by Claudia P., Bonn, Germany, Health Coach (English 2nd language)
The Queen of Alice in Wonderland said to Alice: “If you want to stay on the same spot, you have to run as fast as possible.“
And as Alice in Wonderland, I was running through my life and had always the feeling something went really wrong; so much energy and so much effort and nothing changed my state of being.
I would still run, but about five years ago I attended a presentation from Serge Benhayon.
One aspect of his presentations led to a pause to think.
My understanding of what he said was:
If at least you stay on the same spot, why don´t you choose to change the quality of you whilst you are running, walking, breathing or working? You come back to the same spot anyway.
To be honest, I felt uncomfortable because I was getting the notion of the truth in his words and had to question myself; how did I live up until this moment?
The journey began.
“Where should I go?”– Alice
“That depends on where you want to end up” – Cheshire Cat
As a goal-oriented high level athlete I thought life is about the achieving of goals.
My whole life I was running fast and training hard.
Inspired by Serge I stopped again: it is not the question of where you want to end up – it should be the question of which quality you wish to be in. How your body feels like in every moment with a constant quality – flexibility, vitality, spaciousness and full of energy.
“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” – Lewis Carroll
And what he, Serge, said made sense for me and I started to change. But not in a way that I quit my job or my relationship, coloured my hair and moved to another country.
I just changed the perspective – looking from the outside to the inner. And what followed was a paradigm shift of everything of what I experienced before in my life.
I started questioning my relationship to food, training, my manner of communication, and if there was a drive behind earning money. And I started to get an awareness of who I am, and if there is a “who I am” at all.
I am still a traveller, never was a follower.
Where this journey will end – I don’t know.
I am my own travel guide but on my side there is a friend who answered my every question, lends always his ear and who supported me in difficult times – unconditionally.
I would do the same… this is what true friends do.
“You used to be much more… ’muchness’. You have lost your muchness”– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
I am so grateful that we met each other because now I have the chance to make choices of getting back to the connection of my ‘muchness’.
Thank you, Serge Benhayon!
This is very true of all of us
“You used to be much more… ’muchness’. You have lost your muchness”– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.
I can feel the constraints of the society we have built that doesn’t want anyone to be in their muchness. Because to be in our muchness would expose the lies we have all fallen for. We just have to remember the muchness we were as young children to know, just how muchness we have lost.
Claudia I agree, ‘it is the question of where you want to end up – it should be the question of which quality you wish to be in’. That says it all for me, that ‘quality’ we want to be in, determines our every day life that we live with. Be in that quality and our lives are and will be different, it is a matter of making the choice to be in it in the first place, is the key.
Serge Benhayon’s offering and reflection is certainly one of a different perspective – one of connection to our deepest source within and not outside of ourselves. This is where the quality comes from, rather than running the rat race using outside sources that do not offer true inner quality.
Henrietta we are experts at looking outside of ourselves, so it is a no wonder we run around in that rat race and become exhausted victims of life. When we look within to our source, that quality cannot be questioned by yourself even though the reflection will be, by others.
Awesome sharing Claudia as it really does highlight the fact that we have a choice – a choice to look at the quality of how we live and this is what we have the capacity to work with and to work on. Quality is everything.
Henrietta, I get what you are saying about the quality of life, from reading this blog and the comments I know from my own experience that I miss out the quality of how I go about my daily life. This is what I find so supportive about these blogs and the comments left by everyone, it allows there to be a discussion about life that we just don’t have with each other that much, if at all. But because of the comment you left I can look at how I can bring more quality to my everyday life, which I would never have considered if I had not read you comment.
“If you want to stay on the same spot, you have to run as fast as possible.“ – This is the game of the Astral Plane … to keep us busy and distracted from our true work. Awesome example – thank you Claudia!
What Serge Benhayon shares always makes so much sense, yes the quality we live in and with is key, ‘it should be the question of which quality you wish to be in. How your body feels like in every moment with a constant quality’.
The beauty of what Serge Benhayon brings in supporting us to find the true meaning of life is we find – us! Once we restore our connection to our essence and begin to live from that again, expressing and enjoying our qualities, what we find is the opportunity to deepen and expand those, to bring more of all we are to the all we are a part of. This is where the cycles come in, passing the same spot over and over, yet we have the opportunity to deepen into and expand the quality of our presence with each cycle.
Don’t we all love it when things make sense and simplicity presents itself? Then again, when someone turned up and told us to just be who we are, I found myself going ‘How?’ ‘What do I have to do?’ when I am already who I am without doing anything – there is no sense in that.
I seem to keep coming back to this blog. Such a beautiful confirmation of how quality rather than outcome is a far superior travel guide and it restores ‘muchness’.
I love this and it is a joy to read again. It is also a great joy to be reconnecting to my ‘muchness’ as I am having met Serge Benhayon and for his loving support.
I love that.. always a fellow traveller never a follower. That’s how I have always been too. Wanting to try things out for myself to see if they made sense or not.
And what Serge Benhayon shares makes complete sense.
Everywhere we travel there is an opportunity to deepen our Love and when we are allowing others to run their own race we are given others the space to evolve. So all we need to do is reflect and say mirror mirror on the wall who is transparent so their divine reflection is felt by all.
There is nothing special about this ‘Wonderland’ we live in here. The real wonderland is inside. I have given my energy to what is around me for too long and have got sucked into the pleasure and delights. The real wonder is to feel everything and then put words to those feelings.
