in all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.
BARBARA DE ANGELISin all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.
BARBARA DE ANGELISIf your day is full of little mean, dark thoughts, is it any wonder you feel crabby? Maybe it’s because you let your mind run wild like a dog putting its nose into garbage everywhere.
BARBARA DE ANGELISIt is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way. … The problem is, in the second half of the twentieth century, we have gotten so good at living for tomorrow that most of us spend very little time in the present.
BARBARA DE ANGELISA lot of people don’t know what they want or they want much less than they deserve.
BARBARA DE ANGELISLove and kindness are never wasted.
BARBARA DE ANGELISPassion acts like a magnet that attracts us to its source. We are drawn to people who radiate with passion, who live with passion, who breathe with passion. Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others.
BARBARA DE ANGELISwhen 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?
BARBARA DE ANGELISSilence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.
BARBARA DE ANGELISTo succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.
BARBARA DE ANGELISPassion 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.
BARBARA DE ANGELISTemporary 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.
BARBARA DE ANGELISMen 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.
BARBARA DE ANGELISMay all that is not love within us and without be healed. May all that is love within us and without us be revealed. May every day of our lives be lived in love.
BARBARA DE ANGELISWhat 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 ANGELISI invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it’s scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.
BARBARA DE ANGELISOnly 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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