by Lyndy Summerhaze, Crabbes Creek, Australia
With the wonderful help from practitioners at Universal Medicine, I have been able to surrender to a deeper, more beautiful and real me, to feel the exquisite purity of my essence – and feeling this has enabled me to realise how superficial I have been.
This is what I have seen: I have a superficial way of expressing and communicating which glides and slides over all the richness, rawness, and beauty of life. I have been content with fragments of truth and used these fragments to create a mosaic or picture of life that is not true; a picture that, in its misinterpretation of life, has reduced it to something unreal and without true vibrant livingness. Forgetting to look within myself and feel the love, truth and glory ever pulsing within, a love ever ready to nurture every cell of my body and emanate forth, I instead cast my gaze onto the outer world and proceeded to search for some form of ‘good’ or ‘purity’ out there. In this process I created a false world – a world which was not without its amazing moments, but these moments were short-lived and unsustainable.
This is how I made a false mosaic with fragmented truth in my relationship with my mother. I adored her – she was lovely, funny, lively, always there for me, never abusive, a beautiful pianist – everyone loved her. For me she personified all that was good and pure. Then when I was 23, she died of breast cancer. Recently a Universal Medicine practitioner astutely asked me if I had accepted my mother’s death. I was stopped in my tracks by this question – well, I had accepted the death of my first daughter, and I had accepted the death of my father, but with this question about my mother there were tears gathering in my eyes. No, there was something amiss!
I recounted how my mother had been given 6 months to live and how she and my father were going to spend that time on a holiday together. The doctor then suggested removing Mum’s ovaries to slow down the spreading of the cancer. Although this is a recognised treatment in certain cases of breast cancer, and I appreciated the medical care that had been given thus far, somewhere deep inside I just had this feeling that this next step would not work for Mum, that it would not slow the spread of cancer in her case. I even said to my parents that this would be the end of Mum, but my mother chose to go ahead with the operation. She was dead in a couple of weeks.
Then there was the funeral. I didn’t go to it – a decision that has always puzzled me. How could I have opted to not go to my own mother’s funeral? I now know I couldn’t go because I had not accepted the circumstances of her death. Then things started to unravel to me – what I hadn’t been prepared to see about her life – all the not so lovely things that were threatening to spoil the perfect picture I held of my loving mother. I remembered how she expressed to me her bewilderment about her predicament and how her life could have come to this. She was shattered when she realised her youth and musical career were disappearing due to her illness, and she was left wondering who she was. There was a sense that she had lost control over her own destiny.
I was devastated that she found herself in this position. I realised that the deepest aspect of the grief I felt was not so much about her impending death, but how she felt powerless within her situation. I felt grief not only about my mother, but about how life is lived in the world. I kept my own reaction of devastation buried, unable to face it. But now, in the safe and loving space held by this practitioner, I could open up and feel the devastation I had suppressed.
I realised that there were parts of my mother that I did not want to see. I could see that she could not feel that her own love and our love were enough. It was confronting for me to see how she dealt with her illness because she had not shown me her imperfections before. I had only seen her as a mother whose warmth was always there for me, but not as a woman who had gone through her own trials and tribulations in life.
My ideal ‘mosaic’ of her, created with fragments of truth, was shattered. I saw that I had enjoined a false mentality that prescribed that we blindly ignore the weaknesses of others and see only the ‘good’ – this was thought to be what ‘love’ is, but it was a distorted version of true love. I had made a tumour in the body of God. True love sees, discerns, understands, accepts, and is entirely without judgment. This was a painful but good shattering. I just had to feel it, feel it, feel it. Ouch!
The false world I had created was just a fragment of the truth (as I write this the kookaburras have just burst out laughing and I am reminded of the precious joy of life). I chose to use that precious life energy available to me to create a false world where I saw only the acceptable, nice and good – I cut myself off from the fullness of true expression. I subverted the true pure stream of life and love that naturally flowed through me and instead wove a cocoon of illusion. This cocoon, I realised, sheltered me from feeling the facts of life as they are here on earth; it protected me from feeling the unacceptable horrors of the world, and even more poignantly, from the hurts that I myself was carrying around within me. But it also cut me off from the depth of richness that we all naturally are. Because I did not want to see and feel all that was there to be seen and felt I cut myself off from the whole, and so from experiencing relationship in full with others.
The week before the above revelation, I was driving home one day when I became aware of the presence of a beautiful, radiant, loving woman enveloping me. I could feel her dignity and wisdom. This woman has many times been present with me in my life, and because Mum had died when I was 23, I had always attributed this presence to her – I always thought, “oh, my beautiful mother is with me”. But as I drove, bathing in this gorgeous presence, I suddenly and deeply knew this woman to be me – the essence of me. I had always been casting the woman within me onto the outside world – this amazing being couldn’t possibly be myself! How loving was the Soul to confirm the truth of who I am before I stumble across (yet again!) another self-created illusion. In its wisdom the Soul gave me the whole picture, creating a platform of loving acceptance for me to see what is there to be seen.
I am learning about truth – and that truth, love, and observation are one and the same thing. From here I can see what there is to be seen and feel what there is to be felt. I have realised that I have been content to be superficial in how I perceive and interact with who and what is in front of me, content with not seeing and feeling everything – to the very depths.
There is a still and loving place within the innermost heart of every man, woman and child, from whence the truth of all can be felt, seen and known in full. There is no judgment issuing from this place, only love and observation – for true love and observation are one.
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
“There is a still loving place within the innermost heart of every man, woman and child, from whence the truth of all can be felt, seen and known in full. There is no judgment issuing from this place, only love and observation – for true love and observation are one”. What a true and beautiful statement that is felt from within.
The soul is love and only loves, it will always remind you of who you truly are. It will always speak to you, the key is, are we listening? Looking within is it, and not looking out. In our observation, we will see the love of everything, if we are willing to do so…
Thank you Lindy, your words are full of pure and lived realisation, surrendered to the only Truth of your life. The old little pieces of chosen truth, become One and the emanation of your expression transforms everything it touches. This is the simplicity of Alchemy.
Being real is about the willingness to show warts and all and about being willing to see warts and all in another with no judgement.
Henrietta how true, allowing people to see your vulnerability allows another that they can be that too. When we mirror our imperfections, the imperfections aren’t perfect, but they are perfect for that person…
Lyndy, what an amazing blog and amazing sharing – the interpretations and the chosen perceptions that we can make are so subtle and can be so limiting to us accessing our inner love and wisdom, but your openness to feel that the situation was incomplete because you had not let yourself feel the full extent of what you were feeling and seeing allowed the true healing to unfold for you and offer us all the inspiration through this blog.