The quality of what we do has to be a good place to start even if we are not actually going anywhere.
Bringing it back to our quality all the time makes so much sense, ‘If at least you stay on the same spot, why don´t you choose to change the quality of you whilst you are running, walking, breathing or working? You come back to the same spot anyway.’
Love it Lucy – and I could not agree more. Even if we are not actually going anywhere, and despite the fact that we are travelling at a phenomenal speed on the surface of the planet that is going around in circles, the quality of how we are in this “not going anywhere” is the most important ingredient for us to behold and live.
“If you want to stay on the same spot, you have to run as fast as possible.“. From another angle, this brings the issue of movement to the fore and the extent to which by engaging in permanent motion you do not truly move.
I love the muchness you are speaking of. Aren’t we all yearning for this muchness of ourselves and in others to be there and fully felt and lived and expressed.
This sentence sums up what I have learnt from listening to Serge Benhayon too
“I just changed the perspective – looking from the outside to the inner. And what followed was a paradigm shift of everything of what I experienced before in my life.”
When I stop to look at my life now, I am so blessed that I listened to Serge and changed my perspective on my attitude to life. This didn’t happen overnight I am constantly working on myself but the payoff is that everyone gets to share in the positivity I now have for life.
I with you here Mary and it is that we change us and our around us changes rather than the other way round.
What I so appreciate about Serge Benhayon is that he does give everyone the opportunity to gain a different perspective on their life. This has been immensely supportive as I knew something was out of kilter in the way I was living but didn’t have a clue how to make the changes.
To stay in the same spot, you have to run as fast as possible. This means, move in a specific vibration that guarantee your staying within the human dimension, going nowhere. Yet, if this is not your wish, you have to connect deeply with yourself. It is then, when you realize that the issue is not the spot in itself, but whether you are willing to bring your multidimensionality into it.
It is an opportunity to question what we have taken as our reality, and Alice in Wonderland clearly has some good reflections to prompt a deeper questioning our our reality.
Eduardo so well expressed it’s all a choice and for some it’s a question of dare I live my multidimensionality and once again feel the slings and arrows of scorn from humanity that doesn’t want such a reflection to spoil their wayward thirst and desire for creation.
Delightful Claudia, thank you for sharing how beautiful our muchness really is, this, we have been looking for for countless eons when all along that muchness of who we are lived within.
Thank you Jill – and yes I too love the expression and the words “muchness” – we certainly hold much muchness inside to connect to.
Claudia before I met Serge Benhayon I was always running, running away from myself not allowing a moment to stop to feel the emptiness that I felt when I did stand still, until I met Serge and Universal Medicine where I found that standing still and feeling the emptiness was down to my choices and as I changed my choices the emptiness began to disappear.
“If you want to stay on the same spot, you have to run as fast as possible”. So with the world around us seemingly moving at a faster pace with every year that passes is that because we are marking time on the same spot while simultaneously looking outside ourselves so we are not growing and evolving in alignment with what is on offer from within?
Our muchness has been there from the very start so it doesn’t matter how many times we go around and around it doesn’t change our essence… it does change the quality in the movement of going round and round and how long it takes to re-connect.
“If you want to stay on the same spot, you have to run as fast as possible” – this feels like hard work. What if there was something that made more sense to our body, to our muchness to just be, that is already carrying us and we are just running against it to stay at the same spot? Considering the quality of that ‘same spot’ we have been at for a while, a stop seems like a very worthwhile option to have a go at.
I have come to love those pointing out the obvious moments that Serge Benhayon brings. We go around and around the sun in circles going nowhere yet we believe that we are going somewhere in human life. When my focus is on the end result when I get there I feel less and empty, when I focus on the quality I want to be in the end result comes to me and I feel full and not needing the end result. The end point will come but do I want to be stressed and empty or prepared and settled in myself when it comes?
I love that thought – I don’t want to be rushed when my time to leave this body comes – what a waste that will be. I would like to embrace every moment and then recognise home by the stillness I am living as I come to the end of my days.
‘Where this journey will end…’ – maybe now this is less important than who we are being along the way.
This is an amazing sharing Claudia! What wisdom we can find tucked away within a story book, movie or around a corner in our lives. Thank you for sharing this with us.
“Where should I go?”– Alice
“That depends on where you want to end up” – Cheshire Cat
We are going back to our muchness but we can make it a long-winded and arduous road or a purposeful dedicated path straightforward hence the initiating question is essential and so is the answer that in fact is a choice. What we start with we will end up with.
There is never too much ‘muchness’ we can be but we need to let go of the ‘lessness’ we have accepted and found comfort in.
I’m not familiar with that part of the movie, Alice in Wonderland but I can see and know the support given by Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon and relationships like this always seem to pull the true situations out of everything. My view, how I moved and how I felt about myself control my world and the moment I became aware that there is more then this then the world changed. We can be impacted by life and just follow along or we can stand up to the point where life no longer hits us and we start to lead life.
To quote Lewis Carroll again, it is our ‘muchness’ that we trade in as we progress through life and it is the Ageless Wisdom as brought through by Serge Benhayon that supports us to reconnect to and then live it, in full and at our own pace.
