Recently life has been asking me to look more closely at what I do and how I am.
It is calling out for me to pay more attention to the detail – for example; not just what I write, but how I am when I write, not just what I eat, but how I am when I eat, not just what I do in any given moment, but how I am when doing this.
I have begun to realise that my relationship with detail has been somewhat inconsistent and that, at times, I have thought of ‘detail’ as the enemy. Detail was those frustrating ‘fiddly’ elements that had to be put up with to get done what was needed.
So more recently I have been looking at the detail of my relationship with the detail.
Growing up, detail was where the conflict lay. Control, arguments and manipulation lay in the detail. At school the detail was the difference between passing and failing, between the smart kids and the not so smart kids.
Detail was sold as where the path to your future lay. In business, the detail was where people would try to ‘pull a swiftie’ and play a trick on you.
Then, looking at society overall, I realised we had the saying that “the devil is in the detail.”
It began to make no sense – why would I look at the detail with a sense of panic, fear or dread?
Of course, as with so many things in life, it turns out that the opposite is true. It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love. It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.
It’s the way I leave a task, job or project that will determine the ease with which I, or someone else, will pick it up again. It is the understanding I can bring to why I make the choices I make that frees the control that my past patterns had.
In these ways, the detail holds the key to our freedom, not only in this moment, but in the next as well.
Detail, like a drop of water running down a leaf, cleans and magnifies what is beneath. Detail, like a breeze on a hot day, refreshes and changes how I feel about a current circumstance. The circumstance doesn’t change, but how I relate to it does.
There is detail in everything.
Even the breath I take while writing this sentence is filled with detail – there is a warmth, a depth, that I can choose to observe. If I do this, it brings awareness to my muscles and whole body. In fact, all of how I am in life right now gets shown to me in that moment.
Imagine that – all of life reflected in one moment. This doesn’t sound like the work of the devil, but rather the all-encompassing love of Divinity.
Dedicated to the Gentle Breath Meditation, as taught by Universal Medicine, for offering me a way to re-establish my true relationship with detail.
By Joel Levin (Western Australia)
Further Reading:
Serge Benhayon – A Life of Detail
God Is In The Detail
Mental Awareness V Conscious Presence
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
This sentence states a lot for me, “It is calling out for me to pay more attention to the detail – for example; not just what I write, but how I am when I write, not just what I eat, but how I am when I eat, not just what I do in any given moment, but how I am when doing this”. That these and many more things, need that particular attention, they can’t be left to do their own thing. Because when we leave things half done, what happens to the other half? Where is conscious presence in all of that?
This sharing is stating that everything matters, and no matter is to be left without your presence being present, simple yet potent!…
“The circumstance doesn’t change, but how I relate to it does.” Undertaking any task with love and attention to detail transforms the task to a movement of grace.
This is another gold statement pick up. How we are in anything is what matters, so then any circumstance can change, because of the fact we know who we are. Then the circumstance is rendered.
De-tail is a funny 😄 word as with any word 📖 it can be reinterpreted so capitalising on this we can take away someone’s tail or story (de-tail) and align them to the innate Love 💓 of our essences or Soul thus this Deepens or rubs out the relationship we have with our spirit.
Joel you have shared so many pearls of wisdom here, and this is just one of them that I deeply appreciate: “In these ways, the detail holds the key to our freedom, not only in this moment, but in the next as well” – detail comes with presence, and the more presence we can bring to what we do then the more we can bring the gentleness and the natural connection to the love that we are to work through us and hence why this is something that offers us freedom rather than incarceration.
This is a given Joel, and yet I had not stopped to consider this deeply enough and thus to appreciate how much of a difference this can make in our lives: “It’s the way I leave a task, job or project that will determine the ease with which I, or someone else, will pick it up again.”
This is what makes conscious presence very different to mindfulness: “It is calling out for me to pay more attention to the detail – for example; not just what I write, but how I am when I write, not just what I eat, but how I am when I eat, not just what I do in any given moment, but how I am when doing this.” – Mindfulness does not ask you to be aware of how you are when you do what you do, whereas conscious presence asks you to go much deeper and in tune with the One Song within.
I used to rush through things and feel quite stressed, in that I would skim over the surface of what I was doing because of the awful way I felt within myself. Nowadays I am more present with my body and my being, and this really allows for me to be present in each moment, in that there is an opportunity to enjoy how I feel, the stillness, my breath, taking greater care of my body and responding to how it feels, and also choosing the quality I am in.
The quality we choose to live in and with is so important, ‘ but how I am when I write, not just what I eat, but how I am when I eat, not just what I do in any given moment, but how I am when doing this.’
Appreciation of the detail our essences or Soul-full-ness and when we are connected, they are one and the same, that deepens our relationships in the most intimate (non sexual) way.
The devil in the detail is quite a strange saying, I can see that in some cases deceit can be hidden in small details, but it’s really up to us how we want to be with detail, with the best intent being to bring all of our love and care.
Well said Melinda, and detail does exist when done with lack of care or done with care – for the detail of disregard is specific and deliberate, whilst the detail of care is beholding and powerful.
Maybe we need to claim love is in the detail, ‘It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love.’
Going into the detail of how life feels makes for a much clearer and wider understanding of life.
Love is certainly in the detail, as going for a job promotion this week I was very detailed in my approach for this interview and as a result I felt very prepared and equipped to deal with anything that was asked of me.
Perhaps we could change the saying from “the devil is in the detail’ to ‘heaven is in the detail’?
There is love in the detail; it allows us to complete things and move on gracefully, without hooks and tendrils that bind us to the past.
Spot on Gabriele – love is in the detail, the care and the beholding and leaves a space free for another to simply be.
The energy in which we complete a task is what another will come along and feel, ‘It’s the way I leave a task, job or project that will determine the ease with which I, or someone else, will pick it up again.”
‘Imagine that – all of life reflected in one moment.’ Joel, this is amazing, it inspires me to deeply appreciate that every moment is a magical moment and what a gift this is and what will our world be like when we maximise these moments with absolute love.
“Even the breath I take while writing this sentence is filled with detail” – this is beautiful, it really makes me wonder how many details just pass us by or we don’t take full notice of, and it reminds me of the magic that’s on offer if we stick to this moment without skipping ahead to the next.
Detail can add so much to our lives, ‘Detail, like a drop of water running down a leaf, cleans and magnifies what is beneath.’
I agree that detail can and is used as a means of control by some people. It’s a way to catch people out or make them feel less. However I also see it used with a great deal of care, to make sure that every detail has been taken care of so it supports the flow of a project or another person. Then there is magic in the detail.
Definitely, the detail brings in that higher quality of care and people really do feel the difference.
Bringing more care into our lives and other people’s lives is much needed in our world, ‘It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.’
This reminds me of an old saying ‘Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves’. If we take responsibility for all the little things in life they build a foundation for everything else to grow from.
So true Mary, this highlights that every small detail and moment counts and they are equally as important as any other moment as they offer us space to embrace responsibility and love to life and to our every movement.
Great point Mary, building a strong foundation is always key.
In my job there are lots of people who tell me the devil is in the detail, I correct them each time and say “the clarity is in the detail”. If you aren’t willing to look at the detail you will never know the full truth.
As long as the detail is simple and thus avoiding the complexities of the detail we get in fine print and reinterpreted wording, because Truth-full-ness is super simple.
Detail also makes us more aware, because to concentrate on the detail you have to be aware of every move you are making.
Wow, Sally this is so true, it is like being in conscious presence and like space is expanding as we connect to more awareness. Also, there is flow and rhythm to connecting to the detail.
“It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.” – I wish for the world to know this, how each moment builds upon the next and life is not such a ‘random’ thing that just ‘happens to us’.
‘It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love.’ Spot on Joel, it is interesting how the saying has been about the devil being in the detail, when in truth it has always been love offering us more to understand and have awareness about.
Like so many things, the true meaning and gift of every detail has been turned around and somewhat twisted; the only so-called ‘devil’ in the detail is the detail we haven’t attended to and left unfinished and uncared for.
“The circumstance doesn’t change, but how I relate to it does.” – this is where the magic happens. We can blame circumstances and do a big song and dance about it, or we can change the way we relate to what happens. It is simple although can feel difficult at times depending on how attached we are.
A beautiful turnaround Of a statement that was there of course, to misdirect humanity
Thank you Joel. This line jumped out for me today and just what I needed to read, ‘It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.’
In one of my writings I have been asked to provide more detail, I realise that there are some beliefs I hold around detail that needs to go, because they do not serve me to open up to the evolution and expansion that is on offer. There is detail in every moment, so much for us to explore and understand.
There is a completeness that comes with attending to the details, a wholesomeness and a clarity that gives us space to explore the next move.
Like, looking at things through a magnifying glass, we could be mesmerized and totally fascinated by the intricacies of details that we would not otherwise be aware of and appreciate its beauty, or we could just be overwhelmed. I agree – it is a relationship, and it feels like there’s something to do with how much we are prepared to observe and accept what is.
There is such beauty and magic when we honour everything we feel and take care of every detail. I know when I do this from my body it does not feel like there is any effort, so it is not about making it look good but rather being pedantic to wanting the quality fo energy to be the highest it can possibly be. Everything matters and so even the slightest detail left out can and will effect the whole.
We can all choose are friends and our foes. Yet, what we call friends and not always our friends and what we call our foes are not always our foes. Sometimes, what we call our friend is our foes and what we call our foe is our best friend.
“Of course, as with so many things in life, it turns out that the opposite is true. It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love. It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.” I love this Joel. How we live in each moment prepares us for the next and so on. How we live each day prepares us for our sleep. I used to devalue detail but nowadays appreciate the learning it can bring.
I have also heard “Love is in the detail”. I cannot help but be detailed. What I find to be supportive with that is to remain focused however, I in summary have not been very focused. So, as Joel points out I have gone into the detail of how to be in comfort and self-abuse. The issue after that is you have to be detailed in your unpacking it by nominating where you are in comfort and self-abuse or, appreciating in detail what you offer in moments whatever it is you do.
‘It is the understanding I can bring to why I make the choices I make that frees the control that my past patterns had.’ …. this opens up a whole new world in allowing us to know that understanding frees us from our patterns … I’ve heard this before but somehow reading it today it feels like I can truly hear and see it, and it asks that we bring more understanding to us all.
I have come to know without a smidgen of doubt that the devil is nowhere to be found in the detail but what is, is support, common sense and of course love. I have found, often the hard way, that to skip over the details is a recipe for disaster so these days it’s the details that have my full and appreciative attention.
I love details, if I am not bringing detail to things in life it is easy for me to drop standards, and then chaos and complication can set in.
It sure does and I find that the knock on effect starts when I drop something even something minor as it slowly allows things which I know are not loving to come in. It is like you cannot just say yes to a piece of cake you say yes to the whole thing even though you ‘think’ you can get away with only having a slither!
Detail for me in my life is also very important, I can see this very clearly at the moment preparing for the majority of my household contents to go into storage.
As I was reading this I could feel my body in tension over a situation. I was bracing myself and going into protection instead of choosing to read and observe and surrender deeper in my body.
I didn’t understand before why I always have been so deeply aware of details. This could be in a controlling way, wanting things my way. But also in a way that shows the magic of the moment. A green frog just on my path as I walk and 20 Euro’s next to that same path, all details and messages of love.
I love details… for it is where we get the expansion of our understanding of everything.
I love detail too, it is an essential part of my life.
Taking care of the details, completing things properly.. I love how all of this sets a foundation that feeds us back with that quality in the future, so that when we come back to something, we feel that care and dedication that we put into it in the first place – and are inspired to make more of those same supportive and self-loving choices.
Joel, this was a great blog to read this morning as I got to stop and feel what is going on all around me and the feeling is that everyone one is in a rush. The people I meet are even talking so fast I cannot follow their conversation. I was in a meeting that over ran by a few minutes and we had people beating down the door to get into the room as their meeting followed mine and they had to be in the room because that was their time. To me visiting this country there is no time it seems time has become a precious commodity. One woman shared with me that she has an young son not yet ten and she has not really seen him grow up she is too busy working she has no time for him, to me this is a shocking indictment of how we are living today.
Thank you Joel. Reading this I became aware of the detail of how I am breathing, sitting, reading and connecting to you
I was never very keen on detail, it always seemed to bring complication – I just wanted to get on with it. I am now slowly appreciating detail and the simplicity and order that it brings in providing space instead of rush. Detail helps me open up and feel the more that is on offer.
The understanding of detail can bring enormous simplicity, or enormous complication, depending on how it is approached. Is the detail bringing order, or is it bringing disarray?
How often do we skip the details because we want to get on with life always rushing and in the rush there is no detail? Bringing back the detail slows everything down and in that there is space. This is a great blog to remind us that there is so much more to be had in the detail and that yet again humanity has it the opposite way round.
beautiful Joel, so form now on the saying will be ‘god is in the detail’
I noticed the other day how much a simple choice to breath gently and bringing attention to my breathing totally changed how I felt in my body. My hands went from cold to warm and I felt more surrendered. This makes me ponder now after reading your blog, that the change we want is often so easily achieved if we are willing to be present with everything, every detail so we are literally in charge of how we feel. Yet we often rather like to just do anything and hope our body will feel fine, but that is just not the way it works.
I agree, Lieke, we are so much more focussed on what we do and so little on HOW we do what we do. Whereas just like you shared, changing one aspect, one detail can make all the difference.
That’s empowerment Lieke in all that you have shared, to realise we are the ones in charge of how we will feel, and it’s up to us to determine the quality we will experience.
‘Detail, like a drop of water running down a leaf, cleans and magnifies what is beneath. Detail, like a breeze on a hot day, refreshes and changes how I feel about a current circumstance. The circumstance doesn’t change, but how I relate to it does.’ This changes everything to understand that how that water runs down a leaf impacts everything, shows everything and that each movement leads to the next … God in the magnificence of detail.
Love how you present that paying attention to the details ‘holds the key to our freedom’. Feeling how in committing to completing things we are then free to move onto whatever is next whereas so often I have glossed over the completion of something in my haste to move onto the next more ‘exciting’ activity. Paying attention to the details is actually a deeply loving way to support ourselves as we move through life.
Love is in the detail makes perfect sense as it is in every moment that we either choose love or not, the next moment, the next detail…love or not love…
Very true and simply put. If we take care of the present moment then we guarantee the quality of the next, so it makes sense that we take care of every detail which naturally comes when we choose love.
This is beautiful Joel, as from what you have share and what I have also experienced, there is great power in the detail. For if we bring love to every detail, we solidify a foundation that is absolute, through which love is naturally magnified from every angle or aspect of our lives.
We can choose to interrogate us in different ways: from light to thoroughly. The questions we pose are a reflection of what we are willing to be aware and what we are not yet ready for.
When we use detail in the way it is meant to be which is an original focus to divinity a way to evolve everything that is not the expression of godliness, we get to see how detail is in our favor instead of enemy or not so favorite friend..
So we can turn it around and say God or love is in the detail. As the more we take care of the details the more we appreciate ourselves and get to see how everything matters.
I love what you lay open here, that there is the all in the detail and thus there is always more to explore and see and feel.
I’m a fan of detail. I love the order, definition and wholeness it brings. I love that it supports me by bringing consistency and predictability to my routines and rituals. There’s a divinity in the simplicity, in the exquisiteness of the parts in the overall whole. Without detail the big picture has no solid foundation.
Beautifully said Cathy. The detail is what makes the bigger picture.
YES love is in our every day details. The more we are actually paying attention, the more we learn and can rise.
The details are the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that make up the all. Every piece is essential.
Paying more attention to the detail in our life brings so much more to life, ‘It is calling out for me to pay more attention to the detail – for example; not just what I write, but how I am when I write, not just what I eat, but how I am when I eat, not just what I do in any given moment, but how I am when doing this.’ Beautiful, being aware of how we are, our quality in every moment in the day.
This blog was just what was needed this morning as a reminder to come back to the detail. Thank you.
My relationship with detail is giving me messages, for in the last week, I have had a few minor cuts on my fingers…. asking me to pay more attention in every moment!
What you have shared Joel is beautiful, and yes there is love in detail, ‘Detail, like a drop of water running down a leaf, cleans and magnifies what is beneath. Detail, like a breeze on a hot day, refreshes and changes how I feel about a current circumstance.’ Detail brings so much more.
This is how we take care of the details; taking care in each moment which supports the flow of knowing our next steps.
Thank you Joel, your words about the quality of breath and the detail of care this brings through energetic integrity have been inspiring to read today.
When we pay attention to detail we are more consciously present with ourselves and with the space around us which deepens our awareness of what is needed in any given moment.
I love the awareness of even the smallest detail that you have brought to this writing Joel –
“Even the breath I take while writing this sentence is filled with detail – there is a warmth, a depth, that I can choose to observe”.
Paying attention to detail is important to me, this article highlights examples of detail in things and the relationships we can have with detail.
” Of course, as with so many things in life, it turns out that the opposite is true. It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love.” I had often wondered about this saying for I know there is no ” Devil ” . This understanding is so important it shows all actions have a purpose.
I loved your blog Joel especially since I have shunned detail in the past and missed out on so much light and love. This is a great paragraph “There is detail in everything.Even the breath I take while writing this sentence is filled with detail – there is a warmth, a depth, that I can choose to observe. If I do this, it brings awareness to my muscles and whole body. In fact, all of how I am in life right now gets shown to me in that moment. “
“It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love. It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.” I love this Joel – you magnificently show the opposite of this age-old saying. Taking responsibility for every choice I make during my day results in the sort of day i have. Consequences……
Joel, you beautifully unpack the illusion and harm that is created by that phrase – the devil is in the detail.’ What resides within the detail is the fullness of that moment and the presence that brought it to be. If we let ourselves appreciate the attention to detail, we let ourselves have space for more of that richness and presence to be what infuses all that we do, and how we are. It is not the devil that’s in the detail – it is God.
To take ‘the devil’ out of this saying and to replace it with the word love feels full of common sense as every detail in our lives is important and paying attention to each detail can be the difference between life flowing smoothly, or not. I for one have discovered that bringing love to the details of my life is truly life-changing in a most wonderful way.
I agree Ingrid, and after reading this I am seeing where in my life I can bring more detail to certain areas that need that love and attention.
When I feel overwhelmed it’s very easy to panic and freak out about something that is at the time massive to me. But in this panic I forget that everything can be addressed by the way I am in the details. Nevermind the situation I am panicking about in my head, how am I with myself right now?
Joel your blogs often feel like a big, warm hug, thankyou. Reading this again was beautiful, and very inspiring to feel the natural care I bring (and enjoy) when I take care of all the little details. There is a depth when we bring attention to the detail.
Detail used to be something I never liked to bother with and it annoyed me when I saw others taking time with it. Having said that, I loved dressmaking. This was something that required my full attention and detail was very important if I wanted the finished garment to fit well and look good on me. I can see how I used to compartmentalize when I thought detail was important. These days, I enjoy the detail in far more things and can see how it adds to the enjoyment of my life.
Hi Joel, I love how in this package of wisdom you have managed to spotlight the details. To me your writing has opened it up to be like looking in a mirror of a mirror of a mirror as there is always going to be a deeper reflection to go to when we focus on the details.Thank you.
The Gentle Breath meditation is the guarantee of God’s presence in our life. I would say ‘Devil is in the details’ until we choose God to fill every little gap.
Paying attention to detail was not always my strongest point, I would dedicate myself to something to a point but when asked to take it further I would either loose interest or be distracted by something else so not everything I did was completed. This is changing as the lack of detail in the final touches gets exposed and I can feel disregard and lack of care. The amazing thing is I am actually beginning to enjoy detail as it offers me an opportunity to not only complete things, but take everything in my life to much a deeper level.
Thanks Alison, I have pockets of life that feel like this, I just want to sweep over the surface and not bring my all to every facet and detail. I agree, detail is very enjoyable as love likes to take care of everything in its completeness. Love never cuts corners.
‘Love never cuts corners’, so true Melinda, so a great reminder that if we are cutting corners for whatever reason, we’re not in the quality or the delicateness and expansion of love.
The Love is in the Detail – What a rebel he who chooses to live by this phrase instead of the former!
The Gentle Breath Meditation has been a starting point in feeling me in my breath and it developed over time. And it taught me to pay attention to detail as everything in life counts and makes us aware what love truly is.
Detail is life’s gift to show us our ability to care, as we thrive on care and naturally it should be the same care that is to be expressed back to life, as it is all one life.
Love how you say this Joel – “It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love. It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.” – The details do make a difference!
I just looked up the meaning of the expression ‘The devil is in the detail’ and the offered definition was ‘Even the grandest project depends in the success of the smallest component’. A further definition was then provided: ‘God is in the details’. Both are on track… as grand projects ourselves, it’s the details that count and yes, God can be reflected and expressed therein.
I should also add it’s the very lack of attention to detail that can unravel us – and that’s the devilish part.
I have always held onto the truth that the details make the whole. So each detail of a painting, for example, makes up the whole picture. Another analogy would be the universe and human beings. We are the details that go towards making up the whole.
The saying, ‘The devil is in the detail’, is a form of curse as unless, you wish to join the devil, it is the incentive to do the complete opposite yet, you so correctly share Joel, it is love that is in the detail. And it is love that deep down we all crave.
I agree it’s a curse, and what’s more interesting is how many people accept curses as normal and repeat these sayings without realising the harm in them.
It would be more accurate to say God is in the Detail rather than the Devil. There is no devil and this saying is another example of the bastardisation of Truth which is rampant in our world!
These pernicious saying that are rampant in our world are there because we have allowed them. We need to speak out and say it is not like that and how it truly is. It is great that you wrote a blog to expose this one Joel and gave others a platform to also express the truth.
