Love is All Around You

Love is...

All around you.

Love is knocking...

Outside your door.

Waiting for you, is this love made just for two.
Keep it on and you'll find Love again, I know.

Tesla, Lovesong

There are many Love Stories out there.  I enjoy most of them...whether personally told to me or seen in a movie or read in a book.  I am a sucker for a great love story.  I can glean many things from the various ones I have heard.  I am no longer surprised at the common links between them.  I can easily identify with one or more characters within any given love story.  Can you?  What has been your love story in life?  I would very much like to hear it.  Please leave me comments.

As for me, I am presently writing my Love Story.  And someday, I will have written that love story.  And people everywhere will be moved to tears as they read my Love story.  I am exitting the saddest phase now...and entering into a deeper place of Self-Love and Self-Awareness and also of the awareness of real love.  I am surrounded by it.  I am the Love I wish to feel.  I give the Love I wish to have returned to me.  I adore the people and places and situations that comprise my life right now.  Do you?  Are you embracing your life or are you victimized by your life circumstances?  If you are being the victim right now...it is not too late to change!  Get positive!  Read, "The Secret", by Rhonda Byrne...or better yet, get the video!  Familiarize yourself with the Universal Law of Love and Attraction.

You will be amazed.  the Law of Attraction should have its own Infomercial...seriously.  When I see an Infomercial about a cool product, I get excited to go out and get that product because it will make my life easier, or better in some way.  Well, that is exactly what the LoA will do.  By design, it has no other purpose!  I wonder what that infomercial would look like...How much would such a breakthrough cost a person?  How about...it's free!  You just have to pay the gatekeeper by way of REAL FAITH in the process.  This is a high price to pay for miracles.  But you want the miracle product, right?  I do! I do!  I really really, deep down in my heart and soul...I do want a miracle!

In some ways, this blog has had a certain element of cryptic knowledge...given by a woman who believes in Love but does not have Love, not yet.  My point in creating this Blog was to allow my readers, myself and one day, my children...to observe the POWER that comes from Personal Transformation.  Like our Lord Jesus, I had to allow myself to personally face the most painful, excruciating situation I could possibly imagine (for me, not so much physical pain as emotional), and to place my FAITH in the ultimate goodness of the Universal energy that ALWAYS comes to those who believe.  Even in death, we can be saved.

This transformation takes time...have you personally seen changes?  Those of you who know me..have you witnessed any changes in me?  Have you seen transformation on any level occurring in me?  Have you only noticed a change through my postings?  You do not need to answer publicly...but consider it in your times of quiet contemplation when you are in your own Garden of Solitude.  You may use what I am sharing to help enhance your own journey...or you can simply observe another human Caterpillar emerge as a butterfly.  I guarantee she is emerging...whether you have observed it or not. 

It is SO hard to let Love come in...sometimes. Do any of you out there have automatic reactions to things?  I do!  I have these odd little "ticks" like, I giggle at inappropriately timed moments because perhaps a nerve has been touched!  I become very "babble-y" and seem to have no sophistication of speech whatsoever, at moments when I truly do not know how to express an overflow of emotions...or perhaps I am afraid.

Many people have these kinds of idiosyncrocies.  I used to feel easily embarrassed by this, but I have become accepting of myself...this is who I am right now.  I can love this oddity about myself and I can change it with the power of the LoA.  I can envision myself being very calm and able to control these reactions.  Then I can clear the strange emotional fog that comes over me that causes these...and lastly, I can practice!  You must put yourself in the situations and see if you are mastering the skills.  In some things, you simply must apply some practical effort.

Even LOVE requires practice!  Some of the people I Love the most in the world, have often not known I love them because I am so self-protecting and restrictive about my showing love and affection.  I can come off as cold...or have in the past.  No more of that!  I embrace strangers now!  I love everyone, as those of you who read my stuff often already know.  I guess Zig Ziglar would be proud...and I may be the world's greatest Marketing Mavin or salesperson but just not have discovered it yet.

Keep sharing your heart.  Share it with me and others, generously!

Be Blessed and Love everyone!

AngelMarie

Vlog #16 Roar if you are a woman, roar!

Just enjoy.

Love Everyone and Be Blessed,

AngelMarie

Vlog #15 The Divine Feminine

Hi Love Lovers!  WELCOME to Lilac's mind...the crazy place where I sometimes feel the need to share from....

Below is my latest upload about FEMININE Energy, Feminine Spirit and the Divinity of the Genders!

Enjoy.

Love you all,

AngelMarie

Embracing the Divine Feminine

This topic came to me last night, but I was far too exhausted from dancing to write it then.  I hope I can do it justice today!  The Divine Feminine is the counterpart to the Divine Masculine. They are the Yin and Yang.  The two comprise the eternal and perfect soul.  Think of the Garden of Eden.