When we protect ourselves from feeling and seeing the whole picture, we also stop ourselves from feeling the deep love that holds us from within.
And how lovely to reflect on how love and the complete truth go together. We are a world lost to ourselves as the truth is actually within us.
“‘… have a superficial way of expressing and communicating which glides and slides over all the richness, rawness, and beauty of life.“ Thanks Lyndy for your extraordinary blog, so many gems of wisdom shared, and the line I’ve chosen above really highlights for me how reduced the world is, and how reduced and restricted we currently are within it. I can see I can go deeper with my own expression, particularly the honesty rawness that is there within me, and to keep things very real. There are lots of unspoken and restrictive rules around what we can feel and express, instead of just being real in the moment.
We are constantly enticed to look outside of ourselves for recognition, acceptance and to get an idea of who we are and where we belong in the pecking order of society. How much value we place on ourselves based on our job for example or how other people see us.
Being shown a different way to live, where I can reconnect back to an essence of me that has been missing since childhood, is taking away the need or desire to fit into a society that isn’t working. I can feel the pull to come outside of myself to react to a work situation or life but I’m starting to feel and understand that there is a far greater quality within me that is worth so much more than the outer world that we have made as our normal every day when it is clearly not normal at all.
So true Mary, I can still see that same pattern within me of drawing my value from what I receive back from the world and how people react or respond. What I can also feel is the opportunity to go deeper into myself as a Soul and access more of the universe, to know myself via the qualities of vibration I can experience and not by anything I do.
It is always good to be reminded what true love is, ‘True love sees, discerns, understands, accepts, and is entirely without judgment.’
Lorraine I particularly noticed the word “discern’ as it’s showing that love sees all, not just want we want to see, but the whole picture.
It is great to expose the superficiality of the various mosaics we have created which obscure the true beauty of life in all its rawness and depth.
As we move our essence with true movement this feeling can be expanded as we also then deepen into the way we walk and talk and adding to this when we are living with the understanding there is always more, so the forever deepening of this foundation becomes normal.
We like to think we know what we like and we can pick and choose what we want to see and feel and have in our life, but the thing is there’s so much more beyond the confinement of what the ‘I’ thinks it knows and wants.
Lyndy I find it fascinating that sometimes we are guided to read a certain blog that will support us in our self-awareness and this morning it is your blog that I have been guided to read. It was that when we do not want to see and feel all that there is to be seen and felt we cut ourselves off from the whole, and so from experiencing relationship in full with others. To me this means we have withdrawn from life and don’t fully engage with it and so everything we do is superficial.
So true Elizabeth, yet society feels uncomfortable when we share – be we children or adults. Putting on a brave face, stiff upper lip – these old traits have to go. Sharing our hurts with someone who accepts us and can hold us with understanding (not necessarily physically) can go a long way to repair old wounds.
So beautiful to re-read this Lindy. “I had always been casting the woman within me onto the outside world – this amazing being couldn’t possibly be myself! How loving was the Soul to confirm the truth of who I am ….” We can be so quick to criticise ourselves, yet done appreciate all that we can bring. I am learning that appreciation is really important to quell those doubts.
Surfing is just surfing, over water or otherwise. It is a whole body movement we say yes to. Extracting ourselves out of it is a whole being decision.
“True love sees, discerns, understands, accepts, and is entirely without judgment.” So beautifully different from emotional love.
‘a superficial way of expressing and communicating which glides and slides over all the richness, rawness, and beauty of life.’ This is true for many of us, we harden ourselves to life’s knocks and fantasise with the beauty we think is there and ignore the true beauty that is within us all.
Yes we settle for a poor substitute whilst all the while we have true gold within just waiting to be rediscovered.
Sadly I was the reverse, I hated my mother with an intensity she did not deserve and it was not until after her death that I began to appreciate the essence of who she truly was. Loving her children in the only way she knew how, by giving us a good education, and always loving her grandchildren and great grandchildren in a way our generation never truly appreciated. So the love was there, I never allowed myself to feel it and in doing so I could not feel my own love either.
Wow Carmel – this is super revelatory for it goes to show that whether we hate or falsely love another, the end result is the same: we cut ourselves off from seeing and feeling the full truth. Both are equally damaging, though the fslse love would be harder to extricate from as we don’t always see that as being ‘un-acceptable’.
Our way of expressing and communicating is very much linked to our perception of life and it has to do with how and what do we feel in the body (our own feeling of us as beings). Either there is a feeling of beauty on both ends or there is not.
I really get a sense of how I would measure and limit how much I would allow myself to see and feel, trying to convince myself that I somehow know what is enough and safe, and in that process I am constantly pulling away from true intimacy with the world, with myself.
It is strange how often we choose to NOT see things to protect us from hurts but the choosing not to see creates a far bigger hurt than what it is we are choosing to avoid. In fact when we look directly at what it is we don’t want to see or feel we might experience a moment of hurt but that is followed by a healing and liberation.
We carry our hurts on so many levels that they can actually be quite stealth in how they undermine us – thus we must always be open to healing them when and as they come up and whenever required seeking support to do this.
A great testimony to love and truth and a pertinent reminder that turning a blind eye to someone’s imperfections and wobbles creates a construct and falsity that serve no one.
Truth doesn’t play ball with our pictures, for the truth is always grander. It can really hurt when the truth is presented to us but what I have learnt is the pain is from the holding onto the pictures of how life should be or is perceived to be. The pain comes from my choice to live by the small picture rather than in full view of the all that is the truth of life.
We think we can pick and choose but you make it very clear that to see all we need to be willing to see all, if not we will just see parts but never the whole.
A tender and beautifully felt observation on how we chose not to see what is there for us to see.
Yes Mary, how we only see what we want to see.
Lyndy thank you for sharing your experience, I too have been caught by seeing things through rose-tinted glasses, when there was so much more to see, only I chose not to allow myself to register it at the time, we are able to learn so much from just observing, and not making any judgment on another when we observe everything about them is true love, because we don’t ask anything of them, and there are no expectations to live up to.
There is indeed such power in true observation, with no projections, judgements nor expectations.