God is in every detail, including every moment, even if we choose to see the devil, God is always showing the way.
I have to laugh reading this … it is the catch phrase of someone very close to me … and who reminds me almost daily 🙂 , and yes its true… we take care of the detail, and the big picture is unveiled.
You illustrate beautifully Joel a more true and empowering meaning for the word detail – ‘ the all-encompassing love of Divinity.’
God is in the detail and the ‘devil’ is the part of us that insists on living life in a blur so as to lose sight of the majesty we are held in. From this point it – the human spirit – has mastered the art of not only avoiding the fine print but also obsessing over detail as a way to avoid looking at the bigger picture. From the point of view of the human spirit, it/we have all angles covered in avoidance of the innate divinity we are.
Love is certainly in the detail Joel. Your blog is also a beautiful reminder that it is our responsibility to bring a loving presence as we attend to the detail.
Beautiful blog Joel. You remind me that the more we pay attention to the details the more our lives are enriched with wonder, communication and joy.
Detail with presence; thus allowing a harmonious flow; is very supportive to living a life of purpose and service. I love what you have expressed in this blog Joel, you have presented a very powerful message, thank you.
Being aware of the details offers us a continual process of refinement
I love the detail because it offers us the space to observe our movements and to learn so much more about our way of being through observation. The beauty is definitely found in the fine detail of our daily living and from there we can deepen our relationship with the divine vibrations all around us.
I can feel the joy and beauty in everything I do when I pay attention to the divine details. These moments are rare but they are only rare because I am not consistently choosing to appreciate and connect to the divine detail that is in everything.
Details will be shown when we allow love to enter us, as love is very detailed in many many ways – as it is endless growth of depth we insist with bringing more and more details in.
Detail with presence allows us to feel the fullness of life.
Going into the details of things is first and foremost being prepared to look deeper; and to look deeper we need to be prepared to feel everything; and to feel everything we need to renounce all that counters us to not feel. So we to deepen our awareness requires us to be constantly adjusting our diet, exercise and movements in accordance to what we are feeling at the time which means we actually grow our awareness ourselves in all areas of life all at once! How cool is that!
This also means we are always controlling just how aware we are prepared to be at any given time!
This is a very powerful message thank you Joel. For if we are willing to bring greater awareness to the details in our lives we are then willing to go to a deeper level of truth in order to then freely live the greater version of who we truly are.
I have often found that if I rush my job (inventory clerk) or worry that I am taking too long then that is where the mistakes come in, and I forget to do something. Now I have taken the pressure off of myself by accepting it takes as long as it takes, and if that is longer than what people expect then that’s fine also.
I can relate to this Julie – putting myself under pressure and time constraints is when the mistakes are made.
If I am out at all in any way I feel to start tidying and cleaning focusing on the little details around me and I come back into my body very quickly.
Today when I sliced my baby gem lettuce in half I noticed the amazing geometric pattern it created. I loved the detail and I love using details in my work, so why on earth do I shy away from it so much. Love is definitely in the detail.
I had a similar experience with a pomegranate recently. The insides were geometrically arranged in a way that reminded me that this pomegranate was part of a universe, expressing in the way only it can.
“It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love”. I absolutely agree Joel. It is definitely time for this saying to be rewritten, maybe as “Love is in the detail”; oh yes it is and by being so it brings simplicity with it to every single thing that we do; from the biggest to the smallest, every love filled detail matters.
‘It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love’, I have found this too only I have not applied this to my life, I still hold onto a fear of detail being burdensome and tiresome. I will observe this more during my day as I tend to go into a rush of just ‘getting things done’ without care for the detail.
I love it when I pay attention to details and it feels like time is standing still and everything is being magnified to reveal its exquisite beauty and spaciousness that I wouldn’t otherwise realise is there.
Attention to detail is the greatest gift.
And you are a master of it!
I’m discovering that love, honouring and deepening purpose to myself and humanity through detail. In the past it has been an excuse for complication and avoiding responsibility. More and more it is part of the whole and every part is equally valuable and appreciated and with this it is simple and there is a flow to the whole.
I really enjoy paying attention to the detail and always suffer under circumstances when I allow someone to rush me or fall for that notion myself. I am learning that rush does not speed things up and attention to detail can be done whilst delivering something on time, in fact it allows you to be more in flow with things and therefore is always exactly on time – although that timing adheres to the universe and not necessarily to the demands of the world.
Loving the depth of detail Joel – wonderful to feel, and something that I very much appreciate.
Every time I read this article I am forever in awe of the stunning analogy of paying attention to detail through the drop of water running down a leaf, cleaning and magnifying what is beneath to show how circumstances may not change but how we choose to relate to them can. There is no denying the beauty of what can be seen through that drop, a divine reflection of the power of what details can offer.
If paying attention to details form a foundation for us to build on then by not paying attention we are leaving holes in our foundations. These holes are then seen as invitations for opportunist disturbances to enter and even make themselves at home and before long we have no foundation left to stand on.
Blimey Kathleen, something about what you have written here really hit home with me. I can be so slack with the detail as I use the excuse of no time to justify my actions. When actually, I create my own problems in the first place by not bringing any care to the detail so I stay on this merry go round of telling myself I’m too busy ignoring the detail.
We can never underestimate how important details are for they form the foundation of everything we build on.
And it is so simple that simply reading this article one is reminded and returned to that wonderful connection… thanks again Joel
‘Detail, like a drop of water running down a leaf, cleans and magnifies what is beneath.’ A beautiful description of detail Joel!!! stunning!
I too love detail and yet in many ways there is no fixed point as to what is detail as detail to one is a big thing to another. As Serge Benhayon has shared “everything is everything and nothing is nothing”.
This is such a beautiful awareness to hold which brings true purpose to what is done ” It’s the way I leave a task, job or project that will determine the ease with which I, or someone else, will pick it up again.” This is the quality of true care for humanity with accepting the responsibility of every little thing matters.
Paying attention to detail is a choice we all can make to be in communion with God, as it is only until then that we understand that we are all in this together and that we have a responsibility for the quality in which we move in order to offer truth and simplicity to another.
When we choose to pay attention to the detail and love ourselves life start to change, it is like you’ve shared all of life and is reflected in one moment.
Thank you Joel. This reminds me of the saying ‘Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves’. So if we pay attention to the detail of anything then the whole will be taken care of.
Joel, there is magic in reading this today in particular ‘It is the understanding I can bring to why I make the choices I make that frees the control that my past patterns had.’ – I felt a huge weight lift off my shoulder reading and feeling this as I can see another way to see my past patterns, to understand and that brings space to change. There is such magic in detail and it changes everything in a heartbeat. Thank you for this sharing, it’s hugely supportive for me right now.
All of how we are feeling at any moment can be shown to us if we are willing to open up to this. I love how you have explored ‘devil is the detail’ and how actually the detail can really support us. The detail is what adds up to be the bigger picture and we can be aware of the detail at any given time.
The little details are the building blocks of all that we do and present. It matters perfect sense to give them our all.
Building blocks for the all… love it Kathleen.
This is precious, detail is so important in our lives. It brings the attention to what and how we do what we do. It is bringing a conscious presence to how we are in our bodies, and it brings a deep quality of love to all that we produce.
Love this line! ‘It’s the way I leave a task, job or project that will determine the ease with which I, or someone else, will pick it up again.’ I shall start really observing this but I already know that if I leave a job because it’s bothered me in some way I also leave an imprint of resentment, dread, frustration – whatever extra layers of dense emotions, to wade through before simply coming back to do what there is to do without hesitation. Talk about making my life a struggle!
Paying attention to the detail of how I move when I’m doing something is key because that then determines how I am in the next task I take on or conversation I have with someone. A momentum can build where I’m either super delicate and building on that, or I go into quick, disconnected movements that build. Either way has a dramatic affect on how I feel throughout my day.
How utterly beautiful Joel, all of life expressed in every single moment, the magic of detail, thank you for sharing this and reminding me that each moment is precious.
There is so much love in the detail. The more I take notice of all the little moments and not simply brush them off the more tender and delicate I feel with myself. So often I do not give myself the time to simply be with myself such as brushing my teeth, putting a shirt on a doing up the buttons, or putting my shoes on – it is soo easy to rush them but what happens to me in this there is no honouring whatsoever. God truly is giving us soo many opportunities to connect to our tenderness there comes a time when we can no longer resist.
There is so much wisdom in this blog. Changing the perspective from the devil to divinity in the detail it does then become that the “… detail holds the key to our freedom”.
“…detail holds the key to our freedom”. Paying attention to detail is choosing to stay present with everything we do, which then allows time and space to open up – like magic.
Thank you Joel for the depth you have shared, I agree there is love in the detail,
I just love how it feels to truly appreciate that love is in the detail and this is what we, or another is greeted with. Simply, deeply inspiring to stay connected with whom we are and what we are doing in every moment.
In the detail there is the whole – how we are in each moment of detail contributes to ALL.
There is love in detail, and the quality I do a task in leads into the next. We don’t ever really cut corners as we are met with the incompleteness at some later point. There is divinity in detail I agree.
Thank you Joel for sharing. Paying attention to details provides the depth of quality. When we are rushing and missing details, the quality is not there. When we are with conscious presence and paying attention to detail, the quality is far greater and full of love.
I am learning a lot about detail at the moment, especially in my work. It’s been something that I have to say I brushed over and just got by. Where I am working now this is no longer possible, so it’s very humbling to see where I have previously let my attention to detail slide. Because it’s all coming back up for me to see and offer a new opportunity to change.
Thank you Joel – for showing us the way how detail actually can be looked at and used. There is no such thing as devil in the detail, only true simpliciry when true detail is practised.
The detail brings the beauty in life, our wonderment and it connects us to the love that we truly are. As you share, we have the possibility to feel all of our life in one movement. The details show.
The beauty in the details is the breath of life from our full expression. I love the expansion and flow found in the quality of care in every detail too. Just magic.
I simply love detail, when I bring anything and that feels the need for me to be on the ball my focus on the detail is imperative.
Wow Joel, my whole body relaxed in deep appreciation of the detail in every move I make, feeling I have and thought that I allow. Deeply appreciating you at this moment for sharing your detailed understanding here. Thank you.
Thank you Joel a great blog, the detail is everything we put in that makes it loving.
When we choose to move in connection with our bodies we cannot help but to observe and feel the level of detail and delicacy that is involved, this allow us a deeper level of appreciation and acceptance of the love we all are.
Thankyou Joel – having shown us the importance of our eye for detail and the divinity it brings to our life and enviroment is magnificent. There is no evil in that.
Thank you Joel for this delicately written blog.
Beautiful Joel – and the detail is there in all moments in time, like a forever mirror of divinity.
The detail offers us the truth in the moment and an opportunity to deepen understanding. There was a time when i thought getting into the detail was not important and I now realise that not going into the detail is my way of avoiding whatever is there to be known – I am avoiding the messages the Divine is offering. The detail is the Divine in action.
Thanks Joel and there is an ongoing ‘detail in everything’ and just when you thought you have detailed it out, there is more detail. So often I have brought detail to something and then turned off, or gone into autopilot almost to say that’s it I’ve made it and that’s enough. What I see from that is the on off switch in me that kicks in. I have a time limit in things or with things and so when that limit expires I dump and run. Now you can’t see this physically very clearly but I know it’s there, it’s in the detail of how I am. I’m not saying this to hard time or heavy days myself but more being honest that I feel it and I see it. No one has spoken to me about it but I can feel it’s there. So I watch, I see when there is a slight turn off or turn away or tension to leave something and I just feel the tension and let go. I’m not trying to solve a problem or be right I am just moving deeper into something I am feeling. I’m not building to perfection or anything like that either it’s just that I/we feel a lot, everything in fact and so if I don’t like how something feels then I ask the question why. For me the game is about awareness, not getting something done or achieving this or that but simple awareness. I love the feeling of being settled, steady and clear. If that feeling I know isn’t there then I simple ask why. There is so much detail in the world and I’m looking forward to seeing it all.
Loved what you have shared Ray, I am also feeling that when things are not quite right then what I have missed and it is usually a lack of “simple awareness”.
Very inspirational Ray, thank you.
Caring for the details, attending to them is saying yes to clarity, yes to order and yes to divine flow.
So much wisdom in this article Joel, its what we put into every movement that determines whether we heal or harm
Attention in the details brings it back to conscious presence in each moment. We give each detail the same space and time as another, we bring our whole to each detail. When we rush around and miss the detail we are spreading ourselves and then their is gaps.
Could it be that the detail brings me more presence, which deepens my self-love? I generally find that paying attention to detail is confirming of my ability to stay connected.
Detail has tripped me up many times, or should I say the lack of detail! Painting a picture or doing some sewing, making dinner, all are needing extra detail, the finer points to a finished product that makes all the difference either to how they look or taste! To make that extra effort is so worth it, thank you Joel!
Honouring and appreciating my natural sense and attention to detail has been so empowering. And I realised that there have been many times in my life where I have wanted to apply that detail but didn’t want upset people , or make a fuss about something that someone may deem an ‘unimportant’ detail. So having thrown that out the window, I am loving my sense of detail. 🙂
There is so much here Joel, feeling how we are with ourselves in the detail you are calling out, is super important. I have found that I have been able to feel and live by a deeper level of self honouring, by learning about myself is great detail. How I walk, talk, interact with others, not just the bold statements around those things, but questioning and learning about myself to a level of detail that is both supportive of myself and others.
Hmmm I might need to go open my mail and start to bring more attention to some of the things I have been putting off. I can feel that during my working week my whole focus is on ‘work’ and other elements of my life are not held with the same focus and attention. This is a great reminder to bring that attention to detail to all aspects of my life.
A great point Joel, by paying attention to our breath it helps us to stay connected with our bodies, ‘Even the breath I take while writing this sentence is filled with detail – there is a warmth, a depth, that I can choose to observe. If I do this, it brings awareness to my muscles and whole body.’
This detail thing is interesting. On the one hand, the tendency of doing something without sufficient attention to detail and imposing the criteria for valuing the effort and making a big fuzz if the criteria are not respected by others. On the other, the image of how something has to be done by the other person and making a big fuzz if the action does not match the image.
As I read the end of this blog I actually felt the detail in every breath that you speak about – gave me goosebumps!!
“Of course, as with so many things in life, it turns out that the opposite is true.” I absolutely love this, really shines a light on how we have created a reality that can self-fullfilingly trick us
I can feel there are times when I like to avoid the detail and just get on with things but can feel that this is a way to not bring the quality and love that I am to all that I do. I avoid this and just opt for function instead of embracing who I am and what I bring.
Through connection with the simple consistency in and out breath, we can access a space that holds every detail with equal magnitude.
Recently I have been becoming increasingly aware that everything is of equal importance which in a way takes away the whole concept of detail.
Love this Nicola, definitely takes it to a whole other level
The detail of our human body and how it works to support us and keep us alive are enough to keep us fascinated for the rest of our human lives. Then we have nature, then we have our fellow brothers & sisters….the world is made up of divine detail. We are surrounded by it. It is our choice to see the divinity in this or the devil-ity (just made up that word!) in it. And I love that there are people like you Joel who are reminding us to see the divinity in the detail.
Appreciating details allows us to see and confirm the quality that is there right in front of us. Qualities that we may easily miss if we are not paying attention to them.
Recently I have become aware that the smaller the detail I tend to, the more awareness I bring to the tiniest of movement the more love that I experience within and in the world. Your comment – ‘It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love’ is the truth.’ Thanks Joel.
Indeed Christine, I know that as i have come to appreciate and care for myself, my eyes have become opened to details that were before always overlooked and passed by.
What a great change to this phrase ‘love is in the detail’ – that just makes so much sense and I totally get this!
Love is in everything we do – if we really get to appreciate the smaller things and pay attention to them, it sets a foundation for a much stronger bigger picture.
Possibly the saying ” The devil is in the detail” was a warning to ponder every detail so we would not just go blindly ahead, but take the time to choose and feel.
The word detail used to conjure up anxiety in me! Today I take life at a lower pace from within myself, I’m able to observe the detail of things more and it means a greater level of care in all my moments. As soon as I start rushing, I bypass each moment and all the detail it offers, and can miss out on so much.
Its the space we allow ourselves and the pause in these moments that opens us up to the detail and that is divinely important in the way we move through the world.
Well spoken Joel , detail is very beautiful, divine and true. And so we can actually learn from it and know ourselves by it. As love is in the detail ; in nature, at home but also with people. Thank you Joel.
Never thought of resistance to details being a resistance to love, but it makes complete sense as love is always felt in the quality of how we are when we do things.
For me I can very easily get lost in all the little details and not connect them back to the fact that they are connected to a much bigger picture of life. Thank you Joel for the reminder that everything is connected and that the details can and do hold much understanding when we take into consideration that they are a part of much more and not isolated or individual as nothing in this world or universe is void or apart from everything else.
Taking care with detail is the most beautiful experience, the spaciousness that occurs is divine.
Joel, you shed light on something that I really do enjoy – detail. But at the same time, you’ve made me consider my own relationship with detail. It used to be – and still can be – something I get caught up in. But the getting ‘caught up’ is actually a reflection of me not being connected with myself.
There is detail in everything, so by choosing to be aware of the detail in every second, we become aware of so much more, ‘Even the breath I take while writing this sentence is filled with detail – there is a warmth, a depth, that I can choose to observe. If I do this, it brings awareness to my muscles and whole body. In fact, all of how I am in life right now gets shown to me in that moment.’
“I have begun to realise that my relationship with detail has been somewhat inconsistent and that, at times, I have thought of ‘detail’ as the enemy. Detail was those frustrating ‘fiddly’ elements that had to be put up with to get done what was needed.”I so can relate to this, but now I understand the power of love in the detail.
So great to re visit this blog and be reminded how every little detail has an impact on the whole and what is getting laid down for the next moment. The quality of energy that I choose is magnifying – so to be asking myself on moment to moment basis what is the energy that I am choosing is a level of detail that I haven’t quite committed to 24/7 or at least to the best of my ability. So it is time to pull up the sleeves and not to check out any longer – there is not time to waste and every moment I want to be magnifying the Divine light that created me.
I walked down the end of the street the other day, with the intent to stay focused on my walk for no more than the end of the block. It is amazing, when you make a life out of checking out that being present can come as a shock to the body.
Detail requires connection and commitment, detail is in everything if we choose to be aware of it.
There is no such thing as co-incidence and returning to this blog today is an ongoing and timely reminder for the importance of bringing consistency and attention to every single detail, in every moment of every day. This is the ‘coming back’ to true responsibility and purpose to bring into my living way. Thank you Joel for the wisdom and inspiration you bring with your writing.
I have found in situations where I have left out the details it comes back for me to readdress, often I leave out the details because I was functioning in disconnection, rush and raciness. We never really get away with leaving out the details because it is the details that creates flow and function, without the details I feel things simply doesn’t work to its optimum potential and the flow is blocked. Whereas if I pay attention to the details in the first place I make less mistakes, and when I value what the details bring I feel more joyful and expansive in my day. Everything then feels easy, simple and grand. So, building my relationship with detail is very supportive, not only for me but for others too.
In these ways, the detail holds the key to our freedom, not only in this moment, but in the next as well. This is so true Joel, and within that moment of freedom, is love, and only love can confim us. This I know to be absolute truth.
What I am starting to feel is that within the bigger plan if the detail is focused on then even if you don’t have the exact details or steps that will be taken in the future, they are supported by taking care of each detail in the moment. Therefore detail allows Gods light in what we do, from numbers, to words, to relationships. Everything can come down to detail. In many ways what nature reflects to us in its incredible detail.
This has been also my experience, the detail can hold the confirmation of God, of love; neglecting the detail allows openings for energy to come in and thwart, derail, sabotage, or taint something that could otherwise have represented the truth of the Divine on earth.
“It’s the way I leave a task, job or project that will determine the ease with which I, or someone else, will pick it up again.” – a beautiful account of the energetic responsibility we can all hold – for ourselves and for all equally, and in this responsibility holds great joy
‘There is detail in everything’ awesome reminder for me, thank you Joel. I am learning to pay attention to the detail in everything, to build my awareness and relationship with this as it certainly supports me to deeply connect to myself, others and divinity.
This is gorgeous to read again and again. Detail is that what shows us the all, in every action.
I knew a person that you could count the number of times he would use “the devil in the detail” when you asked his opinion on any planned project. He was the devil that picked apart everything; he was more of a what’s the worst that happen kind of guy that went into detail of why it should not be done. When we look at the detail in truth there is a flow and the devil never has a chance.
Detailed living allows for no checking- out and therefore more presence and true connection with others.
Examining the detail, allows us to go deeper rather than skim the surface or gloss over something and therein miss the magic on offer.
Taking a detailed look at our lives is key – both in appreciating all that we are and bring and all to let go of, that we no longer need carry with us.
It certainly is the detail that helps us to build our love, ‘as with so many things in life, it turns out that the opposite is true. It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love. It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.’
Oh my goodness Joel. What a simply stunning blog.
So much detail! With this blog you have enabled me to take one more, not so terrifying step, closer to understanding and embracing detail.
Your words heal me.
I love your description of detail Joel, how it cleans, clarifies and magnifies. As I read your blog I felt myself drop into my body and notice my breathing and movements.. thanks for the reminder that focusing on the detail brings us back into the here and now, back into our bodies and out of our heads, back into the quality of each movement and moment.
I love the power in calling out false sayings like ‘The Devils in the detail’…it feels like they loose their power. A more accurate saying would be ‘Heaven is in the detail’.
At the moment in the plane your blog makes so much sense. How this flight is to me is very much about the details, it is in how I am with myself in every moment, the quality, and this then governs how the bigger picture, in this case the long flight, is experienced by me.