Inside every person, be they man or woman, dwells both the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine.  One gender is dominant, but both exist.  In the world however...the world at large, there is a lack of the Divine Feminine's Power.  This is changing now.  This is changing in 2012.  Some of you are feeling it change.  Others will see the change.

Many women are awakening to their DF and are seeking ways to express themselves.  They are breaking free of old patterns like outdated ideas of Love and Relationships.  They are embarking on risky and frightening journeys.  But they are succeeding and empowering others to follow in their footsteps.  The dawning of this new explosion of powerful energy is there for the taking by both men and women.

On my journey, it has been an awakening.  I have heard the call...the battle cry or the trumpet's blare.  It started more then a year ago.  If you are someone who believes people come into your life for a reason, then PLEASE take a moment to look around at who has come into your life!  Are you forging new relationships all the time?  Are you listening to your heart as it urges you in the direction of the ones you ought to deepen? If not, you really should.  I started taking Fusion BellyDance class with my friend Holly.  At first, Holly was not my friend, but rather my step-daughter's friend.  For years, I believed that I needed to always bear in mind the boundaries between my people and her people and your people and yes we could be acquainted but in society there are rules you follow.  I am glad I do not think that way anymore!  You see these are "manmade" boundaries...developed by the pre-existing social standards.  This is Dogma (other people's belief systems).  And these things no longer apply.

Now last night, Holly was teaching us this move.  It was fairly simple (looking).  But in order to do this move correctly, you must engage the proper muscle group.  There is an action and a specific way to perform the action.  Sounds familiar, right?  Like all things in life, you get the best results when things are made carefully and with the most pure and natural ingredients.  I found myself being always "in the moment" and always feeling happy and motivated to keep working at it.  The class was ENERGIZING beyond anything I can describe.  Sometimes you just need to do something in order to really experience it.  In fact...scratch that!  You ALWAYS need to do it in order to truly get what it is or what it takes to accomplish!

Now...the feminine.....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

What is it to be feminine?  It would have to do with female attributes.  Women are known for being the softer sex.  As I have said previously, the counterpoint to the male.  Male and Female are drawn together for sexual compatability.  But beyond even that, they function as opposites who offer an opposite viewpoint and an opposite energy.  Opposites attract.  The idea of being Feminine sounds like it is (by design) created to attract the Masculine.  This could very well be true!  As my Flower Sister and I participated in the class, we were given many opportunities to use our feminine energy through our eyes, head position, shoulder movements, hand-arm and finger movements, our stomachs, thighs, hips and feet!  We also worked with veils....another amazing tool for expression.

So often in my own life I feel at a total loss to express myself!  Do any of you ever struggle with that too?  If you do and you are a woman, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND BellyDance.  I found myself overwhelmed with options for how to express myself...so many, and all requiring that I learn the technique..it made me realize how dull I had become.  I had let life drain the artistry from my soul and leave me dull.  Furthermore, where had my feminine spirit gone?  We women work so hard...in this world...this MAN'S WORLD...and we try to maintain that flirtatious inner feminine child (or tigress)...but balance is easily lost by the demands of the perceived realm of reality. 

Here is the best news...it is possible...to maintain that supreme Feminine Diety within and function for the people around you as well.  Sometimes it is all one, while other times it takes a balancing act to make it work.  The most important thing is that we stop living in the current perceived reality.  It is Dogma, remember?  We are living the reality that we were taught.  In my reality women can express themselves the way they did in the room last night...freely...without judgement...purely...doing it for themselves but also for the sisterhood...using their bodies, minds, energies.  And guess what they never even needed to use, not even once?     WORDS.  Hmmmm.  Interesting.

I hope I have given you a lot to think about today about the feminine and her divinity and how she dwells everywhere and in everyone.  The DF is gentle, like a breeze....fierce like a Tiger.

Be Blessed and Love Everyone,

AngelMarie

Ruminations

Hi everyone!  Welcome to The True-Love Blog written by AngelMarie...Lilac Avonlea.

Today I am ruminating.  I am also wondering if the word ruminate has roots in the name of an ancient Turkish poet named Rumi.  I mistakenly called him Remi in one of my video blogs a few weeks ago.  But since my faux pax, I have done the proper research and discovered the beautiful poetry that made him so famous.  He was a poet-philosopher (my favorite kind) and someone I believe I am a kindred spirit with.

So let us start with a definition, shall we?  I like to refer to definitions of words...sometimes the roots of words really show us a deeper meaning.  I am a word-person.  So:

Ruminate:

ru·mi·nate/ˈro͞oməˌnāt/

Verb:

Think deeply about something: "we sat ruminating on the nature of existence". (of a ruminant) Chew the cud.

Aha!  So Ruminating is thinking.  The idea of chewing cud would also suggest that we are thinking over and over about something with the intention of getting deeper understanding.  A cow will chew it's cud in an effort to assist digestion by further breaking down otherwise indigestible things.

