When I was a child I never had to worry because I always had something that looked like a big chunky lump of glass with me, and this was my greatest treasure.
It was fully mine and easy to take with me wherever I went. No one was jealous or wished to take it away from me, as they could not see any worth in it.
But for me it was everything as I could play the most amazing games with it… it would become an iceberg or a mountain, or whatever I imagined it to be. I would constantly grow from experiencing incredible adventures with it.
When I was sad, a ray of sunlight would fall on it and would be reflected back in all the colours of the rainbow and there was no other possibility than finding my joy again, as I loved those rainbow colours and their playful presence so much.
Later, when I grew up and realised that no one seemed to understand that this ‘lump of nothing’ meant the world to me, I started to doubt its value and simply forgot about it.
It was nearly 25 years later, during a Retreat with Chris James, that I suddenly encountered the glass lump again. At first I was shocked when I realised that it was not glass at all; it is a giant diamond in the rough.
Instead of feeling joy when rediscovering such a treasure, I felt anxiety of what the others might think about it: if they would be jealous, try to take it from me, or if I might destroy it when playing with it again just as I did in my childhood – totally free, without thinking about anything.
When I was a child I felt just naturally free in my body and never thought about why or how I moved. That day I felt so clumsy and insecure that I just did not dare to play with something that delicate.
Whilst pondering about that, sitting on a chair on the terrace, trying to compose a childhood song – as was the task set by Chris – and processing my head off with doubts about myself, all of a sudden an inspiration on feet came along.
This was a friend, who is one of the most inspiring women I have ever met. She glided down the stairs, impeccably and yet so simply dressed, barefoot and with utmost grace continuing to float her way through the park.
She was just with herself, focussed on the task that had to be completed, not thinking about the world around her or how she looked but moving with awe-inspiring grace and beauty.
Seeing her shine in this aureole of glory caused me to feel a love and the wish to simply adore her with all that I could bring; something I have never felt for a woman – expressing as a gay man in this life.
She made it tangible for me that love is so much more than gender or sexual preferences and that when we meet a person who deeply touches us, anything other than love is irrelevant – it is only us who choose how deep we are prepared to go and how many hurts and concepts we are to overcome along the way.
Somehow this gave me enormous confidence and I decided to no longer worry about my diamond, but to put it in my pocket and just wait and see what would unfold. I began playing with it every now and then, cautiously at first and then more and more confident. And boy oh boy, what unfolded next made the magic of God become more tangible for me.
The next day I was, seemingly out of nothing, met by a man who just went beyond any fears or concepts and who expressed openly with the most simple and honest words.
At first I panicked and wanted to back off, but then I opened up and let crumble down, one by one, nearly all the walls of protection I had so painstakingly built around my heart.
The embrace we shared seemed endless, step by step inspiring each other to dare to go deeper and deeper and express more and more of what we were feeling in each other’s presence, nearly no words needed, just an embrace and yet so much more.
The gestures and movements were very small yet so full of care and support like I could not remember having felt before. It was as if we had known each other and held each other for ages.
We inspired each other to step by step open up to be who we really were behind all those layers of habits, ideals and beliefs with which we usually veil our true self.
What he shared with me from his body at that moment was that my diamond was not only a priceless treasure but even more; something that I could polish into a true gem and develop joy in wearing it for all to see and enjoy.
This gem is there for me to look at and to remind me of the colours of the rainbow whenever I might doubt myself, and that it is always there, around my neck shining, glittering and colourfully sparkling with every ray of light that might fall onto it; reflecting to others that this joyful display of magic they see is nothing but a reflection of their own light they are shining towards me.
This diamond is my own unique preciousness.
It is something I can never lose, but just forget about. No one can take it from me, as it will not shine on them as it does on me. And deep inside they all know this and that they don’t have to grab it, as we all have our own gem that suits each of us best – a unique gem which has been custom made.
The list of all wonderful persons to say thank you to would fill a roll of wallpaper, so just one big warm and simple hug to everyone who inspired me to find my preciousness again and to allow my diamond to sparkle every day by shining their rays of light on it.
By Michael Kremer, Personal Assistant, Buchholz, Germany
Further Reading:
Who am I?
Trust and Appreciation
Being Found Out: Online Presentations Opened Me To The Preciousness I am
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
What a beautiful read especially this statement, “that love is so much more than gender or sexual preferences and that when we meet a person who deeply touches us, anything other than love is irrelevant”. This to me is saying hanging onto those hurts serve no purpose except separation. Not worth the misery we continue to live with for centuries…
Our preciousness is like a diamond to allow the light to shine through to show the joyful reflections of the inner beauty.
As a child we are so connected and open to the wonders that abound around us. And then as adults we learn to shut this down and rely on other senses that are not complete and then we wonder why we are left feeling like things do not add up.
Totally agree Henrietta. As children we are so aware of everything around us but there’s this thing that gets passed on by generation to generation in attempts to shut us down. But what they can’t do is ever take away what’s inside of us – ever. It will always be there ready to be kindled, when the time is right.
I love how Michael has written this blog, very beautiful to feel and read.
This blog is an inspiration for us to let go of our protection and hardness.
We are very easily influenced and/or inspired by those around us. However the one within us, our essence is the most inspiring of all. Even when feeling another embracing their essence in full we still have to connect to that within ourselves to turn that inspiration into action.
Reconnecting to our essences or preciousness can provide so much warmth and bathing in this glory finds us appreciating that diamond within and by being intimate (letting people in) about this preciousness from within so as we are letting others in, this is the most evolutionary thing.
I agree Linda, it is incredibly inspiring and confirming to others when we do.
This is a beautiful sharing Michael, to hear a man speak of his connection to his preciousness and tender qualities is deeply inspiring – thank you.
When the clouds of self-doubt are blown away by truth our preciousness shines through.
When we appreciate our own preciousness we start to understand how everyone is precious in their own way, we may all be different but we all have an innate preciousness within.
Thank you for sharing this story Michael. We need to keep holding that childlike preciousness into adulthood, regardless of what others may or may not value. It’s there in all of us so why hide it?
Michael’s sharing of his preciousness in this blog is very beautiful.
To move freely in the grace that we are reflects the preciousness we hold from within, that in turn allows another to feel their own preciousness maybe only for a moment but it is felt and deeply known.
Michael reading you feels like a beautiful invitation to come back to the preciousness within me. There was a time when life was simple, great but normal at the same time. There was no time, no agendas as in the present moment was everything. I was a little girl who felt deeply beautiful all the time. Now thanks to be part of the way of the Livingness I’m finding the same echoes of joy, lightness and ease. How wonderful is being in a woman’s body today and feeling the same.
And of course, knowing how precious we are, how unique, is the foundation of our self-love, which is essential for our evolution.
This is beautiful and shows us how much we can inspire each other through our movements and the grace we allow ourselves to accept.
Sometimes we need another gem to remind us of the gem that is within us, and that we can shine this gem in full to the world.
No one can take our treasures out of us. It is only us that we can discard them as treasures and simply forget about them.
“Love is so much more than gender or sexual preferences and that when we meet a person who deeply touches us, anything other than love is irrelevant – it is only us who choose how deep we are prepared to go and how many hurts and concepts we are to overcome along the way” – this is so beautifully expressed, and that this was communicated through a way someone moved, how we inspire each other by reflection. Absolutely heavenly.
Claiming our preciousness is to polish our diamond.
It is interesting to note that based on quantity diamonds are not really that valuable at all as there are many many reserves of it in this world. The market for diamond has been corrupted by the greed of the diamond suppliers. Nevertheless diamonds are very valuable in what they reflect and symbolise to us.
Wow, the world would be less without that blog in it. What you offered us all is the opportunity to feel the preciousness of what we all carry and that the reflection of another living that without apology can awaken it to be lived in full.
When we connect to our preciousness we reflect to others how powerful this quality is.
I have a feeling we would all be surprised how many diamonds in the rough are there waiting to brighten up our day when we allow ourselves to see them.
Something we all need to know and should know that inside everyone of us is a preciousness untouched untainted pure in essence that holds a love so vast that is equal to God. Imagine if we all knew this?
I love the word preciousness – it feels precious to hear and feel it.
Our preciousness is to be honoured, treasured and allowed to sparkle and shine on everyone.
Thank you for this profound blog Michael. I am now appreciating and giving permission to myself to embrace more of the innate preciousness within.
Whether a piece of glass or a diamond, as long as it is held precious and reflects our innateness, our divinity, it matters not; it is but a simile, a depiction of our true glory.
And we sprinkle appreciation and intimacy into the mix and we have evolution.
The joy of letting out our preciousness for all to see without abandon is indeed glorious.
Preciousness is as beautiful to feel in another as to surrender to it in oneself.
An anti-dote to self-doubt and anxiety, our preciousness. That is always there for us, always. Patiently waiting for us to pick it up, and hold it tenderly, and dearly, so it can shine for us, through us, and with us.
Thank you Michael – a beautiful reminder to consistently appreciate the preciousness we naturally are. The movement of the body is harmonious and graceful from living this quality.
Absolutely Stephanie, appreciation is the substance or glue holding us between our glorious moments.
When we see someone move with delicateness, preciousness and grace, it is a blessing as it reminds us of this same beauty and grace that lives in us too.
Just feeling the word ‘precious’ moves me to tears.
Just because the world may not see the value in preciousness or delicateness doesn’t mean that we have to hide or forget about it. For those who are sensitive the world can be a very harsh place, but that is a result of ignoring our preciousness. This brings home to me the responsibility of allowing my ability to be precious and delicate to be seen, to act as a reminder to others.
Beautifully expressed Leigh. Preciousness and delicateness have long been sidelined and bastardised so for those who have reconnected to their true expression there is a responsibility to live them in full. This is will bring them back to life.
Yes, because as you say, the world is a harsh place and sensitive people need a visual reminder that it is safe to live all of who they are in this world with no apology for the sensitivity that is innately within.
Love in our expression is rich with inspiration and it is from this inspiration we are re-ignited to be exactly as we are and allow our true preciousness to shine and that is a true gift to be shared by all.
Beautifully expressed Kelly. It is very natural for us to allow our preciousness, our inner beauty and who we are to shine and shared this with the world. But when we choose to hide it, seek protection or reserve it for a special few we can easily dull it down as it is so well hidden.
Thank you for sharing your reconnection to your innate preciousness and the joy of sharing that with others.
A beautiful sharing of your re-awakening and claiming of your essence.
I love rereading your blog Michael; every one of us has this divine preciousness within no matter how it may have been hidden.
The preciousness that is within all equally – every movement being like a diamond revealing its various facets (angles) to reveal the true beauty within as we unfold and return to the way and truth of who we are.
Precious, thank you Michael. Our movements are powerful and inspire each other.
We can all inspire each other so much, and make such a difference, ‘We inspired each other to step by step open up to be who we really were behind all those layers of habits, ideals and beliefs with which we usually veil our true self.’
Connecting with people and building intimacy and honesty between each other now that is a sure fire way to open up to our natural preciousness and let the divine diamonds be seen and felt for the richness they bestow.
We definitely need each other to help us on our way.
“When I was a child I felt just naturally free in my body and never thought about why or how I moved” Watching children play and express so freely shows us that we still have all that inside us still. It has just got buried under the so-called ‘adult’ life overcoat we have been groomed to assume. Time to unpeel those layers and find the natural joy that has been there all along – the diamond within.
We can try very hard denying ever having such diamond, but we all do. But it is not the diamond we are trying to deny, but it is the pain of not living with that preciousness that we want to deny. It is very beautiful how we get inspired to reconnect with that by others’ reflection.
It is gorgeous when we are truly able to feel how precious, how tender and delicate we are, it changes all our movements.
I love this powerful realization Michael – Love simply IS – whatever the gender or sexual preference.
“She made it tangible for me that love is so much more than gender or sexual preferences and that when we meet a person who deeply touches us, anything other than love is irrelevant.”
This is a deeply precious blog to read Michael. Every word has touched me deeply in my heart of the reminder that it is our reflection of the truth of all that we are is what sparkles, shines and purely emanates the qualities of the gloriousness we are all from.
Simply gorgeous Michael, it’s the many reflections we receive that offer the greatest gifts.
I too have in recent years reconnected to my preciousness and it is truly precious. I have also found that there is a great power in preciousness which could go some of the way to explaining why it gets attacked!
How beautiful to read about something so precious coming back to life… how inspiring.
Thank you Michael, your last line was beautiful, “to everyone who inspired me to find my preciousness again and to allow my diamond to sparkle every day by shining their rays of light on it.” It’s a gorgeous way to describe brotherhood and how our choices to be the love we are can support others to shine from their love also.
It is truly beautiful Michael to read a man expressing with such tenderness and openness, this blog is a great reminder of the power we feel when we make the choice to let go of the protection that has stopped us experiencing a deeper and more grander love.
Amazing to feel your preciousness and tenderness in your blog Michael. It is deeply inspiring for me as a man and I can feel those layers of protection that you speak of and how much they stop us from being who we are in the world and from experiencing the full depth of love that is available to us.
It is incredible how much we get influenced by society when growing up and how easily we doubt ourselves and let go of something we so treasure because it appears no one else does have this same care and interest in it. It would be gorgeous if we could raise children to stay connected with their preciousness so it is not something that has to be reconnected to but already there and growing.
It would be gorgeous if we raised children to stay connected with their preciousness.
Thank you Michael. This is a beautiful reminder that every move we make is observed and felt by others on some level. If we move connected to our own preciousness we inspire others to do the same.
Yes thank you Michael for a beautiful reminder of our own unique diamond and the two-way reflections.
Michael, what a truly inspiring blog.. and so easy to relate to. I got to sense my own development with my shininess, my preciousness as you described.. And got a sense that I know it very well, never lost it , simply had not reminded myself. This sentence stood out for me: ”..it is only us who choose how deep we are prepared to go and how many hurts and concepts we are to overcome along the way.”
This brings totally our power back – as we are the Ones who choose.
That is an amusing observation Shirley-Ann that we seem to place such value on the rarity of something. Yet what more gorgeous than having as our ‘ normal’ the unwavering experience of preciousness, in ourself and also in others.
Isn’t it funny how we take such care over a small child, the way in which we hold their hands and support them when they learn to walk – we would never let them walk barefoot over a gravel path
– so why do we do that with ourselves as we grow up, why do we stop holding our own hands and supporting ourselves with such tenderness and care? Are we not always learning?
Thank you Michael for such a beautiful sharing; what you have expressed is very inspirational and precious;
“We inspired each other to step by step open up to be who we really were behind all those layers of habits, ideals and beliefs with which we usually veil our true self.
A stunning appreciation of the preciousness we are and the power of others that can support us to find and embrace this within… and then live everything that is and more.
Michael thank you, this is a truly profound sharing on preciousness, the treasure we innately are. It is so good to have gender illusions out of the way. As you shared, has nothing to do with the absolute power we hold. When we start to sense that we got something very beautiful inside, our preciousness, as you say, we discover that it is who we are and that we need to share it and be open again with it, yes also when it feels a little scary!
We are all effectively diamonds amongst the rough until we realise and accept our unique preciousness.
I just came from a Esoteric Yoga online group session where the presenter shared with us the magnitude of what we can bring when we are with ourselves, and then reading this blog of you witnessing this woman walking across a path and what you got from that. A lovely confirmation of what is possible when we are with ourselves, and our preciousness.
To re-discover our preciousness and divine nature is deeply inspiring and starts us on a journey of unfolding that which lies within us and often is covered up by many layers of hurts and behaviours that we need to look at and discard to uncover who we truly are in full and let that shine out.
“This diamond is my own unique preciousness” A precious treasure that shines on all who feel its reflection.
Thank you Michael, you and your diamond are indeed very precious and their reflection ignites my diamond.
I find truly remarkable how at some point we register total clumsiness in our movements and settle for it (the acceptance of a joy-less life). We confirm it as a true about us and walk with it. Eventually, we choose to discomfirm it as being us and reimprint. But it may not happen and we may live all of our life assuming something as true when in truth it is not and moving in sync with it.
What I have come to realise that it is not the words we speak but how we are, how we live that is truly felt and supports other people. Someone shared recently, you don’t need to tell me, I know you care because you ask and listen. This just goes to show the truth, it’s how we live, our every movement that can be felt, much more than telling someone.
Beautiful blog Michael, the more we accept and appreciate ourselves from the inside out the brighter the light we reflect to the world.
Really connecting with our preciousness as an adult is something that I have only just been reconnecting with. I had really lost that feeling, one that I knew was there when I was younger. To deeply connect now with that preciousness within, that quality, has been so profound and something I appreciate each and every day.
We are all jewels of undeniable beauty from the essence of God within. The joy and purity we all hold is so very precious and when we express from this quality, it feels amazing.
“We inspired each other to step by step open up to be who we really were behind all those layers of habits, ideals and beliefs with which we usually veil our true self.”….it feels like Michael you have shared with us the essence of all relationships. To lovingly hold up mirrors to support the letting go of what we are not and to inspire and encourage who we truly are to shine like a diamond.
When we connect to our preciousness it is joyful to share this with others but if we choose to protect it and hide this beautiful quality/gem away from people, it no longer has the magic it holds but becomes dim by the layers of protection. It is when we truly open up and share our preciousness with others that this gem truly shines for the magic it emanates for us all to see and appreciate.
It is inspiring to observe how children can so easily feel their preciousness reflected through the most simple things around them and how we all had that ability once – as you are sharing with us Michael, realizing how the piece of glass you once owned was a mere reflection of what you knew lived inside of you.
This is a beautiful, beautiful blog. As I was reading it I felt the preciousness within me waiting to be expressed and shared. Appreciating that we are all deeply precious and we all have this same quality, and it is exquisite when we are able to feel this. So there is no need to hide it at all, because we all have this magnificent gem inside us all, it is simply waiting to burst forth and shine. Deeply inspirational Michael, Thank You.
We all equally hold a precious gem within, our divine essence.
I love re-reading this again. Expressed with such a depth of love and emanating warmth that is enveloping.
‘When I was a child I felt just naturally free in my body and never thought about why or how I moved. That day I felt so clumsy and insecure that I just did not dare to play with something that delicate.’ I love this, learning to play with our delicate and precious nature, spacious, free and flowing like the wind.
‘This diamond is my own unique preciousness.’ Thank you for sharing and very timely for me to read today to feel and come back to my own preciousness. It is always there!
Living in constant appreciation and confirmation of what is inside us all, really getting to know and rediscovering that treasure allows us to embrace and accept the true beauty of our beingness and to know that we just need to give ourselves permission to be who we are in all our glory.
Beautiful and inspiring to feel the level of appreciation for the preciousness within all of us.
I am inspired every time I come across one of your blogs Michael you write with such a simple profound beauty about life and love.
Kids know their preciousness and adults can see it and appreciate it as well. But we put so many judgements on it and then it becomes hard and heavy and we lock it away. But as your blog so shows, it does not need to be like that and that we can just allow it to be and to give it a polish every now and then so it can shine and be part of us. We are all so deeply precious. At all stages in our lives.
Every part of my body is precious. Right down to the cellular level as it is through my body that I feel the light that I am from.
We are all precious, we are all divine, we only need to reconnect to who we are and what a beautiful testimony to the effect one can have on another . .” She was just with herself, focused on the task that had to be completed, not thinking about the world around her or how she looked but moving with awe-inspiring grace and beauty.” . . When we are our selves, in our body, connected to our inner heart we inspire all to do the same. . . to drop the hurt and simply be.
“We all have our own gem that suits each of us best”, this is beautiful. It is so true we all have our own preciousness and as we connect to this in our own way, we reflect this beauty to others. The preciousness lies within us all. What I am finding in the more I surrender to my tenderness, the deeper I connect to my preciousness.
It is beautiful to read your rediscovery of the gem we all have. And are yearning and destined to return to, as it is our natural way. And I can feel from your blog how important relationships are in this proces, being constantly inspired and reflected this preciousness is what we need to return to it. Relationships in this way are truly important.