Your post Joel has inspired me to look closer and go deeper with the detail in my life.
‘I have begun to realise that my relationship with detail has been somewhat inconsistent and that, at times, I have thought of ‘detail’ as the enemy. Detail was those frustrating ‘fiddly’ elements that had to be put up with to get done what was needed.’ This describes how my attitude to detail has been too Joel, an attitude than runs like a tense current through my body, and keeps me racing and achieving so that I can finally, at the end of the day, collapse into a comfortable chair and sigh. Now I am beginning to be able to surrender more in each moment, knowing that as I do so I am opening up my body and mind to become more spacious to attend to the detail – and I can really feel the difference in how light and beautiful this makes it all.
Each time I read this another layer unfolds, it is just a confirmation how detail really works. What jumped out at me this time is ‘The circumstance doesn’t change, but how I relate to it does.’ – This is so true, when we bring our awareness to absolutely everything then this changes the way we are in everything that we do. As opposed to auto pilot and being checked out in what we do.
A detailed study of any one thing brings untold awareness and understanding. To apply this to the whole of our life will allow us to see more and more and open ourselves to the universe.
A timely reminder to pay heed to every detail of life and our movement within it.
It is true there is no coincidence that the divinity has become the devil. When conscious of the detail there is a call to bring more awareness, to live full and to be present. Living in a world that works to deter away from this way makes it seem easy to shy away from the light that’s in the detail. When in truth it is actually exhausting.
If I truly stop and be fully present in the moment, appreciating every detail I am experiencing to the best of my ability and awareness there is so, so much. It is so true when you write, Joel, “all of life reflected in one moment. This doesn’t sound like the work of the devil, but rather the all-encompassing love of Divinity.” The more I live in the moment, living in this awareness the more I and my life expands and deepens. A beautiful observation you make.
If there is an aspect of our life we don’t like or we want or need to change, we can either try to force the change or we can use more and more awareness, becoming aware of more and more detail until the choice is very simple and often quite easy. If we then fall back we can continue with becoming more aware again until the choice is easy and stays easy.
wow Joel love rereading this, absolute gold your last para in particular is really awesome.
This article confirms a situation that occurred just prior to me reading this blog, so I really feel the importance of detail and presence
“Even the breath I take while writing this sentence is filled with detail – there is a warmth, a depth, that I can choose to observe. If I do this, it brings awareness to my muscles and whole body. In fact, all of how I am in life right now gets shown to me in that moment” – this is exquisite, like looking through a microscope, when we look at things at a close-up we become aware of its intricate beauty and the spaciousness that we do not usually see and appreciate otherwise, and this observation makes me feel humbled and magnificent at the same time.
It is so easy to dismiss everything around us – the obvious ones but as you so beautiful say Joel the details in our lives… When we become aware that we can feel our breath come in and out of nose and our lungs are fulling up and releasing no stop, day in day out then if we were to bring this level of awareness to every aspect of our life then we would have a complete sense of connectedness, to the divine our natural essence.
I have learnt the joy of surrendering to the detail. I have also been criticised for paying to much attention to things, but then the same people wonder why there is chaos in their lives. My life is not perfect but I feel like I am fully present in it, rather than running from crisis to crisis.
The real beauty is in the detail of everything, it changes how one lives and is with life and all one sees . The more I am living life with greater attention and focus on the all important details in every little thing i do, with focus on this the more love is poured into things and this can be felt deeply. It brings a joy, a clarity and simplicity to everything with an unexpected ease and appreciation. We have been fooled by our not wanting to see the detail as being too complicated and have been controlled to keep us away from love in everything for yes love is in the detail and this is beautiful to realise and know.
By bringing attention to the detail, you can’t help but slow down, it’s not going ‘slo-mo’, because even just that extra second to look, check or readjust something, is a moment to bring the quality of you and your connection to stillness, which certainly does leave an everlasting imprint. Great blog Joel, thank you
The details are the care I take in each moment- I love this and will take this into my day.
Detail is where the truth is. Details cannot lie.
Never heard about the devil in the detail thing but what I do know is that in every moment and every detail if using that word there is a possibility to feel a presence that seems to be never ending in it’s unfolding quality. The more present I get the more details I can see and it’s like life unfolds itself right before my very eyes. It’s hard to see when I’m rushed and thinking about other things though.
The Gentle Breath is where it starts and ends for me too, Joel. It gives us the continuous opportunity to deepen the connection within ourselves, to feel the subtle detail of each movement and bring greater awareness to what the body is holding or expressing. Our greatest teacher is therefore with us all the time, if we choose to pay attention to all the little messages throughout the day.
When I stop to reflect on your blog Joel I understand more fully the fact that there is stunning divine detail in all natural life around us; there is detail in absolutely everything, how awesome is that.
Beautiful expressed Joel, I can feel how there is a whole world in paying attention to detail and; ‘It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.’ So true.
Love this Joel – ’ There is detail in everything.Even the breath I take while writing this sentence is filled with detail – there is a warmth, a depth, that I can choose to observe. If I do this, it brings awareness to my muscles and whole body. In fact, all of how I am in life right now gets shown to me in that moment.’
Being aware of the detail in life allows us to live more truthfully, responsibly and joyfully…for without the detail, there are huge gaps and we are missing so much
Very beautifully said Joel. I’m certainly appreciating how my awareness of the detail in life and the way I respond, is a relationship that supports me enormously
Thanks Joel, over time my relationship with the detail is getting much better, I was, or still am to an extent a near enough is good enough sort of a guy, but since applying everything is energy and everything is because of energy and being more self loving, I can’t help but change the way I do what I do and apply far more attention to detail to whatever I am doing.
Thank you for the reminder of the detail. Sitting in my bed this morning, when you went into detail about detail, I could feel my detail and loved it. I could feel my body in the bed, working so incredibly to keep me alive, I could feel the ache in my stomach from eating something I should not have last night, I can feel the warmth of my bed and the coolness of the air around me, I can feel the loveliness of my fingertips as I type this sentence and I let go into all of that and when I do that, my shoulders drop. We can be afraid of the details as you say but we need not be.
It feels as though the more we appreciate detail the greater and grander we can become. Detail offers us the opportunity to see and feel that we are surrounded by detail – and that these details are offered by God to inspire us to expand and explore our true way of living in the world – a world that is truly magical as each detail unfolds and expands our experience and sense of who we are and our purpose.
I love the feeling of ‘looking at the detail of my relationship with the detail’ – it is as you say the detail that brings quality and true depth into our life. I feel it’s my perception of the understanding of detail that has changed over the last few years. At one time detail would have represented complication and that the task may take more time than I was willing to allow, whereas I now see detail as the opportunity to deepen my understanding of life and how we are evolving and expanding our experience of life and a life truly lived.
Its so true that when we go into the detail we can never switch off, rather we are necessarily present.
I can see detail in much richer context now thanks to this blog. i now understand how things are done is being just as important as what is done.
Thankyou Joel, I can see my relationship with detail was fraught with anxiety because it was that “finicky” stuff I could never get right, instead of if being about the level of love and care I can experience and be in every moment.
I am learning the attention to detail makes life far simpler, more rewarding, with no stress or anxiousness because you know you have been truly focused on how you are being with what you are doing in that moment. This is being lovingly responsible for the way we are. Look at the amazing detail of a flower, in a leaf, and in nature all around us. I agree wholeheartedly God / love is in the detail.
I too have always been averse to detail. I would say about myself, I am the blue sky person, I am good at strategy, not so good in the detail. But what I realised is that I am actually really good at detail, I just lacked a detailed relationship with myself. When I began to allow myself to observe and become aware of the details of how I am with myself each day, how was I self caring, in all the finer details, I found a much greater ease with how I was with detail in life.
“It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love. It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.” A very profound statement, Joel, I love how you express that. Yes, if we take care in everything that we do, then the next step that is required will flow seamlessly and beautifully. It is the detail that we incorporate that is key in every movement. So to connect deeply to ourselves as we do anything, is so important in every case to ensure it is done lovingly. Absolutely, love is in the detail.
Thankyou Joel for bringing my awareness back to the detail of the breath. I can feel such beauty in the detail and the divinity it brings from the way you have expressed here.
Re reading your blog, I see how much detail I missed on my first reading. The following sentence stood out today, ‘Even the breath I take while writing this sentence is filled with detail – there is a warmth, a depth, that I can choose to observe.’ It made ponder on how much we actually take in of anything we see, hear feel or read. How many of us are 1000% open to receiving fully what is before us? Is it that we don’t have the capacity to take it all in at once, or are we distracted and preoccupied with other things so we only pay partial attention? I would say for me it’s the latter.
I love your love and appreciation for detail which invites me to deepen relationship with details as I can know that this is where evolution takes place.
I am doing an online Esoteric Yoga course for women on a Sunday morning. It helps me focus on the detail I bring to my everyday movements and is a super way to start my week. The simplicity yet profoundness of being present with each move I make cannot be underestimated. I think you summed it up nicely Joel by saying ‘all of how I am in life right now gets shown to me in that moment.’
The level of detail you describe, for example not just what I eat but how I eat, might seem ridiculous to many and yet they form the foundation of not a perfect life, but a life of connection to ourselves.
In bringing detail, we can never go into auto-pilot and switch off to what we are doing.
When we listen to what our bodies are truly asking for in any moment, there is a very specific level of detail there – for example – this food, at this time, and this much of it… Without connection to our bodies, detail comes from a picture or ideal of what we think is good, or right for us, but without a quality that truly supports, nurtures and evolves.
Brilliant insight Kylie. Beautifully written. As you said earlier “Detail requires that deeper level of commitment.” ln my own life when l choose this level of detail so much more is offered than l could ever have seen.
Detail requires a deeper level of commitment, to not only ‘tick a box’ of function, or getting by in life, but to truly bring quality to it. The end result are two entirely different products.
I love what you express here Joel, “It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love. It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step”.
The detail is in everything and it brings a real sense of joy, wonderment and expansion to life and how we interact with it. Thank you Joel.
When I choose overwhelm and complication,the beauty of details are missed, simplicity is my way home to the these finer elements and moments.
Beautifully said Sarah. Thank you.
Something that I’ve been working on recently is the detail of my relationship with food. While on the outside, my food choices hit the mark of being healthy, what I have not been paying as much attention to is how I am eating my food which is often in a rush or while focused on another activity… This has resulted in some ongoing digestive issues which are becoming harder and harder to ignore or avoid… time for me to really look at this in more detail, and in more love…
I am sure it is no coincidence that the saying has become ‘the devil’ rather than the truth that it is the divine – this makes detail seem arduous or tricky, rather than the expansive and amazing aspect of every part of life.
I would love to go into to detail about so many things but the only detail that makes absolute sense is our divine connection, which is where all truth lives.
As a man focusing on the detail or quality of being of how I do things, allows me to connect to how delicate I can be in my body which supports me to do more and let go of complexity and drive which harm my body.
“There is detail in everything” and it is that quality that we can connect to that when done with consistency creates a new way of being that reflects the ease and flow of the universe.
I love reading this blog as it reminds me that everything is important and has a purpose and this is how we develop our understanding.
To have sayings like “the devil is in the detail.” entrenched in the minds of so many of us, shows how far away we have come from trusting what we innately know, not what others pass on or pass down to us. To me, like you Joel, everything is in the detail, and it is the detail that keeps me in the present moment in whatever I do.
Completion is truly supportive as when things are left half done it is a drain on our energy and we have to play catch up.
… and this also effects everyone around us.
Detail will never leave a stone unturned on the way to ‘completion’.
Hello Joel and this is forever deepening, “not just what I write, but how I am when I write, not just what I eat, but how I am when I eat, not just what I do in any given moment, but how I am when doing this.” It is like life is a consistent change of awareness and so I can say to this line I do all of this but then tomorrow or even later today does it need a little adjustment in the detail because of what has happened in that time. The comfort of just repeating something because of a past experience has been an undoing for me. The new and fresh eyes on every moment and the flexibility to move if things have changed has always supported me and this is a never ending cycle.
Attention to detail, as Joel writes, is absolutely crucial for our own evolution… Opening up our potential… Really connecting to who we are… It is all there in the detail, and as Joel also states, it is something that for many of us, myself included there was a real resistance to the attention to detail… So it really is important to be writing about this… Imagine if everyone had this attention to detail… I have a feeling that the big picture would be out to take care of itself then.
I am allowing myself to surrender more in the Gentle Breath Meditation and it is bringing a deeper level of care and love. I am aware of more so there seems to be more detail too.
So true Joel, and great to put into practice – ‘detail holds the key to our freedom, not only in this moment, but in the next as well.’
“…at times, I have thought of ‘detail’ as the enemy. Detail was those frustrating ‘fiddly’ elements that had to be put up with to get done what was needed.” I have felt this too – but my granny always said ‘look after the pence and the pounds will look after themselves’. The same applies to details. For me it needs commitment and consistency to focus on detail, when I would prefer to look at the bigger picture. But both are so necessary and equally important.
” It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love. It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.” You have made me realise that there is a much greater depth to go to where everything is accorded the same level of attention, the same foundation of love and equal focus. Glossing over comes back to bite me in the bum I have noticed, because, as Serge Benhayon has taught, “everything is everything and nothing is nothing”.
At our workplace we have a new saying – “the clarity is in the detail”. Without detail it is anarchy, confusion and complexity.
Love this. I feel this to be so true. The detail often gives us the missing piece to understanding and the harmony that is offered in that.
‘There is detail in everything.’ and the quality in which we do things in can deepen a little more each time if we so choose. It is the simple things like turning the key in the door or tapping on the keys as we type. We are forever given opportunities to evolve. 🙂
Recently I have been observing and playing around with detail while doing things. I have always loved detail but had a tendency to indulge in it drawing out jobs and making them last longer than what was actually asked of me. Detail when done wisely and with presence is super loving and supportive towards my body and everything around me; detail when done to check out is abusing my body and everything around me.
I have always loved detail and by reading your words Joel I am loving it more as it opens me up to an even deeper level of understanding of what honouring detail brings.
Since reading this I have been playing with looking at areas around the house that are suffering a bit of neglect and paying a bit more attention to the details, how can I add to them to make them more supportive or take away from them so they are less cluttered, it is a great analogy for all areas of my life.
Details, details… details. Details can mean a sinking of a ship or its voyage across the Atlantic.
How gorgeous Joel, I have always loved noticing the detail in nature. ‘ In these ways, the detail holds the key to our freedom, not only in this moment, but in the next as well. Detail, like a drop of water running down a leaf, cleans and magnifies what is beneath. Detail, like a breeze on a hot day, refreshes and changes how I feel about a current circumstance. The circumstance doesn’t change, but how I relate to it does.’
My willingness to look in detail at the quality with which I approach all my activity simply puts me in a position, responsible in my own driving seat, to make changes and adjustments that heighten my awareness of all that lies before and all around me.
Obviously when reading this blog I became super aware of the details, right down to how I was reading the blog…was I skimming or truly connecting to it. Was I listening to what was being presented or was I thinking about something else. What was so interesting was I would read a bit, and then clock I was starting to check out, so I reconnected and did so through that gentle breath you dedicated the blog too. This blog is an amazing support Joel, thank you. For me with detail I get a sense of space…when I am paying attention to the details I never feel rushed and there always seems to be the space within which to be really present in what I am doing…so the detail actually allows me to “be” in that precise moment. That, in this day and age, is a Golden currency everyone could do with.
When I feel into the detail I am drawn to the notion that it is the loving care we take. Those attention to detail moments that make all the difference as to whether something is ok or excellent. When I work, I find that when I concentrate on the task at hand, knowing that it is a special moment for those I am doing it for and do it with love and care in mind, it is grace that I am handing over, not just the object.
The detail shared about the importance of detail should be a big part of our education system, if I had the known about this as a young person it may have affected the way approached life.
Paying attention to detail brings a divine quality to everything we do. For example how I place my fingers on the keyboard letters as I type changes the quality of my thoughts and whatI am typing.
Detail is everything but equally detail can become just another distraction. It takes honesty to discern whether the detail is overkill and a distraction or part of keeping things streamlined and simple.
I can relate to this Linda, I was one to rush things just to get them done without considering the detail or quality that was being called for in each situation. I can feel now how the detail is the part that determines the quality of how we are in each moment.
I have long been avoiding the detail, as I’ve seen it as the hard bit. The detail is the extra bit, the part we know needs to be done but most of the time I would have taken the easy way that means cut corners thinking I could get away things, not realising that the quality of the outcome is lessened by this approach.
You are so right – there is detail in absolutely everything and connecting that with the breath is just awesome and I love the detail in the breath when I am totally present to it. Thank you for a beautiful blog.
Oh and I really love this – ‘It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love. It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.” I can feel when I am working like that how awesome it feels and how smoothly things work, yes more and more care every step of the way is the way 🙂
I love this too Karina, its a complete turn around from seeing detail as a negative, to a way where Divine order flows through what we do.
I love your blog Joel as I can relate to so much of it, what I saw first of all was this: ” I have begun to realise that my relationship with detail has been somewhat inconsistent and that, at times, I have thought of ‘detail’ as the enemy. Detail was those frustrating ‘fiddly’ elements that had to be put up with to get done what was needed.” Although not quite the ‘enemy’, I have not paid the amount of attention to detail in some areas of my life as I could, and this is a great read for me to get on top of that, thank you.
I do love detail and appreciating this is another level of detail I am discovering.
“Detail, like a drop of water running down a leaf, cleans and magnifies what is beneath.” Joel something that I’ve been noticing recently has been my lack of allowing my awareness and fighting what I feel all around me. Your observations though, and in this case the detail of a drop of water, confirm the magic that is there to be felt all the time. By choosing to dull my awareness of parts of life I can really feel the missing out on other areas of life. Yet its a simple choice that has God and the divine in it.
What is clearly felt in a house with love for detail, is that the space carries no imposition. There is no hidden evil in the angles.
This loving detail is so important Joel. I find it so easy to go into autopilot without truly assessing the quality of my being rather than just going into the doing. This is a next step for me to address the quality in all that I do, the way that I am with what I do, not just looking at the outcome.
This is such a great example that we can completely turn round our understanding of words and change the wisdom and healing impact they can facilitate in life. Relating to detail as the enemy where conflict, control, arguments and manipulation take place, is such a long way away from having a sense of being asked to pay attention to “not just what I do in any given moment, but how I am when doing this”. One is using it to manipulate and control, the other is using it to evolve into a deeper responsibility.
Detail feels like the potential to bring true quality in every moment and for this to be of service in the next as is written in the blog – ‘Detail, like a drop of water running down a leaf, cleans and magnifies what is beneath. Detail, like a breeze on a hot day, refreshes and changes how I feel about a current circumstance. The circumstance doesn’t change, but how I relate to it does.’
The Gentle Breath meditation is an awesome example of building love with detail. Paying attention to the detail of how we breathe and then choosing the deliberate quality of breath brings a finite detail to something that we are doing all day every day. When we practise bringing attention to detail with one activity, it becomes easier to bring that to all other activities.
Yes Donna, I too have found this an amazing support, with the Gentle Breath Meditation I can really feel every detail in my body and this supports me to take this detail to all parts of my life.
I have recently noticed that my relationship with detail has needed to evolve from where it was. It is a funny thing about evolution it doesn’t ever stop. In our relationship with the world we often think that we have got to where we will be for the rest of our lives, but we age, we become more aware, or we try to pretend that nothing has changed at all when it has.
Consistency in detail builds love. It is all the little cracks where we lose the attention to detail that allows for another quality of energy (that is not love) into our bodies.
Joel, I love the detail in which you write about your relationship with detail! Your sense of humour and the fun you have whilst sharing this blog still comes with a profundity that is palpable and infections. Thank you for such a detailed account on how detail is key in our lives and brings out the beauty of who we are.
It is great to re-visit this blog and deepen the relationship with detail. Something to be enjoyed to the full as the quality in every detail brings harmony and joy to my day.
“Imagine that – all of life reflected in one moment. This doesn’t sound like the work of the devil, but rather the all-encompassing love of Divinity”.
It is in the details that truth can be felt, otherwise we remain in either the glass half full or glass half empty mentality. The details show the precision of what is before us.
It is the detail which offers us the opportunity to be consciously present in everything we do.
‘ It’s the way I leave a task, job or project that will determine the ease with which I, or someone else, will pick it up again’. How we leave things is always what we come back too. For example, when I leave my house in the morning with the dishes all done and surfaces all clear and clean, that is exactly what I return to after my work – which always feels supportive as I have a clean kitchen to start with to prepare my dinner.
“So more recently I have been looking at the detail of my relationship with the detail.” I really like that Joel, and I will certainly be looking at the detail in the detail……thanks for the inspiration.
My life has become ‘not just what I write, but how I am when I write’, and am I writing for all of humanity and thus for evolution, which is divine expression!
From re reading your sharing Joel I can grasp more clearly how important detail really is. It’s not an added extra but the most important aspect of completing the whole!
From re reading your sharing Joel I can grasp more clearly how important detail really is. It is not an added extra, but the most important aspect of completing the whole!
The tension or ease in my toes as I sit at my desk tells me a lot about what is going on and with this awareness my ability to take responsibility and make my next choices is greatly enhanced.
‘It is calling out for me to pay more attention to the detail – for example; not just what I write, but how I am when I write, not just what I eat, but how I am when I eat, not just what I do in any given moment, but how I am when doing this’ – this is where we bring the pure love of ourselves that we hold ourselves in, into the world and reflect to others how much they too are love. This attention to detail, is attention to detail for all Humanity and allows for the simplicity that can be our life – it is up to us to make the choice.