Some of what life throws into our path can be just that- indigestible!  But we have to so-called "swallow it" anyway, right?  Have you ever had an experience like that?  Have you ever had a situation that was undesirable appear in your life and you had to just accept it?  You wanted to allow your feelings to run wild...anger, frustration, fear....but for the sake of others or your own pride, you just needed to swallow it.  This happens to every single person.  We cannot always have our way 100% of the time.

But let's go back to ruminating about ole' Rumi.  He was a philosopher-Love expert-poet.  I would love to have the courage to write about Love in the ways he has done.  I find his views beautiful and inspiring.  Rumi often refers to the love of two hearts as one...I believe he understood the Twin Flame ideal.  I think he believed in it.  I love love.  I wish more people felt the desire to embrace love.  In order to truly allow love to work in your life and in your heart, you MUST get to a place where you are able to love everyone in the way they need to be loved.

I wish to give you a very specific example.  Suppose you are in an unhappy love relationship...a marriage for example.  You will certainly find it difficult to show or feel love for the spouse who is causing you unhappy feelings.  So from there, you will have a severe blockage in your journey to loving yourself completely or to loving others.  In my way of seeing things, this further adds to problems in your life by blocking opportunities for you.  It also causes a blockage of vision that comes from real love.  Once again, this is my opinion.  But I believe strongly that with this kind of blockage, you will not have clear vision and you will make many mistakes.  Later, when that vision is clear, you will see things much easier.

See beyond phenomena and these difficult questions,
will dissolve into love within love.~Rumi♥

The mirror of the HEART has no limits.
~Rumi

Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.
~Rumi

Never lose HOPE, my HEART, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.
~Rumi

Elimination of blockages like this requires effort and hard work from the heart.  It is not enough to live a life that looks like it is complete from the outsiders eye.  For years, I have remained in a relationship (a marriage) that looked like everything was fine...from the outside.  To the outside eye, we look like the caring and balanced family.  We travel together and our children are happy and developing well.  But underneath we are not unified by love.  We love each other...enough...to get by...but that is not Real Love.  I have a deeper Love for some of my friends then I do for the man I have been married to all these years.  I know that I can love him better than this.  But I cannot love him better by staying here and growing angry at him for being the blockage in my life.  I need to let go and trust that the relationship will heal itself.

When we are in the wrong job or the wrong relationship or the wrong influence in general, there is a nagging feeling in the gut that will not cease.  The problem is that most of us interpret that as indigestion.  We go to the doctor and we get a pill.  What we ought to be doing is getting spiritual guidance and help with the soul.  The first step is to listen closely to what your Inner Self really wants...this is your True Desire.  It is perfectly normal to be afraid to pursue it.  But speaking as a person who has ignored this prompting several times now and who has created an opening by which I could change but then backed out at the last minute on more than one occassion...I KNOW what I am talking about.  Fear keeps us in the cycle and keeps us blocked from our destiny.

My friends, we are all on this journey together.  I will see you on the road...you are my brothers and my sisters.  I love you all.

Love Everyone you meet today...and Be Blessed,

AngelMarie

Love and Fear

Fear is the absence of Love.  Here is a little re-post from something I found and read this morning about love and fear.

http://timelessmiracles.com/LightGuide/love.htm

Love and fear are the only emotions we as human entities are able to express. All the others are just sub-categorical emotions. For example, on love's side there is joy, peacefulness, happiness, forgiveness, and a host of others. On the other hand, fear reflects: hate, depression, guilt, inadequacy, discontentment, prejudice, anger, attack, and so on.

Love and fear can not coexist. Where one is, the other can't be also. The one will leave immediately, should the other enter its presence. If you find yourself in a situation where you are experiencing great joy, and are suddenly overtaken by fear, the joy is gone! But it works the other way too: If you are terrorized, frightened, or otherwise threatened in any way, all you need to do is turn to the love within, and the fear disappears.


In my life, I feel fearful...it still happens.  It happened today.  This morning...while doing a routine task, I was overwhelmed with a feeling of separation from someone I love.  This upset was due to a realization that this person's choices are definitely taking them in a different direction from the one I am going in.  It seems inevitable that we will be separated.

In order to come to grips with this, I must seek my own Inner Light.  In doing this, I can restore balance to the Love and the Light I shine.  Shining, Loving and Lighting the Right path for others is my calling and so I must go about my duties...in love.

Be Blessed and Love Everyone today,

AngelMarie

On the EDGE of Love Vlog #14

Hello READERS, Viewers...Friends and Dear Ones,

Todays vlogs are POWERFUL...emotions and Ideas are running through me in a powerful way today.  There are two videos...watch them in order.  Enjoy!

Love all of you,

AngelMarie

Part One

Part Two

Twin Flames explained by a Professional

 

Hi everyone.