You’ve penned a simply exquisite definition of real, true love here – not the romanticised, idealised kind. ‘love is so much more than gender or sexual preferences and that when we meet a person who deeply touches us, anything other than love is irrelevant – it is only us who choose how deep we are prepared to go and how many hurts and concepts we are to overcome along the way.’ Priceless.
I loved this story the first time I read it and even more the second time Michael. At a guess, I have a feeling we all have a special glass that we fumble and keep preciously special just for us hidden in our pockets or secret treasure chest. But it really shines with it being polished and shared of its beauty with others without fear or doubt. Sharing of its magic and light.
I have only recently felt what true preciousness was in my body so the exquisite, beyond delicate feeling is something new to me but I know it has been there all along waiting for me to tap into. It is now my choice to further deepen this incredibly, beautiful quality that lies within me and each and every one of us.
You touch on something here Michael super important – in that inside us is something amazing we can never lose, that can never be duller, and never perish. What a massive comfort to know this in difficult times and know this beauty and wonder is always inside us, just lying dormant until we access it.
This is a great reflection that our inner beauty and preciousness is here to be expressed and shared with others.
So Beautiful Michael. You are so uniquely precious. This diamond may be a reminder but as special as it is, it is too insignificant compared to you. So sweet your tenderness,vulnerability and preciousness. Thank you Michael.
Beautifully expressed Michael, having never considered myself at all precious is had been incredibly empowering and joyful to re-connect to my preciousness and live this more each day. We are all truly unique and a precious gem that is worth shining bright for all to feel and be inspired by.
There is a precious gem within each one of us, which emanates colours and words and movements that are at the same time unique and unifying. It is recognising these gems, these lights that brings us together.
What a joy to read Michael and a beautiful reminder of the unique and precious gem that is in each and every one of us, that never fades – only to shine more brightly the more we cherish and appreciate it.
I was wondering while reading this blog.. Was this diamond real or is it a metaphors.. It doesn’t matter as the message remains the same. Our inner sparkle forever remains awaiting us to let it shine out once more.
Reading this blog I am reminded that for years I thought that being guarded, protective and hard made me stronger as a person and more resilient and that preciousness, sensitivity and fragility were to be avoided. However I am slowly waking up to the fact through my lived experiences that it is in fact the opposite way around.
Andrew I dare say you are not alone in that! What I love is the exquisite feeling of the word preciousness and how when I allow this, I feel an unwavering strength of knowing inside.
It is very interesting Michael how at one point in your blog you associate preciousness with fragility and that you fear it being crushed. I can relate to this and I reckon we have been led to believe by the reinterpretation of the meaning of words that something that is precious needs to be kept locked away, hidden and protected at all costs for fear of being stolen or broken. However as you have so eloquently put it in this blog, our preciousness and fragility can be very powerful things that can be openly shared and put on full display. They cannot be truly broken or stolen for they are part of our innate essence. We have been tricked into hiding these qualities from each other.
When I ponder on the word precious I think of something of tremendous value and worth. In each of our own flavour of expression, we bring something of great value and worth to the world and without what we are each here to bring the world is immediately lesser for it.
How inspiring it is when we meet someone who is connected to and at complete ease with who they are. We can all feel it and sense it in the way they hold themselves and move. When we meet that true grace and beauty it can only inspire because it reminds us that we also possess the same grace and beauty too.
Michael I felt your expression in your blog touched all of me, indeed every particle and your words rang throughout with the sound of singing and vibration of the universe with the knowingness that we are all in our truth exquisitely precious – thank you for sharing.
And just imagine that each and every one of us here in humanity of this precious, and a jewel in the treasure chest of the divine, and each one of us can shine in a way that is so beautiful.
The title made me remember my childhood and how I felt there. I know that my parents were holding me preciously, but sometimes it was something they wanted to protect and so I sometimes felt like in a cage. Preciousness is something you cannot protect, you need to let free and share.
Agreed kerstinsalzer15, preciousness is not something that you protect but it imbued by letting others in
Kerstin, this is beautiful to read, ‘Preciousness is something you cannot protect, you need to let free and share.’ This is a great reminder for me as the mother of a precious 5 year old, I can feel how he loves to be himself and be free and talk and play with who he feels to, I notice sometimes I want to protect this preciousness and him, he always reacts to this and gets upset and i can feel how this control feels awful in my body, far more true and lovely to allow him to shine in the world and to share his preciousness.
What a blessing for us that you have been inspired to allow your preciousness to shine. It is extraordinary what is there to share when we let go of what we hide under the façade and unveil the true magnificence we are.
Feeling precious is delightful. And although quite personal is a feeling that when honoured can be deeply felt by all.
Absolutely Kathryn, our preciousness is simply who we all are!
Your diamond Michael is a great reminder, that we all have a diamond in us. Sometimes we forget, i.e. it is brilliant, to have something, we can hold in our hands and which reminds us, when we forget. I like the fact, that when light falls onto the diamond, it shines like a rain bow, very special. We are all so precious – and there is so much we can appreciate about ourselves, every day.
Sadly we have forgotten how precious we are and in some cases we have even forgotten how gorgeous the quality of preciousness is.
There is gift we can give unto ourselves that cannot be given to us by any other, and that is awareness – for with awareness we gift ourselves with the knowing of a world beyond any we had ever imagined, and it is firmly rooted in the mud beneath our feet as much as it sings in the stars beyond.
Preciousness was not a word that I had used very often until recently when it very gently found its way into my life and I am loving the sense of the word, feeling it deeply throughout my body. It feels delicate but strong at the same time and fills me up with the most feathery warmth that permeates every particle in my body. Once upon a time I would never have felt that I was precious but now I know without the slightest iota of doubt that I am, and worth lovingly “polishing” every single day.
It is the most exquisite home-coming to re-connect and honour our preciousness. When I first heard the word associated with myself I didn’t know what it meant, and my brain pretty much short-circuited trying to associate it with something outside of me that I could define as precious. What this was revealing was how much I had stepped away from my own innate preciousness and therefore would try and bring in something to supplement what I was deeply missing. Over time this turned around significantly, and now the preciousness within is strong and golden, and a feeling that’s very familiar. Now it’s about not losing this connection as I go about my day, in a world that has forgotten its preciousness just like I had done. For I know, that me reflecting the preciousness that I am is a powerful reminder for all around me of their own preciousness as well. A precious responsibility straight from heaven.
“…I opened up and let crumble down, one by one, nearly all the walls of protection I had so painstakingly built around my heart.” This speaks volumes about the power of encountering truth and love in the one person, namely in this case Serge Benhayon. Having had the experience of those walls crumbling, I can state it is a joy-full experience, not a painful one, as it is absolutely supported by the wonder and awe of discovering that this protection was not me and there was something within me much more powerful and awesome to let go back to.
Wow! The discovery of a life-time, thank you Michael, what you have discovered is so true. Living in this divine connection, but refusing to fully commit to this treasure and continuing on the path of rejecting our true inner-beauty is like seeing ourselves as a “diamond in the rough.” The metaphor of a “diamond in the rough” is a great point to reflect on, but even a completely perfect stone such as a glorious diamond cannot hold a candle to our divine essence or “preciousness” when we fully reclaim our inner-child.
Appreciating my own preciousness is something i am learning everyday and it is very beautiful to feel inside. It is this very preciousness that is missing in the world and something which as we begin to appreciate will come back for us all to see and connect to and this allows a truly joyful way of being and honouring of who we are.
“…This diamond is my own unique preciousness…” to reconnect and feel the preciousness of the quality of our presence is truly a diamond within the body.
I love how we can make each others diamond sparkle by shining our rays of light on it. What an awesome analogy and foundation for harmony, joy and brotherhood.
The moment I let my essence shine though my living, I enlighten all of us. In essence we are all the same and all connected. When I connect to me and express this connection, I also connect to all of us and rise so the light on earth.
yes, every step we make in letting more of our light shine, the world changes and is a little lighter for it. How is that for our ability to change the world!
Just because the world is harsh does not mean that we need to be so also. Just as we can work hard and yet not let hardness be our way of being.
Yes. Hard work is such fun for a body that is prepared for it, a body which is cared and nurtured – if the work is done in service for the all.
Yes Adam, and sometimes it is a challenge to stay tender, but the choice to stay tender is worth it. The body feels so much more open and loving.
A society that runs on loveless mechanics is reason enough for us to bring the Love we are and to not hold this back.
Well said Deborah, and it is like that in modern day society – we have reduced ourselves being like machines, our bodies slaves to function and intellect. And yet every single one of us misses the warm love we are and come from, and hence our responsibility to reflect that love everywhere we go.
Absolutely true Katerina that ‘we have reduced ourselves being like machines’…and yet even when the mechanics are failing, falling apart and have reached breaking point we keep pushing. We dare not stop, surrender and connect to our true essence and the Love we are for in doing so we feel everything we have knowingly walked away from.
great point Adam as the harshness of the world offers us an excuse to be hard and protected and it is this harness and protection that we all live in that causes the harshness in the first place. Interesting cycle that we can spin in for a very long time.
and yet by choosing our tenderness and delicateness and sensitivity we open up and in that the world is instantly less harsh.
Very beautiful Michael Kremer – thank you. This is a beautiful reminder that we do not have to be jealous of anyone – or try to steal their jewels – for we all have our own in abundance within us. Chris James works tirelessly around the world to reflect this truth back to people everywhere and his work has also been instrumental in my reconnection to my true preciousness. Thank you Chris.
To connect gently to the precious sparkle within, and then allow our movements and life to be impulsed forth therein, is the only way to dissolve the disregard and rot of our wayward and irresponsible ways, back to love harmony and collaboration as one humanity, with no borders and divisions.
When we as humanity are prepared to let go of our comfort and security and make life about truth, only then will be harmony, love and brotherhood on earth.
Feeling the precious and sensitivity of our bodies and then moving them in a way where the movement comes from that preciousness creates a rhythm and way of being that allows us to tap into the true and divine intelligence we are originally from, it ignites it not only for us but all others.
I find it fascinating that the we way we have created our world and the more advanced we are becoming with everything, the one thing that is free, available 24/7 and makes you feel like a million dollars if not more is our sacred preciousness within. So far we are in connecting to this and living this as our normal it is actually very scary. When Serge Benhayon presented the Ageless Wisdom on how immediately accessible this connection is I then realised that the power is within every choice I make. To be in union with our creator or not – a simple choice.
it is indeed fascinating and I would say that all that we have been creating has been to veil the sacred preciousness within as once we truly connect to it all these things lose their importance and will only be there to support us to evolve back to who we are.
The saying “A diamond in the rough” may be applied here quite appropriately in the sense that we all have a diamond inside in the rough of our hurts and our issues, it is only a matter of polishing it up by healing our hurts to make it shine brightly once again
hmm I feel the diamond is actually already shaped to shine it brightest but we have adopted a very strong set of sunglasses that stop us from seeing this. We keep covering it with dirt so we can claim it is not there but the slightest spec of light will show it undeniably so.
Yes this is a better and truer way of approaching it Carolien. We do not have to try to ‘get anywhere’ or be anything as we are already shining bright and strong. It is just our movement/way of being that is shutting that away
We are living an absolute game in telling ourselves we have no diamond or you can’t see my diamond because i have gone to such complex lengths to hide it. We each can feel the inherent beauty of each other and we allow the game to keep on playing, never calling out another for their part for in doing so we expose our own.
It so, we have the capacity to shine so bright that all that is not true is brought out from the shadows. And yet we play the game of being less so we can enjoy the comfort of the shadows just a little while longer.
I remember the first time I connected to preciousness was watching Miranda Benhayon one day. She had stepped up onto a chair or something elevated to adjust a decoration at a party and it was time to step down. On stepping down Miranda held out her hand to her husband Serge Benhayon who assisted. What struck me was the energy of absolute preciousness in how Miranda moved and held herself and how Serge responded to her. It was a deeply touching moment to feel that, an experience in my body that has never left me.
How very beautiful Nicola, thank-you for sharing your experience, I can feel this also in your expression, the absolute living of Miranda’s grace, and deep respect for herself as the gorgeous woman she is, she most definitely let’s out in full bloom for others to know themselves back by. True service.
Yes, I agree Julie – that is the whole point. By connecting to and living the power and preciousness that we truly are we remind others of who they truly are and this is indeed a blessing and joy for all, including those that at times react to the reminder of what they are not choosing to living!
Michael this is a very beautiful journey of yours that you share with us, as we begin to become more aware of our own preciousness, we become more aware of the preciousness within others too.
The preciousness within us is the preciousness within another.
The preciousness of your “glass lump” was always a reflection of the preciousness of yourself Michael, like all of us there is a preciousness within just waiting for us to feel and share with the world.
There is great power and strength to be re-discovered by connecting to our precious tender selves and from that being impulse forth.
For mankind to continue in the way it is much more suffering and illness will occur, in these current times, we are all needed to not hide or hold back the love, light and shining reflection that there is another way to live and be, and this way is “The Way of the Livingness”.
To not allow our precious diamond to shine and be seen by all others, is irresponsibility to humanity, as it is contributing to all the corruption, wars, greed and separation in the world.
The wonder, awe and joy we hold as small children is never lost, only buried in hurts and layers of false images and pictures of how we think we should create our life’s to be. It is these images that enslave us and bind us in the misery, creating complexity and anxiety in our bodies and lives. To re-turn back to the love and joy we felt as children is worth committing to.
“To re-turn back to the love and joy we felt as children is worth committing to.” I agree Thomas, who would not want to feel again their awe, wonder, innocence, sensitivity and love that can be buried under layers of hurt? To reconnect and bring these innate qualities out in full is a project that is worth time and investment.
Thank you for sharing this preciousness Michael. The love you shared in appreciating the grace and beauty of your friend is inspiring. It is so powerful to be inspired by others and confirm what they are reflecting for all. This is truly precious and beautiful.
A very beautiful sharing of what you felt as a child and the preciousness of seeing rainbows, to you as an adult, learning and loving, dropping protections and expanding. Finding that preciousness, joy and shining light within and expressing that out is truly magical.
To truly change the rot, corruption and evil in society, we need to live, breathe, walk and move in a way that deeply inspires others by reflection that there is another way. The power of reflection and movement is super powerful beyond all words, concepts and solutions that attempt to fix the worlds problems
It is a wonderful blessing that there are such solid reflections of how to breathe, walk, move and live in a way that reflects love on offer from Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
Yes, it is very simple really – Move and Live who you truly are for we are each the real deal.
We hold with us images of how we expect life to be, these pictures then can drive us for our whole life’s attempting to create these, in this way of living we do much harm as we are not allowing our self to feel or read what is required of us in life, in the sense of what is the bigger picture. By connecting to our own precious, tender and sensitive nature and the fact that we read and feel all that is going on in all others, we then start to create a life that is freer from the picture and images that hold us bond in an endless cycle, of discontentment and a feeling of emptiness.
“This was a friend, who is one of the most inspiring women I have ever met. She glided down the stairs, impeccably and yet so simply dressed, barefoot and with utmost grace continuing to float her way through the park.”
We are deeply influenced and or inspired by another persons movements and presence in which they move, more than the words they say, when we see another who has chosen to deeply connect and love there body and connect to the grace of god, we have two choices to judge and criticize as they reflect what we are not choosing or to be deeply inspired to see that we can make the same choices they are.
Deeply inspirational blog Michael, as we can fear that our preciousness can been taken away from us, and then choose to dull down or numb down our expression of divine power that we all hold, choosing to stay in separation and protection form others. This separation and individualization prevents us from bringing the all to humanity.
Learning to live treasuring ones own unique preciousness and beauty is true love and what we come from and our made of. This allows a whole new honouring and beautiful way to live be and reflect to others to do the same . Amazingly beautiful shining diamonds all of us.Thank you Michael.
We are set up to lose, dull or hide our childhood gems, but the time is upon us where the need to do so can now be forgotten and we can bear them proudly and let them gleam to inspire others to find theirs, just like you have done Michael
Lovely Kevin!
Absolutely Kev, we are at a time in history when we have the possibility to live our full potential and shine out, there is a huge support for us to do this, and humanity is desperate for this reflection of another way to live.
So true Thomas. Humanity is desperate for this reflection of love to clear the shadows. And we are so supported to be this reflection.
Is it not true that we have set this up to not shine? We justify that we cannot let our diamond out of the bag or let others know it is there because others have not yet uncovered theirs…it is a ceaseless game of keep the diamond in the bag, i will show you mine when you show yours, when we all know and read each others essence all of the time for we can’t but shine magnificently.
‘it is a ceaseless game of keep the diamond in the bag, i will show you mine when you show yours, when we all know and read each others essence all of the time for we can’t but shine magnificently.’ Brilliantly said Deborah.
Yes Deborah. We have set it all up ourselves and we continue to do so because we attempt to avoid the responsibility that comes with being unique and truly magnificent.
The more you let your diamond shine the brighter it grows. It can never be taken from you, quite that opposite. Its fire will ignite other diamonds to also shine and in that much joy is shared and the fire spreads.
It’s like the more you wear jewellery the cleaner it keeps.
Absolutely if you leave it sitting around it only collects dust, and becomes something that is not valued. To truly open our hearts and “shine much joy is shared”, which brings in the natural reflection that becomes self-perpetuating!
As we discover our inner-most, which allows our preciousness to redevelop, we reach a point that we choose that inner-most more and more. The love we feel for ourselves first is also felt by us within all others equally!
I love this Greg – recently discussed with me as living from the inside out.
“The gestures and movements were very small yet so full of care and support like I could not remember having felt before. It was as if we had known each other and held each other for ages.”
The smallest gesture, if infused with the all of our love, can contain within it the vastness of the Universe. There are no words that can speak of this space, but it is felt deep within every pore of our being.
So there is no big or small and as Serge Benhayon has shared “everything is everything”
And everything is held in a moment if felt and lived in our fullness.
Wow this sums it up, how the way we can be in life and the sheer joy that is possible every second of every day. Choosing to have complexity and disharmony in our life is of our own creation. Which has an effect on the whole Universe. Great Reminder.
This is important for us to recognise – that we have an effect on the whole Universe.
Few are willing to take self- responsibility, let alone responsibility for the effect our choices and lives have on others and yet the impact is wholly Universal, far greater than we may be prepared to consider in every respect.
There have been occasions recently when meeting people for the first time – they get that look on their face and say ‘I know you from somewhere…’ – and then the usual questions arise about where have you worked or lived. But what I feel is the sense that we all know each other on a deeper level and that they are simply connecting to that awareness. We know each other ‘intimately’, in a place where we are all one, all absolutely equal and all the same.
Well said richardmills363. We are simply Brothers who have not yet met. That is why the light of our Soul, our true self is an all encompassing One-unifying light that leaves no ‘strangers’ behind.
We are held like a jewel in the arms of God and this light and this love burns forever bright from within. Asleep to this truth, we forget that WE ARE THE JEWEL WE LONG TO HOLD and thus we go our wayward way, searching high and low for that which we already are, but have forgotten to be. Michael, your words are beautiful for they call us out of our slumber and allow us to once again see, the light that has never left but that we had closed our eyes to.
That is so beautiful Liane. We have fallen asleep on our greatest and most treasured gift, the deep warm nurturing glow of God that resides within every single person on this planet. Waking us up to this irrefutable fact is quite a job and Michael reminds us again and again that all we are searching for has always been with us, we simply need to stop, feel and truly appreciate these inner qualities we dismissed and abandoned in favour of so many false images and ideals of who we should be.
True rowenakstewart – it is ‘quite a job’ but it can start with the reflection of one man, living, breathing, walking and expressing that ‘glow of God’ – and spread like wild-fire. Thank God for Serge Benhayon.
Beautifully said Liane, ‘we are the jewel we long to hold’ absolutely poetic, as this is what we all do seek. To feel that essence within us, but we do search high and low outside of ourselves for this, but never to find, only when we connect within.
Absolutely – ‘we are the jewel we long to hold’. This could be said in many ways and reflects how many of us live our lives – seeking love outside of ourselves when we are the Love we seek, seeking answers when the infinite wisdom of the Universe is within us all and seeking God when we are each his son and he is with us always -we need only connect.
So beautiful to read and feel the beauty of who we are in your expression. We can open our eyes and awaken to this beautiful clarity that we are the jewel that ‘burns forever bright from within.’
