"When someone saves a single life, it is as if they have saved the entire world." — Talmud

"When someone saves a single life, it is as if they have saved the entire world."
— Talmud

... and what about starting with your own?

Yes, you might say, I know this, I’ve heard it before. But have you ever thought about the depth of the message behind this thought? It’s not just about pulling someone drowning out of the water...

There are many perspectives from which this thought can be viewed, and ours is just one of many, but it comes from the perspective of love. It can help you understand certain connections related to actions that go against Love and their possible consequences.

Likewise, there are countless potential realities for each individual, created by situations, their perception, and interpretation of what is and what is happening, every thought, feeling, emotion, decision, action, and relational interaction. They cannot be invented because, as they say, "you can’t make this up; only life can make it up," and certainly, they cannot be summarized in a few lines. However, what we will talk about here are the basic principles of kindness, humanity, a happy and fulfilled life.

The purpose of this post is not to instill fear about the future, but to provide you with the necessary information from the perspective of love and to motivate you to act in love. Also, if you have acted against love in the past, this will give you the chance to correct such actions and heal not only your life and the lives of those close to you but also the lives of all the people who have already lost faith and hope in good and in humanity. Being attentive, kind, and humane to others is also something we do for ourselves. It is the highest quality energetic nourishment for the soul, which we all are.

We are in a time of transformation. From hierarchy, superiority, and separation to unity, cooperation, and support. It is the ideal time to stop and take a deep self-reflection on our lives. Ask yourself, how many lives have I saved with my decisions and actions? In how many situations have I not reacted in fear and selfishness? In how many situations have I prioritized the well-being of others over my own benefit? Have I harmed someone else with my actions? Have I harmed their family, children, loved ones? Has it marked their entire life? From the perspective of a higher level of consciousness, we can say that it was their journey and lesson necessary for their further development and soul growth, for which they came here, and we might even say that everything we did was a pre-agreed role that we must play for them, even if, from the perspective of their current existence, the result of such actions was associated with pain and suffering. However, this is a higher perception of a healthy mind, seeing everything that is and what is happening from a higher perspective of understanding the broader contexts of life, to which most of us must still work our way through inner work. The good news is that we all have the potential to heal our minds as energetic beings capable of changing energetic frequencies. So let’s stay at the level of current collective consciousness for now and talk about possibilities that are currently acceptable for most.

Let’s now look at another possible form of action against love, even though most of us would not consider this action, or lack of action, as being against love because it is a normal part of our lives. In how many situations have you noticed another person’s suffering and selflessly extended a helping hand to them without expecting a reward? Just like that, out of love for a human being, and not for money.

Let’s stop for a moment and think about money as a significant motivation for our actions and one of the causes of the loss of humanity because in many cases, money is the reason for our egoism. To be more precise, it is the fear of lack and inferiority, which comes from the ego, and the ego derives, among other things, its identity and personal value mostly from money. The ego, our "false self," identifies with wealth, social status, power, superiority, and everything that is related to the ownership of money. This fear in the subconscious makes us afraid that without money, we will mean nothing, and thus we elevate money above love, humanity, family, friendship... And we are willing to do anything for it, even though in some cases, we may even "sell our soul." Money in itself is neither good nor bad; it is part of the system in which we live, we need it for life, and in a certain sense, it gives us a feeling of freedom. The problem arises when we become slaves to money. When everything we do, we do only for money and out of fear of losing money. I once listened to a video titled "Finding the Life Path" on the YouTube channel "Here and Now," where I was struck by the idea that "the burning desire of the mind for money takes away the courage to walk our own path." We will analyze this idea in a separate post, but for now, let’s paraphrase it as the "burning desire of the mind for money that takes away our humanity." Of course, we can’t be blamed for this, because these programs were created in us through upbringing—"study well to live well and mean something in life" or "take care of yourself because no one else will help you"—and countless other such "wisdoms," from which life convictions firmly rooted in our subconscious have formed. And this is why we are deaf and blind to the suffering of others today. Our convictions were also shaped by later experiences associated with the feeling of importance when we experienced the intoxicating power of money. People liked us, sought our presence, we had the power to decide for ourselves and others, and all of this gave us a sense of importance, and we gained the belief that with money, we mean more than without it. That is why money became so important for us, even more important than love, because for the ego, it became a matter of life and death—or that with money, we mean something, and without it, we are nothing. But it is only the ego’s illusion because our essence will always remain the same. We will still be amazing people—miraculous human beings—whether we have money or not. This illusion of the ego is something that most people have gone through in the early stages of personality development because this is how our minds work, and the ego is nothing more than the mind’s image of itself. What helps us to free ourselves from perceiving money as the highest meaning and reason for our existence is understanding the universal law that says, "we carry nothing material from this world." The only thing we take with us are our deeds and their consequences. As Sonmi says in the movie Cloud Atlas, "With every crime and every kindness, our future is born." Therefore, let us not allow money or the burning desire for money to control us and become the driving force and sole motivation of our life and existence. This realization is one of the steps on the path to love for people, whose energetic vibration far exceeds the pseudo-love for money.

If we act for our own benefit at the expense of another or harm someone with our actions or, for various selfish reasons, fail to act when we could have, we call such actions acts against love. And it doesn’t matter whether the action is conscious or unconscious, such actions always have their "negative" consequences. The question is then only when and in what form they will manifest in the life of a person who acted against the principles of love.

The universe always holds up a mirror and reminds us of our actions in many forms. However, the phrase "the universe will return it to us" is not true in this context because the universe does not return anything to us nor punish us; it simply gives us the opportunity, through pain, to learn from the consequences of our actions and awaken to a life of love.

What most don’t realize is the fact that the consequences of acting against love can manifest not only in the person acting but also in their loved ones, the ones they truly care about and are emotionally and energetically connected to on a soul level. These are primarily parents, children, partners, and siblings. The reason is very prosaic, but most of us don’t realize it because, in egoistic actions for our own benefit, the person acting does not realize that other people also have their loved ones, whom they care for and love just as much as they love their own. And thus, through their actions against love, they often harm their loved ones as well. It can be serious mental or physical illness, tragic death, voluntary departure from this life, loss of wealth or position, loss of freedom, various addictions, betrayal by loved ones, unwanted abandonment by a partner... As well as other karmic lessons, which, due to the acceleration of the perception of time passing, in many cases take place in the same life. These lessons serve to understand the consequences of acting against love so that the person acting in such a way can experience the pain caused by their actions on someone else. So that through personal experience, we ourselves can understand the consequences of our actions. Karma is therefore learning through experiencing our own deeds towards others on ourselves, so that when we feel the need to take some action towards another, we can realize whether this action violates the universal law of Love or not. And based on this realization, we can then make that action or refrain from it. Through the integration of karmic lessons, we have slowly started learning to consider our decisions and actions as conscious actions rather than unconscious automatic reactions. In other words, we have begun to learn to act consciously, to be aware in advance of the consequences of our actions on ourselves and also on others. Today, thanks to the development of conscious souls through the integration of many karmic lessons during all our earthly lives, many people already follow and live according to the principle, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Because what we do to others, we are also doing to ourselves, we just don’t realize it because many still don’t understand the principle of the interconnectedness of everything. Therefore, the first step is to learn to see all people as an extension of ourselves, for we are all energetically connected to each other in this world.

When we realize that humanity is our true family, we can finally see each other as a mirror reflecting the depth of our own heart, and our actions will naturally be aligned with love. Then we will understand that helping others is the same as helping ourselves. And in this awareness, we can truly save a life. This is the essence of love in action.

Zorba Buddha
A person of the new age, spiritually enjoying worldly pleasures – in love, without fear."