Always, Always, Always Believe in Yourself...

"Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you are going to fail at everything. 

Keep trying. Hold on. And always, always, always believe in yourself. 

Because if you don't, then who will?"

 

Marilyn Monroe

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Awaken...

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. 

Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."

Carl Gustav Jung

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The Law of Divine Compensation...

"Nothing binds you except your thoughts. 
Nothing limits you except your fears. 
And nothing controls you except your beliefs."

Marianne Williamson
 Excerpts from "The Law of Divine Compensation"

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That What is Wise...

"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious.
The desire to reach for hearts is wise."

Maya Angelou

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I Love You Without Knowing...

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. 

I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride. 

So I love you in this way because I know no other way of loving but this, 

in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, 

so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

Pablo Neruda

Yes. This is Love.

Some may call it Unconditional. Some may call it Love.

Simply that. Love. Unconditional Love.

When you Love, because there is no reason, other than Love.

I bow down graciously with respect to Pablo Neruda.

One of the poets whose words, have always found a way of touching my heart.

When I read his poetry, it makes we wish I spoke Spanish.

Simply so I could feel and touch the words, the way he wrote them from his own heart.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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A Love Letter to Life...

A Love Letter to Life...

"Dear Life, Thank you!

Love, Me."

Today, is a day that I simply have to say Thank you to Life. To God. And to so many of my friends.

Today, something good happened. A little wonder, a little miracle.

I had my fears, and I chose to let Love and Faith and a thousand prayers be stronger than that.

I decided to start saying Thank You in advance... simply with Trust that all was going to work out just fine. It was my way of giving my prayers, my trust.

Alles ist gut. Alles wird gut.

All is good. All will be good.

I believe, we can never say enough "Thank you's"... It's like writing a Love Letter to Life. Embracing it like a dear friend.

I believe we need to start every day with a Thank you. And end each day with a Thank you. And find those thousand reasons during the day as well.

And some days, more than ever.

But today, I just want to send this little Love Letter to Life. To God. And to so many of my friends.

Thank you.

Desire...

"Desire leads the way home."

Danielle LaPorte

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What You Do Not Want...

"Worrying is praying for what you do not want."

Unknown

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The Invitation...

"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. 
I want to know what you ache for 
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing."


Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it, or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, 'Yes.'

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

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By Oriah Mountain Dreamer from her book, THE INVITATION (c) 1999. Published by HarperONE, San Francisco. All rights reserved. Presented with permission of the author. www.oriah.org

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Walking Home...

"We are all just walking each other home."

Ram Das

Photograph: Poras Chaudhary

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Be the Change...

"Be the change you wish to see in this world."

Mahatma Gandhi

Words we hear spoken, again and again.

Simple words. But powerful words.

Words which hold the utter truth.

Words we need to live, again and again.

Much Loves,

Angela

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Through the Eyes of God...

"What would you look like 

if you saw yourself through the eyes of God?"

Oprah Winfrey

This question... This got me thinking today.

Maybe it's a question we need to ask ourselves more often.

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Live as if...

Live... as if.

Words, that could be open to the most diverse of meanings.

Living as if, is about going into the emotion of what it is you desire, what it is you are dreaming of, working towards. Putting yourself into the energy, and going into resonation with that...

As if it already is.

You give your desires and your dreams, that sense of already being present. Already being in your life and a part of your life.

When you are living as if, wonders start to happen. Suddenly, there they are themselves, Living... as if.

Dreamers Cannot be Tamed...

"Dreamers cannot be tamed."

"On ne peut pas dompter les rêveurs."

Paulo Coelho

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Legends Say...

"Legends say, when you can not sleep at night, 

it is because you are awake in someone else's dream."

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This Journey...

"The journey of life seems to be leading towards a destination. 

Until you realise, you've been there all along."

Dan Goldberg

You yourself are the destination. Life is the destination.

And once we arrive there withourselves and God, and once we arrive in Life...