So healing to be reminded that whenever we crave or desire something it is a mere reflection of the fact that we stopped connecting to something deep inside us.
“love is so much more than gender or sexual preferences and that when we meet a person who deeply touches us, anything other than love is irrelevant – it is only us who choose how deep we are prepared to go and how many hurts and concepts we are to overcome along the way.” How true that is, Michael, we can love a person of either gender, with nothing to do with sexual attraction, it can just be someone we meet in the street, it can just be something innate that we feel about the other, that truly touches us, triggers a chord in us, and we feel the love that is there is how they are in themselves. We can feel when another is living the love that they are.
I have experienced feeling this love for another, such an incredibly deep affection that feels like it goes way beyond this lifetime, I felt this after meeting this person for the first time, it’s not at all sexual, maybe we have had a relationship in another life, either way, it’s a marker for me of the depth of love that I can feel for another as this intense love was there the first time we met, it didn’t build over time, it was just there. If I’m not feeling this intensity with everyone, isn’t this showing me how much I am actually measuring the flow of my love, how much I share of myself and how much of another I allow in?
A precious and touching story which demonstrates we are far more than the eye may first see or the mind grasp – we are each unfathomable beauty and godliness. The question is do we live this true quality?
Beautifully said Deborah, at any and every moment we are offered chances to live the godliness and beauty we are. This is a pretty crazy thought considering this holds complete truth and yet many walk in the opposite direction. Do we live this true quality? If not why not when it is offered continually?
Yes, we are never not held in absolute love and offered this endlessly to return to.
We may side step, walk around or perhaps walk away yet Love is there forever calling us home.
A beautiful journey of self-discovery…to embody the preciousness sought without and to realise that all the while it was within, not as an object carried in our pocket but our true essence and nature. Our preciousness is to revere and to nurture each and everyday and we make rainbows wherever we may be.
So beautifully said Deborah, I so agree that being able to feel our preciousness, to revere it and take that out into all that we do each and every day. This is a choice to do so, but one has to be able to feel that in order to see that in others. It is something to be shared for sure when deeply felt.
Absolutely raegankcairney. Once we fully appreciate our own preciousness it can then be shared for all to feel. It is lovely to feel this preciousness in another and know that we are that same preciousness.
So true Raegan, one has to feel and appreciate our own unique preciousness as equal in another and the responsibility to bring that forward in life otherwise we are holding back what is not ours to keep locked away.
Raegan, absolutely and the sharing of our preciousness is something that without a doubt has to be shared. When we are in connection with this quality within then every word, movement and thought is expressed naturally and everyone from far and wide can see and feel something is different – this is what makes it so precious.
We don’t appreciate ourselves nearly enough, if at all – it is therefore little wonder that we fail to see the preciousness, divinity and beauty of others and to honour this.
Thank you Michael for such a lovely sharing and for reminding us all of our own unique innate preciousness and love that is there to be connected at anytime we choose to do so.
Connect and shine for we cannot but reflect all that we are…it definitely pays to not try to cover up our purity or scramble away from the Love we are.
It sure does pay, a wise man just said to me, ‘It is simple to live all that you are — not so simple to not live it’.
How true this is – life becomes more and more complex in order to maintain the move away from Love and who we naturally are.
I agree’ that ‘It is simple to live all that you are — not so simple to not live it’.
We bring in much complexity when we do not bring who we divinely are to the fore.
Thank you, Francisco, for highlighting this point, that we’re surrounded by a sea of ‘love that is there to be connected at anytime we choose to do so.’ …. reading these words I’m asking myself why I’m not frolicking in that sea of love every moment of every day …
Yes, me too Alison! It is great to be reminded that this ‘sea of love’ is there surrounding us all of the time, and it really does come down to a simple matter of choice.
Very true Francisco, we are everything already, no matter what we think may be in the way of that.
Francisco the word preciousness now has a real strength to it for me, at one time I considered it weak, now I consider it as a reflection of someone that is deeply connected and loving to the point they honour themselves and the innate preciousness that we all are.
I’m remembering that now too David. How often we let words lose their true meaning and then the feeling and quality that they originally held is lost? By living this quality of preciousness of which you speak we bring back the truth of expression.
I agree David. Honouring your innate preciousness runs against the grain of societal images of ‘appropriate’ there is much to renounce/ignore that is on offer on daily basis, thus it takes great strength to resist all the non-honouring temptations and commit to love unapologetically.
This is a beautiful reminder Francisco and that this preciousness is inside us all. It is our choice to connect to this or not.
Well said Francisco. This blog is a gorgeous reminder of the preciousness we all hold within. Something I hold very dearly now that I have re-discovered it.
Beautiufl reminder Francisco – our preciousness is there within us always. We simply have to choose to connect with it.
The description of your friend who was inspiration on feet shows the HUGE power of reflection. She didn’t need to say anything or do anything. The most simplest act in the world of being ourselves can have the biggest impact on others. When we are ourselves we are non-imposing yet we can be the cause of great change and allow others do to the same.
This is so true Nikki. A diamond can’t help but reflect. It’s what it is (we are) designed to do.
That is so true Liane.
And the light that is reflected travels far and wide, much further than the eye alone can see.
Beautiful point, Nikki, it’s very easy to underestimate the power in us just being who we innately are, no fuss, no frills, just our gorgeous selves ….. divinely magnetic.
This resonated with me too nikkimckee. It is absolutely beautiful to be inspired by the reflection of others and be open to my reflection inspiring others.
We often forgot the true nature and power of being and expressing ourselves fully in life and it does not require one ounce of actual doing or interacting with another.
Exactly Nikki, it may be challenging for another to see such a beautiful reflection, but never is it imposing and never does it expect more from another. It truely is an incredible gift to others when we move and walk as all we are.
It is what we are here to do – walk in the fullness of all that we are.
So true Nikki, there is a great power in simply being our full selves and we should never underestimate the impact that this can have on others around us
Absolutely beautiful Michael. Of late I have been feeling intensely the protection I have built around myself that keeps my preciousness in and others out. I’ve been feeling a bit trapped amidst my walls of protection, yet I know that I’m the one put them up so I am equally capable of taking them down.
It clearly doesn’t work to seek to protect our exquisite preciousness and vulnerability- this distances us from true support and pits us at odds firstly with ourselves and then all others. Surrendering to our naturalness, to the Love we are is a needed start and from here magic can be.
‘It clearly doesn’t work to seek to protect our exquisite preciousness and vulnerability- this distances us from true support and pits us at odds firstly with ourselves and then all others. Surrendering to our naturalness, to the Love we are is a needed start and from here magic can be.’ …. love what you share here, Deborah, wize words indeed. It’s crazy how the very thing we’re trying to avoid, when we try to protect ourselves’ is actually made so much worse.
Absolutely – we are adding more protection and further walking from ourselves when we avoid Love or try to be anything at all. The key is to bring who we are – the full us.
This is the beauty that moments outside of our comfort zone can offer us – an opportunity to let everything be seen simply for what it is.
I can relate to what you have shared Nikki. It’s interesting that we put up walls to protect ourselves from being hurt, but all these walls do is prevent us seeing, feeling and living the love that is naturally there for us to live and express and that this compounds the hurts that we are trying not to feel.
I agree Jennifer, the walls of protection we put up to stop ourselves feeling our hurts, only create further hurts and pain, we even start to walk, sit and move in a way that is protected and hurts our bodies, shutting down our connection to others and limiting the grand and stupendousness we can only bring through connection with another or others.
We box ourselves into exactly what it is we are trying to protect ourselves from.
So true Jennifer put up walls and protection to keep others out is such a double edged sword, which in the end prevents feeling and sharing the love that we naturally are.
… which then turns into a vicious cycle of building a forever stronger fortress around us which keeps people out and leaves the hurts festering inside, unattended and unhealed. What does that do to the body and our mental health?
So interesting nikkimckee. I can feel that when we put up protection in an attempt to keep our preciousness safe, we actually diminish this preciousness to the point where not only can others not feel it we also lose touch with it. Protection is like locking a beautiful jewel in a safe deposit box where no one can see it, there is no point in having it if it cannot be appreciated.
This is such a beautiful analogy and reflection that our inner beauty and preciousness is there to be expressed and shared with others not locked away for fear of losing it or being attacked.
Well said Lee. A diamond, like us, is designed to reflect light. When locked in a box there is no way for a diamond to do what it can do.
I feel it is important that we understand that the preciousness never fades or leaves us when we do not acknowledge it, bring it or attempt to hide it. Our essence remains always. We achieve little more than placing obstacles in the way of our connecting and expressing from our True essence.
So true Lee, “Protection is like locking a beautiful jewel in a safe deposit box where no one can see it, there is no point in having it if it cannot be appreciated.”- it just reminded me of growing up and my parents hid our gold jewellery so noone could steel it if we were broken into, but we never got to wear our beautiful jewellery- to remind us of the preciousness within us all.
I love this analogy Lee – what is the point of having something so beautiful and precious that is kept locked away in a safe despot box – not only from ourself, but from other people too. There is much to appreciate as we open the locked box and let the joy shine out with others..
Yes, I put up the walls of protection so I can choose to take them down. I have a choice: to allow myself to breathe and feel my preciousness or to encase myself within walls that separates me from love that is all around us. It’s like putting a beautiful plant inside a a box – it withers and dies if it doesn’t have access to the air surrounding it.
Reading all these replies, I can feel is my box, there is no expansion in our box, no light or love of God. We make sure the lid is on so heavens light does not shine in, we do our best to make the walls strong and solid so our tenderness doesn’t escape out and no one can touch it. It’s the silliest box ever really. I can see that I have built it, I seem to have made it look so complicated that I think it’s hard to take down. Lucky there is are simple instruction booklets when I’m ready.
Great point Nikki – if we are the ones to put up the walls of protection we can’t pretend that we don’t know how to take them down again
Great point Nikki that we are the ones who put up our walls of protection – so we are equally capable of removing them. Doing this means allowing ourselves to feel raw and vulnerable – but it so worth it, when we allow ourselves to be seen for who we truly are, because then we allow others in.
Preciousness – something I am returning to more and more each day. It feels so deeply holding and respectful of the delicateness that lies within and shines out for all to be inspired by.
Appreciating preciousness – an expression of love.
Yes, preciousness is an expression of Love, Christoph, and appreciating it is so very important as it builds a platform for us to stand on and in turn build more.
Beautifully said Christoph
“We inspired each other to step by step open up to be who we really were behind all those layers of habits, ideals and beliefs with which we usually veil our true self.” I love that Michael as you describe something what should be the norm – to inspire each other without jealousy or comparison. Imagine how life would be like if we all would live like this.
Thank you Michael for reminding us we all hold a unique preciousness within us all deep within our hearts, a beautiful gift from God, which no-one can take away.
Thank you Michael for the gorgeous reminder that we are all naturally precious. This is with us always and is not something outside of who we are. Even saying the word “Preciousness,” feels amazingly silky and delicate.
What a gem of a blog to read Michael, such a gorgeous reminder that we are all precious and treasures just by being and connecting to ourselves.
Michael, I loved your description of playing with your lump of glass as a child. I could feel the preciousness, contentment and the joy that you felt. It’s interesting how we can feel the worth in something as a kid whilst being aware that adults don’t see the value in it and how that value can be eroded over time.
I love the analogy here Michael, our preciousness is always there just waiting for us to reclaim it, polish it and nurture it. It is such a joy to rediscover a connection that was forgotten, and that it was there, never lost, just waiting.
I remember this retreat Michael and what an amazing transformation you went through!
“The list of all wonderful persons to say thank you to would fill a roll of wallpaper, so just one big warm and simple hug to everyone who inspired me to find my preciousness again and to allow my diamond to sparkle every day by shining their rays of light on it.“ Very touched by your words Michael, thank you for sharing.
What is precious and special to one can be trash to another and vice versa and isn’t it interesting that if we worry about what others think or how they perceive things, rather than just know how we feel about them… we can completely stop valuing and loving what was once so special to us.
Preciousness is indeed a great treasure and when we share it with others we increase it’s value and quality. In sharing your preciousness with us Michael you have inspired us all to shine like a diamond in the world.
Thank you, Michael, for the beautiful reminder that connecting to our preciousness is the greatest gift we can give to ourselves and then share with another.
This blog confirms to me how simple life is, and the joy and ease in which children live and reflect this.
“Preciousness” this word just makes me smile.
Holding on tight to what is precious within dulls the quality in which it can be. When we open up and let it shine for all to see knowing full well that it can not be taken from us just admired and appreciated allows it space to beam bright in full – now that is precious.
beautifully expressed Natalie.
Beautifully expressed Natalie. I can sometimes become aware of holding the preciousness inside me, ‘safe inside’ so it can’t be harmed or tainted. But the preciousness is something that belongs to everyone. It is no longer precious if we hoard or guard it for ourselves. It is precious because it is the truth within us all.
Love knows no boundaries or limits, nor is it defined by race, gender or any form, as it is the presence of Love that in-truth reflects the quality of all things in this world.
The world is constantly seeking recognition and trying to fit an image which we can emulate but in fact, we do this at the expense of our connection to our innate precious selves which has everything we need to support us in the plan and path we have by Divine design laid before us. So to trust we all have a unique purpose and essence is to walk this path.
This really made me smile Michael “all of a sudden an inspiration on feet came along”. Isn’t it great when that happens ‘out of the blue’. Those inspirations can be ‘life changers’ when least we expect it. You share so beautifully Michael – It is a joy to feel the preciousness of you.
I deeply agree Marion it is a joy to feel Michael´s preciousness.
I agree Marion that line stood out for me too. ‘An inspiration on feet’, what a beautiful description of a fellow human being, and how preciously is this person held that this is the leading thought.
I agree Katie, when we re-connect to our own preciousness, the needs sexual or otherwise that we seek to have filled in relationships drops away and in its place arises a rich appreciation of self and others, allowing us to express true affectionate love that can be shared with both genders equally so with no agenda or need.
Love what you have so beautifully expressed here Rowena. A deep appreciation of ourself and others through knowing our own preciousness and hence the preciousness of others, allows us to openly share our appreciation and love with all equally regardless of gender.
I love the way you share that preciousness we carry within Michael. For each and everyone of us has that same preciousness and we only have to allow ourselves to feel and live it. Because we feel so hurt from the moments where we were not seen or met for who we truly are, we feel afraid of sharing this preciousness with others, but in doing that, we not only disadvantage ourselves but also everybody we meet. Sharing the delicate and beautiful being that lives in us is the way to restore love on earth again.
So true that the preciousness never goes away, it can only be ignored for awhile. Then we come back to it we find as Michael did that the worthless lump of glass was actually a diamond in the rough, full of greater potential than we had ever imagined.
It is a beautiful account of preciousness Nico. To hold ourselves so preciously like a diamond or precious stone. The delicateness that I feel with this is enormous and deeply touching.
It was so very beautiful to be reminded of the unrestricted joy we used to have, playing as children, being impulsed from our inner hearts …. then we allow life to impose on us and suddenly we’re tied up in knots, calibrating how much of ourselves we ‘share’, without even realising we’re doing it. ‘it is only us who choose how deep we are prepared to go and how many hurts and concepts we are to overcome along the way’ … a gorgeous reminder, Michael. We can return to our childhood freedom and choose to unreservedly share all of who we are, when we choose to do so.
Gorgeous comment, Alison. Thank you. It is refreshing to be reminded of the joy we all hold within and every more refreshing when we let this joy out for all to enjoy. One of my daughters has taught me so much with this as she is naturally so joyful and has a smile that lights up a room and beyond.
My greatest treasure is my connection. Sometimes it can feel like it is hidden, but this precious gift is always there, remaining steady and never ever is lost.
‘We inspired each other to step by step open up to be who we really were behind all those layers of habits, ideals and beliefs with which we usually veil our true self.’ …… beautiful. The more we allow ourselves to surrender, allowing our love to flow through our every cell, the more we inspire everyone around us to remember that they can choose to do the same.
There can be so many false layers on top of who we really are. But allowing ourselves to keep feeling lets us move through these layers until we find what is true inside. It may not appear to be special or deserving of a fanfare to the outside world but to know who you are, the simplicity and grandness of that is the most precious gift we can give ourselves.
Love the way you have shared the change in YOU once you realised the value of your ‘chunky lump of glass’, how you ‘felt so clumsy and insecure that I just did not dare to play with something that delicate’ yet through feeling such intensity of love for another you suddenly understood the limitations we put on ourselves, how far we are prepared to love, we choose ….. very inspiring.
Thank you, Michael, I love reading your blogs, you express so simply yet with so much love and joy. ‘we all have our own gem that suits each of us best – a unique gem which has been custom made’, indeed we do, thank you for the beautiful reminder, Michael, to treasure my preciousness.
This is the most beautiful blog Michael. I find myself tearing up at the thought that most children are not raised to know that they are unimaginably precious just for being them and that you have discovered the most precious gift of your innate preciousness.
It is gorgeous to be reminded, confirmed and honoured in the fact that we are precious and divine and in fact love is our essence. In the past 10 years I have never received anything less from Serge Benhayon , simply because he lives that preciousness, divinity and love in every breath, every deed and every interaction.
“Instead of feeling joy when rediscovering such a treasure, I felt anxiety of what the others might think about it”, I love the honesty here. I can very much relate to it. All my life there’s been a general anxiousness and worry what others might think when I’m actually Truly Joyful. There’s such a Lightness and Innocence in me when I allow myself to just be me. The Preciousness that you describe Michael is also living in me. Blogs like this support me in feeling that Loveliness in me too! Thank you, keep on sharing:-).
I can relate to this anxiousness you feel in the joy of just being Floris. I had a sense that I should be ashamed of feeling this preciousness as a young child, and that I should feel guilty or tone it down because others did not feel it. These ideas about preciousness are the ones I need to be aware of, as they allow me to hold it inside and keep it a secret, even from myself!
Thank you for a wonderful blog to read before I go to sleep tonight. I will enjoy feeling precious and tender and tucking myself in.
‘Preciousness’ is a word not used very often these days because we take so much for granted and are always looking for more and we do not take time to feel the value of what we already have. We can easily relate this word to the exquisite delicateness of a baby but we forget that we were once that baby and those qualities are still there, they have ony been covered over and hardened.
Sandra that’s a beautiful point, ” we take so much for granted and are always looking for more and we do not take time to feel the value of what we already have.” I appreciate the reminder to stop and value the precious nature of my unique self, which in return will be felt by all.
Thank you for sharing this point, Merrileepettinato, I can’t be reminded too often to appreciate all that I am. It’s as though we’re conditioned to be always looking for more, to strive for greater things … when the real treasure is already nestled inside us and always has been.
As I become more and more familiar with the preciousness within me, I am discovering that I am enjoying life more and more simply because I have a job. My job is to stay connected to this preciousness and find ways of moving through life that help to cradle and support it. This is my focus, and it helps me to stay connected, loving and joyful. The more I do this the more delightful my days are.
Michael, I love your opening sentence – “When I was a child I never had to worry because I always had something that looked like a big chunky lump of glass with me, and this was my greatest treasure”. I love the fact that you ‘never had to worry’ and that there was a very good reason for this and absolutely no question about it. Fast forward into adult life, how amazing would it be if we all knew that we ‘never had to worry’ because we absolutely know that we have a precious treasure within us which is our greatest companion and support.
Preciousness is something I once struggled to connect with within myself but as I have deepened my love for myself I feel the quality of preciousness innately within my when I choose to take responsibility for my livingness and choose to feel my our precious delicate self.
Sometimes is takes the reflection of another to show us their preciousness before we are willing to show our own. This is the gift of reflection, we have others to remind us of who we really are in case we may forget.
To let ourselves be inspired by other people who express from their natural glory is following the pull to divinity. This is lived love.
This is such an awesome sentence Michael, “love is so much more than gender or sexual preferences and that when we meet a person who deeply touches us, anything other than love is irrelevant – it is only us who choose how deep we are prepared to go and how many hurts and concepts we are to overcome along the way.” This is what we are all capable of, connecting to and inspiring one another to only focus on love and from that inspiration to face, feel and heal everything that stands in the way of us expressing our open and tender love and staying connected to ourselves as we venture through our day.