 

Todays Blog is a repost of a wonderful article that came in my Inbox this afternoon.  Angeline Heart is one of the sources from which I learned about the Twin Flames and SoulMates.  I have recently been experiencing some things related to the TF and this article ...

(coincidence? I don't think so!)... simply APPEARED in today's mail.  So without further adieu...

 

Be Yourself, and Love Everyone!

 

AngelMarie

 

TWIN FLAME PLATEAUS

Every single heart has been genetically encoded to remember at-one-ment
--- at-one-ment with God and with its Twin Flame. If you're
reading these words, it's because your soul's seal of separation
consciousness has been cracked open and the genetically encoded
message of at-one-ment has been activated. Perhaps it came as an
inner knowing, or perhaps you've made contact on some level with your
Twin Flame. Perhaps just the longing for union has brought you here.
But, for certain, you know in your heart that something is different and
nothing will ever be the same.

Once that seal is cracked, there is no turning back. Even when you

consciously and deliberately turn your attention away, you will be

inexorably drawn back toward the real.

Your longing for union may have brought interface with your Twin Flame
on some level -- maybe in the dream or etheric state, or maybe you've
even experienced a glimpse of some gradation of the union in the
physical. Now you've begun a new journey the likes of which you've never

experienced before. The initial encounter may have been

overwhelmingly passionate and ecstatic as you came in contact with

loving God in your complementary form. Yet, many describe a sense of

desperation as their initial experience wanes...sometimes to

nothingness.

"Where is my Twin? What have I done wrong? Why can't I access them
anymore?" "I know I saw my Twin in my lover's eyes, and then
suddenly the relationship was over and I feel as if my heart has been
torn violently from my chest!" "I can't even find my Twin in the dream
state any more!" "Is this relationship real, or am I just deluding myself?"
"Has my loneliness driven me to hope for a higher love to such an
extent that I just made up my experience?" "Why can't I sustain a
consistent connection with my Twin?" These types of statements and
questions have risen for each of us in one form or another. They can
jade even the most tender and true of hearts.

And so goes the growing pains, dear ones, especially when you can no
longer find refuge even in your dreams - be they nighttime or day
dreams. This paradigm shift to unity consciousness is of enormous
proportion and ego is terrified. The initial encounter with your Twin
acted as a catalyst to turn your attention back to what is real, and even
though it may have initially been perceived through the lens of ego, as
you shift to heart perception there is a re-defining of relationship. Now
you come face to face with loving YOU; the fullness of what you are; an
individual hologram of God that exists with Two streams of
consciousness, The Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine.

You're accustomed to ego's definition of love and its old ways of
bonding and connecting. If you feel you've lost connection with your
Twin, you may wake daily with deep sorrow and an inconsolable sense
of emptiness. It takes great effort to move your energy out of that space
because you know on some level you must investigate what keeps you
in separation consciousness. That's when all the doubts start pouring in
---"Was that real?" "Was my experience valid?" and so on.

When you hit this "plateau" (and you most likely will), know you're
being catapulted to a new space. You are simply in the neutral zone, a
place of assimilation and digestion. It is a space of integration. You
have been saturated with a new energy, and as the energy stabilizes,
you become disappointed and disillusioned that things didn't "work out".

Dear ones, this is only the projection of ego as it held an attachment to
a specific form and as it defined what this new relationship should look
like. There will be a natural ebb, flow, and flux in the evolution of this reunion.
Nothing you have experienced tribally prepares you for sovereignty.
Twin Flames are sovereign; nothing missing, a balance of the Divine
Feminine and Divine Masculine charges in their creative abilities within: a

pure connection to their true and unlimited identity as a hologram of the

Mother/Father God. These are not beings that require another to

complete them, but rather, sovereign beings who allow the reflection of

their perfection in the symbol of another. It's a totally different paradigm

of bonding. It is time to live conscious love instead of dependence.

Investigate the ego's conceptualization of bonding. Get chummy with
your demons, for they'll teach you well. If your Twin Flame
relationship (on any dimension) feels as if it has flat-lined, it's easy to
engage in fear-based thinking. But this is the time to really look at your
old paradigms and quantum leap into the real. You're moving to a
higher love and the only way you can be attracted fully to your Twin is
when you are ready to unify with God; loving the whole of God, and
loving yourself as the holographic replication of God and the symbols in
which that appears outside of yourself. The Great BOTH/AND. It takes

courage to walk into the arms of love and you must remember how much

support the universe provides once you emphatically declare your great

"YES" to love.

Even if you have the opportunity to glimpse the Twin Flame relationship
in the reflection of another incarnate, if you're not ready for this union,
you'll literally bounce to opposite poles back in the paradigm of duality
and separation consciousness. It's the great cosmic safety net that
ensures no atomic union with an unstable nuclei. This allows you "time"
(although one moment is every moment), to live out this higher form of
love with beings with whom you have a charge (soul mates). Every
single relationship is a navigational tool, for they will unfailingly reflect
yourself back to you.