There are indeed many paths to walk upon in this world, and many that I have tried, however through The Ageless Wisdom Teachings as presented and lived by way of Serge Benhayon, I have discovered that there is only one way to truly live the ‘muchness’ or the greatness of all that we are, and that is through our connection to who we are within, where we are forever guided along the way by the light of our Soul, to live the truth of who we are.
Serge Benhayon introduced me to the truth that it is not trying to get somewhere or achieve something but the responsibility of how I am with myself in every moment and movement of every day.
Yes I would be still running if I had not come across Serge Benhayon also Claudia . . . running on nervous energy.
I love the concept of getting back to my “muchness” as you have Claudia, a “muchness” that I really didn’t understand I actually had, for a very longer time. To have had Serge Benhayon shining a hugely bright light on my way back to my “muchness” has been so wonderful and as a result I am now truly living my life in contrast to the life that I was just managing to exist in.
I love the term ‘muchness’ – and life just would not be worth very much if we didn’t have our ‘muchness’. Constantly enriching, never dulling, always expanding and returning back towards Soul, the one Soul, we are all from, is what Serge Benhayon inspires every single moment of the day.
Beautifully said Katerina. Coming to understand that our Soulfullness is not only who we are but also very possible to live, has enriched my life to no end. A sense within that I had often felt and wondered about but was unable to live, until I met Serge Benhayon where from day one I was inspired to explore this inner-sense and began to develop a relationship once again with the truth of who I am. A relationship that continues today, that as you so accurately described is – ‘Constantly enriching, never dulling, always expanding and returning back towards Soul, the one Soul, we are all from…’
Life is full of magic and wonder and so much beauty if we are open and living in such a way that is honouring of ourselves and each other. The simple fact is each and every man woman and child on this planet come from love and are love, how can we not be anything but grandness and amazing beautiful divine beings.
The quality we live in is so important, ‘the question of which quality you wish to be in. How your body feels like in every moment with a constant quality’, rather than just doing and driven by outcomes.
What Serge says does make perfect sense, it feels like ahh yes I know that already.
I really enjoyed reading this blog Claudia. The first sentence really struck me, because I do recall my life used to be frantic and very busy but nothing much was changing for all the energy and effort I was putting in. It did feel like I was running very fast to stand still. Its great to have people around you that pose questions you haven’t ever thought to ask yourself. These questions can be the start of making new choices.
Beautiful Claudia the more we express our muchness the more muchness there is – an endless supply of love that keeps on giving.
So well written Claudia, if we are forever running only to get to the same spot, it does make one question why we are choosing to run in the first place.
Claudia, such a simple and deeply profound blog, thank you. It moved me to tears in particular ‘it is not the question of where you want to end up – it should be the question of which quality you wish to be in’ … feeling this I realised that I’m allowing myself to be driven by outcomes and not always addressing the quality of how I’m being on the way to those outcomes, so today this sentence stopped me to feel my quality, and to understand that it’s about quality first ever and always; in how I move, how I treat myself, how I am in each and every moment, it’s that simple.
I too was lost before I found the work of Serge Benhayon, I was literally going around in circles but even when I felt things were changing I would eventually end up back in the same spot. I was using a lot of energy, exploring many things, but not really getting anywhere. Now I understand the nature of life and evolution being cyclic, I can understand how I am coming back to the same spot over and over but there is something I can change which is the quality of energy I choose to live from (namely love) and I can finally feel each day, week and month is different. True change is happening and life is feeling wonderful.
I am always my own travel guide as it is always my responsibility to make choices and nobody else’s; I cannot blame another even if I have chosen to listen to them! Yet it is humbling to admit and even knowing that all the answers are inside me and I simply need to connect to this inner knowing that from time to time I need support in my livingness from a source I know is true and am inspired by and there is no doubt that Serge Benhayon is the ‘real’ deal through the way he chooses to live love.
Everything changes when we make it about the quality we are in and with each other and then it does not matter where we are going as it is a going together in equalness where every moment can be enjoyed.
Meeting Serge Benhayon and attending my first Universal Medicine workshop was the biggest ‘stop’ moment in my life and offered me the directions for the way to go that I had always craved. Since that day I have started to live those directions and I have found them faultless.
Absolutely gorgeous Claudia. Changing the question from, ‘where do you want to go to’, to ‘what is the quality you want to be in’ gives a whole new and different purpose to life.
I recall my attending my first ever presentation by Serge Benahyon and everything he said made sense and it was presenting in a very ordinary way. Nothing that was presented felt like a theory, it was practical, everyday and very real. Nothing has changed, but everything has changed at the same time.
We can run away from ourselves as fast as we can but we always end up back in the same place! By staying put and reconnecting back to what is inside – the magnificence and expansiveness of all the universes – everything does come round again and agin but the quality in which we are in it is the thing that deepens so what we then experience on the outside is what we are expressing from the inside. It’s beautiful.
Questioning my relationships to everything never ends… there is always more as the opportunities to evolve keep coming around.
“If you want to stay on the same spot, you have to run as fast as possible” – this is really profound. So, if we do want to move on, we need to be still.
And in stillness we move the move the furthest and fastness that is possible, and more.
Asking myself how I was truly living and in what quality was never easy for me either. I knew it was not something I could make up for by just doing more or being ‘good’ from then on, there was something fundamental that had to be looked at and felt, and I wanted to hide in shame and remorse, claiming it was not possible to be changed because there was something seriously defective about me – too far away from the muchness, and that’s how it began for me. And me too, I am forever grateful for encountering the teachings presented by Serge Benhayon to reconnect and live from the muchness I forgot for a very long time.
