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