Go to the knowing and let the knowing inform you. It's time to release
the context of what you thought your Twin Flame relationship should
look and feel like. Your ego's definition is far too confining. It would be
infinitely more valuable to sit with yourself in limitless potential in
consciousness. Ego has a charge on the idea that the Twin Flame
relationship with a "special" someone is the ultimate love that will
"complete" them.

Nothing could be further from the truth. We are love. We are complete.

Love simply is! It is a matter of realization. The Twin Flame relationship

is the ultimate generator of love on an atomic level.

It is not greater or lesser than the love you express to others. The very
purpose of the union is to create more love in its highest possible
frequency to express to All That Is! Placing the idea of this union on
ego's pedestal of what it's supposed to look feel like only impedes
your soul's evolution. You create the Twin Flame union from WHAT
YOU ARE.

Yes - it contains the elements of passion; the full passionate expression
of love in the ongoing ecstasy of giving, of ex-pressing, or delivering this
love. If you're not resonating with giving love, you will not experience
the passion. It doesn't look like ego's definition of passion.

With your Twin, you're merely running into yourself in wholeness --
exploring that union with yourself consciously. Through that wholeness,
your love-making increases and attunes the vibration of light (love) in
the world exponentially as an ongoing fountain of love through
emanation. It is a very conscious relationship that must exist as God
Wholeness and a Balance within so that the Two who are One can live
together in the heart womb for purposes of creating more love.

It is very non-tribal and completely non-predatory. Ego's predatory nature

is both endless and pointless, and consumes everything within its path.

Your true nature is self-generating, self-fulfilling, self-sustaining, and self-

regenerating in nature, and as the fullness of love incarnate --- you will
always be in a state of giving the fullness of the peace and love that
you ARE to All That Is. And, since all energy moves in a circle, bonding
with like energy, love returns to you amplified. You are the giver,
the gift, and the receiver. You are the lover, the love, and the beloved.

It is the 11th hour, and this is not the time to lose heart. You, who are
on the leading edge of this paradigm shift, incarnated for the very
purpose of returning this world to love through your Twin Flame heart
womb. It matters not whether your Twin is embodied or if you join in
another dimension. Some aspect of you had to be physically here in
order to anchor what is real in this dimension. This is the time to reach
for that which is real, even when your senses deny its existence. This is
the time to trust your Twin Flame heart perception and see past duality.
This is the time to surrender to the will of Love with all your might, mind,
heart and strength!

Only Love is Real!
Angelina Heart

Change is in the Air

The Aces are in flight.  The Mercury is retrograding.  The Spring Equinox is near.  Love is flowing everywhere around us.  The Grand Earth Trine is days away.  What all this means is that change is in the air.  And the air of confusion is there as well.  This may be a time to kick back and let it ride...let it coast...take it easy.  No one can influence these influences.  No one can change them. They are static...background filler.

When you love people, you sometimes need to be a clear space for them to work out their thoughts within...within your space so that you can be there too.  You do this by not offerring too much extra noise or chatter.  People are sometimes unaware that they are in conflict.  They cannot even see it because they are too engrossed in it.  Sometimes a person cannot even see that they are living a lie.  They are blind to the major pitfalls in their path.

With Love, we can urge people in the right direction...never by force but with trust.  Love is about being patient and doing everything in the kindest way possible.  Pointing out a glaringly obvious misconception another person is holding does not show love.  Carefully cultivating trust in your ideas is the only way to persuade anyone to see your wisdom.  That being said, it is always better to do as the Mother in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"...and allow the discovery to come from within the person themselves.  It is always best that way.

If you wish to create a vibration of thought, you must be on the frequency of that vibration yourself and then share it confidently...pray about it or meditate on it and allow the other person's heart to be moved in this way.  This is the only Right way.  By living out our true self identity, we will find ourselves surrounded by others who are like us.

Love Everyone and Be Blessed,

AngelMarie

Be the Real You

It is not very easy to figure out what your True Self is...Your Real Self .  I mean, it is the simplest and most boiled-down version of you. It shouldn't be that hard to find out what that is right?  For example, we could make a list of the first 20 things about life that we love.  That pretty much sums up the real self.

Let's say for example that we all did that right now.  And then let's say we went around and met each other and looked at one another's lists.  If life were that easy and straightforward, we would all be happily coupled to our soulmates or better- our TWIN FLAMES.  But it seems to me that too many people have no idea who they really are and what they really want.  Too often, the ego and the physical demands of life, create a filter through which we cannot see our own soul signature.