Lyndy this is such a powerful blog, and so rich in its rawness, honesty, and it’s wisdom from observation. Thank you for sharing yourself here and your life so openly. I have recently become aware of how I hold others in pictures, I can feel that the picture is a package of “good”, without allowing me to to see, connect to and embrace the whole person in understanding. Everything you have shared feels like it’s percolating within me at a very deep level so I’m sure much will come from my read today. On a physical level I feel that what you share is about digesting life, being with life exactly as it is, accepting, making decisions, and letting go – thank you Lyndy.
This clearly shows that we are selective in what we share with another. Tonight l felt the loneliness and sadness of not sharing myself in full. Something I cannot blame another for, but one which I can accept as being my choice, for whatever reason, to not do. The beauty is though that I now can open and share me, warts and all.
This is very beautiful Lyndy. I feel my son probably felt the same way about me when he was shown more of the reality of his mom coping with life. And what you have shared just was so beautiful, as although it may not be the easiest to accept that life or mom is not perfect, it is beginning to show us the fuller truth of what life is and what we are as well.
Wow Lyndy, this is quite the journey, and I’m sure it’s forever unfolding, like for the rest of us. it’s fascinating to read about the many different ways we deal with life and it’s happenings. I love how open you were to accepting what you have not accepted, and gave yourself the space, when you were ready to look at it.
True love and observation are indeed one, and there’s so much in what you’ve unraveled here Lyndy, how we can settle for a surface aspect of what we call ‘love’ but in fact it’s not that at all, it’s what we’re comfortable seeing and how in failing to allow ourselves to see the all, we miss the depths all round in us and in others; the more we’re willing to see, the more we can understand, allow and observe and this is love, a holding of both ourselves and others in how they are.
Thanks Monica, we are very selective about what we allow ourselves to see in self and others, especially as it’s more comfortable for it to fit the picture perhaps of what we want or think we need. We aren’t really taught or encouraged to be with the whole exactly as it is, instead it’s more socially acceptable to be on the surface and do what’s nice, polite, or as Lyndy shared, we think it’s loving to be that way, to just see “the good”. It’s fascinating to consider how much we see life through pictures and perceptions, instead of observing it exactly as it is. It may be that because we mostly are not in connection to the essence of love we are, the best we can manage to do to deal with how life is is to edit it before we meet it. I’m sure love though has all that is required to meet anything in full, with full clarity and observation. As we learn to live that love we may also learn we have everything needed to meet life in full, exactly as it is.
I am learning to observe more, ‘I am learning about truth – and that truth, love, and observation are one and the same thing. From here I can see what there is to be seen and feel what there is to be felt.’
What you unravel here is that we are never alone, that we ourself bring a presence and warmth and love that will hold us in any given situation. It is only that we learn otherwise and haven’t nurtured the relationship with and getting to deeply know ourself.
Interesting to think of that we tend to not be that loving with ourselves as we would like to be for others or see in others and make it more about them than about us instead and with that are missing the opportunity to be blessed with the love and beauty that already resides in each and everyone of us.
The true meaning of love has become so distorted over the years, and yes a part of us at times can only want to see the ‘good’, or supposed ‘ideal’ version of love, whereas as you share ‘True love sees, discerns, understands, accepts, and is entirely without judgment.’ True love is simply beholding, a great sharing on true love is found here, http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-love.html.
This is a beautiful blog to read Lyndy, thank you for sharing so honestly, ‘I became aware of the presence of a beautiful, radiant, loving woman enveloping me. I could feel her dignity and wisdom.’ Lovely for you to finally understand and accept that this presence was you, your essence.
What an amazing reflection you were given to look at all your life – your mother. I have read many blogs and heard many times now people ‘looking’ for the truth and answers. Seeking that epiphany or ‘being saved’ – relieved from the tension – “I want to win the lottery and have lots of money” – “I want to be happy” – “I do not want to work”. And guess what I just realised I heard this all from my mother too. I have realised All it takes is to deeply take care of yourself and know if you are feeling tension it is honourable to feel and surrender to it.
If I feel ‘out of sorts’ I slow down and be gentle and kind with myself. All there is to achieve in life is to love and embrace what next there is to look at and feel. I am discovering the ‘next thing’ is what I try so hard to avoid – that next thing is being responsible for feeling more than what you did before. The feeling of being out of sorts will become a consistent feeling of being amazing. So, our mother, and others are reflecting just how amazing we actually are, and that awkwardness and tension when honestly given the space now becomes it – YOU – AMAZINGNESS. We are a step away from being amazing and we are constantly being reflected this.
Thank you for this honest blog Lyndy. I can relate to much of what you wrote here especially about glossing over things and avoiding looking at the bad, only seeing the good. I particularly like this line, ‘True love sees, discerns, understands, accepts, and is entirely without judgment.’
Wow I really appreciate your sharing this, I can feel the way we see what we want to see, the way we hold those closest to us to an ideal and an expectation that means we actually don’t see them and accept them for who they truly are. There is so much more I can see will come as I sit with this blog for a while, I feel it unraveling something for me so thank you.
Your dignity and wisdom is deeply felt Lyndy throughout your entire blog, And it made me ponder where do I still not want to see truth and protect myself by making my own version, it is an ongoing process that makes there to be more of me every time I let go of another picture. ‘I am learning about truth – and that truth, love, and observation are one and the same thing.’ Thank you for these words of power.
Lyndy this sharing moved me very deeply, and makes me realize how easy it is to not want to see the reality of this world and those in it. Including myself.
And it is important for anyone who has also experienced this process to not get stuck when more of the devastation we have allowed ourselves to experience surfaces–appreciate this. Appreciate that we have allowed ourselves to see clearer and deeper than before, but do not stay there. Recognise that this is a process, a very valuable process of returning to living and breathing more of our true essence of Love. Embrace the honesty of this vulnerability but never stop to feel and express from the part which is true.
That place of stillness that you mention Lyndy is the place that always bring me back to what I know is Love. And the more I allow myself to feel the horror and disharmony in the world as well as the same within myself, and just allow this feeling without judgement, the more I can access this place where there is stillness and pure Love. This process is on-going like a battle, but the more I am aware of this and not react, the deeper the observations.
It is understandable to some extent that we recoil and withdraw from the world in some way in response to the obvious pain, suffering, falseness, corruption and superficiality that surrounds us everywhere and then we want to create our own ‘fairy tale’ with a happy ending rather than feeling and facing the reality of life. However I have found that the less I paper over the cracks (that show through in the end anyway) the more in touch I become with the wonder, joy and love and stillness that is also there in life alongside the harsher sides and I have come to the conclusion that the love and joy is stronger, more powerful and more plentiful, I just had not noticed it so much before when I was living in my self-created ‘bubble’ of how I wanted life to look.