Then we truly know how to embrace and love and live life.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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I Am a Thing of Beauty...

"I am a thing of beauty."

Frank Sinatra

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But More, Much More Than This...

 

"But more, much more than this, 

I did it my way."

Frank Sinatra

How many of you, feel that pull in your heart, knowing there's something more that you want to be doing? And there's something more, calling your name?

How many of you, have a dream, that wants you to awake to it?

A dream, that wants you to say...

"But more, much more than this, I did it my way."

Trust yourself. Be bold. Even with trembling hands. Trust yourself.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Truth, Beauty, Love...

"But today we kneel only to Truth, 

follow only Beauty, and obey only Love."

Khalil Gibran

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Love...

Wishing everyone, regardless where you are. 
Regardless what your culture, and regardless what your faith...

I am simply wishing you Love. Thankful and Giving Love.

Today. And each and every day.

Love.

Swimming Forward...

"You get a strange feeling when you are about to leave a place. You will not only miss the people you love, but you will miss the person you are now, at this time and this place, because you will never be this way ever again. But you are excited for the person you are swimming towards and look forward to the new you that awaits in the distance."

Azar Nafisi
Excerpts of "Reading Lolita in Tehran"

Be Grateful.

These words speak dearly to me today. This so describes the moments we arrive, the moments we leave from a travel to a distant country, maybe from a visit home again. But somedays, it is simply that moment you are leaving behind, a special moment within yourself. And you embrace, swim forward to all it is you are right now, and all it is, you are on your way to becoming.

Yes, for moments like this, I believe we can be grateful too.

Much Loves,

Angela

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The Universe...

"The Universe is one of God's thoughts."

Friedrich Schiller

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This is a Subtle Truth...

"This is a subtle truth. 

Whatever you love, you are."

Rumi

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You Will Long to Return...

"For once you have tasted flight 

you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, 

for there you have been and there you will long to return."

Leonardo Da Vinci

Artist: Unknown (Unfortunately)

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Silence is an Ocean...

"Silence is an ocean. 

Speech is a river."

Rumi

 

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Faith...

"Faith is the only thing I know of that is stronger than fear."

Joyce Meyer

I believe Love is stronger than fear as well. But then again...

Love and Faith are both of the same heart. You can't have one without the other.

Much Loves,

Angela

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Gratitude...

"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls."

Aesop

Be grateful. Be noble.

I believe, Gratitude is one of the greatest riches of life.

But the wondrous thing about Gratitude is, that when you sincerely live it, Gratitude replies graciously with even more Gratitude. I like to think, that's the secret of the secret's secret.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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The Privilege...

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."

Joseph Campbell

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Beauty Will Find Us...

"Beauty is all around us and within us. 

If we open our eyes and our hearts to see it and feel it, 

we do not have to search. Beauty will always find us."

Angela Gwinner

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Courage is a Love Affair...

"Courage is a love affair with the unknown."

Osho

As with many things in life, I wonder what would happen, if we changed the perspectives of things.

Choosing to embrace or embark on things differently.

Like, the words above. Courage is a Love Affair... with the unknown.

Or when something happens to us, that we don't often understand and usually would take as a curse, to see it as a blessing and simply say to Life and to God, "Thank you, for enrouting me in life. Putting me back on course with redirection of where I am meant to be going. We'll figure this out. Together. And a few steps further down."

I know it's not always easy. I have to catch myself often in life, falling into habitual thinking, the way we were taught or raised to think of certain words or situations. But when I catch myself, and give myself a moment to reflect and possibly change my perspectives... It changes everything else as well.

So yes, I see courage as a love affair with the unknown. And I embrace her. I welcome her.

Both my courage. And the love. And the unknown.

Wishing you courage, and all it is you need...

Angela.

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The Intiution of My Heart...

"More and more I learn to trust the intuition of my heart."

Deepak Chopra

Photograph: Gregory Colbert

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Hope...