I love this line ‘Even the breath I take while writing this sentence is filled with detail’ – it just shows how much quality we miss every single second – how many of us can recall the quality, depth and warmth of our last breath? It’s astonishing what you are presenting here.
“…It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love…” yes, and this completely changes the approach in the way things are done, as well as the relationship we have with everything.
What great Love there is in every detail, every cell, every particle, pocket and thread of life.
‘There is detail in everything.’ We miss out on so much when we miss seeing and feeling the beauty in the details. It is in everything and if we choose to be in raciness and disconnection the magnificent and grandness in the details that is offered, pass through or reflecting to us goes unnoticed or unappreciated. When we bring awareness to the details it opens up the magic of God in every moment.
These last few weeks I’ve missed a few details and complicated my life. It’s showing me how I’ve been living -I’ve been in my head and missed the detail that is actually there.
So often growing up I was annoyed when others didn’t get the bigger picture I was painting and pulled me up on the detail but now I’m appreciating both matter equally and it is my responsibiliy to provide the detail, the steps to support the bigger picture being appreciated.
I love this, Joel. The extent to which we take care of the details in everyday life is a reflection of how connected we are remaining with ourselves, for when we check out, get distracted or caught up in something, the absolute clarity and presence is forsaken. This makes me appreciate the little details and what they can teach us about ourselves.
Even the breath I take while writing this sentence is filled with detail – there is a warmth, a depth, that I can choose to observe. If I do this, it brings awareness to my muscles and whole body. In fact, all of how I am in life right now gets shown to me in that moment. Absolutely Joel, so much can be felt within one single moment, they are truly powerful spaces that can bring so much.
The awareness that comes with the loving detail is amazing. When I am aware of the detail there is a fullness and quality to my life and livingness that is out of this world.
Focusing on the detail, allows me to observe life to a depth where I don’t get affected by what is going on around me so easily and be consistent with my quality within.
When we pay attention to detail there is no complication as there is a natural flow when we are fully present to the whole situation and its’ truth.
‘In these ways, the detail holds the key to our freedom, not only in this moment, but in the next as well.’ – The detail holds the key to our freedom indeed Joel, as it is in the detail that truth is hidden or tucked away. Only when we are prepared to see the whole truth are we truly free.
‘If every thing is energy and everything is because of energy’ by Serge Benhayon, where does detail fit in? What part does detail play in ‘everything’, if ‘detail is everything’? Could the energy we put into the way we do things in detail, make a difference? If so would it not be important to know what energy we are in when we do anything, not just the detail? Or could it be every bit is part of the detail and therefore everything is important?
It is lovely to come across an article about ‘detail’ and to read your mention of “It is calling out for me to pay more attention to the detail – for example; not just what I write, but how I am when I write, not just what I eat, but how I am when I eat, not just what I do in any given moment, but how I am when doing this.” Often we consider the beginning and end of something is the physical aspect that we see and can measure. Yet your article reminds us that there are other ingredients to consider too. “How I am when doing this” is key factor in the overall quality of the end product. The energy imbued through our interaction permeates and becomes an integral quality of the end product. This article is a great expansion of the more general narrow view on life.
We leave something behind – that alone is a life changing revelation if we were to take responsibility for this!
The best way to deal with detail is with simplicity. It is the simple mind that can best cope with detail, for it never allows one to get overwhelmed with what is in front of them.
“It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.” Simply beautiful Joel and it is the beauty of the details, which we can forever develop and deepen on our forever path of learning. Awesome thank you.
Not just what I do but how I am when I do it?
It’s an amazing way to live like this. Forever deepening my connection with life and the depth of love that I am and can bring to the world.
Joel I love your blogs. Thank you. ✨
I have found that when I don’t want to be aware of the details, I take on a vagueness – in this I am actually acutely aware of every little detail in the moment but choose to ignore it & often forget it.
This so clearly presents the power of having awareness of the detail, knowing our being in every moment, observing what is going on detail gives us a clear view on how we are doing and presents us with all that we are. It is all there.
What a delicate blog. I can feel the detail of love in and between the lines. A great reminder for me to take heed of the detail in my life. Thank you!
I can feel that there is an element of letting go in looking at the detail, of allowing it to be as it is and bringing focus to a level of care which is in balance with our natural way of being.
Divinity or the devil – it is our choice which we choose… one truly supports us and the other tricks us.
Divinity is in the detail… there is an opportunity of Divinity in every moment.
We need to change that saying Joel to “Divinity is in the detail.” Its in attending to those details that we complete an activity and leave it ready to pick up and move on next time. There is an honouring of ourselves and others in this.
Honouring the deeper details of life brings a point of light to whatever we are doing.
The irony of detail is it can be incredibly simple, or it can be used to create complexity. Through the simplicity of detail a clarity and space is brought to life.
Detail is a completion as well. To build a practice of paying attention to detail gives us a really good foundation of knowing when something is complete or not.
I love how you paint the picture of completion t the detail Joel and how this allows for us to truly complete and thus create the quality of our next moment. It all comes down to quality and in giving attention to the detail we are choosing the quality of tenderness, delicacy and stillness.
Gorgeous Joel, and yes if we are present enough to notice every detail we are in the presence of divinity.
In re-reading this blog and its comments I have much appreciation and thanks for Serge Benhayon, Joel Levin and Natalie Benhayon. In sharing and high-lighting ‘brush’ – this has increased my appreciation of the paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci and the detail of every brush stroke and the conscious presence it would have taken to complete master pieces with the level of magnetic pull these painting hold. This level of magnetic pull is from simply being in conscious presence, which brings in the energy of our divine aspect that is then felt, as exemplified by the impress in Leonardo’s paintings. So the energy is complete because it is held by a master who stays connected to their soul or divine aspect.
The magnetic pull is because we are all from soul and we feel the pull to return when inspired by a work that has been finished in the detail that only the soul can provide, to form a whole or spherical aspect so that the divine energy remains! The energy of the great pyramids is another example of something that holds a magnetic pull or spherical aspect. In our time the works of Serge Benhayon hold this same energy and can be felt.
The pyramids were probably more than 10,000 years ago, Leonardo was hundreds of years ago. This same energy is no doubt felt by humanity thanks to Serge Benhayon for sharing all about our soul and how to re-connect! Lets not wait anther 10,000 plus years – it is our choice and the energy has never been so easy to re-connect to!
It is in the detail of ‘doing’, or noticing something that brings such a beautiful moment to stop and to connect to our body and the bigger picture of everything.
Inconsistency is a killer in all areas, whatever they may be. It leaves us unstable and leaves others around us unsure of what is going on and where they or we are truly at.
Joel, this realisation that the loving care we take in each moment builds and adds to the ease with which we will take our next step, is a deepening growth of understanding for us all thank you. It is so supportive when we return to feeling that loving care we have taken, it confirms to us that the quality of everything we do is really important. Rewriting the saying as ‘true love is in the detail’ is much more accurate.
“It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love. It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step”. How beautifully you expressed that, Joel, I love it. Absolutely, it is love that is in the detail that we include in the way that we do everything that prepares us for the next step that we will take in each moment. When we undertake every little detail in a loving manner, then we receive incredible support when we return to that area. For example, when we make our bed in the morning, with great care in the loving way we carry out every detail of the action, when we return to rest in the evening, that loving care will be reflected in the welcoming support of our bed. Similarly when we take the trouble to give loving attention to the detail in any job we are undertaking, then all that follows will flow smoothly.
This is so true Beverly, how the way we are in what we do influences the next step. so the more attention to detail there is in how we are in each moment brings that same quality into the next movement or step we take.
‘There is detail in everything’ indeed and every-thing is in fact detail.
Joel I have found your blog to be really supportive in a very practical way. There have been many times since reading it, that I have had the word ‘detail’ come to me and as a result have gone into more detail in my body. It has happened when I have had hardness in my body and it has helped me to let go physically of tension but I have also had the word pop up whilst having a kiss, which had a wonderful effect on the quality of the kiss!
Joel, I read your blog last night and got stuck with the detail, felt tired so went to bed! This morning I decided to re-read and stopped short at the first sentence …”Recently life has been asking me to look more closely at what I do and how I am” ~ this is awesome and a very powerful reminder that EVERYTHING is in the detail, and it is the stopping and looking closely and how we live that enables us to move forwards in life and not stagnate in old patterns of behaviour by gently pulling ourselves out of them by claiming ourselves for who we truly are, and not discounting the smallest of details, because in affect every minute detail magnifies into the whole picture.
Of course, I shall now go back to re-read the rest of the blog so that no detail escapes me!
Joel, thank you for reminding us so beautifully how every small detail matters and when we choose to infuse each one with the divine, life is transformed and miracles happen.
“It’s the way I leave a task, job or project that will determine the ease with which I, or someone else, will pick it up again.” This is love in action, taking care of the details I find is such a beautiful way to ensure that whoever picks the job up next can do so with ease, because of the attention, focus and clarity that has been imbued in the task.
Detail: noticing the small things, like just how often we check out and then checking what happened just before: did we do something amazing and then dismiss it? Did we feel something that for some reason we prefer not to feel?
By checking out, I mean going off into random thoughts, thinking about something completely different from where we are in each moment. When we clock that it has happened we can back track to what led up to our checking out, which helps us to understand what we are avoiding.
Paying attention to detail seems to have got a bad reputation and I would say has had many of us hoodwinked into believing it for far too long, and just goes to show how something so simple can be lied about to the extent where we start to believe it is complicated. In this instance the lie is hiding a pure treasure.
Detail that is simple and consistently confirms the expression of love is very beautiful to behold, like an amazing tapestry. Detail that is complicated is often fastidious or full of control, having to do it ‘my way’ and feels ugly and very hard work to attend to. It is like picking apart a ball of knotted string. In detail we can learn much about ourselves, our past and ongoing choices.
Joel I love that fact that you point out that “Even the breath I take while writing this sentence is filled with detail” it shows how there is nothing in life that is not full of detail and also the real joy and divinity in detail. To allow and appreciate detail is therefore to allow and appreciate divinity.
I agree Susan, and this detail is really in each moment we move.
Bring detail to all that we do has made an enormous difference in how I am with myself and others around me, I notice how much more considerate I am in others company and how enjoyable it is to have such attention to detail.
I’m only beginning to build a relationship and appreciate detail, as you have so inspiringly so, shared Joel
Joel what you are presenting here is Love = detail. Every moment is detail, and in this moment, i am having a pause moment and feeling me, my finger tips as i type and what that feels like – detail. How i am sitting and what it feels like – detail…etc etc…and in this moment, i feel present and more alive, as my senses have been awakened.
And then there is getting dressed up for a night in or out, I have always loved the detail in my dress, shoes, make-up etc.. and this again shows me the joy that can take place.
Yes Joel, this is a great point ‘Then, looking at society overall, I realised we had the saying that “the devil is in the detail.” It is the opposite, and if we look at the word devil, back to front ‘lived’ quite frankly we live life in detail, life is detail, everything is details, its a matter of whether in each moment we want to connect and feel the details of life or skim over.
As you stated Joel ‘It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love’
Cooking is another area that I have naturally always loved detail and the JOY I experience while cooking and sharing my dish with others has also been amazing.
I have always loved the detail in my hairdressing work and because of this I have built a large clientele over the past 17 years and yet learning to love detail in all areas in my life has been an amazing and important development.
Detail is something I didn’t want to know about like the plague….I have had an impatience with detail, often skipping it only to find it come back and bite me in the ‘butt’ at a later date, especially when I make things, or cook a meal and decide can’t be bothered adding an ingredient…simple details…But I ignored detail because i didn’t want to do, be that extra, i was quite happy to just take a short cut….since I’ve started to see details in a different light, as something that is important, that everything plays a part, there is a caring that is growing, and a sense of things been completed in full, there is also a quality of integrity. For example, I throw something in the bin, and the paper falls out, i can leave it or put it in the bin, in consideration of another, but also completion. Details is in everything. I can now say ‘i love detail’…as it is like tapestry, where the needle goes through every hole in a rhythm, if one hole is missed the whole piece is affected.
Attention to detail is the most loving discipline/support we can give to our self and every-one connected to us.
I used to have a ‘this will do attitude’ which was very disregarding for my self and all concerned. We need to be absolute with all we do and all we be. This is love.
I too have been learning the real beauty that comes from taking care in every moment and detail with the smallest and mundane of things allowing a building and expansion,a contentment and solidity feeing in side that feels so yummy and true. This is quite the opposite as you share form the misconceived ideals that the detail is mundane and not somewhere we want to go that can be glossed over in a non commitment and purely getting by way of life.The responsibility this brings to our every movement and moment is a very special way of living full of true love in every detail.
You have nailed it Joel, it is in the details that we get to see and feel the refinement of God, without the details, the aire of disregard, neglect, haste or ignorance can be felt.
Thank you Joel for exposing the truth that there is no devil in detail only love. Unpacking something in detail will always bring forth an expression of love, whether that is in truth, joy, stillness or harmony.
I love what details can show us in our lives. They can confirm the way we are living or raise us up to the next level of awareness. Details make up the complete picture.
Bringing a focus to detail in my breathing has changed my way of life; the way I look at myself; the way I look at humanity; the way I look at the universe. Every detail counts and everyday I learn more to live in this loving and responsible way.
This morning I got to feel that the finer the detail the more infinite God seems to become.
Thanks for the reminder, Joel. I have just had a dear friend staying, and what became clear to us both over the week we spent together, is how important it is to care about the details. When you are living in close proximity to another, the little things become very noticeable and can have a huge impact. I feel that being aware and honest with each other in this way has allowed us to take our relationship to another level.
This blog allows me to feel how expansive detail is. This is the exact opposite of what I previously believed detail to be (narrow, confined, suffocating etc).
It truly does not sound like the work of the devil – detail is not a burden or a overwhelming responsibility – detail is a beautiful flow of life.
Taking care of the detail in life is what can determine the quality of what happens and will also influence the next steps we take and the events which will transpire.
and definitely healing!
You’ve outlined a gorgeous relationship we can develop with the world and ourselves Joel. When we pay attention to the detail and appreciate the reflections that it offers us, then we can learn how to move and live in a way that supports the details to work together rather than work at odds with one another.
This is beautiful Dianne. What is holding us back from also leaving those loving imprints that you speak about in our sanctuaries, out into our workplace and everywhere we go. This would not only support us for next time we visit but also support everyone else who comes to that workplace etc as well.
Great blog Joel, I have often felt I can see and feel the bigger picture but can get lost in the detail. What I realise is that in the detail I can bring self and individuality in which then complicates things. For now I am learning how to bring the detail while still remaining in touch and on track with the true purpose and bigger picture.
Amazing Joel, as my awareness grows, I too can say ‘recently life has been asking me to look more closely at what I do and how I am’, and completing the detail on a lot of projects.
Gorgeous Joel, ‘It’s the way I leave a task, job or project that will determine the ease with which I, or someone else, will pick it up again.’ i can relate to this in terms of how i leave my desk, my bedroom and my house – if i leave it tidy and ordered it is lovely to step back into and i feel at ease, if my desk is a mess and things are uncompleted or my house is untidy it feels much harder to step back into and feels like a struggle to move onto the next project or task.
Isn’t amazing how we have allowed these sayings to take such a strong hold in our societies when they are not true, and in this case a complete lie? I know through my own experience that God is in the details. The Gentle Breath Meditation has been a key tool in supporting me to deal with my impatience and frustration that I felt when having to stop and take time to focus on the little details that make up the bigger picture. To me the Devil simply represents ‘lived’ backwards and hence represents an anti-life energy that we choose because we don’t want to commit to what we know we need to do. Thanks to this simple meditation, my relationship with this saying has been totally transformed, I now know with every cell in my body that ‘God is in the detail and the Devil is the resistance we have to taking absolute care of them.’
I had the pleasure of dinning at a fine restaurant on Saturday night and the attention to detail was exemplary with each staff member a true professional with obvious dedication to their vocation and it was great to appreciate, observe and learn from.
“Imagine that – all of life reflected in one moment. This doesn’t sound like the work of the devil, but rather the all-encompassing love of Divinity.”- Yes, I am of late, also being made aware of the attention to detail I bring to my work, in midwifery and it really does bring more love, care, value and honouring to what I am doing.
Whenever i have ‘glossed over the details” they are soon brought to my attention.
To consider in detail all details brings a sense of completion and that we have given our all.
“It’s the way I leave a task, job or project that will determine the ease with which I, or someone else, will pick it up again. It is the understanding I can bring to why I make the choices I make that frees the control that my past patterns had. In these ways, the detail holds the key to our freedom, not only in this moment, but in the next as well.” OMG Joel, your words deliver such a simple truth albeit, at the same time, absolutely profound!
I recon we are all sensitive to the details of life… so much more can be understood when we just pay a little more attention.
“It is calling out for me to pay more attention to the detail – for example; not just what I write, but how I am when I write, not just what I eat, but how I am when I eat, not just what I do in any given moment, but how I am when doing this.” I look forward to the day when I can crack the seemingly automatic hard walls of resistance that pop up when it comes to paying attention to the detail. As always Joel, your blog is super inspiring.
What if we stop and look at what is right here in front of us? What if there is so much more than we might think at first glance? All the things around us all came from somewhere, all had a journey to be there, grew from the ground, were made in a factory or were shipped to your country to be with you here right now. And all of those things are arranged in a specific way in an order that is perfect for you to see today. Every moment, place and scenario has a rich tapestry of meaning and symbolism, that we can tap into and read like a book. And yet we skim over life like a bad magazine. Wow – then we are missing out then on the true beauty of God, the detail that is divine.
I have often wondered at the detail I see and feel all around me. I know that just about every item I use in my daily life has been made possible by hundreds of people working together and holds the quality these people choose to work in. I also love coming back to the simplicity of the detail of my own breath knowing that each breath I take dictates the quality that I can bring to all I do.
You have reminded me just how often I sweep the detail to one side, without giving due consideration to how important they really are. I have also found my body lets me know (infected finger) or something else that keeps returning till I get what I need to understand.
Today I experimented with noticing details in the way people speak – not so much what they are saying, but the tone of voice, and being able to read what is actually being said within the whole expression, not just the words. In this way the communication is deeper and richer, because there is an understanding of the whole person and where they are coming from in that moment. It means I listen with observation and appreciation, not judgement.
We often look at detail with a view of controlling and manipulating something, but how gorgeous is it when as is described here we can look at the detail in something as a way of appreciating and putting care into everything.
This blog got me thinking about how detail can mean different things to different people; for some it may be just about the actual physical detail of events, but as you show Joel we can take it to a deeper level of being aware of the quality in which we are attending to everything as well.
It began to make no sense – why would I look at the detail with a sense of panic, fear or dread? I know this feeling very well, the ingrained belief systems that is set up around detail comes with such controlling force.
Yes attending to detail can be an expression of love.
Detail, like a drop of water running down a leaf, cleans and magnifies what is beneath. Detail, like a breeze on a hot day, refreshes and changes how I feel about a current circumstance. The circumstance doesn’t change, but how I relate to it does. You explain this so very beautifully Joel, and you are spot on. The circumstances don’t change, but how you feel within what you do does when you bring in detail.
“The circumstance doesn’t change, but how I relate to it does.” – for me this is key! It is holding the Wisdom of observation. Whenever we choose (are able to) observe a situation we can have a feel if there’s anything for us to act on in any given situation. When we don’t observe we’re often caught in doing, wanting to fix, trying to change whatever the circumstance is. What I’m still learning is when I’m observing from my head and when I do it from my heart. Only the latter is True observation. Whenever I do it from my head, I feel always a level of arrogance and superiority in me.
“There is detail in everything. Even the breath I take while writing this sentence is filled with detail – there is a warmth, a depth, that I can choose to observe.” This is beautiful Joel to even feel the detail of breathing. Stopping the rush and creating the space to see and feel the detail of what is around us feels like magic.
Committing to detail is saying yes to be more of who we are whether it is bringing more awareness to the quality of our breath, movements or any other area of our lives it is all about refining the quality in which we live and to keep evolving.
Detail is often thought of in the realm of “what we do”. For example there needs to be detail with our spending, or our taxes. What you present here is there also needs to be detail in our inner being. Detail to our energetic quality, our sense of self, and our expression of ourselves.
Thanks for raising this Joel, “I have begun to realise that my relationship with detail has been somewhat inconsistent “. I’ve realise that if to attend to detail I need to be present then any inconsistency in attending to detail shows the inconsistency in staying connected to myself. This is why I love the detail also though, because it fosters presence.
I’ve always been a detailed (or ‘particular’ is another word to describe this..!) but it sometimes used to drive me nuts (& others as well!). I used to see that detail was about perfection and so I’d spend literally hours on certain tasks to cover every single base and have everything perfect, when often this meant there was so much focus that I’d miss the bigger picture, and myself and others used to get frustrated with this overall inefficiency or being able to complete things in a timely manner. I’ve been learning that there is love in the detail I bring, but that true detail is not about things being perfect or having to live up to a certain standard or ideal. I’m now learning the difference between detail that keeps me bogged down and with blinkers on that I can’t see or do anything else, and the detail that has a flow and ease about it, while at the same time bringing with it a quality that is about a level of care and flexibility to do what is needed when it is needed without me being anal!
It’s so amazing to me to consider the fact that detail is the key to freedom. A few years back if you had said that to me I would have thought quite the opposite. Detail is a dogma, a ball-and-chain, a hassle, time consuming, anal, etc…. Now I am totally the opposite. Detail is where the gold lies because to be committed to detail I have to be committed to myself and to life. And if I commit to the then all the ball-and-chains fall off and my life has purpose, tenderness and joy. It’s amazing. It works. God is in the detail.