I can see people's souls.  I can see and feel them easily.  Something I am developing (as a skill) is being willing to accept people for where they are at...particularly when I can see what their soul wants -and then I see how their ego has misled them.  People can be good...live a good life...have incredible and wonderful qualities and intentions....but NOT be on the RIGHT PATH simply because they are not truly letting their hearts lead.  They are being lead by EGO.  They have an overpowering sense of responsibility to someone or a group of people, or they have too much of their self-worth wrapped up in those matters.  It is honor verses truth.  Our truth sometimes gets put away...far away.

I am going to make a list of 20 things I value so deeply that they are my truth.  Try this exercise at home.

1.  Sleeping Soundly, deeply and dreaming for at least 6 hours per night
2.  Breathing deeply and getting large quantities of fresh air
3.  Standing in the sunlight and absorbing the sun's rays
4.  Experiencing the feeling of a breeze and the stirring of nature, everyday
5.  Listening to the sounds of the world around me and hearing the slight and overlooked things
6.  Feeling the stirring of energy around me and knowing that it means something
7.  Caring about the food I eat...where it comes from and why I am sustaining myself with it
8.  Flushing my body with fluids
9.  Mentally preparing myself for my day...my life
10.  Allowing my heart to lead
11.  Making my words and shared expressions deeply meaningful and focused on what is the best outcome for everyone.
12.  Recognizing that connections happen...and they happen for a reason
13.  We are Spirits first, and we live in a physical body.
14.  Knowing we are not alone in this universe or on this planet and that our energies are interconnected.
15.  Whatever I endeavor for in my life is less important than honoring the stirrings and beliefs that lie deep in my heart and soul
16.  Music is magic...healing...empathic and essential
17.  Your family are those who touch you on the soul level.
18.  Trees, dirt, plants and all the bearings of the earth must always surround me...I must smell, touch and taste them in order to be happy
19.  I need Love
20.  I have an intense desire to share love with everyone.

Now if you agree with at least half of my statements, you are most likely one of my soulmates.  If you agree with nearly all...then we are deeply connected.

These truths of mine can only benefit my life if I am willing to uncover them...lift the burden of so-called REALITY off of them and really truly live them!  I wish everyone would...could...cast off their burdens and live a Simple Life.  Why do we need so much material success to be happy?  DO WE?  Do WE really?  Do we need to own homes and cars and gym memberships and go on expensive vacations?  That is not what life is really about.

I am longing for that deep profound soul-connection that revitalizes my faith in all that I believe.  I know it is real.  I feel like Linus in the Pumpkin Patch...the only kid still believing in the Great Pumpkin.  But every stirring of every cell of my molecular makeup is telling me to pursue this concept and talk about it and write about it and become indgnantly mad about it when I see people I love not casting off their shell!

Our journey in life should teach us to come full circle back to this basic set of principles...that in being true to our self and our real passions, we will come to have all that we truly desire.  We are not supposed to run after the desired thing!  We are supposed to pursue what we love and then receive the desired thing!  This is the WAY.

Tonite I feel heavy-hearted because I DO love...you.
And I want YOU to love you too.

Be good to yourself,

AngelMarie

What is Lonely?

Lonely feelings happen to us all sometimes.  How we perceive feeling of loneliness, and then what we do in response to the perception, determines what kind of person we are.  We can allow feelings of separation and sadness to bring our mood to a low place where we lower our vibration.  Doing this causes more pain and separation and becomes a continuous cycle.

This photograph is so beautiful.  But when you look at it, and you think about sitting on that beach and admiring the view...are you imagining yourself alone?  I could sit there for about 5 minutes, and it would be wonderful.  Maybe I could rest there and fall asleep.  But I would really be thinking of how nice it would be to share this place with someone.  In specific, it would be a very romantic place to spend some time getting to know a special person.

Sometimes in life we are not with the one we "love" or that special someone.  In this case, it may be hard to allow ourselves to be in the moment.  What a wasted sunset that would be...forgeting to see it, feel it or embrace it!  It is a gift to feel the soft sand beneath our feet and the warmth of the Island's sun upon our face.  Solitude does not have to be loneliness for us.  Time spent in quiet reflection can repair the places in your soul that are imperfect. 

I spend a lot of time in this place of solitude lately.  Sometimes I write.  Other times I sing, dance or do yoga.  Often I retreat to the beach near my home or walk around the neighborhood.  Every moment can be transformed into a time and place where our thoughts can be put to work and be made useful.  Preparing our minds for the subconscious journey each night is a vital step in creating a better reality.  If, for instance, I am sad and lonely today, then the best thing I can do for myself is spend time in quiet meditation affirming with words and feeling what it is I want.  Perhaps what I had been wanting for a while now has left me feeling lonely.  Now that I can see the consequences of my thinking, I have the opportunity to change it.