Yes Andrew and this is such a great point. If we withdraw then we never offer any change, we join in and cannot complain about the mess the world is in. If we want things to change then we have to be that change, in our own life and then in the world. Be bold, be ready to see the world as it is and get in there anyway!
When I find myself not wanting to feel especially the reflection of another I am realising it is because it exposes me and the hurts I am carrying around with me but to allow myself to feel says ‘Yes’ to evolution and an opportunity to heal and bring only love to all my relationships including the relationship with self.
Beautiful Lyndy, thank you. The realisation that the deeply warm and loving woman is you is a true aha moment and you have captured it perfectly here in your writing. That deeply warm and loving beingness is in us all equally, awaiting for each of us to realise it for ourselves as you have.
We would carry less hurts if we understood and spoke about life in its true energetic sense – like why people get diseases in the first place and how death works and what we then move onto through the cycle of reincarnation. This life is really missing the latter of your gorgeously open blog Lyndy – the way you embrace your Soul and know there is more to life then meets the gullible eye.
This is great Lyndy, when we try and paint things how we want them to be rather than how they actually are, it just provides us situations which let us down and leave us feeling not connected but isolated in the pictures in our heads.
In this beautiful sharing is the wisdom of the true elder – a quality that all may hold, regardless of age… Thank-you Lyndy for sharing from your depths to our own, what it is to accept the whole of life and embrace it with one’s love.
How beautiful to finally recognise that the divine presence you were feeling was actually you. Not some idealised version of your mother or anyone else.
Indeed Lucy, it is a blessing when we are able to realise and feel that we are so much more tender, delicate and loving and more… then we always allowed ourselves to feel. There is a treasure held in each and everyone of us that is invaluable we all one day will come back to.
That there is a still and loving place within the heart of everyone can seem like a cliché or a truism, and yet it is the absolute truth… And this place holds the spark of reconnection that eventually, in everyone of us, will reignite the flame of truth that will burn bright and lead us all home
So beautiful Lyndy, to read about your revelation and then for you to feel the true essence of yourself as you were driving. That is such an amazing feeling to have, one of completeness, contentment and inner knowing that you are feeling the real you. Was delightful to read.
I love reading people’s stories as it brings in much more understanding of them and reminds you not to judge others- that there is more than what you see in front of you and to bring understanding to that.
‘Forgetting to look within myself and feel the love, truth and glory ever pulsing within, a love ever ready to nurture every cell of my body and emanate forth, I instead cast my gaze onto the outer world and proceeded to search for some form of ‘good’ or ‘purity’ out there.’ The illusion of the world we live in, absorbing all that is not of truth, instead of discovering our deep love inside ourselves we are desperately looking for love in the outside world. All we have to do is discovering what is of not truth where we have build our foundation on and you are giving us a beautiful example of how to unravel these pictures we have taken on board.
There is no judgment in observation. If we interpret what we see there is, but if we observe all that is being presented there is only learning and understanding.
Stunning Lyndy. Thank you for sharing your story and the lessons within that will support so many. The self-created illusions we hold just cannot compare to the enormity of the whole and the love that embraces us there.
There is a flippancy and illusion I feel, in the saying ‘only see the good in people.’ What about from when we left so we are encouraged to see them all, feel the persons essence in truth but also feel everything that is covering that or in the way. I grew up only focusing on the negative’s, seeing all that was so called ‘wrong’ with people, knowing now it was because I was always looking out what was ‘wrong’ with me. I have learnt a lot of how I see others by reading your blog today lyndy, thank you.
When the perfect pictures we create of others get smashed by their imperfections we are suddenly awakened by the fact that we too are not perfect and never will we be. And what a blessing that is considering more often than not it is our imperfections in life that we learn some of our greatest lessons from.
Lyndy, this is exquisite. I was moved to tears by your humbleness and openness to see what is truly there to be seen in the passing of your mother and the life that she had lived. Your imagery is spot on – we use fragments of truth that we weave together to create a mosaic cocoon we then seek shelter in to hide from the world. In the comfort of this fully self created illusion we then look blindly out, choosing what we want to see and this being only that which suits the picture we have chosen of the world and not the truth of how the world actually is. By freeing yourself from this chrysalis, you have birthed forth the most divine butterfly, a symbol of your true self that has been left unencumbered by the impositions that were previously in place and can now get on doing what it does best – loving purely and whole-heartedly from the depths of our being.
and thank you both for breaking down this propensity to see what we want to see rather than what is there to be seen. Without people coming into our lives to show us there is another way we would quite happily remain in the cocoon believing this to be the reality.
Lyndy thank you for all you have shared, it’s something I am learning at the moment to see life in full, not how I wish it to be. A great line for me to ponder on “I am learning about truth – and that truth, love, and observation are one and the same thing.” – thankyou.
I loved reading this blog again. It’s true that if we shut down parts of the truth we don’t like then we shut down to many things and live a half life. When we let go of judgement and just observe, this is true love. We allow for faults and growth in those we love, no longer holding a picture of perfection that holds us back from truth. Once we allow truth we can all feel the amazing beings that we are.
Your revelation driving along and becoming . . . “aware of the presence of a beautiful, radiant, loving woman” . . . and realising that the dignity and wisdom you where feeling was your connection to your Soul . . . true Beauty Lyndy. I love reading this piece as you do not hold back in uncovering truth; no matter how difficult or painful this may be.
This is beautiful. Thank you, Lyndy. We may choose to see only what we want to see and settle with a mosaic, but the whole truth is even more beautiful and grander than what our mind can gather.
We try to make the world what we want it to be by trying to blend out all the dysfunctional and unpleasant occurrences without realising that this narrows our view and we miss out on what is true in this world.
Thank you, Lyndy. Sometimes the truth can be so painful to feel at the time but the more connected we are to ourselves the easier it is to know and feel the richness of the truth being presented.
An exquisite masterpiece Lyndy – thank you for sharing so beautifully.
Thank you Lyndy for sharing all this. Just because we can see another’s imperfections doesn’t mean we love them any less nor need there be any judgement, as you say, it’s seeing the whole, the all rather than picking out the parts we think we should or want to see.
Lyndy,
Your honesty here is beautiful. You are not alone in having lived seeing only what you wanted to see. The beauty in your sharing is how once we choose to see everything, that we can then let go, and love deeply. This is impossible whilst we want to only see the good, and not the realness of life.