Absolutely Otto God is in the detail!
Detail is in everything and the more that I pause to allow space – the more detail makes itself known. The first time someone mentioned self love I had no idea what that was or where to start but as I read this blog I am realising that attention to detail is incredibly loving – loving of self and loving of others. Your comment Joel – ‘It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step’ articulates beautifully how we build on the love we are and continue to bring it more fully into our lives. Thanks Joel.
Whenever I feel stuck in a rut I come back to the simplest of commitments through my day. Eating well, dressing in accordance to the weather and my daily activities, drinking water etc etc. I learn so much about myself in the detail of all these things.. like you say Joel, in the way I pour my water, put on my clothes and prepare for the day. For me the detail in life connects me to what is really going on, in the acceptance of this I can feel or at least sense god.
Detail is the grandeur in which we find the true quality of connection with God. There is great expansion available to us in every detail of our lives and this too is reflected in the details found in nature too.
Joel it makes no sense what so ever the devil in the detail. I love how you have explored and expressed in detail the magnificence in the detail. It is so easy to brush of things and not to care but what you have so clearly shared is that has an impact on the whole. Not just your next moment but also everyone in it. When we bring the awareness like you say to the all-encompassing then you can’t not want to be with yourself in every moment and every detail. The Gentle Breath Meditation as taught by Serge Benhayon has been and always will be an enormous tool to bring me back to the detail. Absolutely life changing for sure.
I have often wondered how we stop ourselves wandering off thinking about things which are clearly distracting us or leading us down a path we know we need not venture. The gentle breath is a great technique to support in this. What I have realised too is that focusing on the detail really helps me too – there is a commitment and with that a quality which then encompasses my all – leaving little room for anything else to distract me.
It is the detail in life that I now deeply enjoy, as it is this detail that is indeed divine and in many ways have a real sense of magic, from the way the birds glide through the sky to the tenderness felt in my fingertips. Yet this was also not always the case as I thought the detail was the hard work. How wrong was I!
’Dedicated to the Gentle Breath Meditation, as taught by Universal Medicine, for offering me a way to re-establish my true relationship with detail.’ – Having practiced the Gentle Breath Meditation over many years, I know that this is the best life insurance I could ever give myself.
This is a lovely reminder of paying attention to the detail, thank you Joel. So much of my life has been about the doing and getting the job done, sometimes at the expense of the quality. I have always paid attention to the detail, but not so much in the detail of the quality of the energy as presented here.
Our bodies is just one example of the enormous importance of paying attention to detail. The body tells all, but only if we care to listen and stay aware of what is going on.
As reading this I also made that choice to become aware of how i am breathing and was reminded of the detail of how i feel in my body. It is so amazing when we have left this feeling and awareness to remember its importance and be able to return to it simple by bringing awareness to our breathing and making this gentle. The gentle breath meditation is life changing.
Detail is amazing. It is where we focus on what we are doing while we are doing it so it sounds a lot like conscious presence! The detail of the gentle breath meditation is getting the mind and the body as one so while the mind is thinking, the body is doing and feeling or once again conscious presence. Many aspects of life bring us into fine detail, from cleaning and getting that last mark out or the final piece of dust, to every job or project we undertake in conscious presence. Fine detail actually makes the job easier, simpler and seemingly time saving because once the task is complete we know with assurity that we have been with it all the way to it’s completion – we feel full and complete knowing the job has been finished to the best of our ability. An amazing aspect of conscious presence is that when a project is complete there is no looking for recognition because we feel complete because we were present while doing it, therefore we know and feel an absolute completeness within and do not look outside our-selves for recognition.
Often there can be a feeling of overwhelm and struggle when detail is considered – that there is to much detail to take in an focus on. However, detail is who we are – it is a part of the universe and in the detail we begin to understand the larger workings of life.
Looking into the minute details of things helps us to stay more connected and present with whatever is happening. It’s the detail that truly makes the difference, in the detail is the true intention and the responsibility of anything, and it all goes back to which energy is at play in any situation, is it soulful from love or is it something else?
It is interesting that we have a saying that the devil is in the detail when in fact it can be the complete opposite God is in the detail. It is the detail that we can over look or dismiss that can show us that God is all around us and that he is constantly giving us messages both big and small to let us know if we are with him or not. I used to avoid detail thinking it as an unnecessary way to be but now I know that without looking at the detail, we miss out on God and all the true wonders of the world
“It is calling out for me to pay more attention to the detail – for example; not just what I write, but how I am when I write, not just what I eat, but how I am when I eat, not just what I do in any given moment, but how I am when doing this.” I have noticed that when I move my body super gently I feel much lighter, steadier and still. This supports me with awareness of self but it also enables me to support others giving more space to read a situation rather than react to it enabling insights into what I have just witnessed.
‘How’ we are in any given moment is really important, in the busy fast paced world we live in the quality of how we live, what we bring and what we do seems to be forgotten about or no true care taken with this. Yet it is our/the quality that is imperative. I had absolutely zero awareness about the quality of how I get things done in until meeting Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, however now I have a far deeper and clearer knowing and understanding about this (the quality/care of how I am with myself, with others, with my work, when doing cleaning etc); this is still very much work in progress but something we all should have an understanding and awareness of as how we are and live makes up the world we live in today. It is interesting how one word can change a lie to a truth, changing ‘Love is in the detail’ instead of the ‘devil is in the detail’. Where did these bizarre sayings (and lies) come from anyway? What you have shared here shows that how we do things (with detail, care and quality) …. or not! can affect others, helping us to see there is a bigger picture and what we do effects others ‘It’s the way I leave a task, job or project that will determine the ease with which I, or someone else, will pick it up again.’ Detail definitely sounds in line with Divinity to me.
By not having God in the details in everything we do, doesn’t this leave holes! Is this not the fertile ground for the devil to plant his seeds into our details? So, is this the result of what we allow in by not having God in the details?
Joel I have come to realise from reading your blog and the comments that we are the detail and to avoid it is to avoid ourselves.
The detail brings full honesty to all that I do. It is the doorway to become a true human being.
The effects of food, alcohol, drugs, TV, sport, computer games, over exercising, over working, over-anything etc keep us away from the detail and rummaging around in the vague back waters of life.
I love your description, Joel, of the detail even in every breath. Every micro movement has a ripple effect out into the world, and to be aware of this level of detail and be responsible brings us in touch with the detail of what we in turn live within – we are a part of God’s breath and his micro movements can be felt all around us.
Mary what I felt when I read your comment was how so many of us have been ‘hoodwinked’ by detail. Detail has no power itself, it simply is detail but what happens is that so many of us react to it and it is that, that gives it it’s identity. We then have a relationship set up with detail that is negative and so when we come into contact with it we go ‘oh no, here’s detail, I hate detail’. Detail like most things is no-thing by itself but we react to it and then continue to react to it every time it appears in our life, hence reinforcing that we ‘hate detail’. What Joel has presented is huge because he calls us to change our relationship with detail, which in turn calls us to change our relationship with ourselves.
‘It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.’ And it asks us to not make it about time. When I do, I notice there is never time enough to pay attention to detail, when I connect to space then the detail comes in as it becomes about the whole.
The more I pay attention to detail when I am doing something, the more I can feel the huge difference it makes to everything else. Detail and quality, two simply beautiful words that go together so nicely.
It is well worth examining our lives in detail – do i bring all that I am and reflect Heaven to others or upon a detailed assessment, are there details to attend to or address where i do not?
If we make life about Love and our every living way, then God will be in the detail amd in our every expression.
Taking care of the details is doing something in full clarity, I have my glasses on, I can see everything, appreciating the beautiful details and nuances, there is a joy to be felt as I work. Or, without my glasses on, everything is a bit fuzzy, I compensate for my fuzzy vision, rather than putting on my glasses, I assume things will be ok, it will all work out. I miss out on the joy, the learning, sharing more of my love and expression, my connection with the magic of God and I invite in complexity and the opportunity for things to go wrong, for others to also make assumptions rather than checking things out ….. enabling a recipe for disaster.
The detail is key to undoing all of the many means and ways we tend to ‘paper over’ and essentially disregard ourselves and our lives.
I have just been contemplating your blog Joel and realise the areas I love to bring detail to, like in my painting, around the house and garden, at work but do I bring the same level of awareness to the feedback my body is offering. I have noticed lately that my body is asking for me to be present and aware of how I move, every action I take otherwise I have noticed I’m bumping into things, or cutting myself. So yes love is in the detail and I am being asked to go deeper with my connection.
Yes Merrileepettinato, it has a huge impact when we start to really look at life in detail. Without it, we just go through the motions of what looks like we’re doing ok. But our bodies are part of divinity, so it craves that divine and loving attention to every detail. Everything does matter, every thought, every breath, every word and every movement; they all carry an energy. That energy can be coming from a true loving source or from a careless and driven source. Where do we want to be sourced from, that’s the question, and that’s a big little detail we need to make a choice about every moment of every day.
‘It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love.’ This is a stand out line for me Joel, we have been sold a lie about what detail truly is. I know when I bring detail to anything I am being more responsible, loving and taking the time to ensure nothing has been missed – a true blessing.
Yes love is in the detail, as it requires a presence to see what’s required to be responded to in the details. When we brush the details aside we are dismissing the fullness to connect to everything and as we know … everything is energy and everything is because of energy.
There is so much detail to be discovered in life – a rich tapestry
You are so right. Everything in life even our breath is filled with detail. And my relationship with the detail makes a world of difference. There is a natural harmony, order and flow shown in the detail. I can get obsessed with controlling the detail and at times I have thought ‘that’ is what detail is about. But that invariably causes things to become rigid and sabotage the natural rhythm. Yet when I choose to simply observe, appreciate what I witness in the detail, there is a gorgeous flow and everything just opens up and expands.
So true, the rhythm and flow of life is simplified when we ‘choose to simply observe, appreciate what I witness in the detail, there is a gorgeous flow and everything just opens up and expands’. Then the space that is created is for our gentle breath, which becomes part of our ‘natural rhythm’.
I know that when I don’t want to take care of the detail is when I most need to take care of the detail – detail is something that brings me back to myself. The details makes the job complete, because I have to be present to pay attention to these details.
Bringing detail and awareness to all the movements our bodies make, makes a huge difference to how our life’s unfold thereafter, in absence of this awareness we carry out the motion of life with no awareness to how we are moving through life, often in an automatic way, we are then at the mercy of what ever outer influences come to us, not discerning as to where those impulse’s are coming from and the energy or intent behind the impulse.
I have often reacted to the details in some areas of my life, feeling that they were too hard or overly complicated, and avoided doing things like having a budget for my finances, or getting certain details in place. Through the teachings of Universal Medicine I have come to understand, that having one affairs in order in great detail is an amazingly supportive and loving act, for oneself and all others we know.
I can very well relate to what you share Thomas, I had been resisting detail in many ways, but learning and truly starting to feel that it’s the detail that makes the difference, I’m changing the way I am with myself and everything, detail after detail. My life looks not much different – if viewed from outside, but when looking closely, so much has changed and deepened. And I know there is a much deeper level to go to, and that’s where true Love and divinity resides, I can clearly feel that too.
By bringing detail to all areas of our life’s, relationships, finances, family, self care and our health, Etc. Etc. it is super supportive as we build a solid foundation that holds us and all the people around us in a level of high regard and care.
We often think of detail as only being something outside of ourselves a task that needs to be done in great detail Etc. but as you point out Joel in your blog, detail is also how we are in relation with our selves and our bodies. When our thoughts and minds are present with what we are doing, we are in conscience presence, in this presence we have a higher level of awareness and deeper connection to our bodies and what we are doing, we then naturally bring more detail to all that we are, and all that we do.
“It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love.” Love this. The fineness in the detail we bring to what we express exponentially increases the love that we are able to bring forth. Amazing.
“Even the breath I take while writing this sentence is filled with detail …..”
I love this, Joel, as it makes me appreciate just how intimate details are and how they support us to be more consciously present in everything we do.
Reading this blog I know the truth of it. I realise I have taken on the saying the Devil is in the detail (even though I’d actually never heard that saying before!). I often avoid detail when involved with other people as I have thought it means hard work and complication. I want things to be easy and so if I make a big deal out of the detail then it will be harder for everyone. But I know the truth, that the details are what everything else lies upon and if we take care of them everything that follows comes from that solid foundation.
I would use the example of staying at a guesthouse or hotel. The little details that go into the stay is what makes something memorable and heart warming. It is like receiving a home made card, there is a level of detail and care in getting a personal message from someone in this form. It is detail in its most beautiful expression and how we are made to be and share, with that commitment to detail.
That is a great example Stephen, and it’s what we notice about our friends too; when they make the effort to express in detail what they like about me, or a little gift or gesture that holds meaning for me, that relates to a detail of me, it feels so amazingly loving and meaningful. It’s true love expressed.
When you walk into a space where someone has attended to the details there is definitely a feeling of support and care. Therefore it makes sense that we can also feel this in another person. When they attend to all the details of their lives and take care it is felt in their expression.
There is a very fine line between detail and complications. Attention to detail can create clarity and flow or it can create complications and inefficiencies.
I agree Vicky, although I have found that paying attention to certain details has helped me to avoid complications. I used to not pay attention to the detail of setting passwords or logging into certain sites and so was forever tangling myself up in complications because I had not paid proper attention to the detail. Being scrupulous about the detail has created flow in many areas of my life.
love this distinction Vicky, there is so much detail that becomes about control, complication and attempts to bury people under the weight of obligation and compliance. As you say attention to detail, is about a level of care, that we take in everything that we do, that opens up what is needed next and allows life to flow.
Detail and responsibility go hand in hand. Taking time, being patient, dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s, this is where it begins.
It is only until we bring detail to what and how we do things that we know God is within ourselves.
In relationships, it is all in the detail, in the small things. It is the small details that get left unspoken or buried that build up into a disagreement or argument. It is why an argument feels so much more loaded than the actual topic at hand; it is all the small detailed occurences that were left unaddressed that build up and create a momentum when the tension has built up and BOOM. It’s like carrying dynamite.
Absolutely Sandra. Unless we look at all the small details of energies that are constantly play out and let things go unresolved, then ignoring these details leads to issues growing. A wise man once said “leave no stone unturned” and when we bring attention to detail this is exactly what we are doing.
Paying attention to the details when we’re doing something for someone else, shows we care. And simple things like when we walk past someone sitting on a chair, and taking care not to bump it, both for them and for us.
A lot can be said for detail and by the detail – so much can be expressed by attention to the details and likewise by their neglect.
There is in my experience a clear relationship between being present in one’s body and attention to detail.
Divine is in the detail. Bringing awareness to how I am with the detail has changed the quality of my life. It is how I zip up my boots, pay attention to the detail of how I pick up my mug, pour the water into my teacup, feeling the fingertips on my face as I smooth on my cream. In this detail I have come to appreciate the divinity within me and everything.
Absolutely Joel, love is in the detail. I am needing to pay more attention to the detail of how I am in situations, not just what I am doing in the situation. I have felt this pull for a while but have been resisting going to this level of detail and can feel how it is harming or holding me back now.
I have recently tidied up my room at work. On first glance, it looked fine, but this week I took the time to sort out some books and put them in order, clear the windowsills and empty out old papers etc that had been lurking in cupboards for way too long. The result is a room that feels great. Its funny how clearing out rubbish that is not even visible, makes a difference. That’s the sort of detail I would not have paid attention to in the past.
“It’s the way I leave a task, job or project that will determine the ease with which I, or someone else, will pick it up again.” This is pure gold.
“It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.” I hear you Joel and will endeavour to remember your words and put them into practise.
‘Of course, as with so many things in life, it turns out that the opposite is true. It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love.’ – This is so true, we have been sold many lies in life and we have equally created many lies, but bottom line is we have allowed it. This blog is a perfect example.
Keep the people away from the detail and you keep them away from God.
I have to say my life flows when there is attention to detail, for example I used to come home and chuck my keys or wallet down wherever was convenient at the time instead of putting them in the same place every time. This resulted in me spending hours of wasted time cursing where hell are my flaming keys and wallet? This is only one example but it relates to everything and on occasion I am still found looking for my keys when I stray from the detail.
Further to my previous comment.
The next aspect of this saga for me was the deeper realisation that in not completing projects, this also made me feel more racy. So therefore, I was forever in a cycle of motion with no time to slow down and go into repose. So my healing has come about through looking at the detail of my inner workings that held me in the ideals and beliefs that were controlling my every movement to the tiniest detail. I am finding that releasing this level of illusion has opened me up to a far greater level of awareness to feel more. I then become more and I feel and let go of deeper levels of anxiety, which I have only just felt and nominated as not being me as I am writing this comment. Thank you Joel what has been a glorious session! As a forever student of my-self those inner trappings that have constricted my evolution are found in the strangest places. Being always open to releasing the ‘what is not truly us’ and therefore was never evolutionary is becoming simpler.
Awesome blog Joel. I love this paragraph ‘Imagine that – all of life reflected in one moment. This doesn’t sound like the work of the devil, but rather the all-encompassing love of Divinity.’ I would say it’s pretty true to say Divinity is in the detail.
Joel what I really enjoy about this blog is how you have shown detail in a very truthful light – in the sense that it is actually so needed and can make up the bigger picture. I know I used to love detail in some things and hate it in other areas – I would find it a nuisance to take extra time on attention to detail – but as I allow more space in my day, I see the absolute importance of detail, and how this can be felt so easily by others. If I put in the care to things, then what I have done feels absolutely complete rather than something I know i have walked away from.
‘Detail, like a breeze on a hot day, refreshes and changes how I feel about a current circumstance. The circumstance doesn’t change, but how I relate to it does.’ – I love what you’ve shared here Joel. Details offer us a different angle and perspective on life or a situation; we may be stuck focusing on an isolated issue or can’t comprehend how an issue actually arose, and details can help us to appreciate how different choices work together to make up the big picture and that there is a responsibility for us to take when a problem arises.
I can really feeling the importance of allowing space for the detail in my life after reading this blog and how I have at times tried to shut this down by condensing what I do and how I am.
Having been so anxious about attending to detail as just more stuff to ‘do’, I have been blown away by the ease and space that unfolds in the bigger picture when I am aware of and attending to detail.
I know for me when someone takes care of the details I feel really supported and loved. If they prepare a meal with great care, or leave a room they have used very tidy and ordered for example it really shows they care.
Yes Andrew. I feel this also. Detail is something I am very good. I am great at observing detail, carrying out detail and I also know the support it offers others. Detail is absolutely part of my unique divine qualities.
I guess what you are saying here Joel is that there is a big difference between complication and taking care of the details. It feels to me like they come from completely different places. Like you say we can manipulate and control and trick each other with complication and ‘fine print’ and this creates division and separation and competition between us. This feels very different to actually being aware of and caring enough to take care of the little details in life which far from suppressing or reducing love actually support it to expand and grow between us.
Isn’t this the difference between irresponsibility and responsibility? The game play and complication coming from a dismissal of the part we play (letting others and life dictate our way); the caring and respectful attention to detail claiming the power of our choices and the willingness to be in our own driving seats.
Thank you Andrew, I have definitely been (and still am, but much less so) caught out by this difference. When i get stuck on a detail, that feels more like obsessing , i may be wasting time procrastinating or it shows a belief or ideal , such as ‘perfectionism’ which creates a fixation of doing things a certain way, that may cause conflict or disruption of flow in events or with people. As opposed to doing something because it creates a sense of space and order that is supportive to myself or others in the flow of a day . With this way, there is a clarity and simplicity. We can move forward without the ‘ weight’ of something feeling incomplete and be in a way so that there aren’t scenarios playing out later that would involve more work , or create an unnecessary drama.
i feel there is more to ponder on here, as it appears to be a fine line, but perhaps it’s more how we are with what we sense and feel needs doing when we tune into in the bigger picture.
All life encapsulated in each moment and divinity in each movement, if we choose to pay attention to detail.
This is true. From our every movement or word to how or what we eat to how caring lot or clean we keep spaces and environments we live in.
‘Recently life has been asking me to look more closely at what I do and how I am’ As if it was written for me and aligns to my observations of myself. Thank you Joel a blessing for us all.
I was curious as to where this saying came from and on Googling it, it showed that the original meaning was ‘God is in the detail meaning that attention paid to the detials has big rewards, or that details are important’. How on earth did this phrase, which I know to be true, get translated to ‘Devil is in the detail?’ – another heavenly phrase bastardised to make people think that being in the detail is pedantic, whereas the truth is that the details is what counts.
Up until the last few years I spent my life feeling that attention to detail was a burden – even as a child I despised using punctuation as I felt it was an interruption. A series of jobs where attention to detail was paramount soon set me straight though. The ‘devil’ is certainly in the lack of attention to detail as this is where much complication arises.
I wrote something the other day about care of older people in the last days of life and was drawn to write that in every move we make as carers in relation to the client communicates either love or harm. This to me is the divine or devil in the detail.
I get more and more aware how important it is to bring attention to detail in order to have a smooth and flowing day.
“It is calling out for me to pay more attention to the detail – for example; not just what I write, but how I am when I write, not just what I eat, but how I am when I eat, not just what I do in any given moment, but how I am when doing this.” This really is ‘God is in the detail’…taking care of each moment and the quality of choosing in each moment…each moment building on the last.
Mmm this is a delicious blog Joel, there is so much richness and beauty to be found in the finer details of every moment, as you perfectly describe, it’s not just the details of how we do something, but what we feel when we do it, the warmth and care, or the disregard if we go into autopilot.
There is such clarity and understanding of life available from astute observation of the details
Yes I agree Deborah. Our level of observation of detail dictates the support we can offer ourselves and others when we carry out the details in life. This is something I feel quite natural with.
