Jaclyn Beckerman Coaching

Do any of you get Tut’s ‘notes from the universe’?

They’re pretty amazing.

Yesterday I got one that said the following:

If you knew how much you have in common with every single person now living in time and space Jaclyn – in terms of your greatest hopes and dreams, and your deepest fears and worries – you’d wonder how I manage to tell you all apart.

And from this day forward you’d likely think of every single one of them as “dearest,” just as I do.

Tallyho,

The Universe

I always find it so humbling to realize that everyone else is so incredibly similar to me.  Internally we all have the same kind of stuff going on.  Whether our beliefs and values differ or not is irrelevant because we are all human beings – born as beings of love who developed and inherited (similar) fears along the way.

Even if you judge someone to be a cruel or heartless person, at their core they are love.  They may not be very evolved beings (or spirits), and may have added a lot of fears and negative views of the world to their perspective, but think of when they were babies.  Babies don’t hate, hold grudges or seek revenge, they love, explore and discover.  It’s as they grow older that they decide something is wrong with them that needs to be fixed.  They get caught up in their disempowering interpretations believing them to be the truth and deeming themselves things like being unworthy, unlovable or all alone.

We ALL started out the same way and we ALL have collected fears and false beliefs about ourselves throughout our lives.  Everyone is not in the same place in terms of their development and growth, but we are so much more similar than we are different in every way.

Now, this isn’t to say to invite people who bring you down into your life.  I actually think that’s detrimental to your well being and talked about this in a recent entry, The Importance of Surrounding Yourself with Great People.  But I do think it provides an interesting perspective on how we treat one another and encouragement to further develop our capacity for kindness.

It’s a great reminder (for me and hopefully for you too) to treat one another as we want to be treated.  Because we are the same.  I know I don’t always remember this but I do realize how important it is to hold on to the awareness that we are all equal – that is where real compassion comes from – for both others as well as for ourselves.