“There is a still and loving place within the innermost heart of every man, woman and child, from whence the truth of all can be felt, seen and known in full. There is no judgment issuing from this place, only love and observation – for true love and observation are one.” So true – beautifully expressed.
The pictures we carry can be so unhelpful – they sometimes prevent us from seeing truth. Understanding that this isn’t always easy we make up stories in our head – often about our parents – because we don’t want to face reality. Bringing love and understanding enables us to accept why we do what we do – and release our old hurts. Thankyou for sharing your story Lyndy.
Hi Lyndy, yes indeed you are the beautiful, radiant, loving woman, full of dignity and wisdom. This is how I know you to be. I loved reading this again as it is such a great sharing that most of us can learn from – as we hold onto images about ourselves and others; I know I do. These images blind us from the depths that we are capable of feeling and the understanding that accepting these feelings can bring.
Lyndy, your words are like the warmth of the sun, the scent of a beautiful flower and the radiance of a sunrise. Your essence is felt in your every word.
Yes Lyndy, not seeing or feeling everything Is not living truthfully, or lovingly allowing observation. I can see now how being selective is not the way forward in how I am to live. It is out of balance and sooner or later this will be shown in some way.
There is something so sweet and beautiful about your story Lyndy. It has brought tears to my eyes. I think it has something to do with discovering the gorgeous presence was you. The essence of you.
Like selective hearing, I too have had selective seeing. I am quick to see all the unique special traits in others, but not in me. Blind to their faults and unrealistically weighted on the imperfections in me.
I feel more free and love after reading your story Lyndy. Thank you.
Very inspiring Lyndy. When we chose a blinkered view of life we do not see the whole. Sometimes we chose to only see the good and sometimes we choose to only see the bad. When we choose to observe the whole we see the truth.
I love coming back to this blog Lyndy and discovering something new to reflect upon, this simple line beautifully illustrates what love truly is – ‘ True love sees, discerns, understands, accepts, and is entirely without judgment.’ Reading this I am reminded this all begins with the relationship with myself first.
I love the moment you described where you felt the beautiful warm embracing presence and then you realised it was you, we are so much huger and grander than we realise, I experience that too sometimes and what I realise is that embracing huge presence must be there all the time, so what am I doing to not feel it?
Without a doubt there is a still and loving presence within the heart of us all, and when any one person reclaims this connection, they becomes a beacon of light for all those around, because stillness is a rare presence in this world.
Settling for the half truths or near truths cuts us off from the whole truth that is constantly expanding. These pictures are often static and fixed when life is not fixed, the earth doesn’t stop spinning or going around the sun so why do we live as if there is a fixed point or situation or that nothing changes or has the possibility to change?
This blog is deeply moving, so honestly and beautifully expressed. Thank-you Lyndy, this has touched my heart.
Lyndy this covers so much, only dealing with what is good and nice about life, leaves the truth behind, beautifully expressed from your inner heart.
The ancient wisdom of reconnecting with our inner hearts, with our true stillness, and thus starting the journey of reconnecting to truth and out in a beauty, has been with us for millennia, and now it behoves us all to listen to this because this is the pathway that humanity needs to walk down.
Lyndy, there are many gems in your blog for me to reflect on. On thing that stands out to me is learning to trust what we feel and observe energetically and that this provides a window to truth and understanding. Switching from relying on the brain to the body for truth goes against the grain of how most people live but your story beautifully highlights Lyndy, that this is where real healing and change stems from. Thank you.
Thank you Lyndy for a truly beautiful sharing, I can relate to your words, ” I saw that I had enjoined a false mentality that prescribed that we blindly ignore the weaknesses of others and see only the ‘good’ – this was thought to be what ‘love’ is,” This is how I too saw life, not wanting to feel the pain and suffering of the real world. I am gradually coming to see and feel that “True love sees, discerns, understands, accepts, and is entirely without judgment.”
This shows so clearly that there is an ideal picture of the world to not feel what is truly going on, and see everything, but knowing this does give the possibility to discard and just go into observing everything, which gives us the possibility to be ourself.
Those inner discoveries are so lovely to become aware of. And to think that the issue wasn’t about your mother but being fully respectful of the woman you are.
“But as I drove, bathing in this gorgeous presence, I suddenly and deeply knew this woman to be me – the essence of me.” How lovely that you finally realised that this presence was you and that you’d been able to feel this so many times throughout your life and now we know that this is actually who we are and there for the choosing.
Aha, the penny has dropped for my Lyndy – we think that by our only seeing the good in people that that’s a good thing – thinking the best of them when in actual fact we’re not accepting them just as they are so therefore there’s a judgement and means we must also be judging ourselves! Thank you.
It is a profound revelation. I feel when we want to only have that perfect picture of those we dearly love, there is a great pressure to see ourselves as less because there is little escape from our own flaws. How can we feel equal if we view the world like this? It is lovely to feel life in all its seeming flawed chaos and lovely to hold those we love in understanding without judgements.
Wow. Lyndy there is much for me to digest in this honest and beautifully written blog.
This is an inspiring sharing Lyndy. I would tend to look to the good in others and not see the all. I did a similar thing with my Mum and put her on a pedestal, and it wasn’t until she passed that I saw the real person who was lovely too, but more real. A beautiful, honest sharing thank you Lyndy.
If we only choose to see the part how do we know the true whole and what energy makes up the whole? You can avoid seeing the truth for as long as you can but eventually the truth will catch up with you and it can be an intense realisation and acceptance.
“A false mentality that prescribed that we blindly ignore the weaknesses of others and see only the ‘good’ – this was thought to be what ‘love’ is, but it was a distorted version of true love” I can so relate to living this way Lyndy, to live otherwise for me felt too painful and this is what I did not want to feel. Now I am coming to understand the beauty and acceptance in that “‘True love sees, discerns, understands, accepts, and is entirely without judgment”. Thank you.
This is so true, when we choose to only see a part, we live in our own illusion. While there is so much more to ourselves and to others in our lives, observe and feel all there is.
‘True love sees, discerns, understands, accepts, and is entirely without judgment.’ Thank you Lyndy for so honestly sharing your journey back to truth. I love your description of creating a mosaic yet how deep down we can feel the lack of wholeness and superficiality of it. It is only when we allow ourselves to see everything ‘warts and all’ that we are granted the grace of acceptance of the true beauty of our essence and from there a loving acceptance of others in their essence.
“Truth, love, and observation are one and the same thing”. I had my own mosaic picture of life made of small pieces collected here and there, assembled together but giving a deformed picture. Through the teachings of Universal Medicine this picture is slowly becoming spherical, more unified, with no sharp edges or separation between its different components.
