth, building relationships and connecting deeply with one another.
Belonging comes from within, when we no longer feel separate from but a reflection of every other human being.
Yes so true, and a journey in progress…
Truly we are an integral part of it all, but do we behave like that. Do we make our lives about the all that we are naturally a part of, or do we identify with our little selves? Depending on this orientation makes all the difference to how we live, feel and interact with the world.
It is a true blessing and huge responsibility to know we belong everywhere, are energetically everywhere at all times, and what we say, do and move affects the quality of all living beings.
I know exactly how you feel Anne, sometimes I really don’t feel like I belong here or even fit in anywhere, but being reminded here of the fact that we are all made of the same stuff and are all the same inside in such an easy way to understand is superb.
I totally get what you mean by separation from people and isolating yourself people in the sense of self creating the idea of not belonging here. But at the same time we all have fundamental basis and knowledge and absolute knowing that we don’t actually belong here – that we don’t come from here, hence there will always be that underlying tension in our bodies because we know where this not where we are meant to be, but have chosen to be, by our first form of separation from God.
“The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.” True star dust. Thank you Anne for sharing so beautifully that we are all participants in the Brotherhood of the Universe.
‘I am made of flesh and blood, which is made of molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles that have been here since before the beginning of time. They have made up countless bodies before mine… and will make up many more to come. They are not mine to own, for they belong to the Universe, but it is my responsibility to care for them while I live in this body.’ This is profound: the knowing that taking care of our body is not simply for self but for all of us.
I love this Anne. Remembering to remember our place in the world and universe is a great support when old habits kick in.
Yes so true, that is the thing to connect to again – that we are universal beings and are part of the whole, therefore affect the whole too.
“The particles of which I am made are the same ‘stuff’ that has made up stars… I share them with the whole Universe.” how could you not think your amazing with this information? Seriously – you’d have to say the whole universe isn’t amazing… And Stars are just too amazing for that.
Awesome Anne, thank you.
I know that feeling too Anne and it is great what you bring here with this blog. I can feel the truth of what you say that when I feel that I do not belong first I feel a sadness, and secondly that I myself make me separate from everything I am part of. Simple but so profound and to for sure to take with me throughout the day.
Beautiful.
“When I listen to and honour my body and live in a simple loving way that deeply cares for it (and for me), I start to feel some things…” I agree, the more that I am overwhelmed, the simpler it is to keep it.
After reading this blog there feels like no excuses for all to be One. After all, as you so clearly say Anne, we are always One because we are a whole race which we all are an equal part of, always. It’s just our minds that think otherwise. And hence the illusion we live in.
I like that “… we are each part of a vast Universe of beings, all connected with each other and all part of a vast oneness.” We are superior as One not as individuals.
Reading this, somehow I get this image of fractal that constantly keeps changing its configuration, like a kaleidoscope, and there’s a certain rhythm to it. And not letting that rhythm to carry us, or holding onto a particular configuration (ie situation/character/moment) is not part of it, it affects and disturbs the entire design and the disharmony is felt by its all components – some may start throwing tantrum because of the obvious discomfort being felt and get even more out of order, and some may offer correction.
That wallowing of ‘I don’t belong here’ is very familiar to me. Looking at the state of the world and how humanity is living – sure it hurts to feel that and something deep inside us lets us know that we don’t belong here, and the thing is I have taken that personal. The truth is none of us belong here – the ‘here’ we have each constructed as a stage where each of us play the main character, and the rest acts as the ‘others’ – while we actually do belong to the grander ‘here’.
I love your reminder that what we are made of has made many others before and many more to come. And our body lets us feel the reality of this magic we can be fascinated by or marvel at, but in fact an order that we belong to.
The illusion is the separated way in which we think we can live and believing that we are doing no harm.
There was a time when I needed the taste of sweetness very often to cover up my sadness, the more I was not honest to myself, the more I depended on eating sweet things. Being honest to what I was really sad about actually gave me a stop in this momentum. Now when there are feelings of sadness that arise, I would allow myself to feel into the depths of this devastation, there is no wallowing or indulging but an honoring of what I am truly feeling and why, and when the rock bottom of devastation is felt in a moment, it immediately transforms back into love, stillness and deep appreciation. Do we truly know how deeply precious we are, that we are all connected to everything in the universe, that we are so supported and never alone and we have the ability to know everything? Just feeling this is deeply supportive and everything is enough, I only want to walk together with everything and everyone, there is no rush, no drive, no improving, but only living together in this universal rhythm.