I feel it’s of huge significance that we live in a world that by and large shuns detail. It seems that many operate on a ‘that’s good enough’ kind of attitude. Most of us are happy to get things ‘close enough’ and then move onto the next half hearted attempt at something. The huge amount of exhaustion that exists fuels our ‘can’t be bothered’ attitude. It seems too hard for many to look at the detail but if it’s the detail that sets us free perhaps that’s why we seem to be struggling so much.
Great blog – detail is key in our every way. We need only consider contracts and the fine print which particularise all we say yes to or no. How we may take a ‘detailed’ look before we commit money or time yet fail to observe our lives with the same precision and detail.
Incredible to realise that something that we have come to believe is harmful and to be avoided is actually very supportive and healing.
Great blog Joel and I had been feeling a similar thing about detail lately. I have noticed that I often move on to the next task or thing and therefore leave some of the details of the previous thing undone or incomplete. It is almost like there is this constant tendency to keep moving and not pay attention to the quality of the moment I am in. Paying attention to the details has been already a great way to really feel the quality of what I am doing in any moment.
Since reading this blog last week, my awareness to detail has increased. That is a good thing. Thank you.
It is amazing how much is in the detail and how we all notice it and yet often pretend we didn’t or that it doesn’t matter when we know so well that it does.
Isn’t it in our connection that we are able to take care for details? With connection comes purpose and with that comes the energy needed to care for every detail with lightness and joy.
Beautiful point Felix.
The quality of the detail is the divine learning and it is also found in the simple tasks we do in every moment. This is the very beauty of our being and an expansion of our awareness always.
‘It is the understanding I can bring to why I make the choices I make that frees the control that my past patterns had.’ …. this is gold. When ‘bad’ things happen to us in life, in order to learn what is there for us to learn and move on, we must first understand our part in the situation. We must look at why we chose to do whatever it was we did, then, accepting what part we played and how we could have done things differently, we are free to let go and move on. Without this we get caught in the web, ruminating over the details, unable to let go and the same scenario will repeat over and over until we are able to take responsibility for our choices and learn from it.
‘Detail, like a drop of water running down a leaf, cleans and magnifies what is beneath’…. A stunning analogy of the beauty and divinity that detail brings to life when embraced.
‘Detail, like a drop of water running down a leaf, cleans and magnifies what is beneath’ … I love this, it’s so true. Sometimes I have felt overwhelmed by a piece of work before I even start, yet when I commit to allowing the space to begin, it’s the detail that enables me to feel clarity as I explore what lies within, to know that it’s not as scary as I’d thought. The detail is the drum beat for my flow & rhythm as I complete the task.
‘The Divine in the Detail’ – let’s turn the false saying ‘the devil in the detail’ over on its head, and reveal it as the ridiculousness that it is . . as you have so well done Joel.
Absolutely. It makes me wonder where or how a ridiculous saying or reference ever originated.
Your gorgeous blog, Joel, and all the discussion around detail has prompted me to realise that the detail in my life is also all the time in the ‘corridors’ – when I’m not actually doing anything other than moving from place to place, chair to benchtop …. and movement is everything, the quality in which I move sets up how I am in the next moment. Thank you for helping me to appreciate how much detail there is to bring far more awareness to …. there are no ‘off’ moments, there is an opportunity for detail in each and every moment.
If there is no love in the detail then what we do or say does not work, but instead does not have full integrity and just limps along. Without the detail there is nothing.
As with everything in life, it’s all about the quality with which we approach what we’re doing, the energy we are in when we do something …. if we are annoyed, tired and not feeling the love that we are, things won’t flow, it may be onerous and the details frustrating ….. however, when we’re connected to our divine selves, everything flows, there isn’t a rush to get things done, rather we allow the space for everything to unfold with a knowingness that it will be just the way it is meant to be. We enjoy taking care of the details, it’s like spreading kisses that lie there waiting to greet people. The details share the love that has been put in, it’s felt by everyone.
True Joel. It is in fact Divinity that is in the detail.
Details are beautiful as they are full of love, and nothing has to be changed but simply felt and observed in the depth of detail, appreciating all that is in this moment and that surrenders us into a deeper movement of simply love, and so the details take care of themselves with this deeper responsibility felt.
Beautifully said Adele and I know when I am avoiding appreciating this depth of detail in my life it is when I am wanting to avoid the deeper responsibility I hold in that the quality of my presence and my expression affects everything else.
I agree Joel, ‘ there is detail in everything’ this is why when I resist the details I go into overwhelm, a panic almost and my body feels the tension of my resistance. Yet it is in paying attention and developing my relationship with the details that supports me in every way. Everything then comes with ease, simplicity, lightness and joy. Our body knows when we are going against our natural evolution, with every choice it will show us whether we are resisting or going with the flow of our natural rhythm.
Joel your blog is deeply inspiring offering me the opportunity to look at bringing more detail to my relationship with detail. I can still feel how there is part of me that will give my attention to detail to a certain point and then I am sabotaging holding my attention to detail to the very end of completing a task, so things are done, but are laced at the end with a slice of just wanting to get something completed, so a rushed energy at the very end. This of course affects the aweseome job that is done is started and affects the whole as you cannot separate anything. I can feel the pull for a deepening in my quality so as to be able to hold attention to detail through and in everything.
Thank you Joel, yet again you bring us back to the magic of God in our everyday lives. I too have been supported to bring my attention to the details in life, with the aid of the Gentle Breath Meditation. It is a revelation, that by focusing on the quality of our breath we can then apply ourselves to all the fiddly things we used to find so annoying. It is such a beautiful gift from God that in turns restores our connection back to God and empowers us to bring the Love back in everything we do.
Taking care of the detail in life is a part of quality control! It can assist us to take care of the way in which we do things and set ourselves and others up to be supported to live true to who we are.
Hello Joel and this blog will just keep giving. When you are saying, “not just what I write, but how I am when I write, not just what I eat, but how I am when I eat, not just what I do in any given moment, but how I am when doing this.” I see the detail and a quality, a quality of living that also then is represented in everything. I have often thought ‘if only I could have said this or that’ in any given situation and now I realise if I live with an ever increasing or expanding awareness to the detail and quality I am in every moment, then when I ‘need’ it everything will be there with me. It’s like if you live everything in each moment then everything will be there with you in the next step.
I have experienced this before when everything is there for me, no thinking, no doing, just being. It is beautiful, and as both you and Joel have described this comes first and foremost from the quality in which we chose to do things and to be with ourselves and others. Allowing ourselves to surrender to the all that naturally resides within us all allows an ever deepening unfoldment of being together at one with everybody and everything else.
There’s much to learn from the detail. In fact, everything in life is about detail. I’m experiencing that, through attention to detail, life is revealing itself more and more. Forever. It’s building foundation on foundation. Each touch, each look, each smell, indeed each breath, each sound could be observed and felt. To either confirm what we already know or offering revelation(s) for us to evolve. An amazing science that I’ve tried to deny, but yet I am in the process of accepting and surrendering to the Divinity this science holds.
Who is the devil, by the way? There is evil in the world, but I have never seen d-evil – whoever thought this one up… Evil in the world is at places where care for detail is missing, where there is non-completion.
‘There is detail in everything.’ – a powerful reminder as this clearly reveals that everything, every moment offers us the opportunity to return to living as the liberated Divine Sons that we were born to. A beautiful reflection of the eternal Love that God holds us in, eternally offering us the opportunity to return to be at one with Him, with All.
When you observe that there is “all of life reflected in one moment” I can feel how much we tend to compartmentalise life, erroneously thinking that we can switch from one mode to another, from off to on depending on the situation and a passing mood – how can that possibly be true when everything matters?
The more awareness we bring to the detail of how we are living, the more we make the space available to accept, deepen and expand the degree of Love we live with, through which we then bring the power of our presence to all that we do.
Absolutely beautiful Joel, I just love your blogs… you are spot on as always, thanks for bringing a closer view of what it means to attend to the detail of life. I have been well aware for a long time that not attending to the details often results in either a feeling of disregard being present, or a sense of something not being well loved or cared about. In that sense it is easy to see the truth in what you’ve shared…
Joel this is a deeply beautiful and profound piece of writing reminding us how much more of ourselves and life there is to explore, embrace and live. In choosing to connect to our stillness, our essence, our Soul, with God we discover our Love in detail, where we are truly free to be all that we are, a reflection of the Divinity that we are all deeply connected to.
Joel, my body just let go reading this blog, in particular reading this line ‘It is the understanding I can bring to why I make the choices I make that frees the control that my past patterns had.’ – this is huge and a prison breaker to see and feel that detail supports in bringing the understanding in how we make choices and in seeing that detail we allow a space to let go, to be free of those patterns. God is so in the detail and what I feel most of all in detail is the vastness of the love that we are from and detail lovingly supports us all to live that love.
There is an incorrect concept that details are complex, and so they are avoided. Complexity can be brought to the details, but this isn’t about the details, but the complexity. For example moving house requires a lot of attention to detail, otherwise when you get to the new home you can’t function, but this process can be simple or complex, depending on how you approach it.
Working in corporate for more than 30 years I can say many senior executives, and often many men, hold dear the concept that the “devil is in the detail”. The avoidance of detail is something that is seen to be a way to succeed, but in truth we all need to attend to the details, so we are fully aware and our eyes are wide open to what is actually happening in our jobs and our daily life.
I have seen from experience, if you don’t take care of the detail, you leave yourself wide open and become a very easy target for others to attack.
Gorgeous Joel, ‘It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love’, I can feel this too, I used to not like the detail – washing up; walking to get somewhere; waiting for something; getting things ready; making my bed, the list goes on, I used to rush these things so I could get on with the ‘fun stuff’, the big, ‘important things’, but now i see all as equally important, as the same, i love the detail, i love walking and making my bed, i love making the house feel tidy and harmonious, I love folding clothes with care and tenderness, the detail is gorgeous.
In my role in a corporate job we used to have a saying – the clarity is in the detail. It was my way of taking away the excuse to not attend to the detail that so many people have.
Joel, what I find fascinating is how the more I appreciate the details in life the more rewarding it becomes.
“Detail, like a drop of water running down a leaf, cleans and magnifies what is beneath.” Even before I got to the end of this blog to see who wrote it, I could recognise your expression Joel! You are a master. And I am a deeply appreciative student of your words. I love this sentence. Perfectly encapsulating the gold, purpose, and divinity of detail. Such a very, very long way from what is sold to us. I too have so often rode rough-shod over detail. Fool me. Because now that I am embracing it in to my life, more and more, I am seeing that it does exactly what you says – it magnifies the joy that is inherent in every single moment.
“Imagine that – all of life reflected in one moment.” Simplicity encompasses the all.
Maybe we have glossed over and ignored details because we don’t want to feel the love that can be felt there.
“It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.” Definitely words to live by.
Beautiful reminder to focus and reconnect with ourselves . Thank you!
The more I focus on the detail, the more love I allow into my life.
Nature shows us that there is detail in everything – look at any aspect of it such as clouds, leaves, flowers, birds, snow flakes – there is so much detail in every part of it.
When I read – how I am with life right now, it made me realise that although I had stopped to read this article, I was still racing with other things in my thoughts and therefore in my body. The detail I needed to be fully present reading your blog Joel, wasn’t quite there and when I was honest and felt the anxiety, slight as it was, but still there, I realised that I was not paying attention to the details. An important detail in itself. It is the quality that we bring to what we do that makes so much difference to the work and to us and the way we live within our bodies.
Divinity is in the detail.
First we look at what we do, then we look at how we do it, then we feel we are when we do it, then we follow impulses.
The idea that love is in the detail is much more accurate, Joel. When we bring our attention to the detail and order, we get more clarity and precision, things run with a flow and more smoothly. How bizarre is life when the message given in a phrase gives the wrong feeling, completely the opposite in fact.
The deeper we take responsibility the more we will take care of the details.
Wise words Alex. In accepting responsibility for all we do and are in life, the most minute details appear and are able to be seen.
and the simpler life becomes.
Perhaps ‘the devils in the detail’ refers to when we allow ourselves to get bogged down by the detail, so we can’t see the wood from the trees ….
When we ruminate over the details too much, they can take hold of us and we become constricted, obsessive and stuck. I love detail, however, I’m also aware of how important it is to keep perspective, if we stay ‘zoomed in’ on the detail, we lose touch with the big picture, allowing the space to zoom out and connect with all that we are here to do is key.
Ignoring the detail is destined to end up with failure, complication, complexity or simply an extra load of work to make up for it. As long as we don´t want to see the whole picture and consider that everything is energy and hence contributes to the everything we may keep in the ignorance of dismissing the detail, actually meaning we shut down our awareness of what we know is true but don´t bother.
Beautiful Joel. It’s an allowing that allows us to surrender to all that already is, something we lose sight of when we succumb to what we think are the pressures and the rush of life.
I have learnt to pay attention to detail, and have developed a greater awareness around it, so whenever I attempt to skip over a detail, the quality of what I am doing does not feel great but incomplete.
Sometimes I get so stuck in the detail that I do a project to a point where the job is 99.99% completed so then I feel it is time move on and start another job, which I then also leave uncompleted with some small fiddly bit to complete. ‘Detail was those frustrating ‘fiddly’ elements that had to be put up with to get done what was needed.’ Finishing a project with the detail that is needed is simple but I use to like the complexity of hiding in the illusion, I am so busy. I am now working at taking one job at a time one day at a time, which gives me the space for completion and that is more honouring of my body!
“all of how I am in life right now gets shown to me in that moment.” I find that conscious presence is the key to being with the details, and being with the detail we get the bigger picture. The love in detail is a beautiful way to be with life.
If we look at a picture of a jigsaw puzzle and it is missing some pieces, we may can see what is meant – but we will miss the glory of completion.
Joel, reading this blog and only half way down I became so much more aware of the detail in which my body was talking to me, my awareness was tuned in and I could feel what I had not, 2 minutes earlier, been aware of. Very interesting how by talking about awareness our bodies are super willing to join in the conversation!
Details are key! Sometimes I have conversation with someone for many minutes and it does not go well and than…it is said this one thing that brings a sense to all of it. This is like magic. And it is the ‘right’ detail that was missing before to make it complete.
Your blog makes me reflect of how in the past I often used to look for short cuts, needless to say I missed out on many details.
The divine is in the detail and it really is – when we look out at night to the stars, there is nothing about the universe that has not been considered down to the smallest detail. nothing is left out or seen as to small or insignificant – everything has its place and it is known that it will affect everything. I know I am always being asked to bring more detail, more awareness and understanding.
The old saying ‘it ain’t what you do it’s the way that you do it’ comes to mind. Paying attention to how we are when we are doing things opens up an awareness that helps us to build the quality of our lives. It’s not just what I eat, it’s how I shop for it, cook it, prepare it, and eat it. It can all be felt and it all has an effect. To be conscious of life in this way brings a responsibility that can be joyful when fully embraced.
If I am having a bad day or feeling particularly off there have been times where I have been able to transform myself, and that is a testament to how each choice I make is just an alignment to a quality of energy. And as for the detail, there is great pleasure in taking the time to consider all the small things in the day, as they make the whole of the day that much more fun, I particularly like the idea of using only fingertips to feel things as I move in the day, as this creates a strong connection to my own body and a stronger feeling of being aware of each task I am doing.
I would say it is from the details that I am able to build more love and care into my life and therefore deepen and expand.
It seems to me the more we pay attention and take note of the detail, the more truth is revealed to us, along with the comfort in our lives and things become so obvious you can no longer ignore them.
For me this morning the detail is in how I sit at my computer, my posture as I type. And then, from that point of care, I can see how the messiness of papers around my keyboard is distracting me and draining me. The detail of filing things away, keeping my space tidy is something I need to attend to and will leave me feeling lighter and clearer as I go into my day.
‘Of course, as with so many things in life, it turns out that the opposite is true.’ I find this to be the case too and I also find that when there is a lot of resistance in me – as there is to looking at the detail in things – that it is very much worth going deeper and seeing what is beyond that resistance. Most if not all of the time, I discover something very beautiful.
“The circumstance doesn’t change, but how I relate to it does.”
A beautiful gold nugget here within this amazing blog! If we apply this to life – life will be very different for us as we often cannot change the circumstance but we can always change the way we relate to what is happening! A very empowering way to life.
‘It’s the way I leave a task, job or project that will determine the ease with which I, or someone else, will pick it up again.’ As I read this comment, I could feel how different office life could be if everyone recognised the responsibility they have to leave – or pass on – a task to another, with integrity and completion. There is often harshness and angst in the way tasks are passed to each other at present – and this does not feel supportive – more like dropping a bomb on someone! Perhaps this is the future of office work – based on a loving way of being.
“Detail, like a drop of water running down a leaf, cleans and magnifies what is beneath. Detail, like a breeze on a hot day, refreshes and changes how I feel about a current circumstance. The circumstance doesn’t change, but how I relate to it does.” It’s a great reflection to feel the level of appreciation you hold about the details in your life, to me this shows there is so much more to appreciate than when we let life skim by. Going through the doing without appreciating everything along the way.
Thank you for this Joel Levin. I have to say, my relationship with detail has been one of seeing it as the enemy you describe. I shall enjoy exploring the Divinity in detail instead!
I have in more recent times thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine come to appreciate the order and divine flow that is a result of paying attention to detail.
I’ve noticed that a lot of the time we (as a collective society) like to blame others for our ill-choices, wrongdoings, ‘problems’ and relationship mishaps, and what occurs to me from reading your blog is that SO many of us blame the detail! It’s much more convenient to point fingers at this and that to make up a ‘believable’ reason of why things have gone wrong than to actually take responsibility for our choices. The latter is actually much simpler, but we choose the opposite as it requires us to be honest and look at how we’re living.
Simple, yet beautifully described, that love is in the detail. It’s simply impossible not to agree with this, Joel, it is about the smallest, seemingly insignificant things, that make up the divine whole – in everything that we do and consequently are.
Interesting how we can look at detail, but in truth how supportive it is to cherish it and do things with attention to detail.
It would be great to discuss this further within our schooling years, as there is much JOY to be had in how we move and act and preform in daily tasks.
The detail of our movements are profound and have blown me away, more people notice then we would imagine.
Feeling the difference when we work on the detail of how we do things makes an enormous differences in how I feel when doings something and how something feels when I am complete.
This I can very much relate to Joel, attention being in the detail, I have always loved the detail of things but have not brought the same level of detail to every area of my life and this is what I see as now a necessity.
Detail is a beautiful thing…allowing the space for it and giving it the time it deserves is very honouring in all aspects of our lives. I am aware that when I rush, or am in a stress detail is the 1st thing that I chuck out of the window…then all care is lost. Making time for detail feels important; it brings quality.
I feel also that the commitment is in the detail or the fine tuning, as you say that is where the love is and we could change another old saying from ‘if a jobs worth doing, its worth doing properly’ to if a jobs worth doing its worth doing with love.
A beautiful account of learning the love that is found in the detail of every little thing we do and how this builds love in our bodies more and more each day. It is through the details and taking time to see these that allows a magic to be seen all around us from God and is inspirational and very beautiful to be part of.
What you make clear to me with this blog Joel, is that we actually meet God in the tiniest detail of life, and in that I can understand that to mislead us in restoring and building our connection with God, we have been presented with the phrase that ‘the devil is in the detail’ with the only purpose to avoid us from going there, to that place where we do find our true origins and can reconnect to the source we come from and are all connected to.
‘Divinity in the detail’ – this and all that has been shared in this article puts paid to the derisive voice in my head that dismisses self care and a deeper level of attention to all that is reflected back to me in any moment. Right now, simply releasing my shoulders changes everything…
I had a boss years ago that “the devil is in the detail’ was his favourite saying. But, his input was to be the devil. He was the bad reflection for whatever was being discussed. He would plant the seeds of why something should not be done. ‘Love in the detail’ allows everything and one to evolve and it only takes a moment!
Attending to the detail is so nurturing – unless of course it is driven by obsession! But if it comes from a space of stillness and love, detail is a joy to feel and behold.
I haven’t heard the term ‘the devil in the detail’. I have heard the saying and have said it many times about myself that ‘I have an eye for detail’… The details are an essential part of observation, to see what’s there and have a clear unbiased perspective of the world. Details express a thousand words and make up the whole of who we are and what we are a part of. The details bring us here, into the moment to prepare for the next response, like you expressed Joel.
I have so enjoyed remembering your blog over the last 24 hours. Every time it came to my mind I would stop and check what I was doing or what was happening around me. Every time, without fail, it was asking me to pay closer attention to what was happening or what someone was saying. There were clues everywhere as to the energy that was at play which brought an incredible clarity for what was called for me to do in response. So where I might have left in and tried to ‘save’, I could see that I needed to observe a little longer, where I might have spoken up, I listened a little longer, and where I might have stayed quiet I knew I had to speak up and offer another perspective. Thank you Joel for the opportunity to experience this.
“Imagine that – all of life reflected in one moment. This doesn’t sound like the work of the devil, but rather the all-encompassing love of Divinity.”- Definitely Joel- When breathing the gentle breathe meditation taught by Serge Benhayon, I feel my body is reflecting my life choices all in that moment. The deeper I surrender my body the more connected I feel with my divine essence and God.
Absolutely beautiful blog Joel – while reading I noticed myself noticing the details of my own breath. Honestly, this is not something that happens a lot for me, unless I set aside time to ‘be with the breath’, but reading what you’ve written about detail I couldn’t help being aware of the finer elements and movements of my body. A beautiful invitation Joel – thank you.
Often the first response is resistance when something comes with the added detail, but I feel this is because if the hectic momentum the society lives with. The detail encourages one to stop and this is something that people don’t or find it difficult to do.