I love the freedom children have to play and be themselves when they are small – the ability for anything, a rock or leaf or stick, to be all the tools they need to go on amazing adventures. This freedom to be ourselves with no reservation is lost as we grow up because of what we are told to be and how to act, however it is not totally lost, and as you shared, when you see an adult with the same ease about being themselves it is amazing.
Appreciating our own preciousness is an amazing gift in our life to honour and treasure who we are thank you Michael for sharing this so beautifully.
“to allow my diamond to sparkle every day by shining their rays of light on it”….this is how the world will sparkle. By each person allowing themselves to sparkle, they shine their rays of light onto the world and other people’s diamonds, which the reflection allows more sparkle in the world. The more we sparkle, the more we encourage others to sparkle and then the more sparkle there is! Love it.
Yeah – everyone who is digging out their own diamond of the layers of dishonoring will bring more true light into this world.
Beautifully said Sarah and before we know it with all those sparkling reflections bouncing of one another all of humanity will be sparkling with love.
Michael your description of the chunky piece of glass brings me back to how I felt when a child, those moments when I could feel my preciousness. I always assumed I never really had those moments but your writing has reminded me of them. I used to want to search for such moments in the past believing I needed to uncover them to somehow restore me to me by building on knowing the magic of who I am. But I can let go of the past and be with the magic of me now. Really love, thank you.
A beautiful sharing Michael of your return to discover the preciousness of who we all are, thank you. Our preciousness is priceless, incomparable as it is reflection of the Divine Love we are, a quality that is all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive and awe-inspiring. An equality that is innate and as such we all hold within, we all have access to and can live through our everyday. And as we do we shine a light for all to see that this is who we truly are and can naturally live whenever we choose to surrender to our Love.
I am also deeply appreciating everyone and every thing in my life that reminds me of who I truly am and what life is truly about. I sometimes get caught up in life being about results, tests, exams etc. and then it is very welcome to be reminded that life is first about love and my preciousness inside and connections with others.
Lieke I also can get caught up in life being about work and outcomes and it is very welcome to be reminded that life is about love, relationships, connection and as Michael has so beautifully written about, ‘preciousness’.
Thank you Michael, I have never met you but I feel the love that you are and feel a great warmth within me reading your words and feeling the essence of you. Is that love? 🙂
“She made it tangible for me that love is so much more than gender or sexual preferences and that when we meet a person who deeply touches us, anything other than love is irrelevant -“. This is a profound and beautiful phrase Michael, I love how you claim absolutely the truth of that. It is sad that love has been narrowed down to specific and ‘socially accepted’ ways of being. By who’s order and what beliefs? Love is all encompassing, and to limit it makes no sense whatsoever.
That preciousness inside is for us first and once appreciated it is then available to all.
Great point nicolesjardin “That preciousness inside is for us first and once appreciated it is then available to all.” Appreciation is key, thank you for the reminder.
I love the analogy you use here Michael. It is wonderful to feel that we can access our connection to preciousness whenever we choose to.
Michael, it is lovely to feel that preciousness is ‘something I can never lose, but just forget about’, I can feel the truth in what you have written, I see preciousness in children clearly and am starting to feel this preciousness in me again and its very beautiful to hold myself as precious, this then means that I take care of myself and treat myself with love and respect.
Interesting here – that we see more easily the preciousness in a baby than in us as adults. We somehow loose/give up on our responsibility about taking care for our preciousness and let it shine through… I imagine us touching ourselves and others in a way we touch a baby and care for each other in that way…would be a different way of living with each other.
Would be living with each other – not against.
I really had to sit and ponder this story because I thought I didn’t have preciousness as a child but I can feel it was buried away from the time I was 3 until very recent years when I took responsibly for my self and chose to reclaim my true self with ever deepening love and respect for myself.
Beautiful Margaret. It was only recently that I reconnected to the preciousness of me after a tattoo removal treatment. The day after I sat in front of my bathroom mirror, looked into my eyes, and just wanted to wrap my arms around myself and hold me so preciously, like I do with my two girls. It was an amazing moment to feel that I too deserved to be held this way and loved and respected deeply.
Wow Robyn it just goes to show when we are connected with ourselves and bring understanding and appreciation to every situation so much about ourselves is reflected to us offering us an opportunity to deepen your love for ourselves and therefore a deep reflection of love to humanity.
So true, Margaret, these moments that we have with ourselves prepare us for these moments with others, therefore taking our healing even deeper.
Yes Robyn taking our healing even deeper and reflecting that depth of love to the world bouncing reflects and lifts humanity to a deeper level of love.
It certainly offers humanity this opportunity to go to a deeper level of love, but unfortunately not everyone accepts this opportunity. Some in fact strive against this as the pain of having left this Love that we all hold equally is simply too much to feel. This is where true compassion comes in, to accept and respect where everyone is at in terms of their acceptance of the Love that some of us are so innocently reflecting.
I can hear what you’re saying here Robyn, when it comes to offering humanity the opportunity to go to a deeper level of love. Not everyone accepts this opportunity; all we can do is continue to be love and express from heart with the understanding that everyone has the choice. And as you so delicately say, “some strive against feeling the pain of having left this love that we all hold equally is simply too much to feel.”
Thanks Margaret. Everyone has their timing of facing the choices that have been made in life to either live a loving life based on truth or not. For those who have made the choice to live from Love already, this serves to remind all others that have not made this choice yet. For me, this is a beautiful representation of brotherhood. Not leaving anyone behind and not keeping the Love hidden and sequestered, but sharing this as a reflection so it might pull all others to the same point and beyond. This feels so deeply respectful to all human beings. Thanks for this conversation Margaret. It is supporting me to go deeper in feeling the true blessing that Serge Benhayon brought to us (and all others) and now what you and I and so many others in the world are offering as well. I am aware of a humbleness within me as I write this and a big Wow of awe at the absolute simplicity of it all.
The call is there for us to forever deepen our connection with our essence and share the blessing presented by Serge Benhayon as we are Robyn. You are so right when you express the simplicity of life when we remove ourselves from emotion and attachment to people getting it by bringing in a deep understanding to ourselves and others supports us with bringing our untainted self our authentic selves. The genuine humbleness of the unimposing love we offer can be felt by others, what they do with that is their choice.
Ah yes, the perpetual ‘getting it’ dilemma. I am experiencing this at the moment with being at uni, except in the reverse to what we are talking about. I am having to ‘get’ a whole lot of information that doesn’t ring true to me and my inner truth barometer. It feels very disempowering when we already have the full knowing of the All within us. It is interesting then, that we can sometimes insist that we or others ‘get it’ when in fact we have already ‘gotten it’ as it all lives within us. This really exposes the imposition that can occur on both sides, the one that offers untruths and insists we ‘get it’ and the side that offers truth and also insists that others ‘get it’. Just being ourselves and offering the truth by way of reflection is all that is needed and yes, this is super simple but can be challenging to do!
It sure can be challenging to do Robyn when as you say we have the full knowing of the all within us but we are expected to have a piece of paper to say we are qualified in some field or another. That is the way of the world at the moment so we have to roll with it and study to learn the basics of what ever it is we study and then when we have the qualification take all of who we are to the workplace and present truth through the reflection of our livingness this will offer everyone involved an opportunity to bring more of themselves to the world. The challenge you are experiencing is a difficult one to be in getting information that doesn’t ring true to you I guess it all feels a bit dishonest to tell them what they need to hear when it is not truth.
Great point Margaret, it is dishonest to tell them what they want to hear, and simply tick the boxes that are needed to obtain a qualification. So… this is not what I am doing. I bring all of me into every moment possible at uni and tick all the boxes with as much love as I live everyday. For me, there is no waiting to be me until I am finished uni, being me now is what is needed. Getting a qualification is only secondary, yet an important part of it, but what I felt recently is there is no mark or qualification that feels even close to being as good as it does to be ME, so this will always need to come first.
Reading blogs like this and attending presentations from Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine has opened me up to the precious treasures that reside inside me. It is the most exquisite feeling and what we have been missing and been searching forever for.
Beautifully said ginadunlop preciousness is the most exquisite feeling. Thank god for serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for reflecting to us our true qualities we have buried deep within ourselves.
I cannot believe Margaret the awareness I am receiving at the moment of how most of humanity defaults to feeling themselves to be in the deficit. It’s a con and a set-up. I am so appreciative too of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for being there to reflect and set the record straight we are stupendous and feel an absolute responsibility to connect with them for the support to living in the knowing that I am this truly amazing being. Because my reflection living like this supports all of those whom I live and interact with.
Good point Ginadunlop. I agree many people I meet live feeling themselves to be less than the amazingness I feel when I connect with their essence, as many have been disconnected from their true selves for the majority of their lives due to the hurts they have experienced. There lays the con and set up they have been driven to live from the pictures created by their ideals and beliefs. It is with our true understanding and reflection of the stillness of our livingness we are able to support humanity to return to the true love of their essence.
Wow – beautiful comment Margaret that pretty much sums it all up! I mean, life. I am certainly working on the pictures I create, which when they are not attained deliver me beautifully into the trap of believing I’ve failed and just not good enough. I had no idea how entangled in its web I was and still am. Lots to unpick …
Yes ginadunlop and bringing this understanding to ourselves and other supports us to appreciate ourselves and other.
The world of men is so fixated on hardening up. However, they do not realise their mistake, for it is the realisation of our own preciousness that truly graces us with the gift of understanding as to where true power inherently lies.
Beautiful comment Adam and one to be shared with all men and woman alike. Women’s expectations of men have left them confused as to how to be as men.
This is something I too have come to realise Adam. The power of true preciousness.
Great point Adam, its a major focus to have boys and men harden up and toughen up but since when did a meat head type mentality really evolve a man? The men that are truly brave and leading the way in this world are the ones that allow themselves to let go and let their guard down.
I couldn’t agree more Sarahraynebaldwin.
It is true Susan, and we are able to support by reflection as and when needed. This is a very simple way of living.
This is a great point Katie and something I am re understanding more and more, when we hold back, our bodies get really affected, as do our relationships.
I can definitely relate to what you are sharing here Aminatumi, I have only become aware recently how true this is. The more we connect to our preciousness, the more we are aware of how everything affects our bodies and it’s up to us to choose either the way that heals or the way that harms.
This is something I’m having to feel right now Amina, it has been very painful to feel how my holding back has effected those around me and my relationships, and in feeling this having to feel how this effects the all. Ouch.
Yes this is something I am becoming more acutely aware of too. I always know when there is something I have not expressed because I notice hardness and pain across my chest and in my upper arms. My face takes on a tension too. It is as though I am going to explode! Best to express what needs to be said rather than create a physical condition.
Of late I have been feeling how much my body is affected by holding back my love. I don’t recommend it!
It hurts to not live the love that we are.
It is gorgeous to watch young children play and be so carefree. Their childlike nature is reflected in the openness of their bodies. The preciousness and sweetness is tangible. I have found that reconnecting with those qualities that we can remember as a child has been a super useful reminder for myself when I get serious or stuck, of who I really am and that the loveliness of the little girl is still there waiting to come out.
That beautiful childlike essence of playfulness and our connection to our preciousness, is as you say never far away. We do not lose it, and nor does it leave us, we just bury it deep within, forgetting that it’s part of us.
I too love watching the carefree, openness and preciousness expressed by children. The tenderness in their bodies is gorgeous to witness. And ever since I have witnessed adults choosing to live with this openness and tenderness, like Michael, I have started to appreciate that I too can choose to live in this way. knowing that this preciousness and this joy is our true essence.
Yes Golnaz, it is a choice we have to keep reminding ourselves of! It is too easy to forget and get swept up in ‘life’ get serious and lose that carefree openness. But there is definitely a way to be in our day to day that is very practical, works really hard and remains playful.
Beautifully said Golnaz sometimes we are so hard on ourselves trying too hard when really it is simple, “preciousness and this joy is our true essence.”
For too long in this world we live in ways to protect ourselves, ways that take us away from our preciousness yet there is a deeper forever yearning for our preciousness to be connected too…for some it is a forgotten buried gem, for others an echo in the distance…but for you it has been uncovered and lived, bringing magic back into your live…PRECIOUS IS HOW WE ARE BORN!
Lovely Karoline. To feel the preciousness with which Michael describes his gem is such a bridging way to understand the exquisiteness of feeling the preciousness of who he is and who we all are.
Great Statement Karoline “Precious is how we are born” and this is worth remembering and doing what ever it takes to live this in every moment. We are always doing something, why not choose every breath in this knowing.
Yes Karoline so true. And when we see a light shine that reflects the light we are, we remember that preciousness is our natural way of being, and innate quality that is present wherever we are and whatever we do.
Beautifully celebrated Karoline.. ‘Precious is how we are born!’
Michael this is most beautiful and the sweetness of embracing, deepening and the appreciation of your preciousness has just been a tender healing for me as it allowed me to touch the preciousness, the gem i too hold within.
Thank you Michael for a very beautiful blog, how love begets love no matter who it is “She made it tangible for me that love is so much more than gender or sexual preferences and that when we meet a person who deeply touches us, anything other than love is irrelevant”
I love the message in this blog, that when we feel special and worthy within ourselves nothing can take this away from us.
Very true Abby. That feeling of preciousness within is like nothing else, and there is no need to look for anything else.
I agree Abby. There is a great strength that comes through our connection to our preciousness as we value and appreciate how special we truly are. A knowing that nothing can compare to being All that we are, being and expressing our Divine Love.
Great little summary Abby!
Yes, true Katie. Breaks down all the walls and ideals that are around it.
There is such a gentleness in your words, Michael. It was a joy to read.
Loved this Michael – “inspiration on feet came along.” there is so many of them walking around! Each is so beautiful to see and brings a reflection of more of you each time.
Thank you Michael. I’m left realising that we all have this preciousness to express and to share.
Your appreciation of everyone’s unique preciousness is very beautiful and a wonderful invitation to opening up awareness to where and how it may present. It may be a rainbow or beam of light or perhaps something else, the lighter we choose to be the brighter the reflections.
Michael I love the exquisite way you have delivered your preciousness here, how as a child it was present and there and how you could connect back when times were a little cloudy. To be honest your sharing was breathtakingly beautiful. Reminding us all that in side we have our own unique shinning preciousness, it is not the exact same as yours, yet a gem just the same.
A gorgeous blog Michael … a precious gem in itself, which can only be expressed by one who knows and lives that preciousness – thank you for your powerful inspiration.
True Paula, we see it in others and are inspired to re-know and live it ourselves
Michael you brought back those feelings of absolute joy and confidence in who I was as a young child and also feelings of beginning to doubt. To be rediscovering that this diamond is still there changes everything, because despite so many choices it shows there is something way more powerful and everlasting than the physical body and material things we have made life about.
Well said Simon, same here, triggered moments of me as a child, where i feel the precious quality i have within and the joy of this quality….yes it is beyond the physical…it is so much more.
Beautifully said Simon – ‘there is something way more powerful and everlasting than the physical body and material things we have made life about.’ Connecting to who we are in essence is what brings quality to the life we live. It is through the Light of God that we are all here in this world and we are all here to realise that we are of this Light, and our purpose is to live the glorious-ness of who we are through our everyday with everyone.
Your sharing, Simon, deepens my awareness of how aware I have been as a child and of how much I was able to see. I have left this place in order to cope with the world. In remembering my childhood I connect back to this awareness. Thank you for reminding me.
Realizing that we are a all a unique gem, gives a whole new flavor to every meeting we have with people. Then we don’t just meet people, but we meet someone unique, who just likes us, shines a precious light which is needed in today’s world.
To cherish our preciousness, that is to cherish ourselves deeply is so simple, natural yet so elusive in modern day society. That’s why we can easily forget about our unique inner diamond that’s always with us. We forget about it because others around us have also forgotten about it, so we walk around with a constant reflection of not being in connection with our inner diamond, our preciousness. I clocked this today walking around the office realising I had let go of the sacred connection I can easily feel because it wasn’t being reflected around me. When I realised this I brought myself back… with a deeper understanding as to how important and a grand responsibility it is to keep reflecting the preciousness we all are to the world.
This is gorgeous Katerina. The more we clock when we lose feeling our connection with our preciousness we can bring ourselves back. We need to let our preciousness shine for all, otherwise others don’t get the reflection that they too have this inside of them.
Speaking of preciousness in this way allows me to appreciate that we are all supported to be more of ourselves when each of us shines, and reflects back what we equally are.
Absolutely Rosanna. There is no end to the degree of Light we can shine, and endless gift of who we all are, for all to receive and be inspired by.
Once I realised the analogy I got teary. Well written, Michael.
I love the playfulness of your blog Michael. The lump of glass is such a metaphor for your inner preciousness and enabling the expression of joy.
Yes Rebecca, it’s a blessing for all us, that lump of glass is a diamond!
Michael, you are precious as we all are. A beautiful reminder to acknowledge and fully appreciate the treasures we hold within.
We’ll spend a huge amount of money on golden trinkets and diamond encrusted rings, but we recoil when it comes to putting on display this jewel of who we are inside. Imagine a world where we all walk down the street in the knowing we have a beauty that everyone is blessed to meet. Consider a place where we take the same care with our physique that we would with a Ferrari (car). Thank you Michael for reminding me this preciousness is not only possible, but is absolutely natural to everybody.
I love to consider your place Joseph where all material things took second place over the gorgeousness that we all are, it is our natural state of being and everything else is just a distraction.
Beautifully said Joseph. We can shine even more brightly than all the diamonds in the world, so why hold that back?
Oh I’m seeing it now Joseph, billions of sparkling lights dancing around around the globe like fireflies. All equal, all knowing, all loving.
A beautiful comment Joseph. What you share is true. We have no qualms when it comes to displaying our jewellery for all to see, yet we hide the treasure of who we are inside so much so that sometimes we forget this treasure exists. Michael has indeed reminded us of the preciousness that we all are deep inside. Why not let that out to be on full display?
Enjoyed your comment Joseph – so very true. We are prepared to wear our finery on the outside and show the world but when it comes to that most precious of jewels of “who we are on the inside” there becomes a limitation to who we share this beauty with some, if not all of the time.
“This gem is there for me to look at and to remind me of the colours of the rainbow whenever I might doubt myself, and that it is always there, around my neck shining, glittering and colourfully sparkling with every ray of light that might fall onto it; reflecting to others that this joyful display of magic they see is nothing but a reflection of their own light they are shining towards me.” Michael, I just chose this beautiful gem above, from your blog that so reflects the beautiful expression that you have shared with us all in what is an absolutely amazing blog. What a gorgeous story of your travels with your treasure, wonderful that you re-found it and have woven such a beautiful story for us all. One day, we surely will have a book of collections of your stories, your sharings, I so love them, and there is so much for us to learn from them. Let us not dim our lights any more, let them shine out to the world for all.
Absolutely Beverley, I agree, Michael’s blogs are all gems (pun intended) and he is also well on the way to filling a book with his great comments that add to his blogs.
We are all moving forward, and there are a lot that just don’t realize it yet.
And a platonic relationship can also be very physical and body nourishing with caress and touch. It is so freeing to have this without sexual intent. The body needs this kind of nourishment. I can give it to myself and have the joy of sharing this.
Yes I absolutely agree, it may at times feel difficult to be intimate with others because of the walls of protection we have built around us, yet it is our most natural way of being.
Love does not stop at one, but is there to be shared with all as love knows no boundaries.
Beautifully said, Felix, ‘a platonic relationship can also be very physical and body nourishing with caress and touch. It is so freeing to have this without sexual intent’ …. it’s interesting how we have learnt to curb our physicality with each other, when to express our love for each other is our natural way. It melts me to my core when I feel the tender, loving touch of another irrespective of my relationship with that person, our bodies crave this.
Yes Felix, a simple hand held in support or a hug can be just what we need; yet we have barriers and rules about who we can and cannot touch. For example in schools it is taboo to hug a student. When they are feeling distressed or upset it’s a shame we cannot offer this simple human support.