Claudia, so we stand on the spot really, busy in motion to stay there and in fact why not consider how we move, the quality of it – this changes everything totally, we still move but we can begin to move with the muchness you speak of.
It’s such an illusion we live in, that busyness or achievement takes us forward, that the more we do the more we are, or even that advances in technology signify movement. But what is really changing if the world is more loveless than ever? Bringing life back to the energetic quality I live from is one of the most profound and true changes I have ever made. And that energetic quality comes from my soul and is an ever deepening daily learning process for me of living in stillness, love, joy, truth and harmony. Evolution is the ongoing surrender to who we truly are and living from that place.
I know that feeling of running on the spot, putting so much effort in which leads to exhaustion but nothing really changes and you don’t actually get anywhere, just go around on the same spot. But when I started see that we live in cycles and come around again to the same issue, same way of living, there is an opportunity to make different choices.
It does feel like so many people end up running on the spot going nowhere so it makes sense that the problem may be the quality they are running in… maybe if we changed the quality, there’d be no need for the running in the first place and more an allowing of moving with and where the quality guides us.
There is a muchness just waiting patiently for everyone to tap into it. At the beginning, the muchness seems to be something out there. Yet, the muchness belongs to us in the same way we belong to it. The only way to get there is through healing that allows a person to start feeling the walls it has constructed around it so it cannot be felt to the point that we may even deny that there is something out there. That is why, the quality in which we move makes such a difference.
Living our muchness is living our potential. And this is making me wonder how many of us are living our potential in this world today or how many of us are merely marking time in the same place and not learning to take those extra loving and expansive steps into our muchness, our potential. Or worse, not even considering that we all equally have this abundance of potential just waiting to be lived.
I never read Alice in Wonderland but I can relate to the point of ‘I lost my muchness’ and I’ve got inspired by Serge Benhayon to claim it back. There is much more than I ever expected from life and me to discover, I see this more and more what this ‘muchness’ is and enjoy to discover and live it again. Live ‘me’ again – in full. Very much so. 🙂
I love how it simply comes back to the quality we are in, that is huge and lets all the goals and wishes fade into the background. Then everything I do counts, as the quality counts first and foremost and not so much what I am actually doing in each particular moment. It brings equality to life.
‘…I started to get an awareness of who I am…’ I really appreciate this line. It’s me seeing I can be letting go of the drive in my day (got to do this, then that then etc) and allowing of my awareness of who I am. A beautiful way to live.
Thank you Claudia for a great sharing about coming to find your muchness. I too felt lost in life before coming into contact with Serge Benhayon, the first time I heard him speak i knew I had at last come home
“It is not the question of where you want to end up – it should be the question of which quality you wish to be in.” This sentence got me as it showed it very clearly where most of us ended up – we are more human doings than human beings – something is not how it could be.
What Serge Benhayon presents very clearly is a way of living that completely makes sense and it does give us the opportunity to stop and wonder what (and why) on earth we’ve been doing up to that point.
When I met Serge Benhayon it was like being confronted by a different dimension. He carries such an energy of stillness and presence even though he actually physically moves quite fast, that it made me aware of a huge raciness and noise within myself. Over the years that noise has become less and less and that feeling of running has slowed down and I have started to experience more space as if time too has slowed down. The consequence on my energy and levels of productivity has been literally out of this world.
Thank you Claudia – what an extraordinary blog. As I read your words I can feel that the quality we do things in is everything. This makes me feel uncomfortable in the best possible way.
Claudia I loved these words ‘To be honest, I felt uncomfortable because I was getting the notion of the truth in his words and had to question myself; how did I live up until this moment?’ I too remember hearing Serge Benhayon present for the first time, and found that I had the same feeling, when you hear the truth you have to start to look at yourself, and you then have the choice to make different choices. It is a forever unfolding process.
I too was lost before I met Serge Benhayon and bit by bit I rediscovered myself and what I really felt about life and how I could live – the possibilities, the potential that was already here. I’m continued to be inspired to unfold, there’s constantly more of me to let out, to appreciate in full and to share with everyone. I would choose no other way to live.
So much muchness to enjoy in this delightful blog. I too have found that all that Serge Benhayon presents just makes sense and he has inspired me to stop running and come back to the love that I naturally am and learn to be love in all I do.
I love the way you described running on the spot exerting a lot of energy but going nowhere. I can so relate to this. To change the quality in how we move is key to move with joy and to see and appreciate the magnificence of life.
‘..it is not the question of where you want to end up – it should be the question of which quality you wish to be in’. This is absolute gold, Claudia – a real paradigm shift in the face of our goal-oriented, results driven world. It’s about the quality we’re in when we’re taking part, not just the taking part.
Beautiful blog. I too lost my muchness, but as you did. “I just changed the perspective – looking from the outside to the inner. And what followed was a paradigm shift of everything of what I experienced before in my life.” Gold….
Very sweet blog and enjoyable to read.
Yes, all questions I ever had in my life were answered by Serge Benhayon, not only were they answered, they were answered in a loving, supporting way and didn’t allow me to give my power away.