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the Soul 

and sings the song without the words and never stops at all."

Emily Dickinson

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Then a Leap Taken...

"Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge,

and then a leap taken."

D. H. Lawrence

I dare you to Leap today... Leap with Faith. Leap with Hope.
Leap with Courage. Leap with Love. Leap with Compassion.

Simply... Leap.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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If I Love You With all My Heart...

"If I love you with all my heart, she said, what will you give me? 

And then she stopped and said I didn't have to answer that 

because she was going to do it anyway."

Brian Andreas

Love with no expectations. Simply. Love.

My Loves,

Angela.

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La Vie est Belle...

La vie est belle! Life is beautiful!

Much Loves,

Angela

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As Though I had Wings...

"I feel my boots trying to leave the ground, 

I feel my heart pumping hard. 

I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. 

I want to be light and frolicsome. 

I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,

as thought I had wings."

Mary Oliver

From the poem, "Starlings in Winter"... A poem that holds itself close to my heart.

And also, one of my favourite words... Frolicsome. Frolicsome. Frolicsome.

How beautiful is that?

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Curiosity...

"Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity."

Unknown

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The Message of our Life...

"Our own life must be our message."

Thich Nhat Hanh

I want to share Gratitude. And I want to share Love.

And belief in myself, and belief in those around me.

What is the message you want to share today?

Much Loves,

Angela.

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So Love, Love, Love...

"This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings.
So love, love, love."

Hāfez

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More Desire...

"I pray you desire temples of peace 

and benevolent tsunamis of love. 

And that you realize your great size 

in relation to this one universal declaration... 

I desire."

Danielle Laporte
Excerpts of "More Desire"

The other day, I shared this poem as a video that Danielle has brought out in the preparation of her new book coming out on December 5th. "The Desire Map".

I already know what an impact Danielle's previous book left on me, "The Firestarter Sessions", and this I believe, will be filled with the same passion, heart and yes... Desire.

But since I heard this poem, and read its words, they have simply branded their way into my heart. I simply wanted to share.

My loves and adoration to you, Danielle.

And my loves and adoration to all of you.

Angela

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You are the Continuation...

"If you look deeply into the palm of your hand,

you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors.

All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body.

You are the continuation of each of these people."

Thich Nhat Hanh

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Dream With Open Eyes...

"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."

T. E. Lawrence

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Love Recognizes no Barriers...

 

"Love recognizes no barriers. 

Love jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls 

to arrive at its destination full of hope."

Maya Angelou

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There are Days...

"There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves 

and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself."

Brian Andreas

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Forgiving is for Giving...

Forgiving is for Giving.

"Forgiving is for giving yourself Love. 

For giving yourself Respect. For giving yourself Strength. 

Forgiving is for Giving."

Thinking about the word "Forgiving" the other day. A word, that I hear again and again. Particularily over the last days. And suddenly, it became so clear to me, what meaning is really hidden in those words. The answer was there, all along. Forgiving is for Giving.

And I also believe, the more I think about it. Forgiving is also for giving yourself freedom. And for giving yourself Power, and very much dignity.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Do You Believe in Miracles?

"Do you believe in Miracles? Yes!"

Al Michaels

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Touch the Stars...

"Every fool knows you can't touch the stars.
But it doesn't stop a wise man from trying."

Harry Anderson

When was the last time you tried to touch the stars?

Just standing there, outside at night, and reaching your hands...

Up. Up. Up.

Softly and gently saying, "This is me."

Much Loves,

Angela.

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What I am Looking for...

"What I am looking for is not out there.

It is in me."

Helen Keller

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Childlike Innocence...

"No matter what happens, always keep your childlike innocence. 

It is the most important thing."

Federico Fellini

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Namasté...

Namasté.

My soul recognizes your soul. I honour the love, light, beauty, truth and kindness within you because it is also within me. In sharing these things there is no distance and no difference between us. We are the same. We are one.

Namasté.

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