‘I am learning about truth – and that truth, love, and observation are one and the same thing. From here I can see what there is to be seen and feel what there is to be felt. I have realised that I have been content to be superficial in how I perceive and interact with who and what is in front of me, content with not seeing and feeling everything – to the very depten.’ This asks me to ponder deeply, do I observe, do I want to see and feel everything always, do I stand for truth and thus love. Thank you Lindy for this very powerful sharing about you and your mother and truth.
Wow Lyndy what a most powerful and very touching blog, which has brought me to tears as I can relate to so much of what you have shared; the superficiality of our expression; the false/ideal mosaic of life that we have selectively created; the cocoon we have sheltered the real “us” in; and the unacknowledged grief that we carry that sits and waits for release with a longed for expression of honesty. What you have shared has given me so much to ponder on and I can feel the healing that is being lovingly offered to me and to all who read this, and these words in particular are a gentle reminder of what we all, at some level know: “There is a still and loving place within the innermost heart of every man, woman and child, from whence the truth of all can be felt, seen and known in full.” Thank you Lyndy for sharing you with us.
The fragmentation of a mosaic picture does indeed give a vivid illustration of how our lives are made up of many pieces that are glued together like a jigsaw. Each fragment can be the leftovers of our pictures of what we had idealistically visualised something to be and that picture was smashed or represent how you think life should be and look according to societies expectations. Either way these perceptions create a broken reflection instead of the wholeness that we already are.
A very personal account of the walls we can create around ourselves through grief. ‘Because I did not want to see and feel all that was there to be seen and felt I cut myself off from the whole, and so from experiencing relationship in full with others.’ In cutting ourselves off from the whole and therefore from others, we also cut ourselves off from ourselves and lose that connection with the very essence of who we are.
We make so many mosaics in our lives. We take the pieces we like and we glue them together to make something that can never be whole. What I understood from your blog Lyndy is that we leave out our own essence and until we embrace we will gather these pieces form outside of us, to try to make sense of the world. It will never truly make sense until we restore ourselves by seeking deep inside. There are no pieces there, only oneness.
‘I have been content with fragments of truth and used these fragments to create a mosaic or picture of life that is not true; a picture that, in its misinterpretation of life, has reduced it to something unreal and without true vibrant livingness’. After all, it is indeed our everyday livingness and our appreciation of the extraordinarily ordinary that brings our lives alive. This is a beautiful sharing – thank you Lyndy.
I was reminded of the same presence (albeit a man!) that I experience from time to time when I connect. Its a great reminder of how huge and gorgeous I can feel, that is always available if I just allow it.
This journey with my mother and her illness is where we are travelling right now – a very real place where the temptation is to sweep over her faults and just glorify her life. But that is not real. In reality its finding the balance between honouring and appreciating all that is noble and beautiful in her essence, but also being willing to go there with her to express what has been a challenge, has not worked to let her see the evolution of her life, and for me to learn from. I love my Mother, and there is a real opportunity to learn to love all of her – ‘warts and all’ which I relish.
Wow. Thank you, Lyndy. What you share here blows away how we can settle for a half baked truth, when we conveniently ignore what doesn’t fit in our idealised version of a person, or an event in our life, and think to ourselves that we accept them. And your last paragraph explains so well why we do that, and what we are missing out. Simply stunning.
learning to actually observe life, ourselves, each other, to feel the energy of the interplay of what is going on all around us, is the start of reconnecting to the deep and abiding truth of who we truly are, and what humanity is here to do.
Deeply touched by the well of love and wisdom in your sharing Lyndy, from the true honouring of yourself. I love the truth of your words here… that resonate with my experience.
“In its wisdom the Soul gave me the whole picture, creating a platform of loving acceptance for me to see what is there to be seen.”
I agree Victoria.. ‘Loving acceptance” rang true to me. So beautiful to read Lyndy’s expression.
Linda this is very beautiful what you have shared. But it is more than “beautiful” – you have expressed a depth of wisdom and truth. Thank you.
“I am learning about truth – and that truth, love, and observation are one and the same thing. From here I can see what there is to be seen and feel what there is to be felt….
There is a still and loving place within the innermost heart of every man, woman and child, from whence the truth of all can be felt, seen and known in full. There is no judgment issuing from this place, only love and observation – for true love and observation are one.”
Beautiful to read Lyndy. This line I love: “My ideal ‘mosaic’ of her, created with fragments of truth, was shattered.” You exposed that truth can never be a fragment but always needs to be whole. I am seeing this more and more in my life too and I love it as the whole is so much more fulfilling than the fragments.
Wow, Lyndy, this is such a powerful blog that shares so much. I too have lived in such a way as being only willing to feel the ‘good’ and shutting down to anything that does not feel nice in myself or in the world. I had a moment last week when I went into anxiousness and instead of fighting it, just felt it for what it was. What was incredible is that when I committed to feeling the ‘bad’ I could feel my love much, much stronger. I can so feel the truth in your words, ” ..for true love and observation are one”.
We all go around with a superficial-ness. It’s like we’ve done it so long that we don’t even know we are doing it. It’s only until someone comes along who is in their raw and realness that we start to wonder weather we have a realness too. Beautiful Lyndy.
Have you accepted your mother’s death? – it is such a powerful question and one that we all will face in due time. It is fascinating to read your process of letting of the pain and hurt and beliefs surrounding your mother and in that you were then able to accept and feel more of yourself.
Thank you Lyndy your sharing was beautiful to read and deeply touching.
Beautiful sharing Lyndy, thank you. It helps me to see how we shortchange ourselves and others and limit the depth of connection available by only wanting to share the ‘good’ parts of ourselves and only wanting to see that in others.
What you write is deeply touching Lyndy. You have said it all. I have nothing to add other than thank you.
Lyndy thank you, this has touched me deeply. Your acknowledgement and claiming of divine presence being yours to feel, and that you can feel it, is truly inspiring. I can feel that, it shows me also that I am that too.
Dear Lyndy I really loved your post. I have lived in the same way of not wanting to see the ugliness of life out there, ignoring and making excuses for the weaknesses of others so that I could only see the good, thinking that this was love and loving. I too have lived the illusion of the good and the nice. I view my past life, like one walking down a tunnel, having tunnel vision. I now have come out of the tunnel, to open up to the whole of life, to the truth of it, as it is. I love your words Lyndy. ” In it’s wisdom the soul gave me the whole picture creating a platform of loving acceptance for me to see what is there to be seen.”