Great analogy Claudia, the quality of our movements is a major game changer in how we view all we do,
Great to read Claudia. – “If at least you stay on the same spot, why don´t you choose to change the quality of you whilst you are running, walking, breathing or working? You come back to the same spot anyway” this makes sense, so often we feel like we are going flat out, trying to get somewhere but never ending up there. The quality seems like the key- how to be in this life loving and playfully, enjoying it all along the way.
Thank you Claudia a playful and beautiful sharing of great wisdom.
Claudia I love your expression of coming back to your muchness by looking from the inside out. As a fellow traveller I too value the words of wisdom from Serge Benhayon, also a fellow traveller, but one who has travelled that bit further, and has much wisdom to impart that makes the way that much clearer to see.
So true Claudia, listening to the presentations and meeting Serge Benhayon was a shift in perspective for me too, at first everything in my life seemed topsy-turvy because very quickly the world actually started to make sense but how I had been living in it did not. So I didn’t change my hair colour or move to another country either. One of the greatest gifts Serge Benhayon has given me is learning to trust again in what I feel.
That is the most precious of gifts for me also Deanne – knowing and trusting what you feel is true. It has changed so much within my life.
“If you want to stay on the same spot, you have to run as fast as possible.“ I love this line Claudia, it really does sum up how so many of us choose to live….going nowhere fast. Nothing ‘much’ changes, its all ‘much of a muchness’, we become very ‘much’ exhausted, we don’t feel ‘much’ and don’t think very ‘much’ of ourselves. Thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine many more people are living much more of their true ‘muchness’.
What a beautiful gift it was reading your blog Claudia, full of playfulness. Reconnecting to our ‘muchness’ what a great word that is. Serge Benhayon inspires us to live our true quality and become this ‘muchness’ that is already inside of us.
Claudia thank you for sharing how Serge Benhayon supported you to begin to look within and changed how you living on the outer!
Serge Benhayon has inspired me to change everything about my life the inner, outer, walking, talking, working, sleeping, eating and may add to live in a way that shares true responsibility with pure integrity.
In her dream, Alice went through the looking glass and fell down the rabbit hole into illusion and fantasy. Serge Benhayon has been giving us the wake up call for years, rousing us from slumber, bringing us back to reality, so we can all heed the call.
If only we were taught from a young age the power in true quality, our lives would be so much more enjoyable, fulfilling and true.
May I also add simple, because for me being love simplifies my life!
The great part of it is that the quality I choose to be in is something that is already there, it’s nothing to achieve. I can simply choose it now. How many times have I read this in books and heard it in courses, but never did I really grasp it, until I met Serge Benhayon. And since he truly lives it, I step by step learn how to live this simplicity of choosing my true quality.
Often I run around and finally when I realise that I have actually not moved anywhere, I also realise that I exhausted myself. And then I look around and see the mess I created. In this moments I get very aware that the quality I move, think and act in comes only from feeling my body and being present with it. This guarantees that I do not disregard it and in the same way do not disregard anything or anyone I meet on my way.
Thank you Claudia for this delightful and yet so clear delivery of how it is not about end goals but about the quality in everything we do. And i have fallen in love with the word ‘muchness’ I did lose my muchness and am connecting back to it more and more each day I chose to thanks to that same dear friend that is walking next to me on my path of return.
I can very much relate to an image of running through life, trying to get somewhere. I am understanding now how this perspective was cutting me off from the Universe and I was making myself work a million times as hard, trying to create my own separate world, and it is actually so much more simpler and easier to just ride with the rhythm of the Universe and enjoy all the magic it brings. I still miss a beat or two, or more, and get thrown off that rhythm every now and then, but being tender with myself has been the key in learning to pick myself up after a fall, building my stamina and keeping up with the rhythm.
“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” – Lewis Carroll. Thankyou for your blog Claudia and sharing your experience of the fact that what Serge Benhayon says does makes sense.
In recent times, I have become so much more aware of the importance of quality and that every movement, every choice matters. When I notice that I have been disregarding the quality in which I do things, I do feel a sense of emptiness.
Came across this again ‘by accident’ this morning. What a fabulous accident, so lovely to read again and I am going to have fun today taking my ‘muchness’ to work with me.
Thank you Claudia for sharing how changing your perspective has allowed you to rediscover your ‘muchness’ in such a relatable way. I am enjoying exploring this as well and my understanding of the importance of the quality in which I live just keeps expanding.
It can be a bit disconcerting realising I am not really moving at all! We tell ourselves we are moving through life and ageing confirms that feeling because there is some visible change, yet I know people who are in their 70’s and have not changed one iota – for many years. It’s great to contemplate if I am in the same spot, and returning to the same spot, then what is natural to change and evolve?
Great idea and great understanding Claudia. And a great answer. All about making choices. Thanks you.
I am discovering how being committed to my quality can change everything. Everything counts from how I open a door, how I walk through the office, how I wash the dishes, how I blink etc. When I am present and can feel my quality magnifying when I do these simple things it confirms to me the power that is in our hands to bring quality everywhere we go.
To question is to grow awareness and connection to the truth of who we truly are. What has come up for me is that it is simply about choice and the choices we make, governs the quality of our ‘presence’. Thanks Claudia.
I love the story aspect of this blog. The part about how we are running, moving walking through life but we are not going anywhere really got me wondering… pun intended
Is it no wonder so many are lost?