Joel for me it was fact that the devil lived in the detail. Therefore it took me a while to found out that it is not the devil but the love what is really living in it. I love how you describe it: “It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.” To get this deeper understanding made my life so much easier and joyfuller so I can only recommend details at all.
The detail of reading this Joel, is feeling my whole body resonate with how freeing and simple having a relationship with detail is… everything runs smoother, things flow, relationships are allowed to be… most definitely not a smidgen of the devil in any of that!
Details define whether what we do is just merely functional or whether we are bring our fullness to it. It’s a bit like getting dressed in the morning and sloppily throwing a sweater on. It works, it’s warm and cosy. But this is on a functional level. There is a feeling of holding in love and grace when we place the sweater on with deep tenderness and care.
What I enjoy the most is that the intricate and intimate details of life can teach us so much and bring a greater richness to our purpose here on earth. To skip or skim over the details is to lessen our experiences, dumb down our awarenesses and enjoy far less the life we are here to lead. The details are very much worth honouring as the grace of God and the love of ourselves and each other can be found and felt within them.
and to add that I had never considered the negative side of detail before but you have opened my eyes up to how we get ‘bogged down in the detail’ to our detriment and yet at the same time skip the detail to our detriment. It’s the same source of energy that runs both because both are examples of how we are being steered away from the truth of who we are, therefore 2 different paths to the one destination (separation from self).
Beautifully expressed Joel, you have written about a subject that has not been discussed or explored much at all in recent times and yet it holds the key to so much of what we experience in life. For eons we have all been lost in the product and completely ignorant in the manufacturing process. Deep down we all know that everything is energy, therefore it is the how we do rather than the what we do that is paramount but we it seems that we have all agreed to a collective form of group amnesia!
A beautiful dedication to detail here in your blog. I have in the past fobbed off detail being a means of control and resisted it. I have since discovered as you have shared here Joel the divine support that is offered when bringing attention to detail as it is through detail we develop conscious presence which is where the magic lies.
Our expression, our love is the detail and it feeds us right back ….
I actually love detail, I find it very grounding, I really feel my expression flow in the details. I’ve felt hurt in the past when I’ve been labelled as being anal now I see it as a compliment! I’m aware that it’s easy for complication to sneak in, when it does, this is a clear sign for me to look at how I am in myself and clear whatever is getting in the way.
The more awareness we allow ourselves to bring to whatever it is we are doing, we allow a pause for us to feel into what is needed and lovingly take care of the whole – the magic is in the details.
I felt the penny drop for me when I read your sharing Joel! I know I have seen the detail as an unnecessary extra little burden at times that slows me up, but my understanding has been ignited by your blog and I can see just how necessary detail really is. Its the icing on the cake that finishes and rounds off with love, the finishing touch, the candle on top God.
When we choose the detail and the finest of detail, we are choosing who we are and an absolute claiming of the preciousness within us for it is only pure love that we deserve. There is something in this blog that alerts me to the fact that the finer the detail – the greater the love of self and all of Humanity. It is in the finest of detail we uncover unity and brotherhood and totally expose the falsity of separation. Joel, I love your words – ‘Detail, like a drop of water running down a leaf, cleans and magnifies what is beneath’.
“….not just what I write, but how I am when I write, not just what I eat, but how I am when I eat, not just what I do in any given moment, but how I am when doing this” – super Joel, in other words. Detail = Quality. The quality with which we do anything.. and everything… is the detail. What responsibility this is, to be aware.
I had a flashback at work the other day to a time when my body used to feel so tense and stressed out by all the expectations i loaded myself with and what i thought i should be delivering as a teacher, I realised in this moment; this bodily download, how settled and calm my body felt, despite the noise and activity of what was going on around me. This flashback was full of old and new details of the altered states within my body and the appreciation for how much more of me I am now able to bring.
Joel, awesome to read your post this morning, love how you write and offer the chance to reflect on everyday life, in its all encompassing divinity. Your line here: “the detail of my relationship with the detail” – so simple yet so poignant. Detail is the beauty where everything is revealed for what it truly is.
A great reminder as I am embarking on something I am challenged by, to not go into the fight but to prepare myself today by taking care of the details and then I will be able to handle what is before me.
It’s fascinating how many sayings we have created in our lifetime that completely and utterly twist the truth around. It feels like a whole bunch of excuses to keep us separated from how we innately want to be.
Very cool Joel. At first it appears exhausting to be so aware of the detail, but like most natural ways, it becomes second nature, because we were ultimately born with this level of detail awareness so we simply return to it if we choose.
Wow, Joel, the attention to detail in this great blog of yours is awesome. I can feel the loving way that you live your life, I feel so much through all your sharing here. I love this one where you describe the effect you feel when you take a breath, that it shows how you are living daily, “Imagine that – all of life reflected in one moment. This doesn’t sound like the work of the devil, but rather the all-encompassing love of Divinity.” Now the big word that comes up for me now, is RESPONSIBILITY. It is our responsibility to be giving enormous attention to all the details, moment to moment of how we are living and all that we do, even our breathing. I agree with you completely, it is the magic of God, not the devil that lies in the detail.
I can so relate to this observation of details, thanks to a greater awareness inspired by Universal Medicine, I have lately been intrigued by the gap in between my inhalation and exhalation. There have been moments when this pause has felt so amazingly spacious that i no longer feel en-housed by the boundaries of my human body but at one with everything.
Love the quality in your writing Joel, it lifts you up, holds you steady and reveals what is innately within us all. Exquisite attention to detail.
Joel I too am really appreciating the pure love and divinity that comes with taking time with the detail of life. Appreciating that when we do take the time what is left behind is the feeling of care, love and attention given and knowing in these qualities we get to feel the essence of who we are.
Gorgeous Joel, there is no doubt that love, not the devil, is in the detail. I love the flow and wisdom in your express;
“Detail, like a drop of water running down a leaf, cleans and magnifies what is beneath. Detail, like a breeze on a hot day, refreshes and changes how I feel about a current circumstance. The circumstance doesn’t change, but how I relate to it does.”.
“It’s the way I leave a task, job or project that will determine the ease with which I, or someone else, will pick it up again”….I had never really given this much thought prior to coming across the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom as presented by Serge Benhayon but it is so true. I love how these teachings are supporting us to to connect to the incredible detail that surrounds us in any given moment. I mean you could live off FOREVER the incredible detail that our body is functioning in, in any given moment. And I am playing with/learning that your sentence is so true. It is much more about the quality in which we leave something, is the quality in which we pick it up. This may sound strange but I think about this when I go to public toilets – how do I open the door to the cubicle, do I close the toilet lid gently and then again leave the door with presence and tenderness – because I am leaving an energetic imprint for the next person. It is an important topic to think about how we are in our spaces.
Thank you for the details – the term ‘the devil in the detail’ has never made sense to me. It invites glossing over and rushing on, without focus, care or even the simple act of attention. It conveys a sense of not wanting to be bothered, of something being a nuisance and roadblock. Nothing could be further from the truth, as you point out. It is really more like ‘love in the detail’.
I have experienced this Joel. “If I do this, it brings awareness to my muscles and whole body. In fact, all of how I am in life right now gets shown to me in that moment.”
It is very powerful when I am willing to read truthfully what is being shown to me in how I am being. It gives me the space and grace from the love I have within to understand, then the support to adjust anything that simply is no longer right for me. The detail, I too am becoming to greatly admire, for the slightest adjustment in my body, can and does open it to accept more love within it. Now that is the truth of miracles. That they are simply in the details of life.
Joel another ‘cracker,’ thank you for a very wisdom-filled blog on the virtues of completion to the finest of detail and the outstanding benefits from choosing to do our utmost for ourselves to the minutest of details in all we do!
I used to avoid the details, and try to skim over or miss parts wherever I could, but in that, I missed so much. And most of all, I missed the love that I could bring to the details.
It’s funny how we set ourselves up with phrases like “The Devil is in the Detail” to make it seem like life has to be a struggle or it’s inevitably going to be complicated rather than seeing the joy that can be in attending to the finer details of things and the love we can bring to life through this.
These days I love paying attention to the detail, and feeling the difference when I do.
Take cleaning the house for instance. In the past I may have not cleaned under the mat, or behind the plant, or taken the time to wipe the dust here or there and it is only now that I know and can feel the difference that this has and the impact it has on the whole house.
Another detail I really notice the difference is how I get ready for work, if I don’t take the time and care, then that is what I set myself up for, for the whole day, and without the detail, its just not the same. I may not wear the extra singlet, or I may not take the time to put on some makeup if I feel to.
Thank you Joel for a really great article, one that is spot on for me, as I consider my self not a detail person, that will certainly be changing for me, with an openiness to consider what it is that I am avoiding.
“Even the breath I take while writing this sentence is filled with detail – there is a warmth, a depth, that I can choose to observe. If I do this, it brings awareness to my muscles and whole body. In fact, all of how I am in life right now gets shown to me in that moment.” everything is everything, detail and all.
Why is there a saying that deters us from the details of life, when clearly love is there instead of anything evil at all?
If I don’t pay attention to the detail then complication can enter, and I’ve had first hand experience of that in work in recent months. It was the lack of my attention to detail, that created uncertainty in others and it was a hard lesson to take but a lesson it was, and now I make sure that the detail isn’t missed.
Joel, I just knew this was your writing even before I got to the bottom of this gorgeous blog and saw your name. Every word you express here, speaks to the reader in such a beholding and tender way. Every part of you is within this and it feels amazing. Thank-you for your beautiful sharing, I can very much relate to at this moment, as the detail is calling me also.
I agree here Julie and it is a confirmation that Joel has very much been working on his attention to detail with all areas of his life. What an enormous support this article is and a beautiful reminder that we all can make these changes and enjoy all detail of our lives.
Joel this is a fantastic sharing and isn’t it interesting how the way things can be looked at a certain way but the way we have chosen to see it is in actual fact the stark opposite. The devil is in the detail… Every detail of what you have shared has exposed this as a complete and absolute contrast to the truth. The quality in how we are in the detail will determine whether we are harming or healing. The grace and space we can give ourselves to connect and feel the magnificent quality of Love in all that we do is worth every detail and one not to be missed.
Thank you for the reminder to bring more love into every detail and to have the awareness of how much is within detail.
Joel, your writing, as per usual has such a lived experience through every detail of it that as I write this comment I realise the awareness this blog has offered me. My typing is completely different, I can’t touch type but have become very quick at my 4 finger job, I only just noticed that I usually bash the keyboard in my rush to keep up with ‘touch typer’s’, this article has slowed me down and brought everything back to my quality of movement, thank you, true gift.
Love this blog Joel – it is the detail that makes all the difference.
Joel, your writing is like a song or a poem to me. There is a flow that is so easy to glide with and read. I couldn’t agree more that it is love that is in the detail and the magic of God….not the devil lies in the detail.
I do agree with you Sandra that Joel’s writing is like a poem or a song as it contains those details in which we meet God in all his grandness.
Hello Joel and I love the way you write, so interesting and yet so easy. The ‘detail’ is where it all happens and I agree, “It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.” In other words we have the choice over how things are in front of us. We may not always want to look at it but again that is a choice also. Thanks Joel.
Thankyou Joel for confirming how supportive and loving detail can be. I feel when details are taken care of with love and care I can move onto the next moment feeling that I am fully available. When disregard is allowed and details not taken care of complication and difficulties can set in – there is not a sense of completion but of dragging things with me up incomplete into the next moments. Very draining! Thankyou for the inspiration of all you have shared.
A super supportive and inspiring blog Joel. I have been feeling to build a deeper relationship with my attention to detail in life and with everything I do but I noticed am lacking commitment and consistency in this area too. Awesome timing for me to be reading your blog, it is beautifully reminding me how easy it is to embrace a relationship with the details, to bring a deeper connection with myself, to what I choose to do and to everything around me. Without a relationship with the details I am missing out and blocking the magnificence of life and the all-encompassing divine make-up/plan.
Taking care of the detail at times can appear to be tedious or annoying, but why? What is it that likes to ignore it? I get a sense it is a lack of commitment and responsibility to be consistent with the quality I actually know needs to be applied or lived – that is me in my quality and hence everything I do. A momentum being built by consistency is immensely powerful and brings lasting change; taking a break like ignoring a moment or detail would mean to be self-sabotaging or seeking comfort to not bring into existence what otherwise would be expressed.
I hadn’t thought about it like this before but you are absolutely right Joel Levin, the Gentle Breath Meditation as taught by Serge Benhayon, does free us up to feel every detail about ourselves and the world around us. It’s a wonderful tool.
Love this blog and how you have dedicated it to the Gentle Breath Meditation as a bridge ‘to re-establish my true relationship with detail.’ For me recognising the responsibility I have as to how I am in whatever task I am doing has been key to building a deeper relationship with myself and others and the Gentle Breath Meditation has provided me with so much on-going support in this.
The devil lays more in when you do not consider the details.
This is beautiful Joel. Love is definitely in the detail and our entire being is reflected in a moment.
I like you exploring the ‘devil in the detail’ as the possible complication created by not taking the loving care every little detail deserves. When everything means everything it is every moment and every detail that counts – either a choice of love or disregard.
Over the last few years, my husband and I arranged the building of our very large home and office and moved in last weekend. Whilst building the house we lovingly paid attention to EVERY detail and to every millimetre of the house. Now living in the house it is the most unbelievably awesome and joyful experience as at every point and every angle that love is reflected back to us.
I guess as with everything what is in the detail is a reflection of the intention and quality we are originally expressing.
So observing the details in life is like a mirror showing us the quality of how we are going about our activities – the feeling of the chopping knife handle in my palm as I prepare some food (is it hard and hasty or is it respectful and purposeful?) or the feeling in my heel as I take each step (is it a hit that judders my body or is it part of a rhythm that flows?)
Yes, and there is a playfulness and joy to it such that life can never ever be boring or lonely as each moment is so full of expression, communication and the opportunity to evolve and reflect.
Joel the timing of this is so apt. I’ve always had a disregard for detail, a distain and this week I’ve been asked to re evaluate my attitude to it, to examine what it is about detail I resist because making mistakes (mistakes based on my arrogance that somehow I’m too important to pay full attention, or somehow too disadvantaged), mistakes that affect others, can no longer be ignored. And what I’ve discovered is a wanting to not be present. But the detail is a gift, it requires attention to every moment, a dedication and application that asks me to feel what’s required, to sense when something is up and I am needing to pay even greater attention. Detail requires me to live each moment and expand upon the last, to not drop the ball and not entertain that somehow I can’t handle being in this world and this level of attention to detail.
“Detail, like a breeze on a hot day, refreshes and changes how I feel about a current circumstance. The circumstance doesn’t change, but how I relate to it does.” so true, when looking at the detail, what you know and how you interact with the circumstance changes. You have more awareness of what is going on with that circumstance, because you see the whole picture and the detail that is at play.
Thank you for another beautiful blog Joel. Exquisitely simple yet full of detail.
Rally gorgeous Joel- my whole body relaxed after reading this “It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love.” so true, maybe this is why we tend to complicate things so, to mistake the detail. but really, detail is gorgeous, you can notice it in the detail of flowers, or the close up pattern of tree bark, how our bodies run and the pattern of leafs. Relationships become oh so much more rich when the detail is paid attention to, not just the what, but the why and how as well.
Amazing blog Joel, it is definitely not the devil that is in the detail, there is a deep love in concentrating on every detail of our life. It gives us the opportunity to truly observe what is going on, and when we choose to concentrate on it we get reflected the all, as that is what life is made of, every part of it is divine.
Thank you for this blog Joel – I can feel that the detail is something we can brush over because of just how much is offered to us if we check in and allow ourselves to be aware of what can be felt but so strange that we do this when that which is revealed is that which we wish for most – Love.
I have found that, strangely, there is more space when I pay full attention to the detail, however this is very much a work in progress as areas in life where I haven’t done this are being very clearly shown to me. When I don’t go deep into the detail complication is a sure companion which just frustrates and sets me skimming over the surface even further, and more concerned about there being no time. It is just a trick.
Brilliant blog Joel. It shows us that All matters in life and that detail is not a put-off or exaggerating , but simply a truth that shows us that love is there in a more deeper and precise way. Thank you for sharing this prevalent truth.
This blog is very confirming Joel. As well as confrontive in a way. My relationship with detail has been like a switch. On and off, on and off, on and off. Today we (me and a dear friend) hang a beautiful painting of Leonardo da Vinci on a wall of a treatment room. We didn’t know where to put it and when we tried three different walls, it became very obvious where to hang the painting. As if the painting was emanating Love at only one ‘spot’. Amazing how important, Gracious and specific the detail is. I love it! (even though not always, yet…)
I love this simple and truthful loving understanding of appreciating the detail Joel. Choosing to be aware of our connection to ourselves in each moment offers us the simplest most supportive choice for the next moment and so it flows – as you say the ‘all en-compassing divinity’ is available.
Having the attention to detail is the difference between doing things in a functional way as opposed to bringing the love we are into everything we do.
It is indeed very interesting that the saying goes: ‘The devil is in the details’ as I find too that it is in taking care of the details I am deeply taking care of myself and with that also of others. When we rush and run to get things done the quality is felt, it is not full as it could be when done with presence, love and attention to detail. The rushed end result is so common we accept it and do not ask for more as a society but there is so much more possible and we are so worth living and working more like that, with presence, love and attention to detail.
Reading how you describe the effect of your breath on your body Joel, has the same effect on me. I feel like I just let go of a tension that I had hanging around. Isn’t this a remarkable thing that what we say carries an energy and a power to transform others lives? The divine detail of this is remarkable when you consider all we do and communicate each day. When people usually talk about the detail this way it has a way of making life small and reduced, but the way you share and describe it here, it actually expands, and shows us that the universe lives in everything, in every table chair and table, in every hair and eyelash too and every conversation, gesture and touch and particle of me and you.
What are perceived to be insignificant details are actually the foundation of our reconnection to back to ourselves. For example we can change our diet to be dairy and gluten free and we will feel “better” for a while but it is only when we feel into what our body is asking for to eat, how we buy and prepare the food, how we place it on the plate and how we eat it that a true foundation is laid.
‘Then, looking at society overall, I realised we had the saying that “the devil is in the detail.”’ – Indeed Joel, there are many sayings in our society that are designed to make us lose sight of truth rather than truly bringing a greater awareness and understanding.
There is so much detail in details. In allowing our fragility, delicateness and tenderness, details get more important to support these beautiful qualities.
There is love in the detail and I just love allowing myself to pay attention to it. To allow myself to express all the love I feel inside by how I am with everything I do.
Details have always been important to me, they always would make the difference in how I felt in myself and about myself. In the past details were considered ‘anal’, too tight and paying attention to them made you boring or a perfectionist. What a clever way of stopping love from being expressed and labeling it like the opposite.
Yes to all the above, Monika. Although I know that my natural affinity to attend to detail has, in the past, been used as a way to cope with and micro manage life, rather than now as a celebration and observation of what is going on, the part I play in it and the impact of the smallest changes.
I can run away or complain even ignore and bury the details presented to me or I can let them be magnified and see what there is to support me for the next bit of unfolding in my life.
I wonder how it would feel with a level of care for detail in all areas of our lives. For me, there are places where I give lots of attention to the detail and areas where I give very little. You have reminded me Joel of the importance of building a relationship with the detail in our lives as these details make so much difference to whether love is felt or not.
‘It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love.’ I so agree with you Joel. When we take care of the detail, not only for ourselves but for all those we come into contact with, they can’t help but feel loved and nurtured. When I go that little bit extra with plating up my children’s meals, tucking them up in an extra warm blanket ensuring no skin is exposed, or adding another loving touch to my home it is felt by everyone and the appreciation of it is always felt if not necessarily verbalised.
I am learning too that the detail in how I move my body matters enormously. The detail and care in everything I do matters enormously, but I have only got to this awareness through having learned to appreciate myself much more and in accepting that I am worth it. Training myself to take care of this detail is very much a work in progress but every time I allow myself to connect to the detail I deepen my appreciation.
‘The circumstance doesn’t change, but how I relate to it does.’ There is so much wisdom here Joel. To be delicately aware of detail leaves us in so much more space that we can’t help but relate to situations so differently – with more appreciation and space we are much gentler, more understanding and more allowing.
‘Growing up, detail was where the conflict lay. Control, arguments and manipulation lay in the detail. At school the detail was the difference between passing and failing, between the smart kids and the not so smart kids.’ I can totally relate to what you are sharing here Joel. When there is a lack of self worth or lack of any inner solid foundation of self-regard, detail can become an irritating ‘have to’ that can make us feel resentful. I often see this with the kids I teach at school. Those that have purpose and more inner worth enjoy the detail and the opportunities it offers for personal growth and learning whilst those that are more given up simply cannot see the benefit of it.
Any area which we bring detail to brings with it a warmth and depth that otherwise would be missing.
Really well said Joel, I remember paying attention to details but having people judging me for that or making jokes about it when I knew deep inside me it was the right thing to do, but somehow still got influenced by the external world or let’s say the consciousness.
Love is indeed in the detail – so it makes no sense to avoid or fear it. When we bring attention to detail, we change the way we relate to ourselves and everyone around us.
Our use of language and phrase is very interesting when we look at it with a philosophical approach. It’s phrases such as ‘devil is in the detail’ that has been popularised to put us off track on what detail actually is and the absolute majesty in the detail of every moment. There is never a chore in detail only in the chasing your tail to catch up from lack of detail…
The beauty of detail is summed up so simply in this line “It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.”
Attention to details is a choice to observe that has a magnifying effect, and there we have more to appreciate.