Lindy when I was reading your blog I became very still, thank you for sharing your wise words.
‘I chose to use that precious life energy available to me to create a false world where I saw only the acceptable, nice and good – I cut myself off from the fullness of true expression.’ I feel very humble after reading this. How precious is our life energy and what are we doing with this, something to deeply ponder on.
I am struck by the beauty of what I have just read. It has left me wondering why we can find it so hard to see just how things really are, paraphrasing you Lyndy, to see, discern, understand, and accept. I know that I have tried very hard to protect myself from seeing the pain of seeing how things really are, and that when the truth does find its way in, I can be devastated. Your blog has opened me up to consider more deeply how, without having a strong foundation of ‘the love, truth and glory ever pulsing within’, it would be this way. As always, the answer lies within.
I am deeply touched by your words Lyndy, thank you. I am learning about love and truth every day, letting go of what is not true and all the illusions I have been living in.
I am deeply touched by your words Lyndy. I am learning about love and truth every day. Letting go of what is not true and the illusion I have been living in.
This is so honest. How many of us choose to just see a certain side of someone and not the full depth of the truth? I’d say many people! Especially with our parents, we like to see people who are perfect when it’s impossible for them to be perfect. It’s amazing you let yourself see the whole picture, and the effect that had on the way you felt too.
Amazing blog, thank you Lyndy. It’s interesting how the ideals and beliefs of this world suggest that parts of life are bad and other parts are good. We then live a life sold out to this unconscious judgment, only accepting parts of the whole. Accepting all of life, feels true and very liberating, it heals any resistance I may have which is simply resistance to parts of myself. We are gorgeous, amazing beings in a state of unfoldment which is glorious in itself, letting go of the ideal of perfection and lovingly accepting all that we are and all that the world truly is fosters a true commitment to ourselves and life.
A beautiful description of honouring the amazing woman that you are and claiming this for yourself. And as you say “In its wisdom the Soul gave me the whole picture…” this reconnection to soul is deeply illuminating and supportive. Your experience that you have shared here is awesome.
A beautiful claiming of the loving and constant woman you are, Lyndy. It is so easy to deflect onto others what is truly known and felt within and the amazingness you experienced in relationship with your mum was a reflection of the amazingness within you. Thank you for sharing.
I really appreciated the opportunity from your honest and very intimate heartfelt blog to release my own pent up sadness Lyndy, thankyou.
I agree Linda and it is a great reminder to look deeper and wider as I realise there is still a lot I don’t want to see in full, as in the whole energetic bigger picture and not just what I am encountering.
When I read this part of Lyndy’s blog I was reminded of all that I am as a woman and how when I connect to this the beauty of me and life are instantly there.
‘Forgetting to look within myself and feel the love, truth and glory ever pulsing within, a love ever ready to nurture every cell of my body and emanate forth, I instead cast my gaze onto the outer world and proceeded to search for some form of ‘good’ or ‘purity’ out there’
Is this not a perfect set up leading to disappointment upon disappointment making us search harder en further while losing sight of what we hold within to the point where we cannot see it at all? Learning to see this and moving back towards what we hold within is truly life changing.
To observe and accept those we are with, not just to create a rosy picture of the bits we like about them is an awesome truth Lyndy. You have given me a lot to consider about what I do and don’t block out and the nature of true love.
Lyndy what a gift you have given us in this masterpiece. Your blog makes is so clear that the true beauty and joy of life can only be experienced if we are willing to see it all. This shatters the appeal of the ‘rose coloured glasses’.
You show us powerfully how these fragments got in the way of you feeling and appreciating the real you Lyndy. Very beautiful to feel you clearing these pieces of junk out of the way and returning to your simplicity and beauty.
This is just beautiful Lyndy, gorgeously inspiring and an honor to read.
Lyndy thank you for sharing your experience as I know for me how I’ve also seen life in fragments rather than as a whole. The blog has certainly made me stop and reflect and it was really enjoyable to read.
“But as I drove, bathing in this gorgeous presence, I suddenly and deeply knew this woman to be me – the essence of me” beautiful Lyndy! I have experienced that too. That wonderful, joyfull, and fiery presence is ME.
Thank you Lyndy for sharing how we can filter to what we want to see by the ideals and beliefs that we hang on to.
Dear Lyndy this blog radiates beauty and deepness. I love the elegance of your words, their real beauty, the solidness they transpire. I love how you describe how we create the illusion we want to live in with fragments of truth. I love the revelation of what you did not want to see and the revelation that you had in your car about your soul. Thank you from my heart!!
Dear Lindy, I experienced the death of my mum very sudden as well – within 4 months she died. When it happened, I was 24, I wasn´t able to feel and see everything as well… I went into the strong Steffi not allowing me to really stop and feel how devastated this illness was making me. Your sharing here, how you didn´t wanna feel how your mum was actually living her life, is huge for me too – my mum was the perfect, funny, ‘always there for me’ mum too and to observe someones life and its consequences is pretty hard to accept or to feel. I will feel into this as well and if there is anything left, not dealt with, I will feel it. Thank you!
Wow Lindy. You have written this so beautifully, reflecting that gorgeous woman you feel with you, that is you. It is clear from Steffi’s comment that this blog will touch the hearts of many, as it has mine. And looking at the superficiality we conduct our nice love with is groundbreaking, earth shattering when you start to see that everything has just been nice and polite but not true. I used to only show my daughter my warmth and niceness only to realise she could feel everything I was going through anyway… you can’t really hide, we all just pretend. Which creates confusion. Bring on being true and real, the real us.
“The week before the above revelation, I was driving home one day when I became aware of the presence of a beautiful, radiant, loving woman enveloping me. I could feel her dignity and wisdom. This woman has many times been present with me in my life, and because Mum had died when I was 23, I had always attributed this presence to her – I always thought, “oh, my beautiful mother is with me”. But as I drove, bathing in this gorgeous presence, I suddenly and deeply knew this woman to be me” – I have experienced this also Lyndy, but my mum is still alive, I had not considered that it could be me. Thank you for sharing.
Very beautiful Lyndy. This blog is a very good reminder that what we have created is not it, there is much more, our truth-full selves. This blog really made me return to who I truly am.
I have come back to this blog today and found myself pondering more deeply over why there have been funerals of dear friends that I have not gone to in the past. I realise that I was either not accepting of the fact of their death and the circumstances around it and/or not accepting myself and how I might be at the funeral, prejudging events and how I may or may not be able to handle them. I was not being fully with me in the present moment so did not feel I could support myself in these possibly difficult situations.