❤ love what you express here. Thank You for allowing me to connect to that. I had given up on this and this blog and what you express here reminds me of this as it is so natural to me. It’s just about being more present; growing in confidence and sharing it with everybody…
It is a beautiful analogy showing our preciousness and the reflection of it. For me I discover more and more how the sensitivity I have and everybody has is bringing our preciousness forth, as the more we allow our sensitivity to be seen and felt the more we feel precious, the one impulses the other.
Allowing the sensitivity to be seen melts away the hard shell that protects and hides the Diamond.
Yes Alex, it’s the sensitivity that takes us to our preciousness
Yes Alex, allowing the surrender to sensitivity and tenderness is very beautiful, and also allows others to emerge from their shell.
Very true kerstinsalzer15, allowing and honouring how sensitive we all are is what lets our preciousness be what then emanates from and through our bodies… We embody our preciousness when we surrender to his sensitive we truly are.
Very precious to have such love for another of the other gender without it having to be or thought of as sexual. Love holds no barriers.
Truly beautiful Michael. This reminds me of my own journey of dimming my light to then shining it bright again.
Thank you Michael for not only sharing your preciousness with everyone but beaming it ever so brightly. This is such a beautiful reminder that we can cover over our precious gems with names and pictures we have picked up and labeled ourselves with along the way, but that precious shiny gem that we came with is always there within.
I agree Katie, removing any pictures or preconceived ideas we have adopted about what is or is not acceptable based on gender, leaves us to express what is naturally felt regardless of gender.
Yes letting go of images is crucial if we are to be connected to our bodies and to the present moment. Anything else gets in the way.
Beautifully said, Katie & Victoria, it feels amazing to just ‘let go’ and allow ourselves to share the love that we’re feeling for another without reservation. We’re so used to calibrating how we are for our own protection or wanting to ‘fit in’ and in so doing, so much of what we all have to offer each other is lost, unnecessarily so.
Yes the extent of how much the images we hold can alter or taint what is naturally there to express is huge. I am only recently realising the enormity of this imposition if we do not see through the game of it.
Our preciousness is indeed a gem that we can either keep to ourselves or let it shine for the world to see and feel. Which reflection we offer is always our choice.
I wonder if our preciousness can be kept for ourselves or if it is just the surface of the diamond we get to know by keeping it safe? By allowing it to shine we and everyone else get to experience the magnificence of it beyond everything we can fathom.
Your words Michael: “She made it tangible for me that love is so much more than gender or sexual preferences and that when we meet a person who deeply touches us, anything other than love is irrelevant” – so true and what i have understood for myself is that when we feel love’s presence, it becomes possible and normal to deeply love another regardless of their ‘status’ or our own. Love as they say, is love (and subject to never any condition).
I too know this feeling Zofia, and yes it feels so natural and normal. So normal infact that it is such a harsh reality check when we open again to this beauty, we feel deeply how far we have separated ourselves from this unique preciousness that we all hold within. There in lies our journey of life, returning again, by steadily and gracefully dropping behaviours and patterns that don’t feel they come from this normal loving connection that is real, tangible and very able to be lived.
Why do we care so much as adults what other people think? Doubt and wanting to fit in is like a plague that crushes the otherwise naturally unique and brilliant way each of us are in essence. Children can reflect the freedom of being to us once more if we have forgotten the ability to surrender to our own wonderment.
Beautifully said Rachael. We have much to relearn from children.
So true Jane and also so much to learn from our own inner child…. when we allow ourselves to open our hearts once more, we can express from our innocence and truth which serves all equally.
We can learn so much from the wisdom of children!
Yes Carmin, and no surprise so many are touched by the preciousness and sparkly expression in babies and children, they remind us to be the light we are.
They are reflecting back to us how truly sparkly we are also, if we choose to remember.
You show us that preciousness is not in gems but within our inner most self. What we all might covet in life is in truth not what we take with us in our hearts, the preciousness of being sons of God equally so.
When we start to compare ourselves to or covet another’s gem we are then unable to appreciate the equal beauty of our own precious gem. Nurturing the understanding that no gem is more or less precious than another allows us to celebrate and appreciate our different qualities, not to be jealous of them.
Embracing our childlike wonder, innocence and preciousness are vital aspects to observe life through. These lenses allow us to see the playfulness of life, the magic of God and express our natural Joy, which is totally contagious and something we should never hide… Note to self!
Beautifully said Rachael – very precious.
Being able to let go and appreciate the true beauty of someone without letting sexual attraction pollute our vision is such a blessing for all involved.
Rachael this is such an important point, from my teenage years onwards I thought the two went hand in hand. That is, you could not open up and appreciate beauty if it were not for you wanting something from that person. I would hold back how I felt, hold back connecting in case it was taken the wrong way – or on the other hand, use that to lure and attract others – neither true. The more we come to understand that love holds all equally and the importance of being open and appreciating everyone, the more these misheld beliefs fall away and the greater simplicity in life. Yet when we also add in “preciousness” I get a sense it takes things even deeper – something to explore!
Yes, sexuality as known by most often is an imposition of need and hurt and thus very much an obstacle to true intimacy that comes with honouring and allowing our true preciousness to be met.
Alex when I read your definition of sex, as experienced by most ‘ often is an imposition of need and hurt and thus very much an obstacle to true intimacy’, I really got to feel the truth in it and therefore the appalling network of needs and hurts that run throughout our society. Sex is everywhere and therefore so are our gaping wounds.
So true Alex. Pondering on this I wonder how often do our hurts get in the way of true intimacy and how often do we use sex in our quest to find it, but instead just gain momentary relief from those hurts.
That is why we confuse sex with intimacy, avoiding to deal with our hurts.
Also to let our true beauty out when there is nothing being asked of us, no sexual attraction or luring but simply because we are beautiful and everyone deserves our beauty (including ourselves).
Love this blog Michael and the reminder to appreciate my own unique preciousness.
Yes, appreciating my own unique preciousness is a timely message for me too. Thank-you Michael.
yes, its easy to forget unfortunately but when you do remember how preciousness is a great feeling.
Equally, thank you for the inspiration to keep opening up and sharing myself with those around me, dropping the layers of protection and the beliefs that get in the way of simply being ourselves with each other. It feels like by connecting to our preciousness and sacredness, it is then simply a matter of starting there and being open to the other, melting away any barrier to what is right there. I will enjoy exploring this.
I, too, have found that reconnecting back to myself as a child has enabled me to feel my preciousness. Observing myself in photographs, seeing and feeling the tenderness in my body, only just not appreciated by me at the time. It is so very healing to revisit these memories to replace them with respect, care and deep honoring, re-living these moments to feel whole once again.
You triggered a little memory from about 4 or 5 years back, Emma, when my mother gave me a photograph of me when I was about 14 months old. It absolutely blew me away, I could see and feel the light that I was, it truly emanated from the photograph, I was a truly beautiful baby such a huge message back to me, a woman who had until only a few years before, had such a low regard for herself, it led to a huge transformation in me. I carried that photo with me for quite a time, part of a very great healing for me. It is wonderful to go back and see ourselves when we were those precious, tender beings as you say “re-living these moments to feel whole once again”.
I too have one of those precious photos Beverley taken when I was about 9 months old. The joy-full feeling I get from the photo each time I look at it reminds me of the beautiful being I was then and still am now. It sits by my mirror as a constant reminder in case I forget.
Indeed Michael, we are so very precious, thank you for sharing your journey of discovery; not only of your preciousness but equally of your value and constancy. The more I connect with this quality within me, the more detail I bring to the care and attention I give to myself, honoring the depth of both strength and fragility. As you observed in your woman friend who passed you by, this quality is divine and not only felt by those around us but is deeply healing.
And how gorgeous is it that as was shown by Michael being so deeply touched by his woman friend who glided down the stairs with grace, was simply shining her light and being with the tasks she was doing… that when we choose to live and honour this preciousness within us, not only are we blessed, but so is the rest of the world.
Beautifully said Golnaz ‘when we choose to live and honour this preciousness within us, not only are we blessed, but so is the rest of the world’. I’ll take these inspirational words with me into my day.
I love how you expressed how love has no gender when felt. When true love is felt, all that is seen is the light of God that shines within. How gorgeous this is to feel.
For He is both ‘he’ and ‘she’ and We are them. In union and through love, we return to our natural androgynous state.
Michael that was awesome to read, I felt like it was a novel that took me on a journey of love. Having appreciation for this incredible diamond that shines within is one of our greatest tools to feeling how untouchable it is.
Oh Michael – this is preciousness in words. Exquisite.
I love this part Michael ‘She made it tangible for me that love is so much more than gender or sexual preferences and that when we meet a person who deeply touches us, anything other than love is irrelevant ‘ Love emanates from us and when we meet another in this love how can we not be ‘in love’?
I have been pondering on preciousness these last few days and what it means and how it feels. I can relate to the preciousness of objects but as people aren’t we precious also? Whilst I admit that I cannot tangibly feel how precious I am and don’t treat myself accordingly somehow I do know that we all are precious beings and will stay open to feeling that as a reality in my daily life.
Yes, Shevon, we all are certainly precious beings, all with that shining gem within us, and we need to treat ourselves as such. When we accept our preciousness, that brings up a huge responsibility for us all to treat ourselves with gentleness and honour, to let out that light that resides within to reflect to the rest of humanity that there is a beautiful way to live our lives. Michael is certainly leading the way in that regard, with this blog.
I’ve also noticed the impact on my body when I forget about it because of some work situation or such like. The caring disappears, and the tension sets in.
I know this situation too well Heather, where I will sometimes go into a drive energy that creates a tension in my body. I only know what this tension feels like because there is a known marker there of my preciousness that I can choose to return to at any time.
As the song goes “diamonds are forever” it does for our essence; it is who we are, rough or cut on the surface but just of the same preciousness inside.
The true purpose in of diamonds… To remind us of the inner precious jewel each of us have that is a million times more precious and magnificent than the diamond stone itself.
Beautiful Katerina and this further opens up the discussion in saying that we are originally not from here, and we have something spectacular to share with the world.
That’s it Katerina – the symbolism of diamonds in a nutshell … and therefore are we not all diamonds in the rough?
Ahaha, now I know why I like diamonds Katerina . . .
Beautifully said, Katerina …. ‘The true purpose in diamonds… To remind us of the inner precious jewel each of us have, that is a million times more precious and magnificent than the diamond stone itself’ … the same can be said for any precious gem, the preciousness is the reflection they show to us, to appreciate the exquisite gem inside each and every one of us.
And to reflect that to others.
As precious as a diamond – love it!
Michael I can say after meeting you last year you shine! and that sparkly diamond is very clear for all to see.
You are extremely precious Michael, as is your blog here.. what I love is how you have reconnected to the preciousness you are and have always known and are making this your unwaveringly clear way of being in the world and with the world once again. How inspirational!
I agree Cherise for me Michaels blog was also inspirational – to feel his tender & preciousness behind his word helped me to feel mine.
Doubt is an awful thing to allow in. When we allow doubt we then look outside ourselves for validation and approval. How beautiful to keep that certainty that we had as children. The certainty that what we valued was precious to us, what we imagined was a great game, how we felt was worth feeling. Even though we have to grow up and take responsibility we can still retain the magic that we know we are and never allow doubt to undermine us.
What a beautiful comment Amanda, I love how you describe that certainty that many of us had and valued as children … I remember feeling that how I felt was worth feeling, and as I write this now I ask myself do I feel this often now and the truth is not always – increasingly I have moments more and more where I do feel this, but how you’ve put it ‘how we feel was worth feeling’ I can understand and feel how that equally applies now, how I feel is worth feeling and if I lived honouring that how would life be. Yes I’d still have work and responsibilities but somehow I can feel the space for me in there with it all, that no matter what I do, the magic of me and how I feel is there with it – why not honour and celebrate that (more)?
Monicag2 I love the word you have used to describe the feeling I as a child had ” certainty ” it was a trust in myself and everyone around, no self doubt. To know it’s all still there under the layers to shine with such ” certainty ” is our precious gift.
I love how you describe it Merrilee, that that ‘certainty’ is a precious gift – it so is, and all we need to do is dust off the layers and let it shine out. It’s about us claiming the space for us now as adults to allow and express that.
I love this comment Amanda. You have hit the nail on the head. When we doubt and look outside ourselves for validation then who is ‘at home’ looking after our bodies? They are left with a vacancy for even more doubt to move in. “Out, out squatters!” I say.
And I like this too Amanda, “how we felt was worth feeling”, it so was and so why not now? A great thing to look at as I know I don’t always appreciate the value of this.
Doubt serves no purpose other than to undermine all that we innately and divinely are – but only if we allow it.
Amanda growing up has meant growing out of our child like expressions and leaving our freedom to day dream and entertain ourselves with our own world, conducted by our own precious impulses behind. To be able to reignite the connection would take expectations and outcomes, jealousy and comparison, hurts out of our lives, as young children they are not a part of us. To know the simplicity of being openly loving, clearly discerning and fresh with the world is still there to be appreciated for the precious gift that still lies within and is always looking for ways to shine.
Thats a very beautiful point you make Amanda, thank you for sharing, I know that I have often let doubt in and it is very disruptive.
Clever and good point Doug
Michael your sharing has allowed me to connect to my childhood moments, where I played with no comparison or jealousy, enjoying my openness and expression. The preciousness and connections in those moments where beautiful and the joy I would feel in my body. It is time to connect to those previous gems and know they a real still their within us.
Preciousness is such a gorgeous quality – it is innate. Yet we rob ourselves in adulthood and earlier in young boys especially. In my early twenties I became quite a tough woman; to realise I was in fact precious and delicate and deserved to treat myself as such, involved me letting go of the socially accepted judgements I too had endorsed and perpetuated.
I agree it’s easy to suppress our innate preciousness thinking that we need to be tough to get on in the world, or that it is just how we are as adults, but, I too, am rediscovering the true power of this quality and enjoying letting it out.
Abby I recall as an older child withdrawing into myself with an attitude of ‘I don’t care’ and ‘you can’t hurt me here’ but in doing so my preciousness was packed away and then completely forgotten. This was my version of protection which was equally destructive and arrogant, and kept me far removed from my preciousness.
Letting go of the judgements Abby I am realising is vital. Yesterday, as a teacher and speaking to another teacher on our way to classes, the other teacher shared her feelings of overwhelm and not having enough for the lesson. I shared with her that I couldn’t think of anything better than spending the next 70 minutes with her, and that the students were blessed simply to be in her company for that time.
Just today I was with two women who were dealing with very difficult circumstances and both talked about putting on armour and a tough skin to deal with what was coming, it can seem to be the best course of action but steeling ourselves in life really damages our bodies all that tension is unnecessary as the only protection you need is to be connected to your breath and the rest will be what it is, the letting go is what I feel I see most of us resisting.
Often women are put on a pedestal for being tough, just look at sports women, or CEOs. A woman is most influential when she is being herself, which has an inherent preciousness.
I agree Abby. It has taken me a long time to appreciate that I am precious. In reconnecting with this awareness it has felt like going against everything I was brought up to believe about myself. One of the strongest confirmations of that belief was from playing rugby, and other physical games, where recognition was gained by a total disregard of any sense of preciousness of myself. The more reckless I was with my body, disrespectful of the injuries, the more it seemed I was rewarded. This disregard of myself then became the foundation upon which I built my life until I met Serge Benhayon and began the journey to return to reconnect and express from my preciousness.
You’re spot on Vanessa. A life full of love cannot be realised whilst we invest in hardening ourselves in denial of our innate sensitivity… so what are we actually choosing to live?
Yes Abby we buy into the idea that as adults we need to toughen up, and even champion things that are physically challenging like endurance races etc. Life then becomes like one big endurance race that we rush through, treating ourselves with disregard. It took me a while to rediscover my preciousness and feel it was OK to drop the hardness.
I agree, Abby, young boys are, all too often, challenged to disregard their preciousness, particularly when the ‘pack mentality’ kicks in.
I completely agree Heather. There are not many women in business who are providing a role model of being open and sensitive let alone the power of preciousness. Last week I attended a business function and was fortunate to chat to and meet Senator Fiona Nash who is one woman who has managed to maintain her grace and openness whilst holding many high government positions and being on the cabinet. It was very inspiring and shows it is possible to hold such positions and not harden.
Re-discovering and appreciating that I am precious is still a work in progress and is something that has been life changing. My adult life until a few years ago was prided on being independent and tough. I could do it all and didn’t need anyone. And society supported and encouraged me in this – they were quite admirable traits. Yet in being this way I not only kept myself away from people but also kept myself away from me.
Abby knowing you now and the preciousness you so naturally emanate and embody that is amazing to hear. It just shows the power of our daily choices, the power of the Way of the Livingness, which brings us back to being who we truly are.
Yes, Amita, it is beautiful to look back when we were very young and see the great freedom of movement we had, no image of how we should or could be, just expressing as we felt to express. That seems a very long time ago, but I am beginning at last to bring some of that feeling back into my life, it feels quite exquisite. Much more to connect to, but it is all there still within for me to access as I am ready.
Beverley, thank you for this reminder of what it felt like to be a child. Body not ridged with ideals, just enjoying our own preciousness.
So gorgeous. And missed by many!
Yes, it was a very long time ago but the freedom of movement is available at any moment.
“…it is beautiful to look back when we were very young and see the great freedom of movement we had, no image of how we should or could be, just expressing as we felt to express.” I love this line Beverley, I too remember the sense when I was young of freedom of expression that was suppressed later on in life. Now that I am rediscovering this way of being it feels like a great opening up that is so very natural.
That notion of ‘protecting’ ourselves by shutting down and allowing our bodies to become hard, does not work. We still get hurt, we just chose not to feel it, the hurts just stay there and fester, tainting our every movement.
I agree Amita that those moments of play as a child were so very precious, a time where the world could be whatever we wanted it to be and there was no “comparison or jealousy” between us and anyone else. Those moments we still carry within us, we simply need to reconnect to them as a reminder of what can still be.
Yes Amita, I also remembered the joys of being a kid and getting so much out of the simplest things.
I remember it too Sarah – and now you have reminded me of that feeling of preciousness I realise that there is no reason we can’t resurrect it and live it again as adults.
What you have shared here about love Michael is exquisite, so pure and innocent and so full — just like it ought to be, like a child. Very very beautiful to feel.
Yes I felt that too Katerina so pure and innocent and I love the word used by Serge Benhayon to describe true love, spherical.
I love that word to describe it also Simon; spherical. ☺️
Yeah Simon that all encompassing sphere and expression when it is from this true place of love is precious.
Yes Simon, ‘spherical’ love is for all, including oneself – it does not just focus on one’s beloved as a object outside ourselves to adore, like the stories of unrequited love.
Yes, it is svery-cool!
I agree Katerina, very beautiful to feel.
Yes, Katerina, very beautiful to feel.
‘Spherical’, true love …. continuous expansion of love being given and received unreservedly, building and growing in every moment, the love felt in one moment nourishing the love being shared in the next, magnifying the pull in every cell in our body to allow more…. divine.
I agree, Katerina, I love the detail in what Michael is sharing …. ‘The gestures and movements were very small yet so full of care and support’ …. the strength of the love expressed in a gesture or movement is felt in all it’s glory, no matter how tiny the gesture or movement is.
I agree Katerina, what Michael shares is precious.
Beautiful description Katerina. It did feel very childlike and filled with wonderment.
Amazing isn’t it… Real love can never be limited to one person or even a few people. Real love encompasses everyone and the all. How desperately world needs this, and how gorgeous to feel this in our now bodies when we choose it, when we open ourselves up to our preciousness, our connection and to love.
I have enjoyed reading your blog Michael on many various levels – very refreshing.
Also a reminder that we are precious beyond words… to ourselves, first and foremost.
Well said, Jenny, “we are precious beyond words”, something that we should always remember, a precious being that is worthy of very deep self-care and nurturing. A great reminder for us all, thank you.
Yes and what’s most important Beverley is that when we do feel how precious we are, it is natural to take the deepest care of ourselves. Only when we lose a sense of it, do we revert to the less-regarding behaviours and attitudes.
Yes Jenny and Beverley. When I am feeling my preciousness I care for myself so much more tenderly than when I have forgotten … and the more I feel my preciousness and give myself that care naturally the less I forget my innate preciousness.