Thanks for another insightful article Joel,
I’ve recently felt this also, how important it is to dot all i’s and cross all t’s, as the saying goes. If the details are not taken care of then this is where the quality of one’s ‘expression’ can be lost. I’ve found this to be crucial in every single area of life and recently I have even woken up in the morning with a sense of sadness or disappointment when I’ve felt something from the day before that I did not hold the love and integrity with right down to every single detail. I’m now feeling the harm of not doing this.
Details are everything. We need understanding but it expresses itself in the details. A famous architect in the 1920s said “God is in the details” (Mies van der Rohe)
I agree – love lives in the detail. When details are overlooked it simply feels neglected.
A masterpiece cannot be so if the painter has been clumsy in the detail. Precision is everything.
amazing Joel! The absoluteness of God and absolute inspiration is found in the detail of life. Knowing this brings so much joy to the day, and time disappears, thats what I love about being aware of the details.
I have always known the saying ‘God is in the detail’. The re-interpreted version of the ‘Devil that lives in the Detail” sure is a way to keep avoid feeling how loving detail can be.
Thank you Joel. The detail completes and accomplishes like there is no other way.. and if there is another way the detail will show it.
Devil is in the detail only when we do not choose to do it about love first.
The only reason why we could “look at the detail with a sense of panic, fear or dread” is when we know the whole was not what we have chosen.
There is so much to be said for giving attention to detail. I cannot think of one advancement in the world that did not rely on attention to detail at almost every level. Am I not worth the same attention to detail for me to truly know myself?
In my youth and up to recently, detail was from a land of conflict and rebellion. The argument was: I will not do it in ‘that’ way. I will do it ‘my’ way. What is clear now is that we are not talking about the doing. It’s how you are in your movements and where do they bring you.
Details are always in our favour if our intention is to build a solid foundation to move truly forward.
‘It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.’ I have found this point revolutionary and evolutionary, Joel.
“The Devil in the Detail” was obviously a saying that came from those who liked to rush and get things done and achieve “success” by being clever and arriving first at a goal. Tasks and actions performed this way have no love or care in them, and might as well not be done at all for all the good they do, in fact it does positive harm if the loving energy isn’t in the awareness of how we are doing something. Conversely when love is present in all we do then it is natural to take care of the detail without having to try.
Thank you Joel. I have always resisted attention to detail as I felt it was overwhelming and fiddly as you describe here. You beautifully show that the truth is we can set ourselves free by paying attention to the detail. I never really considered that the way I am in a given moment is a detail until I read this blog. Simply acknowledging this feels like it changes everything.
‘It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step’ – when I nail this understanding, my attention to detail is a beautiful and purposeful element of a big picture and it makes so much sense – the micro is the building blocks for the macro.
Interesting this idea of “detail as the enemy”. I have a dual relationship with this. In my old academic days (and still when I write), details is my companion. I have an excellent relationship with it. Actually it is the only way I have found to really build. Yet, in other areas of my life, it was like a passion of moving towards a goal but not really taking care of the everything involved in it and leaving many black holes on my way. It is a style of movement at the end that does not truly complete anything.
Another beautifully insightful blog, Joel, thank you ….. ‘the detail holds the key to our freedom, not only in this moment, but in the next as well.’ …. if we leave something in disregard, this is what we and anyone else are met with when we/they come back to it …. the more care we take we are creating space for things to unfold. Lack of attention to detail creates confusion and can be very limiting in terms of what is possible moving forward as with uncertainty people are left to make decisions in reaction to something not working or not being clear.
Why do we want to avoid the details of life? I have come to see that paying attention to the details is actually about bringing responsibility to our lives. When we pay attention to the details we are informing ourselves and this supports us to make more loving choices.
It’s through the detail that we feel and can observe the energy of what we do. So given as a human race we don’t tend to like being aware of the fact that everything comes down to our choice of energy, it’s no wonder we’ve set up the saying ‘the devil is in the detail’ and misconstrued the true meaning and significance of what detail brings.
Love this Joel. God is in the detail, not the devil.
Thank you Joel, I know I can bring more love to everything I do, this blog is a great reminder.
Like anything, there is the light and dark side. The details can be used ‘like the devil’ however without the details much of the grandness of life in overlooked.
Just by reading your blog, I can feel how much love there is in every detail. Going to focus on the details today, or, in other words, on love.
Thank you Joel for this blog. While reading it I felt that I knew all of what you were sharing, how when we go into the details we can learn so much. What this also highlighted was how I don’t live with the details as to how I go about life to the depth I know I can. However we are not designed to keep and store all this knowing and it is beautiful to have others around us, there is support all around us in the details to remind us of our divinity and that we are but a part of a whole that shares that whole with other parts. The parts being people and nature, when we bring attention to the details of ourselves, others and nature is where we can find God within and around us.
I fully agree, the way we do things is crucial and such an area for ripening. In the way our society is we have allowed for such a long time the quality of how things are done to be a tick box exercise, and not given the true importance it richly deserves. I love how we are now relearning that this actually matters and is worth paying much more attention to. I know practitioners who take enormous care with the detail and it makes the world of difference to be on the receiving end of such love.
It certainly does not sound like the work of the devil – for in the detail is all that is needed to be known, and i know for me detail is a huge one – a marker of how present I was when I did something or not.
I too have been pondering on the details lately, on every intricate part of life, of my body, and the detail of every movement. As you say Joel, “There is detail in everything” and what I am discovering is that everything is in the detail; all the answers, all the love and all the truth we will ever need.
Another beautiful sharing Joel thank you. The water droplet running down a leaf that cleans and magnifies what is beneath, reminded me of having a conversation with a very busy man yesterday who had beads of sweat running down his face, quite red and breathing a bit laboured. So much effort was being put into his work and it was obvious to me a lot of strain was being put onto the whole of his body. He had an eye for detail for sure when it came to the fence he was putting up but it was very clear that he was not so aware of paying attention to the quality of his movements whilst labouring hard with his work – a determination to get the work done with time constraints! A slightly different definition of ‘the devil in the detail’ I feel but, at the end of the day our bodies will always share with us exactly how much detail we have lived too. That which supported us or not.
I know that when I sit down and attend to something in detail the whole room lights up. When you walk back into a room where detail has been lovingly attended to you can feel a fullness in that room, a beautiful feeling of welcome, because there are no disregarded bits languishing in there, pulling the energy down.
Beautiful blog Joel. Love ad divinity are most certainly in the details that is what we choose. ‘Detail, like a drop of water running down a leaf, cleans and magnifies what is beneath.’ The loving energy used to attend to detail makes whatever has just been done such a benediction. The smallness of detail does not make it unimportant. As Serge Benhayon once said, if the rivets on a planes’ wing are not correctly made in every detail the whole plane can crash.
I too used to feel detail was my enemy, but now realise that everything I do – and the way that I do it – is detail – and is important. Every detail contributes to the bigger picture – which affects not only myself but everyone.
“Of course, as with so many things in life, it turns out that the opposite is true. It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love.” I used to get frustrated with detail and easily dismissed it, but now more and more I appreciate the beauty of it. It adds to the final touches of something that completes and enriches the whole.
How often do we brush over the detail so that we can get more things done or because we get distracted only to regret it later when something goes wrong. I am beginning to love detail as it shows me so much more about myself and how I am with everything, detail is now my friend and not my enemy. “Imagine that – all of life reflected in one moment. This doesn’t sound like the work of the devil, but rather the all-encompassing love of Divinity.” I so love this Joel, all of life reflected in one moment, this is huge, each moment is the all-encompassing love of Divinity.
“…all of life reflected in one moment.”
This is exquisite and the most beautiful thing to experience and certainly something worth working towards, one step at the time, so it eventually becomes part of one’s every day life.
There is so much joy to be found in details.
The detail can be exactly where a full stop goes or a question mark, this brings such joy to writing and can be transferred anywhere. It might be how many spices you put in a soup, or the angle you have a cushion at, the detail of how your car is set up, what’s in it to support you as you drive and work.
Recently I have moved to a new block of schools to teach, not knowing if I or another will come back to the ones I was in before after the summer break. The detail for me was to leave paper cut, pens, art materials and resources all prepared and in a particular place to support whoever comes back on that first day.
“It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.”
Beautifully said Joel! Paying attention to detail really is an expression of care and love towards oneself and others and it is so worth it!
“Detail was those frustrating ‘fiddly’ elements that had to be put up with to get done what was needed.”
I can so relate to this Joel, these are the moments when I rush things to get done and over with them, but what I realized is how much I love paying attention to the detail if I allow myself the space for it – I just don’t like to be rushed.
I absolutely love detail, precision and order, for me, these are the key to joy, flow, ease and freedom in my day, life, body and work.
God is most definitely in the detail, so is joy.
From reading your blog I have had a revelation … that detail confirms and strengthens committment. Committment to life, a job, a task, a relationship .. the list goes on. You have just reminded me something that I discovered for myself last week (after an exam and job interview) but soon conveniently forgot in that currently I am not so great with detail. I am good at looking at the bigger picture but not so good with the detail (which is needed to support the bigger picture!). So thank you for the reminder, I just need to start learning this more and putting it into practice to support how I live. This is beautifully said ‘Of course, as with so many things in life, it turns out that the opposite is true. It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love.’
Taking care of the details can be another word for taking responsibility, responsibility for all that we do, say and choose. Thank you Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for offering me a way to re-establish my true relationship with responsibility.
‘There is detail in everything.’ – Absolutely, and as you’ve shared Joel under the surface of ALL that we do or say there are so many details playing their part to make our expression whole. We can choose, however, to contract and shut out the details thus making our expression lesser so that others don’t react to the truth, we don’t stand out, we don’t have to take responsibility for something and so forth… This rejection of the details is in essence a rejection of the bigger picture and whole package of what is needed – in other words, the importance of our expression is shunned by not taking responsibility or choosing to move in a lesser quality to how we truly can be.
Gorgeous article Joel,I love this, ‘It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.’ Thank you for sharing this, I love the simplicity and exquisiteness that i can feel in what you share.
‘…all of life reflected in one moment. This doesn’t sound like the work of the devil, but rather the all-encompassing love of Divinity’ – Beautifully put Joel, and so true. We can spend our whole lives fighting the details and ‘little things’ in life but we are missing out on appreciating a monumental support and reflection that EVERYONE is offered all the time. The details make up the bigger picture and provide an important reflection for every pocket of life in the world; we can frustratedly fight them or be amazed at what divinity they mirror back to us.
Joel having grown up with the saying “The devil is in the detail” it took a long time to start to appreciate that Love is in the detail, and that simplicity is also in the detail. Personally i feel now that not looking at the details is the same as not wanting to take responsibility and that looking at the detail builds a really solid foundation to grow from both personally and work wise.
For me, these days it is about my fingertips – to feel them first…how I tip the buttons, how I touch something, me or another. My fingertips are so sensitive, when I connect to them I am connecting to my sensitivity – I am connecting through them to the whole ‘Sensitive Me’.
With thanks to the teachings of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon I am learning to walk small steps and master every one. This is relatively simple but cannot be done unless we pay close attention to detail. As humans we have a tendency to take giant leaps with our eyes closed and hope that we land with safe grounding. But how can this be when we have not taken care with the quality with which we have moved? Focussing on the future without taking note of the present moment is a clever trick of the human spirit to enable it to skip bits and therefore seemingly dodge accountability for the imprint left behind.
Well said Joel, all of it. I have also heard the expression ‘God is in the detail’ which then leaves me to ponder…if God is in the detail and so is the ‘devil’ then we could say that in every given moment there is the potential to either express all that is love or, all that is not. By skipping the detail, we are pretty much choosing to not discern the energy in which and with which we do things.
Attention to detail is for me to really go in-depth for love.
Love is in the detail. I love it!
An important exposing of an image here Joel about detail and yes in how not choosing to be present and caring in the detail of things, we have allowed the (d)evil in. Bringing ourselves back to love in each detail is awesome as it highlights how and where we can make all the difference.
Joel this is really brilliant – i have always been stuck around the phrase ‘the devil is in the detail’ – what you share here is the beauty that is actually offered in the detail, and how important it is to look at this rather than see it is a burden.
‘Surely close enough is good enough’ was my old catch cry but life experience has taught me otherwise; at times the hard way. These are great points that you are making Joel particularly . . .”It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step.” . . So undeniably true.
It seems to me that the detail is calling us to go deeper and to take more responsibility, as if showing us something. My own relationship with detail has always been sketchy at best and at times I would find it bothersome if more detail was required but at the same time knowing that it was needed. Could it be that it is highlighting the fact that we are only willing to go so far before we say that will do.
Awesome! The love and the quality in every detail you write is tangible Joel. My body feels very spacious and expanded from the awareness and understanding you bring to the details from this angle. Every detail supports the next action and the quality in which the detail is attended to continues into every following step.
“It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love. It’s the care I take in each moment that adds to the ease with which I will take my next step”.
Interesting that a truth of Universal proportions can be attempted to be hidden as the opposite of what it is..’detail – devil’ rather than ‘detail – God’. Is it the case that this has happened with many areas of human life, how we perceive men, woman, childhood, how we relate to difference and many more Is it worth pondering what our preconceptions are and begin to ask questions?
I feel God is in the detail. I used to, and still do, take moments to watch the ants, look at the lines on a leaf, see the moss growing on a stone, the sun in a birds wing, the order of nature is an expression of God. The details of expression is with us every day. I am noticing as part of God that I also have these details. I learnt anatomy and physiology and we are full of this detailed divine order, God in expression. I am now noticing that the way I use the keys on my computer, the way I brush my hair, the way I place my feet as I walk can or can not be expressions of this natural order. God in expression through my vessel, my body. God and so Love, Love and so God, is most definitely the detail.
Another powerful and insightful blog Joel, thank you! This particular sentence brought a stop moment to truly appreciate the beauty and wonderment to be felt in the detail that nature reflects to us all the time, but could be so easily missed or ignored. Also highly significant is the awareness of how we relate to things is what changes, and not about the circumstance being changed to suit ourselves.
“Detail, like a drop of water running down a leaf, cleans and magnifies what is beneath. Detail, like a breeze on a hot day, refreshes and changes how I feel about a current circumstance. The circumstance doesn’t change, but how I relate to it does”.
I have had this experience, everyone trying to get their interpretation of events to be ‘right.’ “Growing up, detail was where the conflict lay.” And so complication and control ends up predominating and this reduces and narrows our experience of each other and life. It can also weigh heavy and become the issue rather than looking at what is really going on.
For me the detail is a way of reconnecting to myself when I lose the plot. That we even have the saying ‘the devil is in the detail’, when it is in fact God, love, is a supremely clear example of the 180 degrees humanity has done in order to not face the truth of our divinity – and therefore not take responsibility for the attention to detail and integrity this calls us to live with.
I love this Joel. ‘It’s the way I leave a task, job or project that will determine the ease with which I, or someone else, will pick it up again.’ What goes around comes around. Love is in the detail ✨
Thank you, Joel. I love what you have shared about all of life being reflected in one moment. I too have found in the practise of Esoteric Yoga, that when I let go of the ‘doing’ and bring myself to a point of focus with the breath, a moment of detail, the whole of the universe is there to be felt. It is there in my fingertips in an instant. Every single delicate movement can bring us into touch with our true nature and what we are forever a part of.
I find that my toes are a great reflection to me of remembering the finer details in life. They can be hidden in shoes so out of sight and out of mind but they always give me an indication of health and the attention I am paying to the detail. Funnily enough not paying attention to detail here has massive consequences, like losing toes with lack of care in diabetes, or loss of balance if you injure or stub your toe. Each toe plays a huge part in your overall balance…how about that! Got to pay attention to the small details!
Detail is the only way to go! It is so easy to brush over things and distract but as you have pointed out here that way does not spot the behaviours that we do routinely that actually don’t support us. I would say that not paying attention to the detail is what got me to exhaustion.
This is so beautifully expressed Joel love certainly is in the detail and not the devil and it is very clear how we have been fooled in sayings we hear and pass on and end up believing. The more we take awareness to every moment and the quality of it the more love we build in our bodies and live expressing this with every movement we make.
Ah, looking in depth to the quality and nitty gritty of the detail is key to bring the clarity and awareness to the whole body, that’s brilliant Joel.
I agree Joel, its love that’s in the detail. I like this description of yours – ‘Detail, like a breeze on a hot day, refreshes and changes how I feel about a current circumstance. The circumstance doesn’t change, but how I relate to it does.” I have had many experiences where the only thing that changed was my attitude, and as a result everything was transformed.
We have taken the divinity out of the detail by making it something we have to do by paying lots of attention and investing lots of time, but this is all not true. The detail is the love we are and therefore comes from the being and not from the doing. As you beautifully describe detail is in everything as everything reminds us of our divinity.
Joel great to read this, i have been feeling a little overwhelmed in having to get a few projects complete, it has been around getting the fine details checked and done, but I can see with your sharing where I was getting frustrated. “Detail was those frustrating ‘fiddly’ elements that had to be put up with to get done what was needed.”, the energy I was coming from was this too,and hence why I have been feeling the overwhelm. So it’s really about the care taken in the moment and not get caught in the doing will change the energy from being in the overwhelm, and being more connected to my stillness.
“The circumstance doesn’t change, but how I relate to it does.” When we see flowers growing it may just be a splash of colour but look carefully at the detail and you will be aware of the delicate petals, stamens, pollen with nectar inviting insects to take a sip and the stalk to support each bloom and leaves to convert the suns rays into sustenance for the plant and you cannot doubt that God is in the detail.
God is in the detail, interesting that society’s saying leads us astray to believe there is any devil or is it just devolved evil (d-evil) – the separation we have from our soul!
It’s a great way to look at ‘evolving’ as a divine invitation of support instead of a dreadful unavoidable task on my to-do list. Brings back fun and connection. Very cool, Joel!
If I put every thing I use back to exactly where it belongs then when I need to use it next time I know exactly where to go to find it. Attention to detail is a massive time and anxiousness saver. Attention to detail is good medicine
Mary Louise what you have shared ‘If I put every thing I use back to exactly where it belongs then when I need to use it next time I know exactly where to go to find it’ is something that I have done for such a long time and it supports and it supports and it supports me. Small details like always having 2 teabags in my bag means that I can have a cuppa where ever I go, taking food with me means that I don’t end up either hungry or eating something that doesn’t suit me, having change in my car means that I can always pay for parking, these small details are loving expressions of me to myself and I am grateful to me for them.
The more present we are, the more we see, feel and observe, with the details in place which supports seeing the bigger picture.
I so agree with you Joel, love resides in detail. Love for self when you take the time and effort to complete to every last detail and love for another as you know you are offering the complete package down to every last detail
Attention to detail is something that I have fought against for most of my life and it is now something that I see, like you Joel, as the greatest gift. which I am focusing on developing with every thing I do. In the past I would often say ‘Oh that is good enough’, this attitude lacks responsibility and always something would be not quite right about what ever I was doing or however I was being. Conscious presence supports attention to detail.
Changing that old saying to love is in the detail is the way forward, as with love in everything we do, the natural flow of the Universe will occur making everything more harmonious.
Reflecting on this brings up ‘Can’t be bothered’ thoughts, as in, ‘Can’t be bothered to read the small print’ or, ‘Never mind the details, just give me an overview’ for people who can’t be bothered with details. Your blog shows us how taking care to look at the details can be a self-loving to do. Taking care of small things like how we are in everything we do brings a whole new approach to the way we live and feels very different.
Thank you Joel for this most palpable description of love in the detail.
I have been appreciating and giving more attention to the detail I bring into my home lately and how this affects the order, rhythm and flow within it. The way things are placed for example and also the quality I leave my house in to then return and be met with. I like what you are saying here, what we do not only affects us–”It’s the way I leave a task, job or project that will determine the ease with which I, or someone else, will pick it up again”.
I so agree Joel, it is God that is in the detail, the love… and the devils playground when we forget our interconnectedness and how everything we do has a ripple affect.
“It is not the devil that lives in the detail, but love.” Such a superbly loving observation, Joel: thank you.
Amazing blog Joel. Details lay the foundations of how we live in every moment. It shows how super important the details are. Responsibility comes from this. This is especially seen in accountancy, even the tiniest sum out reveals an enormous amount.
One of the areas of life I’ve learnt enormously about since coming to the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, is also in relationship with my body Joel. You are absolutely correct, that even in one single breath… or a single in-breath… or even the way our body prepares to breathe in… so very much can be revealed. Is my breath short, is there tension, anxiousness in its movement, or does it feel to be an easy and natural flow, utilising the whole of my lungs in gentle yet completely unforced fullness?
I love paying attention to such things, for they support such a deepening relationship with oneself, to be truly in touch with what is going on within my body and being allows me to simply be ‘me’ and be far less buffeted by the many instances and yes indeed ‘details’ that may surround me at any given moment. A-maz-ing.
I love how you’ve approached this Joel: “looking at the detail of my relationship with the detail.” I can well relate to experiencing areas of my life where I’ve resisted the detail, and taking true care of it where it’s been called for and needed. This opens up an enormous subject for us all as to whether we truly appreciate the love that can be in our relationship with detail, and whether we allow this to flow in our lives, or perhaps self-abuse by virtue of its withholding.
Joel, I love it. Just reading the title I could sense this is going to be a corker of a blog. To the last word ……..the love and quality of what you have presented did confirm.
What an awesome sharing of understanding on just how vital giving loving attention to detail in all aspects of one’s living is! To me, the saying there’s ‘devil in the detail’ also outs the fact that joy is also available for every single person to experience when they pay loving attention to the details that are particular to them in their own life. Thanks for the prompt for me to look more closely at the detail, Joel.