This is a spot on metaphor. Look at the current state our world is in with the people on it running around and then it is clear that it looks like a trap. We are running in circles, running behind deadlines and becoming exhausted as there are no lines. We keep on coming back to the same spot. What a turn around indeed when someone tells you: you might as well pay attention to the quality you do it in. Brilliant!
I love this blog very much Claudia. It is very real and deep.
I was not familiar with the text of Alice in Wonderland and really found the phrase, on running fast to stay in the same spot, beautiful. We can try different colours, relationships, places to live etc – but we will repeat the same patterns that govern us. We can switch from one thing to another but our choices will be locked in. So, the key is to unlock what locks us in so we can really choose.
The blog certainly gives me a pause to stop and consider… because here I am again, back in the same spot, proving your point Claudia. And each time I come back to this point, it is another opportunity to ask the question of whether the quality has changed?
thank you Claudia for this beautiful and simple sharing of your journey.
So it is never a question of the destination as most perceive but rather a question of the quality that one chooses to take when getting there. After all if the quality is amazing I am sure the destination will be nothing less than that.
A great reminder of how easy it is to get caught in the ‘doing’ without taking the time to reconnect to our ‘muchness’.
This was just a pleasure to read, a truly remarkable piece of writing sprinkled with wonderland quotes to question our own wanderings. The smoking caterpillar repeatedly asks Alice ‘who are you?’ and this is something that I could not have answered before meeting Serge Benhayon who inspired me to adventure down the rabbit hole and reconnect to the muchness I had forgotten I was 🙂
Dear Claudia I was a running person too and I have to admit that I loved it because I got my own recognition out of this. In the moment I could see and feel what I was doing my whole life long I could stop. And from this stopping point I could start to make other choices and with that my whole live changed as well. Yes it needs only one person (Serge Benhayon) who showed me through his way of being how life can be in an other way – very simple.
I can so relate to the running on the spot and racing through life and not really going anywhere. It seems a paradox that if we want to get anywhere, meaning evolve, we actually need to stop and often slow down a notch, to be able to re-asses the quality and energy we are coming from.
I really enjoyed the playful way with which you shared your story Claudia. It reminded me again that in life it is always about choice and we are the captains of our own ships. Looking within for our answers and never out.
Beautifully said Claudia – ‘it is not the question of where you want to end up – it should be the question of which quality you wish to be in. How your body feels like in every moment with a constant quality – flexibility, vitality, spaciousness and full of energy.’ – thank you for reminding me of this simple yet powerful truth.
Gorgeous Claudia! I agree wholeheartedly. Until meeting Serge Benhayon, I never truly knew how to ‘stop on the spot’ without feeling like I was running inside, whether it be from trying to do too much, worrying, over-thinking, analysing… I hadn’t been brought to a true stop that allowed me to really consider what my life was all about, and how I may actually choose it to be.
Meeting Serge Benhayon has changed the way I live my life irrevocably. And never once has he told me one thing I ‘should do’. By the depth of his grace and wisdom, I have been inspired to feel more deeply, see more deeply, understand more deeply, and love all the more deeply – holding myself and all others in a deepening and evolving relationship with all of these qualities. The gratitude I have is immeasurable, and yet Serge would never ask anything of me in return for the immensity of what he has shared.
The world needs people who inspire in such a way. There is no greater gift one can give to humanity.
So much in just a few lines. How powerful it is to change the perspective from looking outside to the inner, paradigm shifts certainly do occur.
This was so fun and truly lovely to hear how you have turned your life around from being hard, in the doing and making life choices from that driven place. But to stop and feel, make more loving choices, through the inspiration of a man such as Serge Benhayon, is not surprising to hear.
I love reading this article – the lightheartedness with which it expresses so much that is profound. “it is not the question of where you want to end up – it should be the question of which quality you wish to be in. How your body feels like in every moment with a constant quality – flexibility, vitality, spaciousness and full of energy.” This is so true.
Claudia your sharing of the analogy of continually running to stay on the same spot is something I can relate to. It’s a great question too; that even if I am on the same spot – then what about changing the quality I am in? Instead of focusing solely on the end result, the quality is what really counts and then we see real true changes. For without changing the quality then I have found nothing else really changes, but a simple change in quality starts to change everything.
“I am my own travel guide but on my side there is a friend who answered my every question, lends always his ear and who supported me in difficult times – unconditionally.” – I can totally relate to this Claudia, very beautifully said.
Beautiful playful sharing on the fact that it all comes from quality, what we choose is what we get.
A few wise words. Thank you Lee.
Great point Claudia that we tend to think in straight lines in life – where we are now and where we are going to or what we are striving to achieve. But what if life was more circular and cyclical and we were’t going in a straight line but coming back to the same point? Then perhaps we would not put so much energy into trying to get somewhere but more attention into the quality of our current moment and just being.
Just from a practical point of view, there are so many times that I have found myself in the same situation. We do just go round in circles.. but each time with the question of what quality we choose.
So true Andrew for when we think in straight lines it leaves us all too often with the mentality of seeking the pot at the end of the rainbow instead of knowing that day after day, year after year, decade after decade we keep coming back to the same place until we learn.
Simply gorgeous Claudia, a joy to read and re-read and it’s fun to rediscover my muchness the lighter and more playful I am.
I have so often known that the ends don’t justify the means…and I am seeing more and more that, by Universal law, the ‘way-we-get-there’ is what forms the quality in which we arrive.
