Barbara De Angelis Quotes

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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning

Barbara De Angelis
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

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Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

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All addictions have one thing in common — they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.

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At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, 'I was always happy.' Hopefully, we will be able to say, 'I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.'

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

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In all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.

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When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.

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Marriage is not a noun, it's a verb. It's not something you have, like a house or a car. It is not a piece of paper that proves you are husband and wife. Marriage is a behavior. It is a choice you make over and over again, reflected in the way you treat your partner every day.

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Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

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Love is the magician of the universe. It creates everything out of nothing.

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The obstacles in our path are not blocking us-they are redirecting us. Their purpose is not to interfere with our happiness; it is to point us toward new routes to our happiness, new possibilities, new doorways.

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Passion is not a quality that is foreign to you. It is not a characteristic that some people are born with and some must do without. To be passionate is as natural to you as breathing, as natural as being alive. It is the source of who you are.

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Passion begins where your bodies unite and ends where your souls dance. When your spirits can join together at the same time as your bodies become one, then all of you will be making love. There will be nothing left between you that is not love. This is sacred communion. This is ecstasy.

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All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.

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There has never been, and never again will be a human being like you. There is nothing ordinary about you. If you feel ordinary, it is because you have chosen to hide the extraordinary parts of yourself from the world.

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Love makes every space sacred and every moment meaningful...

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Temporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process. This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold on to regret, we risk trapping ourselves in a prison of unrealized dreams from which it is difficult to escape.

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It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better — all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.

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Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make on your wedding day, and over and over again and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband...

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Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others.

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It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.

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When your field is architecture, you go visit the great cathedrals of the world. My field was relationships. I got married many times. I was practicing. I didn't date much; I just would get married. I thought, why waste time?

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Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

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