So true Adele when I avoid feelings especially sadness and anxiousness i can reach for foods which are sugary or salty to keep me in a raciness and lack of stillness. Silly really when all it takes is a moment to honour our feelings and they transform on their own.
This is huge Jenny – “all it takes is a moment to honour our feelings and they transform on their own.” It seems it is that power that we are avoiding and most importantly missing. No sweet or salty food can ever come close to that.
Thank you Adele and Jenny for this reminder – when we stop to honour what we are feeling it comes up, clears and we are free from those emotions and behaviours we maintain to dismiss our fragility and sensitivity.
Joy and simplicity is our natural way. Being supported by life and the universe is a given natural. Often systems do not support our naturalness in the world, but that is exactly why we have to re-express in a way that is actually simple and natural to us, and when we truly do so, everything in the universe can only constellate to back us up, for we are made of the same stuff.
Whenever joy is not felt or expressed, there is a responsibility within myself that I could take deeper. Any tension that I feel in my body is an indicator that something is off that needs to be looked at and there is a holding back that has to be addressed.
Adele on reading your comment, I felt myself substitute the word joy with ‘love’.
‘Whenever joy is not felt or expressed, there is a responsibility within myself that I could take deeper’.
Ah, great point Adele and something I will ponder on as I have had some tension these last few days since returning from Europe, thank you.
When we talk about responsibility in life, we have pictures of making money, keeping the family well fed and supported etc., but it always feels to me that the true responsibility in life is to feel and reflect joy. Whenever joy is not felt, my responsibility is to look at why I have stopped reflecting that which is me, and therefore with no judgment simply support myself in moving in a way which allows this joy to be felt once again.
Connection is the one thing that we are really missing in this society, yet we champion individuals, isolate ourselves with technology and unknowingly withdraw from the one thing we long for the most, to be in connection with ourselves first and then naturally everyone, with no feeling of separation.
We are by design expansive, which is not a state of being we are accustomed to feeling. For starters, there is a physicality to life that supposedly limits are capacity to feel and understand what this actually means. However, in essence, you can describe our experience of life by the barometer of denseness. The more dense you become, the more you feel disconnected and focussed on the individuality of life. The more expansive you become, the more you realise the innate connection that resides within us all.
Take for example the emotion of grief or anger. Both are incredibly dense. Both create a way of being that keeps your eyes focussed right in front of you, and lock your awareness in a shroud of fog that prevents you from seeing beyond the grayness of what is around you. Now perhaps one has not considered this before, or cannot comprehend that emotions are actually energetically dense. Why is that? What allows one person to be sensitive to such things, and another to be completely oblivious to the fact. The answer lies in the density in which we hold our body. One person trains hard, and hold themselves rigid. Perhaps they eat foods that cause the body to harden on the inside, creating layers of fat or clogging the arteries. Either way, from such a body, it is not possible to feel the world around you. Density becomes your cage.
Conversely, you can create a body that is delicate, tender, and sensitive. In this state of being, the body actually becomes expansive. And as the body expands, so does your awareness of life around you. And there you have it – the polarity of existence that we all live in, and a rather different way of explaining what the esoteric is all about.
Love your explanation of denseness, and I may add, that even if you find yourself in a dense body, you are able to change and expand bit by bit. I know from experience, from being in a fog, from having a hard, de-sensitized body to one which now feels. In fact sometimes it feels so much it freaks me out!
The choice you have presented to either go it alone or join our equal brothers and acknowledge we are naturally part of the whole by virtue of our shared particles. It’s been a set up to have us not see we are Love and thus Divine sparks of light and we are here to claim our part in the whole, and give up on the illusion of thinking we are alone, separate individuals.
Beautifully said Anne, It seems that when I am wallowing in the I dont belong to this place I am so struggling against the grand whole that I am an integral part of and is always waiting for me to stop fighting and surrender.
Thank you – I just needed to hear/read this as I have had a few days where I have been doing just that… very boring indeed and I won’t be wallowing in it any longer 🙂
Knowing that we are made up of the same particles of stars, that our particles belong to the universe and are ours to care for but not own is an expansive image to hold Anne. It certainly shakes me out of my personal separative mind set, and brings in a spaciousness that puts all in perspective. How dense the self-centredness feels by comparison to who we truly are. Thank you deeply for showing how the exploration of an apparently small reaction or moment of disharmony can take us Anne.