Claudia says: “it is not the question of where you want to end up – it should be the question of which quality you wish to be in.”
I realize now that whatever quality I am developing/choosing in my present is the quality I will be in later…and later. For example: The quality of ones retirement being one and the same quality of the life that it follows.
How primary, how common sense and how extraordinarily rare to see people living with this understanding in all that they do!
I love the way there have been writers in the past who have expressed so simply about the truth of the way we choose to live our lives. Now, having met and worked with Serge Benhayon, those sayings I read as a child that seem to come from a basic innate knowing about the truth, I now understand at such a deeper level and can apply them to my life. Before, my head just took them in, and they made sense, but I never applied them! Thank you Claudia, for bringing this to us to ponder on.
Fantastic blog Claudia, your expression and sharing is so beautiful. So true – it’s about quality and what quality we want to live our lives, the choices are ours to choose.
Thank you for sharing, Claudia. There is a lot I can relate to here with my own experiences with meeting Serge Benhayon… There’s a lot of little nuggets within this article that inspire me very muchness 🙂
Funny, delicate blog with muchness wisdom weaved into its tale. Brilliant.
I had to read this again today Claudia, your simple words contain much wisdom. I love the sentence about being a traveller not a follower and being your own travel guide. Reading this is like feeling the beauty in a fresh breeze on a sunny spring day, full of colour, warmth and light after a long winter. Thank you for sharing your exquisite Muchness, it’s so gorgeous.
Wow Claudia, this is such a sweet, beautiful article, I loved reading this quote, “It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” I also had the feeling when I met Serge Benhayon that what he said did make sense to me and I felt inspired by him to make many simple changes in my life, not the usual societal changes like ‘ I quit my job or my relationship, coloured my hair and moved to another country,’ but simple everyday changes like going to bed when I was tired, eating healthy, nourishing foods and looking after myself, these simple changes have been incredibly powerful for me.
What a beautiful sharing and a lovely expression, Claudia – thank you, so simple, light and full of muchness. Wonderful!
What a delightful blog. So simple and light, but offering poignant insights and understanding.
A beautiful story indeed Claudia. It makes me feel how when I was competing in sports and living on caffeine and sugar I was literally “running in place” constantly, and my body could never truly be still. I remember the first time I tried to meditate for just 5 min. and I literally could not sit still that long. I was so driven to do, do, do, and stay in motion to not feel how much I too had lost that “muchness”. Big thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for guiding me back.
Absolutely beautiful Claudia, humanity has lost its ‘Muchness’ and most fortunately for humanity, Serge Benhayon has not only kept his, but actively supports us to connect with our own Muchness again. Lewis Carroll clearly spelled out the idiosyncrasies of our lives, Serge Benhayon has restored the Sense. Thank you for so simply and gracefully expressing your Sense and sharing your Muchness, it is exquisitely inspiring.
Beautifully said Rowena – “Lewis Carroll clearly spelled out the idiosyncrasies of our lives, Serge Benhayon has restored the Sense. Thank you for so simply and gracefully expressing your Sense and sharing your Muchness, it is exquisitely inspiring”.
Thank you Claudia for the inspiration you bring.
Thank you Claudia for sharing something so simple and easy to read and the way you have expressed it, would be hard to miss it 🙂
Thank you muchly for the muchness, Claudia! This is lovely.
Just beautiful Claudia. Simple and yet all captured.
Hi Claudia, I really enjoyed reading this blog. I like the quotes you have used too, thank you for bringing your muchness to it.
Beautiful story telling with Truth, Claudia, it would be wonderful to read your version to children too. The subtle changes are not throwing the toys out of the cot, but changing perspective from outer to inner looking is huge.
Lovely to read this again. It was the muchness that spoke to me today too. Appreciating me in my muchness and all others too.
It is so true how just simply changing our perspective can have a massive impact but remain subtle at the same time.
I love the playful quality of this but also the profundity of how changing our perspective can bring such a huge shift in how we are in life. Thank you Claudia, for expressing this so wonderfully and in such an accessible way.
“You used to be much more… ’muchness’. You have lost your muchness”– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland –
With deep appreciation to Serge Benhayon for showing me and hundreds of other people the way to change the perspective – looking from the outside to the inner to bring us back home to our ‘muchness’.
Such a gorgeous read. Serge Benhayon inspired me in much the same way, I went to a retreat in Vietnam; on the first day of this retreat, everything changed for me, but in exactly the same way that you describe, it was my perspective. I still have a 9-5 job, and have many of the same interests and friends, but it’s the way that I am that has changed, the way I feel about life, myself, and my intentions that have changed. Everything so simple, yet still quite magical.
“I just changed the perspective – looking from the outside to the inner. And what followed was a paradigm shift of everything of what I experienced before in my life.” The same thing happened for me on meeting Serge Benhayon.
I love this blog, Claudia and how you relate it to Alice in Wonderland!
“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” – Lewis Carroll.
I agree totally that Serge Benhayon makes sense every moment – how we walks, moves, expresses, lives and delivers in his presentations consistently. This has supported me to make different choices in my own life bringing more stillness, harmony, joy and love to my daily life.
Absolutely beautiful! Thank you Claudia.
Coming back to your blog again Claudia I could feel it’s deeper meaning, and how brilliantly you related it to Alice in Wonderland. Your blog got me to stop and pose some questions for myself. Thank you.
