Showing posts with label Passion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Passion. Show all posts

Monday, May 4, 2015

Bring Back the Joy...


"Bring back the Joy in what you do."

Angela Gwinner

A few years ago, I was in Sri Lanka. For an Ayurveda retreat.

One of the last words the Doctor gave me as I was on my way home again, was "Find your Joy..."

And these words have been accompanying me since.

I believe at that moment, I didn't understand the full essence of those words.

But with time, and as those words have every now and then come back like a whisper, I began to understand them in a new light.

How often do we walk through our day, taking care of responsibilities and tasks, but more with an attitude of "I must go to work..." or "I have to call so and so..."

What happens, if we change those words with "Thank God, I can go to work today..." or "I really want to call so and so... It'll be so good to hear their voice..."

What happens if we bring back the joy... and then a good dose of gratitude?

I promise you, it'll change everything.

Maybe "Finding Joy..." isn't always about seeking our passions, but let's do a bit of reversal in things. If we start with what we have and where we are and with what we are doing, and add a bit of joy as the secret ingredient... Even if that first means, tricking the mind into feeling that joy...

That's when you'll stop seeking and whatever you are looking for will suddenly appear. Because most likely, it's already there... Inside you, surrounding you, or just around the corner.

But we are so occuppied with the "I must's..." in our lives, and "Must" can be a heavy burden to carry... that we often forget that simple little word.

Joy.

"Bring back the Joy in what you do."

Just my little thought of the day.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Friday, April 24, 2015

Saturday, March 21, 2015

Cherry Trees...


"I want to do to you what Spring does with the cherry trees."

Pablo Neruda



Because, these are simply the most beautiful words ever written...

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Saturday, March 14, 2015

By the Grace of God, I Will...


"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will." 

Edward Everett Hale

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Declare Your Passion...


"Do not ask yourself what the world needs. 
Ask yourself what makes you come alive. And  then go do that. 
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

Howard Thurman

Thursday, January 15, 2015

More Love in the World...


"I think there should be more love in the world. I am talking about gritty, dangerous, wild eyed love. Radical acceptance of people. Belonging. That kind of love."

Brené Brown

Yes, more Love in the world please!

And I'll let it start with me...

And let it start with you!

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Saturday, January 10, 2015

Believe...


"In yourself, in love, in trust, in magic, in angels, in happy endings. In God, in promises, in miracles. In people, in fairy tales, in following your heart. In peace, in happiness, in never giving up. In following your passions, and making your dreams come true, in always having fun. In helping people, in making the world a better place, in changing for the better. Believe."

Unknown

Make More Love...


"Make more Love."

Angela Gwinner

Because it's what the world needs...

More Love.

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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Your One Wild and Precious Life...


"Tell me, what is it you plan to do 
with your one wild and precious life?"

Mary Oliver

These words hold profound meaning for me.

Deep down in every little pore and the core of my heart.

And each time I read the words, touch the words, feel the words...

And surrender to the question of the words...

I feel the desire, the calling, the longing... I feel the answer.

It's as though a voice inside is saying, "Come, this is the way...

Remind yourself to feel it. Remind yourself that you already know.

And trust yourself.

This is your one wild and precious life."

It is time. It is time to question. It is time to answer.

But mostly, it is time to live that question and answer too.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Friday, December 12, 2014

Like Shakespeare and Michelangelo...


"And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don’t just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn’t do it any better. If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well."

Martin Luther King Jr.

Whatever you are going to do today?

Do it like Michelangelo painted pictures.

And do it like Shakespeare wrote poetry.

Awe the world with your passion!

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Sunday, December 7, 2014

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Destiny is Waiting for a Decision...


"The only person you are destined 
to become is the person you decide to be."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Destiny is often waiting for us to simply decide and declare...

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Sunday, November 16, 2014

Please Don't Let This Happen...


"Oh my God. What if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written. Or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy. Or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It is going to break your heart, my dear. Please don’t let this happen. "

Anne Lamott

Please don't let this happen...

Start living. Your life. Your dreams. Now.

It is never too late. If you start... Now.

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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Sunday, November 2, 2014

A Love Devotion...


"Because there is nothing more beautiful 
than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline. 
No matter how many times it is sent away."

Sarah Kay

Love. A devotion of Love.

Kiss Love. Kiss Life. Kiss each and every moment.

Much Loves, always.

Angela.

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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Great Aims...


"The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
PS. Don't forget your greatness!

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