I agree with your words Anne that “We are an inseparable part of the Universe, and we live in a great illusion that we are separate, because we have tried to separate from it” Most of the problems I see on this earth at this moment are all caused by that sense of us as being separate, individuals, countries, religions and the list goes on . We would never hurt an equal Brother if we recognised him as such.
How amazing it is when something known i.e.: sweets to sweeten life – is taken deeper as you do so magnificently here Anne, bringing this habit and what is behind it into the realm of sweetening not incidents in day to day life, but an unacknowledged, uninvestigated, underlying sourness and sadness of feeling alone in life, the world, the universe, when we are forever part and particle of, with and in it, never separate, never alone, but always one within the one – like a drop of water in a forever expanding body of water.
Beautifully described!
The belief that we have to ‘do it alone’ is such a trick, a convenience that justifies the misery of the individual… when the truth is in fact the exact opposite – we are one here as many to return to the brotherhood, to the love, joy and truth we chose to walk away from.
So true and the belief we have to do it ‘alone’ just allows for us to hide and not bring the all that we are to all and everyone and everything; great way to hide from our responsibility to the whole.
When we are in it for the all, for brotherhood, thats when the magic happens.
Oh yes, I know it well Anne, the ‘I’ who loves to indulge in the loneliness and misery of separating from what can never truly be separated from. The best the ‘I’ can do is to convince itself of its individuality by choosing to adopt the narrow and delusional thinking that it is separate! Crazy really!
Lovely to read this at the beginning of my day and appreciate that I am just one piece of the whole. It also makes me feel the responsibility I have as in being part of the whole, whatever I do or choose effects it.
We are not isolated and separated, it is not just about me.
Yes Rosie we are part of the whole all of the time and that whole is love and so the question I ask myself is how often am I not being love because every time I am not being love, I am not allowing myself to be part of the whole.
The title of this blog deepens my responsibility! I am here as an intrinsic part of the universe and my understanding of this is what is essential in order to take stock of the individuality that I indulge in whenever I make life about me. I love where this blog has taken me Anne. Thank you so much for sharing this.
This brings a simplicity and responsibility to life… it is simply our choice as to whether we make our life about us or everyone, and what we choose will affect everyone around us – we either expose the self-absorbed individual or we reflect the love, joy and harmony of who we truly are equally so.
‘Our arrogant pride refuses to see the blindingly obvious and refuses to feel the un-numb-able fact that we are part of a stupendous whole, and that we live in a body of love that one day we will all come to know as God.’ What a powerful statement to start my day. I so loved reading your blog Anne and could deeply relate to every word. Thank you for expressing this truth of who we are and the stark difference between indulging in the sadness of self or standing the truth of being universal.
“We are an inseparable part of the Universe, and we live in a great illusion that we are separate, because we have tried to separate ourselves from it. But we are still in it! The separation only exists in our minds.” Looking at the bigger picture in this way totally exposes the arrogance of the individual, who makes it all about ‘me,’ when we are part of a grand divinity and so much potential in brotherhood. Our bodies know and feel this every moment of every day yet our minds are under the illusion that they have it all under control which, when we look at the state of humanity, is clearly so not true!
I love how you explained it so simply Paula. Our minds just want to think its all about me and we have it all under control. What an illusion for real!
Total illusion indeed – cause what lets us believe we have everything under control in the first place? And by having everything ‘ under control’ – no magic – no flow…
If it was not so ironic it would be hilarious that by choosing the way of the spirit mankind has separated from the love, harmony, joy and connection to the all (where belonging is not even a question!), and chosen to create a world of struggle where everything we have separated from is what we are chasing. Yes we make it about money and power, only because of the ill belief that we can either buy or bully our way to what we have separated from. And all of that is our own true essence. This, is what we are calling being in control! Begs the question: ‘who’ exactly is it that is in control? It is certainly not our heart.
So true Anne… when we make life all about us as an individual we miss out on all the magic of being in brotherhood.
Yes true. The individualised way of thinking makes us miss out on the many beauties that others around us have and also what we are here to bring and contribute to the whole.