Beautifully expressed Lyndy, your sharing is so honest and deeply felt, thank you.
Just beautifull Lyndy, I felt such a resonance with your words, feeling it is time to really face the many truths that are there, but from a loving place. Thank you for what you have shared it has deeply touched me.
A very honest and loving sharing Lyndy. A lovely revelation by the soul to show you that the “..beautiful, radiant , loving woman enveloping you..” wasn’t your mother but in fact your own beautiful self.
A very heart warming sharing of self unfolding, understanding and connection. Thanks Lyndy.
Reading this blog showed me that we all can have a bit of a bumpy ride before attempting to tackle truth, Thanks for this very honest blog Lyndy.
Lyndy, I have experienced something similar, of letting myself really feel the quality of a beautiful presence I have always had with me, but had never fully claimed as being me! So thank you for honouring this for us all – ‘the presence of a beautiful, radiant, loving woman enveloping me. I could feel her dignity and wisdom.”
Lyndy, your article feels like pure gold and divinely written. I can feel the true soulfulness that you have embraced and it was inspiring for me to see how after you accepted what hurt and pain was there to feel by your mother’s death, it was released to allow space for your Soul to come to you so strongly. I also felt for the first time how I had similar experiences with a feeling of an incredibly loving, tender, powerful presence near me, and now I wonder if that was indeed my own Soul reminding me of the same beauty that is within us all. Thank you for showing what’s possible when we are willing to look at everything in this world with honesty and acceptance.
Looking at the title of this blog I understand why I hesitated over the word honest in my last comment and I realise that actually there is not only honesty but a lot more truth in our relationships and this feels so confirming of the love that we share, of the love that we are. Thank you Lyndy.
Reading this again I am feeling how my acceptance and appreciation of myself makes such a difference in my relationships with others. This is especially felt in my family and friends I have had over a long time as our old ways of relating give way to more open, caring, loving and honest interactions.
What I really understood from this blog was to not settle for the surface that is presented to me. To keep feeling whatever is there to be felt because deep down I know that beneath all the masks, covers, acts, hurts, protections, emotions everyone is love wether that is at the surface or not.
Thank you Lyndy, for sharing your experience in such an honest way.
“There is a still and loving place within the innermost heart of every man, woman and child, from whence the truth of all can be felt, seen and known in full. There is no judgment issuing from this place, only love and observation – for true love and observation are one.”
Beautiful.
“True love sees, discerns, understands, accepts and is entirely without judgement.”
This is so true and a timely reminder as I just found myself falling into judgement when talking on the phone!
A very inspiring sharing, thank you Lyndy.
Your courage to look deeper into a situation is so inspiring Lyndy, and your words of wisdom “True love sees, discerns, understands, accepts, entirely without judgement” clearly shows where we have built false ideals of love, that it can only be happening when things are ‘nice’ or ‘good’, or in the case of romantic love, meeting our needs.
How amazing to be stopped in my tracks with such sweet simple truth. I know my mosaic to be a theatre that I try to direct, act in, manage and control. I am stepping falteringly, but committed, onto a new path of letting the theatre fall away, developing a true relationship with myself (which shows me the tenderness that is always there), and not shying away from the hurt. Thank you, Lyndy.
Thank you, Matilda. Letting go of the false reality we create for ourselves seems to be a big step, but as it turns out it is the sweetest liberation from constant mental striving and tension into a more simple experience of life lived in connection to the messages from our body and soul.
Yes letting go of the theatre I have created in my life is allowing me to build a truer relationship with myself and thus with everyone around me.
Dear Lyndy, thank you for writing so clearly what I have also done, in my case with my father. My father was periodically mentally ill. So I developed a fragmented view of him, where I hated and feared the daddy who was depressed and suicidal and for many years actually ‘forgot’ that daddy completely apart from a few undeniable facts. I adored and was possessive of the daddy who was well and loving and enjoyed remembering the good times. Coming to the whole truth of what he was and who I am is what I am now doing, also with the loving support of Universal Medicine practitioners. So yes, here’s looking at you, Truth.
Truly beauty-full, Lyndy. When you said that through a superficiality in your way of expressing you had glided over the richness, rawness and beauty of life, it allowed me to deeply see how this is how I too have lived life – just choosing what I needed and wanted to see and hiding from anything that challenged me. Thank you.
Thanks for the reminder Sue to not look away from the not so pretty parts of life – a place where there is lots to learn and a good dose of love hidden behind the unexpressed hurts.
Thank you Lyndy, very beautiful.
One of the most beautiful things to me is pure honesty and you have it down to your bones Lyndy.
I agree, Alan. Lyndy’s blog is so beautifully honest – a deeply soulful expression.
So true Alanjohnston, this blog from you Lyndy is so honest and you sharing all of you in a vulnerable and beautifully humble way. And in that you let the reader feel the amazing power that resides within us when we open up and let our vulnerability and humility be truly seen.
I agree, honesty and the truth are beautiful to hear, read and express.
Yes, so true alanjohnston, there is great beauty in Lyndy’s expression here.
Lyndy this is beauty-full. Thank you for sharing.
Hi Lindy, I love your such frank and open revelation of truth that shows so clearly how we create “fragments of truth and use these fragments to create a mosaic or picture of life that is not true”. I have done this too. For me it’s about wanting things to be ‘better’, to ‘fix’ and provide solutions and a ‘heaven on earth’. It’s so enticing to ‘think’ we can make a ‘heaven on earth’ to make the ‘outer’ world heaven, rather than the inner world of the love we already are.
Thank you for an inspiring article. Ariana
I love the way you have put this Ariana, that it is not about trying to create a ‘heaven on earth’ but rather coming to know again the ‘heavenliness’ that resides within every single one of us.
For you, newlookstresssolutions, ” it’s about wanting things to be ‘better’, to ‘fix’ and provide solutions and a ‘heaven on earth’. It’s so enticing to ‘think’ we can make a ‘heaven on earth’ to make the ‘outer’ world heaven, rather than the inner world of the love we already are.” For me it is about people not being “perfect” including myself and constant self loathing as well as judgement.
I guess everyone has their “picture”, creation, ideal of the world.
I agree with Lynda and yourself that our inner world, our love is already there and when we connect to it and live this love inside out-we understand our world and people and there is no need to change anything.
‘The depth of richness that we all naturally are’. A divine description Lyndy.
I am so deeply touched Lyndy, thank you.