This is true Ladies and it only takes a moment for this drop to create a spin of disregard.
Connecting to this preciousness without reservation and thinking it is for someone else is without a doubt one of the ways that can help in treating ourselves with so much more love and care. When we truly feel we are worth that time and love mountains move.
Beverley I like it very much that you mentioned that deep self-care and nurturing is important. They are the best “tools” in supporting us in feeling our own worth in every movement we do.
‘A precious being that is worthy of very deep self-care and nurturing.’ Wow so wisely said Beverley – this preciousness needs to be cared for.
This is a beautiful reminder Jenny, and something I am coming to feel more and more…we are indeed “precious beyond words… to ourselves first and foremost.”
We can so easily recognise the preciousness of a newborn child, a butterfly or flower but how often do we see and or feel ourselves as precious. Every one of us is a precious and unique gem.
Yes Paula, we tend to associate preciousness with those delicate things in life, rather than connecting with and feeling our own, then living from that.
Those are great examples of what we normally associate with preciousness and to be able to feel that we are that precious can be a leap for most but like the baby we have that innate stillness that no one can deny is precious and delicious indeed.
Gorgeous Paula, ‘We can so easily recognise the preciousness of a newborn child, a butterfly or flower but how often do we see and or feel ourselves as precious. Every one of us is a precious and unique gem.’ This is so true I can feel how very precious my son is and can feel how I have not held my self in this same preciousness, reading your blog helps make me aware of this and helps me to feel my own preciousness and to feel that it is equal to my son and to everyone, that we are all very precious.
So true Paula and to therefore appreciate ourselves in each and every moment.
Paula, a wise observation, we often recognise the preciousness of things outside of ourselves, but fail to feel our own. Appreciating our own preciousness,as Vanessa says , is one of the ways that we can treat ‘ourselves with so much more love and caret’ Yes all the way!
A wise observation Paula, we can often recognise preciousness in outside things, but fail to feel it in ourselves. What you and Vanessa share confirms that connecting to our own preciousness is a foundation to giving ourselves tender, loving care, and with this can ‘move mountains.’
Very true Paula, its easy for us to recognise beauty outside ourselves, in nature, In others, but true preciousness lies within all of us equally.
When we stop and appreciate a beautiful flower or butterfly, it’s actually an opportunity for a stop moment, for us to recognise our own beauty and preciousness.
Very true Paula and we connect to a baby in a way that is so natural and tender. It’s like whenever we see a baby we are reminded of our own preciousness and who also began life as a wee babe. Why do we even think that this is no longer there, because we are no longer babies?
That is beautiful said jenny Ellis above: ”we tend to associate preciousness with those delicate things in life, rather than connecting with and feeling our own, then living from that.” It is indeed a feeling within, more then any ideal, concept or image we can hold.
Yes Paula and I would like to add, that especially nature in its beauty is also a great reminder of the grandness and love we are.
The “to ourselves, first and foremost’ was a great line Jenny. And one so true. Preciousness then naturally radiates in all that we do that way.
Yes Emily, if not for ourselves first, then we’re forever seeking recognition of it from others, and there is no emanation or natural radiation of that quality from us.
Its in the tiny moments, like should I keep working or get some water that these choices become real.
Thank you Jenny ‘ we are precious beyond words..to ourselves, first and foremost.’ When doubt creeps in, it is easy to lose connection with this precious quality. Knowing it is always present and we can at anytime choose to return to it is a blessing.
It is easy to lose connection to it kehinde2012 I agree, but also easy to re-connect with, once we know how. There is so much support to develop this through the myriad of blogs by students like this, the Unimed Living site, using the Gentle Breath Meditation etc. I have discovered it is never far away, and just the intent to re-connect is enough to begin the process. Of course choices I make from that point on are also key.
Absolutely Kehinde, I just had a moment this morning while reading this blog, where I felt how incredible it is that we are only a breath away from Gods love and in turn our own beauty.
…and the beautiful thing, we are invited to do, is to hold and treat ourselves like precious beyond words, too.
Yes felixschumacher8 it is our responsibility to do this, as without that, others don’t get to feel their own preciousness. It’s like sharing the ultimate gift, that just keeps on giving as the ripple effect is enormous…
It’s always wise to never forget how precious we are! It’s so easy to get swallowed up in life our deeply divine qualities but then I find a simple movement can remind me all over again.
It seems very normal not to feel precious, and what you say Meg offers us that how we move and treat ourselves can inherently remind us that we are actually precious.
I agree – it really is normal to not feel precious, that’s truly crazy. Once you’ve felt it though you can’t go back…
Yes very true Meg… the key to re-connecting is through movement.
By treasuring our own preciousness, we invite others to do the same, to treasure their own inner gem and to treasure us. If we are not valuing ourselves we’re saying it’s ok for others to show us the same disregard.
True… preciousness definitely invites more preciousness.
I agree Meg. Simple things can trigger us to remember our preciousness. I am constantly inspired by the people around me. When I see them acknowledging their preciousness, it reminds me of mine. We really do need each other to keep offering these reflections when we get lost.
That is so true Debra, watching someone else acknowledge their preciousness is one of the best reminders of our own preciousness there is, it’s beautiful to be reminded that we are so important for each other.
I find that I use the way I sit down as a marker of where I am that day. It’s a very simple activity that I do constantly everyday, so it’s easy to track. I know when I am disconnected because there is a harshness in how I sit, even though it may be very subtle, my body becomes hard. When I sit in a way that I connect and feel how lovely and precious I am, my body just melts. The wonderful thing with this is that you start to realise then that this can occur with every movement of our body throughout our day.
Jennifer – that is a seriously cool tool! I am definitely going to try that out. I often find my arms, hands and fingers a great marker, as if I react or get swept up in life they get hard and stiff, whereas when I am connected they are naturally tender.
I love this, ‘precious beyond words,’ reconnects me to me and my divinity in movement.
Yes lovely Karin… we are indeed ‘precious beyond words’! What is tragic is that most of us don’t live as though we know it!
Yes Karin, when we stop and really feel what this is, that there is an exquisite preciousness that is so incredible, sweet and delicate that even those words do not give it the worth that it is. Having this full understanding of who we really are and the potential of what we bring is super empowering and super powerful. This is an understanding that only the body can feel which ignites the power within.
Yes and that size has nothing to do with how precious we are, meaning we are all precious. How often do we let ourselves feel this?
Rarely Vicky that’s very true… our essence is our essence, same size when we’re 1 year old as 51 years old. The only difference is how much we allow to be seen at 51, or any age after childhood really.
‘size has nothing to do with how precious we are’ … so true, Vicky, I used to feel the same way about our ‘delicateness’, questioning how I could possibly be delicate when my body did not fit my perception of what delicate meant. Only when I allowed myself to surrender during a healing session did I, for the first time, feel the indescribably beauty of my own delicateness.
Yes Vicky, it’s so sad that as we get bigger (older) we are treated with less preciousness, and so totally ignore or forget that it’s there. Blogs like this are a super reminder and inspiration. Our preciousness never goes away, we just forget.
Yes Jane very true… we don’t see it around us because we’re not willing to see it in ourselves. There is so much more to us that we generally allow in our awareness…
Beautiful Jenny. Accepting, adoring and cherishing our preciousness for ourselves is the first step as then we are able to let it out for others.
Yes great point nikkimckee, it is not just for ourselves that we need to take these steps, in fact at the end of the day it is equally for everyone at the same time as for ourselves.
Absolutely Jenny, to feel and know our own preciousness is a gift…..as you say “beyond words”.
Yes and such a rare occurrence too… I can only imagine what it must be like to know this from a young age and not lose our connection to it, as most of us have or did. The young women I see now growing up knowing their own preciousness is very, very beautiful and inspiring.
I agree Jane – we could appreciate each other much more. Sometimes I realise, that I’m so trained to look at the negative things in life and this I want to change. Appreciation is the key to get out of this self-destructive behaviour.
Gorgeous Michael thank you, such an important reminder that what is precious about us lies deep within and can never be lost or tarnished, only forgotten or pushed aside, waiting for the day we decide to bring it back out for the world to see.
It’s so precious to express with words what was felt and lived from the heart, Michael. To actually sit down and write about it magnifies the joy, because it is shared with many.
Gorgeous sharing Michael, we are all equally precious just far too easily forget this fact.
If only the world of men knew such delicacy there would be a new renaissance unfold as the world discovered the absoluteness of such revelation and beauty.
Thank you Michael, today I will allow myself to be free in my body and express as purely as I can.
Thank you Michael for the tenderness and sweetness that you share so openly .I enjoy your innocence expressing a truth that belongs to all of us. Your blog reflects my own preciousness and remind me the freshness and the beauty of just being me.
a “giant diamond in the rough” I have to say that is quite a good analogy of how I felt before Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon came into my life. I felt very rough, uncertain what the future held. Little by little that joyful, playful child started to emerge once again. To shine and reveal that there is so much more to shine and sparkle about each and every day. To feel that preciousness that I know is reflected in us all.
Yes I remember the feeling as well of finding my preciousness again and feeling afraid others will react to it, want to have it for themselves, take it away from me etc. but the truth is that they cannot and as well as you said so beautifully is that my preciousness will not suit the other – we all have our own preciousness to express.
Lieke, I also really noted that part of Michael’s glorious blog. It now had me reflecting on my own unique preciousness and the innate qualities that I bring to the world and to wonder if I am allowing myself to express them in full. Image if we were all living our daily lives willing to let our preciousness sparkle and to be each receiving the similar reflections around us! The possibilities are simply mind boggling!
In your inspiring words Michael “I would constantly grow from experiencing incredible adventures with it” and when we feel our own preciousness I feel that we all ‘constantly grow’ and experience ‘incredible adventures’ in life when we too start to work with that deep unconditional love from the heart.
Jesus was really on to something when he said we should be more like children – the honesty, truth and openness – before we lose the precious gem that we are.
Great advice for the major part of people in this word kevmchardy.
I agree Kev, the way children are is exquisite – saying things the way they are with a complete openness and lack of judgment. The more we can allow our children to develop and foster this the more the world will truly change. There is no need to lose our preciousness.
Love this Kev. So simple and to the point. The only thing, though, is that we never loose ‘the precious gem that we are’ – it just becomes so scary to expose our gem that we believe we have lost it.
Absolutely Kev .. there is much wisdom and natural permission given by a child to themselves, without hesitation, reservation, judgment or thought of holding themselves back in anyway. These traits come along after we as children experience and view the world and begin to not make any sense of it all, the choice then to ‘fit in’ or ‘dull down’ becomes a big (and deeply painful) one but nevertheless we choose it as we are not reflected back a diamond that shows us another way.. Until now that is.. There are now so many precious diamonds who know exactly who they are and inspire amongst us to choose our quality above and beyond anything else.
True Kevin we leave behind the inner child to get on with life but this is the very thing we miss most, the joyful playfulness and innocence of a child, the preciousness we all carry. Michael’s captured this beautifully in his writing and it has made me stop and feel my own preciousness and how I often push it aside in order to achieve things.
The truth is we never lose it- we just layer it in hurts, beliefs, ideals, judgements……. so it becomes hard to see and feel. The precious gem that we all are is sparkling just as brightly beneath it all. Try as we might we can never taint its brilliance.
We are so incredibly precious and yet we treat ourselves like fodder.
That expression Alexis really made me laugh, ‘treat ourselves like fodder.’ I know it’s not a laughing matter but a fun way to express all the same.
Love that Alexis, could not be said more honestly and real than that ☺️
Your heartfelt and touching words connect and remind all who read your blog to their own preciousness Michael… amazing and thank you!
Beautiful what you have written about love, that it can be expressed in its fullness with anyone, that we don’t have to restrict our love by gender, relationship label, or by any other means. We can just love and adore others in full because it’s natural to do so.
That’s it…because it is natural to do so. Anything else is unnatural. To do so we brings in barriers, divides, comparison, restrictions. It makes no sense at all.
I agree Jenny, Love sure is natural, natural for each and everyone of us as we all are love and come from love, no matter how hard and what lengths we go to to hide it we cannot. Being anything less than the love we are makes no sense at all.
“When we meet a person who deeply touches us, anything other than love is irrelevant – it is only us who choose how deep we are prepared to go and how many hurts and concepts we are to overcome along the way” – this beautifully exposes the silliness of the game that we play by conditioning and measuring the grandness of what is by right available to us. We keep pushing away the diamond with our name on, and complain about being blinded by the others’ diamond, longing to have one for ourselves too.
Thank you, Michael. Beautiful sharing. This reminded me of the distinctive difference I experienced as a child when one day I was no longer allowed to play with toys, they were all taken away from me and put in a shed. All of a sudden, life had to become serious and colourless, and what a big shock that was for me and actually made me forget and discount the lightness and the joy of what it was really like for me to be a child.
We are all precious and yet we forget this and get caught up in expectations life places on us. This is a beautiful reminder to re-connect to this preciousness and in our holding of this whilst loving and tenderly nurturing it with love, hold it out to the world for others to see. Sometimes we forget the properties of the diamond also hold incredible strength and longevity – something to ponder on. Thank Michael for sharing.
Beautifully written again Michael Kremer. I was on the edge waiting for the climax. I realised by the end there was no climax. The climax was how much I was prepared to feel the depth of these words and feel that myself, “it is only us who choose how deep we are prepared to go and how many hurts and concepts we are to overcome along the way.” I am the climax. I am the gem. Thank you Michael for the great confirmation you provide and honouring how unique we each are through your writing.
I also deeply appreciate how you have found it and you’re not holding it back, open to discovering more of it on the way through you and the reflection of others – beauty-full !!
Well said Rik and Michael, we are everything from beginning to end and there is nothing in this world that could compare to our grandness and preciousness. Acceptance and expanding appreciation of who we are, what we learn and where we have come from is paramount in supporting us to live a way that is real and continuously learning; as the humble students of ourselves that we are.
Wow Michael I love your blog. Thank you for shining your rays of light onto me. It is such a beautiful reflection to receive as I was reading your every delicate , tender and purposeful words, that are truly heavenly composed.
Our preciousness is so much more when it is shared with the world. Thank you for this inspiration, Michael.
Naren thats a great point, I would treasure my preciousness but not often share it with the world. What a beautiful aspect to reflect on allowing my preciousness to be shared with everyone.
Absolutely, David. How often do we misinterpret ‘treasuring’ as ‘hoarding’? If we truly value our preciousness we ensure that it is out there for all to see and to be a part of. Preciousness is not precious because it is rare, for we are all precious.
Being meet for who we are is priceless and transformative, having our inner diamond seen and appreciated “What he shared with me from his body at that moment was that my diamond was not only a priceless treasure but even more; something that I could polish into a true gem and develop joy in wearing it for all to see and enjoy.” I have felt this in life, my light has been appreciated, the diamond within. Through this reflection I have regained a knowing of it myself. as you say it is always there, just some times forgotten about it.
Sometimes someone else´s light needs to shine on our diamond within to re-ignite the spark and play of light, so that the husk surrounding the inner light is seen for the dimming falseness that it is – the magic of reflection.
That is a beautiful image, Alex. The aspect of light that we can all relate to to is the fact that it reveals that which was not seen before, and with great clarity.
The simplicity of light – enlightenment; beautifully revealed by your words.
And the beauty of that light transmitted by words, so very simply.
Your expression is divine Michael. I am deeply touched by the eloquence with which you write. The poetic feel to your writing allowed me to connect with the truth of my preciousness and therefore the same in all.. Thank you.
A beautiful metaphor, Michael. Interesting how we start to doubt the value of our own preciousness from an early age when it’s not recognised by others and so begin to forget it’s there, no longer seeing it even though it continues to shine away under all the layers of hurt we bury it under.
If from an early age on our preciousness would be valued the diamond would grow up being artfully cut and sparkling its fires with natural grace – a reflection of everyone´s innate beauty.
Michael, what a gorgeous blog. I love what you share and write, you remind me in so many ways that life is simple, and we are precious always, and our job is to live that preciousness. And as you put it so beautifully when we meet and connect to another, another other than love is indeed irrevalent.
Thank you Michael. This is a beautiful and inspiring reminder that we all have this preciousness inside us as a beautiful gift.
Seeing people truly at ease and connected with themselves has been a huge inspiration to me to reconnect with the beauty inside me too and develop my expression of it. We reflect and communicate so much to each other though the way that we live.
I have been deeply inspired by this observation of others also “Seeing people truly at ease and connected with themselves has been a huge inspiration…” I have reflected and felt, why not me, it is possible that I am enough as I am and I can express myself with ease and connection also…lovely inspiration.
Only recently have I truly began to feel how deeply lovely and precious I truly am and how I can live this throughout all parts of my day. At first it was felt as a vulnerability and a questioning if I could actually be this around others. There was also a deep sadness that came up when in my sensitivity I felt that some people or the world was directly asking me to not be this preciousness and not be sensitive. This request to not be me has been made through people’s body movements around me, from their behaviours and from undermining comments. Sitting with the sadness of this reflection I am able to feel that it will only hurt for a short time whilst I allow myself to feel the harm that is caused from not living in and reflecting my preciousness. So the rejection and attack from others, is a reflection of the rejection and attack I have had towards myself and my own preciousness, and is actually just a reflection of them at present choosing to do the same. The more I feel the truth of the preciousness I am and live and move in a way that honours this the more everyone will receive the reflection they are the same.
Very precious Danielle “So the rejection and attack from others, is a reflection of the rejection and attack I have had towards myself and my own preciousness, and is actually just a reflection of them at present choosing to do the same.” go deeper, concerning why we are feeling sad, scared, angry or physically tense etc when perceive an attack on us and we can feel how we have chosen to reject who we truly are ourselves. and what is reflected to us brings this up for us. This for me brings in beautiful responsibility, no blame, no judgement, but understanding and appreciation.
It’s so empowering to feel that any hurt or pain from being rejected is actually the hurt or pain we have caused ourselves, because it provides the strength to see a way out of the pain.
It feels absolutely true that bringing in responsibility to our choices and how we have affected others is the one and only true way out of feeling our preciousness is being rejected. Otherwise we stay in the blame and judgement of others and feel sorry for ourselves and feel disempowered to actually hold our preciousness.
Beautiful Danielle. What I get from your comment is allowing space, patience and being warm and tender with myself. Allowing myself to surrender, rather than having to be me around people. I’m learning at the moment to be with the precious and delicate me while being at home and move around in this quality. This is new and feels absolutely amazing and very known (how can it be any different). However, I can still feel the fear and disbelief that I cannot be this in the outher world. These words support me to stay with me in my own process and let it unfold in my own, unique way. Rather than comparing myself to anyone else. Thank you.
It’s beautiful to be able to develop our own relationship with preciousness in our own way or time. In truth it can’t be any other way and if it was it would only be coming from our mind of how we think it should unfold or develop or thinking of where we should be at. Living in a way where we are trying to live where we think we should be at, but we are not actually there is a great way to keep us held back or capped.
It takes for me away the pressure that I took on to ‘have to be’ somebody. Rather than instead being me, developing in my own way. I got very touched when I read your response on my comment Danielle as I can feel so much understanding and Love through your words. “In truth it can’t be any other way”. No, it can’t – and I’ve heard myself say this many, many times to clients and people around me, yet surrendering to it myself is something I’m learning now. Whenever I feel the Spaciousness in and around me, I actually feel very blessed. How simple, yet profoundly Beautiful can life be.
Danielle, I can relate to this, what you are sharing very well. In the last weeks I feel very fragile and vulnerable and my perception is that the people around me, don’t like it. And my understanding is, that they don’t like it, because they don’t want to feel their own fragility. I know now that my fragility and vulnerability are the way to my inner beauty – I have a big sensitivity, which wants to be lived. It is always my choice – to choose me or something else.
Super sweet to read this Michael, I shared a similar situation with someone this week who I hardly knew although I felt I knew so deeply, where the love felt between us was so pure and absolute that I just wanted to hold hands and be and share in that together. This line stood out to me… “step by step inspiring each other to dare to go deeper and deeper and express more and more of what we were feeling in each other’s presence.” Love binds us all if we allow it.