This is so beautiful Claudia. It’s all about the quality of being and from there how we do things, yes. I’m loving increasing my muchness!
Wonderful Claudia, thank you. I can really relate to this image of running and nothing truly changing, maybe a different view or landscape but inside things were still the same. I was caught in changing the outer, moving to a different country, a different course of study, a different relationship …. As I have changed my perspective from looking outwards to looking within, my sense of me and my ‘muchness’ is steadily growing …. And thank you for sharing yours. Gorgeous.
I agree Annemarie, I too was good at changing the scenery but not addressing my inner world or attending to my inner qualities. Claudia’s blog is full of the qualities she is re-embodying, the lightness, spaciousness and love that lives within us all. We all have so much Muchness to return to and what a joy to be reminded of the true friendship that Serge Benhayon offers us all and how we too can be true friends.
Playful and yet very powerful and truthful blog. Thank you for sharing. For me the sentence: ‘ it is not the question of where you want to end up – it should be the question of which quality you wish to be in.’ I agree it is not about the goals we have achieved, but how loving we have been with ourselves and with others today and every day.
Exactly Monika and Claudia! The way we live and choose does guarantee the outcome.
So very delightful to read this blog this morning… I can even feel the delight and wonder in my fingertips as I write! So true, so true…how much more muchness we could be if we only shift our perspective from the outer to the inner. I loved too, Claudia, how you expressed yourself as always the traveller, not a follower…me too! With many thanks for the timely reminder as to why I stay in the joyful wonder that is my life.
Absolutely gorgeous, Claudia!!!!!
Claudia, I love your playfully light tale!, this line…..’ If at least you stay on the same spot, why don´t you choose to change the quality of you whilst you are running, walking, breathing or working? You come back to the same spot anyway’…..shines, thank you
What a joy to read Claudia – I can feel so much your appreciation of the support of your new dear friend and the changes you’ve made in your quality of living. Just gorgeous!
Beautifully play-full. Thank you Claudia.
Claudia you make some amazing points here, my favourite is that the quality we choose is so important. The more i feel the quality of my presence in life, the more I feel that without it I don’t have very much at all!
I really enjoyed reading this blog, so clear and light-hearted. Why focus on the destination at all, as we know where we will be returning to? I know I will be going to work and I know what I will be doing. But the quality of me at work changes daily and it is me that makes that change happen.
I like what you say here Leigh, it is amazing how much more enjoyable work has become since I began to do the same thing, bringing focus more to the quality of me and how I do what I do in my working day. A gorgeous spaciousness has begun to creep in and I no longer exhaust myself in ‘trying’ to get it right, to be perfect, to be seen to be good at what I do. Simplicity is my new best friend and supports me to be connected more deeply to my inner knowing and the development of true confidence. Echo thanks to Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon.
‘A gorgeous spaciousness has begun to creep in and I no longer exhaust myself in ‘trying’ to get it right, to be perfect, to be seen to be good at what I do.’ Beautifully expressed Jeanette, I can relate and feel I have so much more to offer at work since I have focussed on the quality I bring to my workplace.
Yes, indeed, Leigh. Our quality of being is the variable that makes our day at work fulfilling and joyful or empty and ‘going through the motions’, looking at the clock til home time. We might as well choose to be present with ourselves and enjoy what we are doing!
I LOVE this blog Claudia because of the way in which you write, your words are so wonderful they dance so delicately to express your own storybook of truth. Thank you for your ‘muchness’.
Thank you Claudia, I love the Alice in Wonderland theme. I feel to add another quote: “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. ”
Hi Doug, love that quote: “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then”.
I love it Doug, a great quote indeed.
That is indeed a great quote dougvalentine. And I am very dedicated to making this true for myself every day by truly embracing the shifts that are on offer, letting go of my ingrained habits from yesterday. So yes: “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. ”
This reminds me that we are always moving on no matter how tightly we may grasp the past or how valiantly we dig our heels in.
I love it! Thank you Claudia for your gentle humour and true expression.
Thank you Claudia you have a wonderful way of expressing, so full of muchness.
Reading ‘Alice in Wonderland’ always gave me a headache, as what was happening never made sense to me – just as the ways of the world never made sense to me either, so it’s a great analogy to have used, Claudia.
Since meeting Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I too have been inspired to choose to reconnect to my ‘muchness’ – the wonderful rediscovery of ME!
What an absolutely scrumptious blog. I loved the muchness, and know there is so much more to who I am, and the quality I live in. No chasing after the white rabbit!
Claudia, I love the simplicity and the Alice analogy you have used. These connections help what already makes sense, even more inspiring. Loved your reference to our ‘muchness’ and the qualities of an unconditional friendship modelled by SB.
Claudia you have a beautiful expression of writing (in English!). Thank you for this sharing – I could read it all day!
I love love love this blog – so concise, so deeply wise, and spiced with a lovely dry sense of humour. Kids would love it too! Lewis Carroll has always been one of my favourites.
Thank you Claudia for this unique expression of our oneness!
Thank you for reminding me that it is all about quality.
Thanks Alice, oops… I mean Claudia. If English is your second language, then the German version must have really been something. I love your line: “it is not the question of where you want to end up – it should be the question of which quality you wish to be in.”
Extra super-duper delicious, enchanting little tale 🙂