When you consider the possibilities that exist with our thoughts being the creative energy of our lives, how can you possibly feel sad?  As hard as this may seem, we can actually take full control of our emotions.  We can be at peace in the most challenging situations.  My advice for getting there is to begin meditation and yoga.  Spend time in nature.  Drink lots of purified water and practice deep breathing.

Love everyone and Be blessed!

AngelMarie

Be Someone ( poem)
Be someone who listens, and you will be heard.
Be someone who cares, and you will be loved.
Be someone who gives, and you will be blessed.
... Be someone who comforts, and you will know peace.

Be someone who genuinely seeks to understand, and you will be wise.
Be someone kind, someone considerate, and you will be admired.
Be someone who values truth, and you will be respected.
Be someone who takes action, and you will move life forward.

Be someone who lifts others higher, and your life will be rich.
Be someone filled with gratitude, and there will be no end to the things for which
you'll be thankful.

Be someone who lives with joy, with purpose, as your own light brightly shines.
Be in every moment, the special someone you are truly meant to be.-- Ralph Marston

Vlog#13 Emotions of Love

Hi Happy Lovers...
Welcome back

Sorry if my emotions were running a little too high today but the heart that feels, expresses.

Lots of Love to All of You,

AngelMarie

Language of Love Vlog #12

Welcome back to the TLB!  Today's Vlog was shot outside in the sun and fresh air!  It was refreshing:  windy...but awesome!

To summarize and give you a written rundown of the subject, I want to focus on the area of our words and what we say and think.  The words that define us are the words we speak and think often or with feeling. some words to add to our vocabulary:

Love
Happy
Good
Joy
Special
Lovely
Amazing
Awesome

Some words to remove:

Hate
regret
angry
despise
terrible
horrible
awful

Get the picture?  Enjoy the video!

Lots of Love,

AngelMarie

Vlog#10 Reflection

Hi everyone!  I am busy on my journey of enlightenment and inspirational living.  How are you all doing?  Thank you for tuning in.  Enjoy what I have created for you.

Lots of Love to you,

AngelMarie

Falling in Love without Knowing it!

Do you think it is possible to fall in Love but not know you are falling in love?  I keep thinking of the movie, You've got Mail.  In the movie, Meg Ryan's character is building a friendship with someone she believes she could never even like.  And one day, she realizes that she is in love.  Of course, this is at the very end of the movie so we have no dialogue to analyze for clues.  How did it happen?  What was the moment?  How did she feel?  Was she resisting being in love?  Are you sometimes unaware that someone is getting into your heart?  If it is possible, think of the implications.

I have always said...since meeting a certain couple way back in my life when I was about 18 years old...that the MAN chooses the WOMAN.  If he is in love with her, he will eventually get the girl.  It's just a matter of time.  No matter if she is not attracted to him or any other circumstances that may exist.  Nowadays, I would say that the man was using the Law of Attraction.  He was aware of the Law and he utilized it with a pure heart and eventually she just saw him differently.  Is that possible?  What do you all think?

Ok, so Twin Flames, Soul Mates...can they feel what we feel?  Can they be drawn to us by something that is never uttered out loud?  Can we be drawn to them?  If we suffer...from miles away...can it be felt by another person?  What about if they are in danger?  Can another person sense it?  According to much of my research on this subject, YES.  Which makes me wonder...a lot...about my own life.  After all these years, I am still amazed whenever I feel a connection like that and I have often with many people.  

A few nights ago I was suffering.  I could not sleep...tossing and turning over my worries and I got up and went to my place where I meditate and do my yoga.  I thought about going online...maybe a little distraction was what I needed, right?  But NO...I was firm about not burying or repressing my sorrows.  I worked them out.  I wrestled with my fear and insecurity.  I visualized various outcomes to my problem so much so that later, when I finally DID sleep, I awoke still picturing these things.  Clearly my mind has been hard at work.  My subconscious mind is doing what it needed to do.  My "awake mind", although slightly tormented at the time, needed to flex it's muscles.  I needed to stay in my garden of solitude until the work was done.

During this night that I describe, there was a moment when I wondered (because my chest hurt so much from the crying)...I wondered, "Does anyone out there love me so much that they can actually feel this"?  Maybe I will never know for sure....but when I am the one who has a moment like that, I assume that someone somewhere needs me to send healing sensations of love and the vibrations to elevate them and so I do.  If you ever feel like someone is hurting, just do that.  It will help because all energy is universal.  I can still remember a time when I had such chest pains...I was at work.  I called a person who came to mind right at that time.  I think I left a message on a voice mail  It turned out, we would later discover, that at the exact moment I felt it and called, this person was having difficulty breathing underwater.  Coincidence? 

There are no coincidences (in my opinion)

Everything happens for a reason.