Michael, you’re blog inspires me from so many facets! It’s like your light is all encompassing and my own gem is simply firing in response to being truly met by the preciousness being lived by another. Thank you dearly for the quality in your words have brought to me true healing at a time when I have allowed doubt to dull my shine. Back to polishing away the images and expectations I have held onto for fear of being truly seen in all my glorious glow!
Very beautiful Peta “It’s like your light is all encompassing and my own gem is simply firing in response to being truly met by the preciousness being lived by another.” There is something very magical about appreciating another, inspiration lights us up and as you say this is reflected in this awesome blog.
‘She made it tangible for me that love is so much more than gender or sexual preferences and that when we meet a person who deeply touches us, anything other than love is irrelevant – it is only us who choose how deep we are prepared to go and how many hurts and concepts we are to overcome along the way.’ When I read this the only question I can ask myself is why wait until someone else is opening up, there is nothing to hide, nothing to protect, just being my unique m.e
This reads as one of the fairy tales I used to read (a lot) when I was young. For hours and hours I could read. Reading these words Michael made me want to know more and more and more. And the bonus is, the story is True, based on your own unique, precious experience. The young boy and the man you are now join together. What a beautiful read, also reminding me to appreciate my own preciousness. I can relate to the fear you’re talking about, yet I want the love to prevail. It’s a choice as you so beautifully shared.
I agree an amazing quality to the telling of this experience that supports, inspires and holds the reader and it concerns love, truth and wisdom. Wonderful.
What a joy it was to wake up and read this blog this morning. It is the simple things in life that matter, like reading a blog that is so filled with a feeling of innocence and preciousness that simply makes my day. The world does indeed take on the colours of the rainbow knowing there are people like you in it Michael who have re-connected to their preciousness and who are living that on a daily basis.
Yes you are spot on Elizabeth, there is a feeling of innocence in Michael’s expression that is very touching… like the simplicity of a small child who is simply in the wonder of life.
The enormity of your humility and tenderness Michael Kremer is nothing short of exquisite to behold.
I thank you with every cell in me. The Wisdom you so graciously offer goes beyond the most precious gem.
Beautiful reminder that there is no true excuse of feeling any emotional reaction toward life for how can we when there is such beauty already within us? Shows how enormous the imposition is that we place in the way we live to not feel such a fact
Thank you, Michael -another gorgeous and profound sharing. We all have our own diamond with unique colours and angles of light but we do not always choose to reflect from that. Thank you for inspiring me to do so.
We all have our own gem and isn’t it just great to appreciate each other’s gem. When we do that, the world will be one big gem, all equally shining and all equally important.
Absolutely brilliant Michael, what is so truly beautiful is that we are precious and that the diamond stone had forever reminded you of that – how symbolic and magic at the same time. Reading this and for sure for many others, reminds them of their unique inner- divineness which is their diamond too.
“When I was a child I felt just naturally free in my body and never thought about why or how I moved.” I love watching this with children, the freedom and connection in their body. At first I couldn’t remember mine. I was so used to feeling the stiffness and the restriction. True movement, taught by Curtis and Natalie Benhayon is freeing it up again.
I love all your simple gorgeous blogs, Michael, they are materialized preciousness, just like the stone, but this time in words.
“At first I panicked and wanted to back off, but then I opened up and let crumble down, one by one, nearly all the walls of protection I had so painstakingly built around my heart.” This is such a powerful sentence and it beautiful describes the may moments that we are presented with this choice to back off and shut down or surrender and let another in.
Beautiful blog Michael, we as child all hold this beautiful preciousness but decide there is no worth in it comparing to others. What we do with it is our own choice, and this blog is beautifully inspiring to reclaim this preciousness that we all have.
What an exquisite and precious piece of writing Michael, expressed fully from the inner diamond that now shines so bright.Thank you for going for it, letting it shine bright and delivering the gems that you are to us all.
Michael’s willingness to share his preciousness with the world is deeply inspiring. I received such a blessing from his absolutely exquisite words.
We come into this world and are a precious loving bundle and do not question it but then step by step get the reflection from the outside that that is not enough and we make the decision to change, to adapt, to fit in. But in the end it is all just layers that we put around us that may cover up our true beauty and power but it never negates it. It is always there shining through and the more we allow shining brightly.
Beautifully said Esther, our preciousness never leaves us, we may have covered it up but we can choose to also uncover it to be revealed and shared with humanity.
Thank you for sharing the reflection of our light and love with your gem Micheal.
a beautiful story, one that melts the heart, for those of us that still hold walls.
Thank you for writing this blog Michael it is a beautiful sharing. Knowing and holding ourselves in our preciousness is the most yummiest thing ever. We certainly all are precious gems, thank you for this gorgeous reminder.
Thank you Michael. A truly awesome blog.
“….we all have our own gem that suits each of us best – a unique gem which has been custom made.” Beautiful Michael. Yes, we do.
We are indeed precious Michael, and it is such a joy to see each other shine. When we remove the veils of our own making there is not one gem, but a treasure beyond measure waiting for us to reconnect to.
Oh my Michael, you have written another pearler! Your blogs are gifts for us to all unwrap. Your sweet sensitivity, vulnerability and honesty come shining through your words. Your beauty reflects to all of us, our own, in the most tender of ways. Thank you for bringing your divine expression through for us all to read.
“She was just with herself, focussed on the task that had to be completed, not thinking about the world around her or how she looked'” this reminds me of children playing or walking down the street. They are not thinking about anything other than the moment. This is a quality I have noticed, and admire deeply in Natalie Benhayon, she is totally focused, present, confident and not trying to please anyone else.
Delicateness, one of the most beautiful divine qualities, we all share.
“When I was a child I felt just naturally free in my body and never thought about why or how I moved.” this is music to hear.
“anything other than love is irrelevant – it is only us who choose how deep we are prepared to go and how many hurts and concepts we are to overcome along the way” Love this Michael, get over ourselves and allow love to be.
Our true evolution is not to better this gem but simply to make it our utmost responsibility to clear any obstructions that prevent the light entering and/or reflecting back out.
Michael this is a beautiful description of how unconditional a child’s love is and how absolutely precious this reflection is.
What a return you have had Michael, to the child you were, realising that gem that we all have inside that suits each of us best – a unique gem which has been custom made. It feels an incredible journey returning to your preciousness.
You are so right in your expression of the gem we all possess within. At times it may be ruff, temporally lost or just forgotten. But the quality of it will never diminish.
The beauty of the Universe and of Nature reflects the gem inside us all to be felt . What an amazing gift we are given and what a beautiful blog sharing this so gracefully thank you Michael.
To discover – after years of avoiding and denying – our preciousness again is such a blessing. Thanks to all the brilliant and lovely people on their way who are reflecting their discovery and inspire all of us.
& Thank you Michael for being you!
Yes, I am precious. Time to honor this fact and to share with the world…
Absolutely Sandra, your comment is powerful, inspiring and is a wake up call. I feel that our preciousness does not only belong to us but to humanity and sharing it is its natural pull and flow. We cannot contain it or hide it as it is bursting at the seams to be reflected out and beyond.
My preciousness comes from the source we are all coming from – so how could I go into separation with it?
Michael this is beautiful and so reflective for everyone of us. Our beauty and the gem inside us all that is clearly part of who we are and seen as a child and how we lose this and hide it as we grow up not seeing it reflected back to us . How silly this feels to hide and protect ourselves from our own preciousness and the pain it causes us to do so. This is a real inspiration reflecting the shining diamonds we all are each unique in our own way and the gift of appreciating this for all to see . What an amazing shining world we would have from each or us shining our own rays with each other in truth, honesty and love.
“we all have our own gem that suits each of us best – a unique gem which has been custom made.” What a gorgeous way of expressing the uniqueness of us all with an equal part and responsibility within the whole of the preciousness of life. Thank you Michael.
Thank you Michael, I could really feel the connection you have with the man you write of in your blog, and how amazing it would be if everyone was that open with every person they meet.
Michael you write from your heart and every word I can feel through my body. It is so beautiful to be inspired by another and share in full with no holding back. For us to allow ourselves to do the same those long held ‘beliefs’ (barriers) do start to crumble and reveal the many colours of life to appreciate in full and to shine/reflect in all our glory.
I agree Marion, Michael’s expression is truly delivered from his heart. It melts away any doubts we may have and reminds us so beautifully to reconnect to our preciousness.
Preciousness is a word, that I rarely used before I did courses with Serge Benhayon. Definitely I didn’t feel precious myself. What has changed is not that we talked a lot about it, but when you meet someone who feels and lives preciousness this has a deep reawakening impact on what lies dormant in your innermost.
When we wear our diamond of uniqueness openly for all to see it is truly gorgeous to behold and like magnets they draw other diamonds out, hidden and forgotten in deep pockets.
Thank you for putting into words the unique preciousness that we each possess and how we can be inspired by others to reflect this out to the world. Beautifully and simply expressed and demonstrating that this is available to us all if we choose to trust.
Its so beautiful how we are as children free from the inhibitions of the beliefs that seem to get stuck to our diamonds as we grow up. However, what can happen is that we can end up loosing sight of the diamond and instead start identifying with all the crusty belief systems that we have allowed to engulf it. Meeting Serge Benhayon and a host of other people who have reconnected to their inner diamonds and are allowing them to shine, empowered me to reconnect to my own again and begin the process of cleaning, polishing and restoring the innocence so inherent within. Thank you Michael for your glorious writing and your sweet pure innocence, there are many people to thank for restoring the sparkle and love in this world and you are definitely one of them.
I loved reading this Michael, it was a true bed time story. The unparalleled, unprecedented love we hold ourselves in as children is so inspiring. It’s why I can watch a child play for hours, they create the space and time, unlike as adults where we become governed by it. Our preciousness is unique and absolutely deserves to be out on display for all to see and feel at all times.
How beautiful to recognise your true worth
True appreciation is a major key in our re-connection within ourselves and with others. Thank God for those who have been willing to live their joy and preciousness for all to see bringing the reflection and inspiration to make true healing changes possible with in ourselves. Serge Benhayon and his family (and others) consistently offer this to everyone.
“The list of all wonderful persons to say thank you to would fill a roll of wallpaper, so just one big warm and simple hug to everyone who inspired me to find my preciousness again and to allow my diamond to sparkle every day by shining their rays of light on it”.
Turning a ‘lump of glass’ into a ‘diamond’, how true that is if we just accept the glory of who we are and keep polishing that diamond as it sparkles for all to see, feel and be inspired by – ‘our own precious uniqueness’. Thank you Michael.
Thank you Michael for another tender and beautiful blog. I am deeply touched with reading your words on preciousness.
Lovely how you express this rediscovering of your diamond. I was a witness of this unfolding. It was like an underground flower coming out of the ground for all of us to see, feel and….hear. When something like that occurs, our voices get affected as well. The true voice comes out again, out of the layers of protection. Keep on shining and singing!
Michael, I love the picture of the glass, being revealed as a diamond and afterwards turns into a gem reflecting the rainbows light. and the light of everybody equally.. Beautiful.
I really enjoyed reading your blog Michael. There are so many layers to the analogy, but I love how you played with your diamond so naturally as a child, claiming its awesomeness for yourself no matter what others thought of it, but how after a while you started doubting and forgot all about it. For it to return again and for you to re-learn the simplicity of what it is showing you like when you were a child in your natural essence, is really lovely, but how you grew to express in your adulthood and share with others all that you are – inspiring!
The preciousness we each carry within us is ours to feel and allow to shine so that others can feel the reflection of our sparkle in their own precious diamond.
Love this Mary… what a truly stunning purpose it is to live all that we are so that others ‘feel the reflection of our sparkle in their own precious diamond’. Gorgeous.
You certainly have a beautiful flow with words Michael, such a pleasure to read and share your experience of returning to you.
This blog reminded me on the beautiful simplicity I lived with as a child, there was no need for any fancy toys or distractions, a leaf or pebble or stick I found could capture my attention for hours, an endless source for playful discoveries. It is precious to revisit this space within me as an adult and bring it back into my life.
Beauty it is that our innate expertise is in discovering joy, and the simplicity that living that brings, never leaves us is our most precious treasure.
Judith I can relate to your story too as a child, I also did not need fancy toys or distraction, I use to play in nature and anything I had available to play with in the house, I could keep myself occupied for hours enjoy playing with endless discoveries. The space was beautiful with no restriction, where I was able to be myself.
All of our treasures belong together.
I’m loving your responses, Eduardo. Our treasures do belong together and what both you and Michael have highlighted here for me is the pure beauty of expression when we live from that knowing of our preciousness.
It is so true, we all have a preciousness that has to be rediscovered and nurtured as if we were children, to break down the walls we build as protection from what life throws at us. Such a pity that we have to build those walls in the first place and hide our gems.
Preciousness defeats images. It is simply a movement of someone open to treasure treasures and who is willing to explore its angles in the knowing that beauty is infinite.
Absolutely billboard worthy!
Eduardo, what an accurate description of preciousness! I could get lost in that all day.
Eduardo I love the points you are highlighting, and it’s only when we love and appreciate every ‘facet’ of our precious selves that the diamond within is treasured and the quality valued for all to see and our reflection becomes a marker and light for the world to see within themselves.
Absolutely Eduardo – a stunning comment. Preciousness is a movement that is beyond images for its magnificence can never be captured … only expanded and magnified into greater exquisiteness.
We all carry such a beauty in us! The beauty of letting another person to feel it is unparalleled because it is us in our rawest expression. There is nothing like it.
There is nothing like it Eduardo, I agree with you.When you let another in and feel the depth of that love and pure essence that you both are, it is Divine.
…hear hear, it is divine and such a joy to experience each other in our natural expression.
It is interesting how with some people we have a picture, a register and even expectations of how it is and how could be, and with other people we do not hold any of those. We simply are. This reveals very clearly how pictures, registers and expectations are the perfect set up against blossoming in preciousness.
Exactly Eduardo the expectations are particular killers to loving interactions! What has surprised me recently is how many images I hold and how insidious they are and how they run the show without me being aware that it is happening. That is where I value so much the esoteric practitioners who I work with who support me to be aware of what images I hold and what is getting in the way of me just being.
Discovering the treasure we treasure the most gives us a really awesome feeling that transcends life as we know deep down that it belongs to us, it will always belong to us, as much as we being to it and we will always belong to it. We belong together.
‘Discovering the treasure we treasure the most’ – beautiful Eduardo! Brotherhood.
We all have our own diamond within we just have to clean the dust so it can shine.
Yes and here’s to all sparkling with our rediscovered gems and lighting up the world.
A little gem of a blog that holds it true value on our choice to reconnect to the light that is within!
So simple and true. I used to collect stones from beaches wherever I went and loved their uniqueness. To me they were all diamonds. I now have a lovely collection scattered in my garden reminding me of the reflection of nature. Time to give my inner diamond a polish – gorgeous Michael, thank you for the reminder.
Yes, I pick up stones too, as a child I would play with pebbles – I particularly select the smooth, rounded ones, but some of the rough ones have beauty too. It’s the interesting colours and shades – just like people.
I loved to collect stones (only white stones) while walking on the beach only realising now the symbology… the stones were all different shapes and sizes, but what united them was their colour. We humans are all shapes and sizes, and what unites us is the love we all equally are and were born.
Absolutely Doug! Our hurts create the lead box – strong as it may be, lead is poisonous!
This brings a solid purpose to the way we look after ourselves and move through the day. Every breath with the intention to polish and shine!
I love that Otto, every breath with an intention to polish and shine – it takes away any complications of how we think life should be and brings it back to the simplicity of coming back to us and our breathe, and the power of it, the forever offering of it.
yes excellent idea Doug.
We all have that diamond quality, perfect polished, just buried deep in a pocket somewhere….thanks Michael
And it is strong and vibrant and requires no gloves to handle it; it is solid and steady, reliable and always present.
Your experience Michael reminds me of when others don’t reflect appreciation of our beauty and we can start to doubt ourselves and the preciousness of what we bring.
Yes Annie, and I could also feel reading your blog Michael the opposite as well — in the appreciation of another we re-discover the beauty of ourselves. Which is why it’s so important to knock comparison on its head and appreciate the sparkling reflection of another; what they are offering is the light home back to ourselves and the priceless treasures we all hold and are – within.
Ah yep! that’s bang on Annie. How can we appreciate another when we are not choosing to appreciate ourselves. It’s not possible.
Gender and sexual preferences have got nothing to do with love.
I agree! I never really got why so many people are homophobic. To me, love is love and whether that is expressed with a person of the same gender or not has always been irrelevant – it is the expression of it that is so important. When I come across someone who feels threatened by homosexuality I feel it says far more about their ideals, beliefs and relationship to self than it ever does about someone who is gay. When you really connect to someone you don’t even think about gender or sexuality because all you can see and feel is the gem that they are and the expansion of the moment.
Well said.
Agreed! And the way Michael described the love he felt for his friend, just melted me in love.
Michael when I read ‘When I was a child I felt just naturally free in my body and never thought about why or how I moved’ it struck me how far most adults get from moving in this way. As you so rightly point out, as kids we just move, not only that but we love to move, our bodies thirst to spin, jump, run, tumble, roll on eachother but then something happens and our movements become restricted, constricted, jolty, shambling, stuttering versions of freedom. And as our bodies reflect our inner life then that in itself is very telling of what has happened between childhood and becoming an adult.
So true Alexis, as children we are so free and light, it is a joy to run and jump, tumble about and play, unashamedly sing and openly talk to ourselves, but by the time we are teenagers this has already left us. As you say our bodies reflect what is happening inwardly and it shows us as a society what state we are in when in a few short years that most children growing into teenagers have already lost this joy-full ability to just be.
This is an article Alexis. I see may elderly people in my practice. They cannot walk without aids, some of them so far as to need scooters. This has become our normal. Even younger people are stooped, hobble, limp or walk stiff gaited.
That we have come to let this pass is extraordinary.
It is true Alexis, I would never have known how the way I was living and the ideals and beliefs I had taken on from so many around me were not a true way of living had I not come across Universal Medicine and ‘The Way of the Livingness’ it has been an enormous healing on so many levels, to have such a healing come through and then to make the steps back towards something I feel is innate in me.
The simple admiration of the beauty in nature and around us helps us to see the beauty of others as we are divine works of art.
Nature is an absolute god send, to just be able to see how a tree moves in the wind is to witness surrender there is no resistance in any part of it, if it falls so be it, it is time, as humans we would do everything to stop the tree from falling rather than allowing the course of action that in occurring. Nature is pure grace.
Gorgeous Vanessa, I agree. At our feet and fingertips grace is available in every moment for us to feel and connect to, as it is through nature we have been graced by this reflection of how our innate divinity moves our body when offered the space to.
It is mad Vanessa how we as humans try to interfere so much thinking we know best. Let nature take its course is an interesting saying here. So often we can fight what is going on for us but if we were to truly surrender to it we would see the beauty and healing it is bringing us. Love does not always look pretty and it is something to remember when things appear to be hard or tough. But no matter what we have a choice in each and every moment whether or not we are going to choose love. We just have to let go of any pictures, images or ideals about how it should look or be like.
Gorgeous Michael. Seeing the preciousness of diamond – not because it was a diamond but the beauty and awe of the light and colours etc.
Yes I love that too. I also love when it reflected the light in rainbow colours how Michael could no longer be sad – it was reflecting back so much more than colours, something far deeper and richer!
Its like in life, through the maze of new age courses, conselling and self-help books, the very best we can come to is that ‘we are ok’. But you show Michael how dramatically this way of thinking falls short. We have all mistaken ourselves for dull rocks, seen the dust covering us as part of us. Yet all this time underneath remains a gem that delights and astounds. And how right you are that the true sparkle of these stones, flows from the light of all those that we meet. So this naturally explains how for some who still sit in the murk, that it is a preciousness they may not perceive. All the more reason for us to get shining today our own gem, in our own way.
This is so true Joseph, “Its like in life, through the maze of new age courses, counselling and self-help books, the very best we can come to is that ‘we are ok’”. This was very much my experience. The best I felt was OK where as having been inspired by the presentations of Universal Medicine I now feel precious, delicate, beautiful, confident, gentle, lovely and caring, I did not know 5 years ago before Universal Medicine that it was possible to feel this amazing.
I agree Rebecca, and the more I make loving choices to myself and therefore others the more I get to feel this preciousness that Michael speaks of so clearly.
Great point Joseph, Michael has just raised the barometer for us all “anything other than love is irrelevant”
I also love Michael’s beautifully made point that when others do not see the value in our treasure, we stop seeing the value in it too. We must become our our valuers, our own assessors. The opinion of others is too easily tantalised by empty sparkles, or worse still tainted by jealousy and their own inability to value their treasure.
This requires courage and determination.
Great point Rachel, the moment we abandon our worth; caught by another’s sparkle, we are lost. My own value must be the prism through which I hold all others and myself. I cannot use another’s rays, whilst not shining my own.
Not only do we stop seeing the value in ourselves, we begin to doubt ourselves and take on false ways of being based on what is valued on the outside. The sparkle of a child is magical and it is equally as magical when seen in an adult who has re-claimed their treasure within.
I agree Rachel and to live in a way the does not need another to validate or confirm us is huge, as it requires us to know that we are naturally Sons of God.
A very good point Rachel: we can only value in others what we know in ourselves. Therefore we often refuse to see the beautiful sides in others when we feel that we are the same, but do not accept it or let others see it.
This is great wisdom that all children should learn: value yourself and trust that, implicitly.
Gorgeous Rachel, love your words. What we cannot at first see or feel, we cannot then appreciate or value and it is then that we look out tantalised as you say towards another in comparison and jealousy for something we think we do not have, when the truth is, we have what they have – but are just yet to see and feel this. Though once this is seen and felt, there is nothing greater than to feel harmony and value between the gems. All sparkling there so beautifully in all their splendour.
Lets us be inspired by the stars in the night sky – they sparkle with the fullness of their own unique fire. They do not look to another star seeking to outshine it, nor do they dull their light in shame.
That is how we ought to live…all of ourselves, in our glorious expression.
…’tantalised by empty sparkles’… is the illusion we have all fallen for rather than be enamoured and inspired by true shine.
A great point, Joseph. This also explains why many of us fall for the false glitter, not knowing the true value of what we already are.
“We have all mistaken ourselves for dull rocks, seen the dust covering us as part of us”. When I read this line I am reminded to keep voicing the beauty I see in myself and others every day. I have seen the effect of this and I am dedicated to voicing the preciousness and delicateness we all carry as true Sons of God.
So true when we are young we adore ourselves and each other. We are so fascinated and in love with ourselves that there is no room for comparison and jealousy. We can spend hours in our own company never needing any distractions, loving the space we create no matter what we are doing. Why is it that as we get older this all changes? Thank goodness for Universal Medicine which has shown us a way to re-connect back to the innocence that still exists with-in, but that most of us moved away, from as we took on the ideals and beliefs of those around us and society in general.
It happens so early that it is easy to understand why we end up so disconnected. I agree, thank God for Universal Medicine and the teachings that support us to remember that we are precious and divine not for what we do but for being ourselves in full surrender to our souls. All ready whole and complete.
Yes Vanessa, we are precious and divine ”in full surrender to our souls. All ready whole and complete.” Thank God and Universal Medicine for reminding us of this energetic fact.
Universal Medicine has presented a true way of life – a way that honours the light we are of, our equalness with all others and a life of absolute Love and Joy that is available to us all – Our True way is precious beyond the grandest riches, jewels or anything of this earth.
A while ago I child sat on my lap watching a iphone video of themselves and they were so in love. They were incredibly happy watching and adoring with themselves. A slight judgement came up as it took me by surprise because we are far used to people judging themselves and not loving themselves and once I let that go, it was amazing to watch. I have been a student of Universal Medicine for a few years now and I recently watched a video of myself and I was like the child watching a video of themselves…I was filled with joy and adoration – it was quite magnificent.
What a beautiful sharing Sarah, thank you.
What a gorgeous sharing. I smile as I read your sharing.
We can learn so much from observing children… and to be so in love with oneself, feels gorgeous and will take into my day.
This is so true Marylouise, I am sure we all have memories of how it felt to be content playing by ourselves without a care in the world. When younger we really don’t need all the gadgets and expensive toys, life is far more simpler than that, and we have a great time.
There is indeed great joy in being simple and real.
I am with you again marylouisemyers, I love what you have written and I can feel it in me “We are so fascinated and in love with ourselves that there is no room for comparison and jealousy.” I remember this so well of how much joy I had with myself and, if there were more people who joined in with me it was an experience I then tried hard for it not to end. I always was the one who celebrated the fact but attached myself to wanting it to last forever. To add, as I grew older I experienced so much jealously towards my self-gratitifaction of love I caved in with my hurt and begun the self-sabotage root in taking this away from me. I one billion percent agree – Thank God for Universal Medicine in reigniting this love and my expression.
How very true Mary Louise, i can remember those times too, being automatically at one with myself and absolutely there being a total focus and contentment playing by myself, out walking, or with friends. I needed nothing but myself and felt so much…the silence of stillness..the wind in the trees that spoke. There was such a sunny ease that clouded over with age, and in my case with education when it all got serious, darkening with competitiveness leading to comparison and jealousy. When we come back to our true selves, we re-find the gloriousness of that sunshine that is just so lovely. Thank God for Universal Medicine indeed that has brought so many rays of sunshine into so many lives including mine.
Another gem of a blog Michael….pun intended.. I love this sentence” we all have our own gem that suits each of us best – a unique gem which has been custom made.” If we all knew this truth there would be no jealousy and comparison.
Appreciating the unique beauty and expression we bring to this world is important. We are not better or worse than others, we are equal in beauty and worth. You’re right Mary-Louise – a gem of a reminder 🙂
Absolutely Annie. It is lovely to feel the unique qualities that we hold and the equality and beauty that we all share.
True Annie, it is beautiful to be reminded of this fact.
Yes, marylouisemyers- we all have a precious unique gem inside us, waiting to be felt, seen and appreciated by ourselves and others, when we are fully open with no protection in relationships.
When this occurs only pure love is felt; there is no room for jealousy or comparison.
Exactly Mary Louise it is in the fact that we don’t value and treat ourselves as precious that creates the comparison and jealousy. If we live knowing we are truly precious you can only then see other preciousness and appreciate theirs also rather than compare yourself to theirs.
Gorgeous Vanessa and so true. It is time for all of us to value and treat ourselves as the true preciousness that lies within .. then we can but only appreciate ourselves and others ✨
Wise words Vanessa. All comparison/jealousy is merely a reflection of what we don’t see in ourselves.
Spot on its the fact that we don’t value ourselves enough that the jealousy and comparison comes in. When we connect and live with the knowing that we are precious gems, and we being our own unique beauty there is no space for comparison and jealousy.
So true Vanessa, ‘it is in the fact that we don’t value and treat ourselves as precious that creates the comparison and jealousy’, since I have been feeling my own preciousness more and more I can now see and feel this preciousness in others, before I could not.
Ha – so easy: if we all would see & appreciate the glory we are – there would be no comparison, no jealousy. The simple way is always the best.
I loved reading all of the comments on comparison and jealousy as these hindrances are the absolute scourge of our society. We live as if pitted against one another, our comparison tendrils forever out and active.Women narrate their entire lives with comparison, we can can size up another woman in a nano second and then automatically place ourselves in some kind of imagined ranking. If we then go on to meet her partner or her kids or see her home, our comparison tendrils go into some kind of epileptic state. In fact we don’t even need to see anything with our own eyes, simply listening to another woman talk is enough to set our tendrils off into overdrive! And this is ‘life’ for most women on the planet. We have incarcerated ourselves.
I agree Alexis, to live with comparison and jealousy is creating our own prison and torture.
Agreed Sandra, as well as imprisoning and torturing each other.
Indeed marylouisemyers consider for a moment the galactic sparkle our collective light would bring – the might of the suns of God.
Galactic sparkles and the grandness of our true light. Beautifully expressed lucindag.
Beautifully expressed Mary-Louise. Yes I love that we are all unique in what we bring and that through this unique way of expressing it still holds us equal, as we are reflecting a one unifying truth of love in all its finery. A diamond has many facets and angles and they all reflect gorgeous beams of light just like us.
So well said marylouisemyers. The jealousy, comparison and ensuing tension and pain that is endemic in the world today all comes from the disconnect in ourselves from our inner diamonds and gems.
I agree, Mary-Louise, if each of us accepts our gem and let it sparkle in full, the world would light up and we could simply support each other and work together.
It is gorgeous to imagine us all lighting up the world from the inside out, connecting to and not holding back the true exquisiteness of who we are and what we bring. Stunning.
True that would be world changing, also because each of us won’t waste energy to hold back our innate divinity and sparkle. The ease and simplicity that follows from this will offer a new reflection.
Beautiful, we are all custom made and equal shining diamonds and our uniqueness is our preciousness that reflects each other the true grandness we are. How can we be jealous of another if this another is absolute equal to ourselves?
Love how you said that Rachel – “…we are all custom made and equal shining diamonds…” Each with a custom made expression of love, unique in the one whole that we all are together.
Yes Rachel the more we appreciate our own grandness and beauty the more we can see it reflected in all others equally as we are all divine sons of God .
I’m with you Marylouisemyers, this is beautiful Michael, that we each have a unique gem which has been custom made, and you get to see and feel this truth when you look deeply into someone’s eyes and can feel their essence.
Yes Mary-Louise this was a gorgeously captured expression that absolutely reveals the uniqueness we all hold within. Love it!
Its HUGE marylloisemyers, the messages from this blog run deep into our level of how much of the gem we wish to reveal. It is not about another’s gem but ALL about the quality of our gem we offer to show.
Great point – jealousy and comparison arise because we think that another has more, is better and because they have made choices that we know we could have made but decided we wouldn’t; it is thus a kind of fury against ourselves and our very own choices but one that we direct outwardly against another or others in total disrespect and in denial of what is truly going on.
I like your addition to this thread Gabriele – because it hints at the ginormous effort and force that is required to indulge in jealousy and comparison. How much more fruitful to give that same level of commitment and effort to appreciating and treasuring the gem that we each are. It’s really important to consider this because so many of us are expending gigantic amounts of energy and making ourselves sick by living and walking this way.
Agree Gabriele we do not want to feel our own choices, as it is so damn painful to see and feel all the ill choices we have made for lifetimes all in the name of thinking we want a comfortable life. I look at Natalie Benhayon and see her Goddess quality and her divinity which emanates out blessing us all and inspiring us to be more. I see the commitment and dedication that she has for her self and humanity and know that any-one of us could be serving in the manner she is if we were to have made similar choices, so no need to be in comparison, we need to be inspired and get on with it. We have so many role models around us know and every opportunity to evolve
Yes Gabriele, jealousy and comparison can be a reminder of all that we are yet may not have chosen as yet. If seen in this way it offers great inspiration for us to live more fully the truth of who we are.
And we are not just unique and beautiful in this world, we are unique and beautiful in the whole universe. Knowing this level of preciousness we hold, and that the very nature of our true being is necessary to the whole, how would we then live? How precious would we hold ourselves if we knew the love we were created in?
Beautifully expressed Mary-Louise, and what an amazing and harmonious world we would live in if there was no “jealousy and comparison”.
I agree Marylouise, and harmonious the world would be if jealousy and comparison were something we did not allow.
Much freedom, creativity and fun we would have being who we naturally are. If we would shake ourselves out of this pattern of comparing ourselves with others or trying to fit into an ideal of what and who we should be.
Beautifully put marylouisemyers. We all have our unique, ‘gem’ of an expression and if we truly appreciated what we bring we could cut out all jealousy and comparison in a flash. Wouldn’t that transform life, as we know it!
Absolutely marylouisemyers. If we were all aware of this there would be no jealousy or comparison nor would there be any competition. What a lovely world where we all know the truth of who we are.
Appreciating the beauty and expressions we all bring, is a unique gem. Knowing this and connecting to this, knocks out all forms of jealousy and comparison as you clearly sure Marylousiemyers.
Yes we are all unique and also all very much needed to complete the whole for the whole, so it is so important that we all play our part as we were designed to do.
The simplicity in this comment is gorgeous, it can’t help but create space within.
Yes, our custom made gem is our own expression … and how we hold and treasure this in appreciation of all others’ gems (expressions).
So true – if we were to celebrate and cherish the preciousness of each other, all that we naturally are and offer the universe, it would be impossible to compare or to undermine another’s equal radiance.
Awesome Michel! I love how as kids we can play and have no reservations about anything and not worry about being hurt, people getting jealous or breaking our things, and I love how we can still do this as adults, the true openness of ourselves never leaves!
What I also love about kids is they say what they think when they are thinking it without reservation (obviously not all but my daughter certainly does) as an example they will talk about their bowel movements without any difficulty or awkwardness it is so refreshing from the adult stiltedness and shame around the subject of poo! The ease of sharing every aspect of what they are feeling is something we can really learn from children yet instead we ‘socialise’ them and stop them from being themselves.
So true Vanessa and poo is the classic example. Children offer such a beautiful reflection for adults and we can learn so much from them. They are a blessing and it is lovely to appreciate this blessing in all its forms.
We are never far from the inner child that lies within us all.
so true Vanessa, it is beautiful how children simply say what they are feeling, it is very alien for them not to, they are truly inspiring and are a great reflection for us as adults for how we can be playful, open, expressive, honest and true.
I find the open spontaneous expression of children warms my heart. As adults we have complicated and calculated life beyond recognition. Hearing the innocent wisdom and frankness of a child is truly refreshing – and I just love the moments that they decide to just walk up to someone without ceremony and just stand there stare and be present with them. Such a beautiful reminder of the truth of our one expression.
It is refreshing and at times very funny. The other day I was in a clothes shop waiting for a changing room to be free and a mother was getting her son to try on clothes. He put on something and said oh no I look like Simon Cowell! It really made me laugh.
Yep I love too how kids say it how it is. Recently a young boy I took a photo of at a party said ‘don’t take my photo’, it was so great that he spoke up, and I immediately showed him that I was deleting it and said I would not take another photo of him. As we grow up we watch that we are being ‘politically correct’ as such and not upsetting anyone or making them feel uncomfortable… yet we stifle how we feel and our own expression. Pretty crazy to me… there is so much we can learn from children and remind ourselves as well.
I also love this Vanessa and was only talking this morning about how this starts to decrease (sometimes) through the school years.
Yes kids are a great reflection to us- of how we once were and what we can actually be today if we so choose.
Seeing adults shine no different to children has inspires me beyond belief.
Kids see and feel truth and express this in their unique way. They reflect any situation immediately, directly and without reservation.
Absolutely Johanna. When I choose this I feel so light and feel a playfulness that brings such a joy to my heart in the simplest of things.
Oh! How reading this reminded me of playing as a child – the endless of imagination that could make up a million scenarios, have conversations with invisible friends and make a castle of a cardboard box! Then…I reflect on that feeling, around the early teens, of pushing away that freedom, joy and unbounded expression – becoming very cautious and calculated in every word and gesture. We forget how to play as we forget who we are.
As I have started to remember who I am the playfulness has come back, along with sense of preciousness.
Isn’t it beautiful Michael that we have never met, but I read your story and it allows me to see the beauty of mine. That is a great gift.
As you share your experience as a child Rachel and the imagination you had it reminds me of my own. That magical feeling when you create whatever you want out of next to nothing. It really is the most simple and freeing joy that we so sadly think we need to lose. I also remember my early teenage years where I would obsess over the people I thought were cool, to the point where I would copy them as best I could because I thought that’s how I needed to be.
Yes, that gift is one of honesty and openness in expression and it inspires all.
Reading this also brought back so many memories from childhood that had me smiling from the inside out but it was quickly followed by a deep sadness as how I allowed the play-fullness and the joy of those precious times to be buried under the layers of life; that is until recently. It has been so much fun to allow the joy and play-fullness to arise once again and to feel the lightness of life that is possible when we truly know who we are, as we did when we were children.
” We forget how to play as we forget who we are.” – so true Rachel, as we focus on trying to be something, rather than simply being ourselves, we become so focused on the doing that we forget about the playing, the simple fun we revelled in as children. It is so very lovely – and so simple – to return to living this way again.
I find that the more play and joy we have as adults the greater the level of wisdom we can access and apply to our issues. The more serious we are, the more rigid and controlling we become, and the less able to work with life, as it is.
Absolutely agree Rachel!
This part Rachel ‘We forget how to play as we forget who we are.’ is so true. And what a joy it is to reconnect with who we are and feel the endless play and preciousness that is only a movement away.
What great medicine it is for the disease epidemic sweeping the globe – terminal seriousness and chronic abject misery.
Know yourself and it is possible to giggle again…at nothing. This is a contagious condition worth catching!
“We forget how to play as we forget who we are” – totally, the more i know my true self again, all my silliness and ease returns as i was as a child. That lightness. The beauty of preciousness.
As we come to know ourselves we lighten up, in every sense of that expression. We step into a time that contains something very grand and equally silly and gorgeous. We have never really left it behind…we just sort of forgot about it in the rush and the fulfillment of expectation.
Uninhibited play is such a delight.
I agree harryjwhite. It is sad that we often leave this as a child and build up a catalog of hurts and rejections dulling our inner glow. This is a beautiful reminder that it doesn’t have to be this way and that we can choose to be open and let our preciousness out.
Those childhood hurts can and have led to a dysfunctional adult life which then supports more of the same as the disfunction attempts to parent the truly, naturally living children. Coming out of these perceptions and fears that ‘it’ll happen again’ feels amazing and freeing. When we take the feet out from underneath our hurts by appreciating that our choices are ultimately the source of our experiences, we can choose to have the hurt confirmed again or not.
We really do have so much to re-learn from our younger selves and all the little ones around us. It’s amazing how much we think we need to change as we get older. What a complete lie we’ve been fed..
There is nothing more joy-full to be in the playfulness of our hearts. As a boy and growing into early teens I enjoyed playing by myself. This was not computer games, I did play them now and again with others but I was not really interested, this was with certain toys I enjoyed from when I was very young that were still enjoyable to me when I was older. They did not loose their value or should I say my connection to the playground of God was never lost. It is precious when I feel this and what a glorious reminder to feel and more importantly to reignite this playfulness again today.
That’s true Rik, we can reignite this playfulness again as adults. And this is the most beautiful gift for oneself and others.
That’s beautiful Rik, reminds me of the times of the simplicity of playing, with the toys that were all I needed. The preciousness of this child isn’t lost I feel, just left unnurtured, and taken away by the beliefs that I have taken on.
I love the reminder to be play-full, allowing ourselves to have a giggle and not take it all seriously. This blog has been a great reminder all round to value our child like selves and release the burdens we think we have to carry as adults. Lighten up!!!
This is a great way of reminding ourselves of how delicate we naturally are and how much we can feel this when we bring attention to it.
Accepting and feeling that I am naturally delicate and honouring this is not difficult but very simple, if I only make the choice.
That’s the great part Harry… Although we can turn away from or avoid or distract ourselves from what we knew as a child, it’s never ever gone, and simply requires a choice and commitment to reconnect to this.
It is such a blessing yet many are unbeknown that this is possible due to the man made complication that life is today. Thank God for those who have not held back in living their light reminding us all of what we once felt as a child is very possible in our adult bodies and that our diamond is still there.
Absolutely Harry, such unreservedness, openness and oneness with life is available to us all – adult and child alike.
Yes, it is still there, just leave our reservations and see that it in truth can’t be broken as it is our foundation.
I agree harryjwhite – the essence is pure and uncontaminated by the temporal world and beautiful to observe. The teachings of the Ancient Wisdom as shared by Serge Benhayon has supported many to re-connect to this pure essence within and bring the playfulness and joy to their lives and to the world and I am loving every moment.
You are so right – as adults we can claim our lightness and playfulness back. Children are great role models – they can teach us how to be present again and how to play without thinking about something else.
exactly Alexander, children don’t live in time, they live in space. The space they create when they are present with something gives them all of the wonder in the Universe.