What I share about...write...record...what photos I use...what feelings the words and images invoke, all are part of a cosmic plan that affects you (the reader).  I , as the writer, may not ever even be aware of how it affects you.  If I post a photo of two lovers in an embrace, one having their head buried in the chest of the other...I may not even realize that such a moment had manifested.  even if it had happened to me.  You see the mind is strange like that.  Sometimes we cannot see how we are acting or what we look like. Sometimes we must learn to trust what is seen by another, when they are looking at us.

Now there is something to think about for a while.

Love everyone, and Be Blessed,

AngelMarie

The Philosophy of Romance

Is romance real?  Does it have value?  Is romantic love important?  What should people do to acquire romance?  How far should a person go for the love of romance?

Historically speaking, romance has had different values at different points.  So how do we know if it is necessary to have romance in order to have real love?  Can love and romance exist at the same time and in the same place?  I wonder...

Romance is the mood that is set and embraced and enjoyed.  It should be a part of our lives.  It should be a part of love...  But is it entirely necessary for it to be with another person?  Romance feels wonderful shared...halved.  But even at that, so many beautiful moments are just as meaningful when shared with nature, children and friends.

The photo collage I have created here are all photos from the facebook page of "Jetsetter".  They are incredible places all over the world that inspire passion and emotions of romance.  My Gramps always used to say that a picture is worth a thousand words.

Enjoy.  I hope it gives you romantic feelings...and also, maybe you will share them with someone special.

Get the Picture? 

AngelMarie

Love Mother Earth

Today I saw "The Lorax".  It is a movie created from the book by Dr. Seuss.  I had never heard of this book before.  You may find that odd since I am well-read and I work with children.  I have just never really liked Dr. Seuss's writing style.  But today I am changed because I see there is more than a writing style to Dr. Seuss books.  There is a story so deep it must be shared with everyone.

The story is that the Lorax ( a seemingly magical creature) appears when man begins to cut trees for use in creating products and Industry.  The Lorax announces that he speaks for the trees and they are not to be harmed or cut.  In time however, the trees are all destroyed.  The only thing that remains is that someone somewhere will wake up from the "reality" they see around them and break down the walls that are hiding this awful truth.  Unless someone does this, nothing will ever get better.

Thankfully, because of LOVE and attraction and dreaming and hoping, it does happen.

Ok so here it is friends, I cried like a baby through this movie.  It touched me so deeply.  Have you ever imagined loving a tree?  What about literally hugging a tree? Do you actually love trees?

Here is your chance to find me deeply endearing (if you do not already).  I love trees.  I truly love them.  I am in Love with trees.  I love the way they look and feel and smell and move and stay still and I love what they do for us:  providing shade, growing leaves, photosynthesis so we can breathe.

I love trees.  I love our earth.  I wake up and I think of it.  I see the ocean from my kitchen window in the early morning and I am reminded of the mightiness and the great big bigness of the world.  I stare across that same ocean in the moonlight of evening or the darkest of night and I feel how the world becomes calm and quiet in the darkness.  I feel the changes.  I see them and I feel them.

I grew up in a very rural community in western Johnston before the Landfill took over all the farms.  Ours was one of those farms...pushed out and destroyed by the wheels of progress and the mass consumption of products resulting in waste, causing the massive expansion of the Landfill.  Our home needed to be removed and it was burned to the ground on us.  We were victimized. 

We moved out further to Foster RI...another rural community, another farm.  I grew up eating from the land.  My mother is the most amazing fisherwoman and hunter I have ever known.  Every Sunday, instead of church, we were ordered to gather buckets and head into the woods where we picked and harvested blueberries, raspberries and dandilion leaves.  We grew food and herbs in the garden.  We bought eggs and milk from the dairy farm down the road from us.  We raised our own chickens and pigs to slaughter.  Most of our meals were freshly caught trout, rabbit or quail.

This was my childhood.  Mom never took us to a supermarket.  Until I was a teen, we never got our groceries from a Supermarket.  Nowadays, that would be virtually unheard of.  I used to think my upbringing was so weird.  I used to revile it!  Now I am unbelievably proud.  I am so glad I had this experience.  I am glad I can remember.  I remember afternoons lost at the lake, just walking into the woods with my papa and finding what we needed for food or bait.  I remember rowing out to the middle of the lake and fishing, or rowing to a remote shore and stepping out into a FOREST of growth where the wild grapes were the size of golf balls and the trees were heavily weighed-down from them.  I saw and tasted and smelled this.  I miss it.  That place is now destroyed.  Buildings are there now.  I remember the day that happened.  I was about 9 and cried so hard that my chest hurt for days.

I have always felt love for nature.  Not just appreciation for nature.  I feel nature in my soul.  When nature is hurting, I am hurting.  We should all be hurting as Mother hurts.  The time to change is now and we must.  The time to plant and nurture and grow is now.  We must try, and we must learn to allow the planet to be reborn.  There are better, smarter and more responsible ways to use our natural resources.  It takes one heart to move another and one prayer to move millions. 

Join me.

AngelMarie