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The Right Person

The most beautiful and rewarding romantic relationships aren’t found they are built.

I don’t agree with the idea that finding the right person is the only thing that matters in building a lasting and thriving relationship.

Finding the right person sure is one of the most important aspects and so is the effort, hard work, dedication, awareness, and willingness to grow.

I used to assemble all our furniture. At first, I was using a screwdriver. I thought I was okay with it until I bought the drill.

Both were doing the same job, and I could achieve my goal, assembling the furniture piece, with both.

One was more labor and time-consuming and another one was so much easier, quicker, and smoother to work with.

So are the relationships.

You can “make” any relationship work. But with the right person the journey gets so much smoother and eathier.

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The Cool People

Some people are really cool people. They are also very humble.

Then there are those who we mistake into the humble ones, but in reality they don’t feel deserving.

There is a difference. A big one.

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A Lifetime

You meet someone and it makes sense, it clicks.

No, it’s like something inside of you clicks.

It can be challenging to understand when having a crush on someone becomes love for someone.

But it happens. There is nothing logical about it, but everything about it makes sense.

But why does love takes forever to leave?

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone… but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

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Maybe

Maybe there is no big purpose in life.

Maybe the whole purpose and meaning of life are to live it.

To do the dishes, cook, and drive. Maybe the whole purpose of life is to find meaning in the seemingly mundane things.

Maybe it’s all about playing with your dog and listening to your boring neighbor.

What if the purpose of life is growth and expanding consciousness. What if it’s all about finding things that we love and finding what we love about the things we don’t enjoy (but “have to do”) doing? Maybe it’s all about not taking life seriously and maybe it’s all about letting ourselves be the love we were meant to be.

The whole point of life is to experience it and not to chase the things outside of yourself.

You really are born with all the tools that you will ever need. You just need to tap into yourself.

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The Worst Things

The worst things in our lives happen for a reason.

You can’t appreciate the good food if you don’t taste the bad one.

We tend not to appreciate the blessings in our lives if we don’t experience the suffering.

Somehow the sad times, the pain, and the suffering prepare us for the best things in our lives.

It stretches our ability to appreciate. It almost takes out the old that isn’t serving us anymore so we can have space for new and better things.

Let’s change the habit. Let’s appreciate our lives. Let’s be grateful for the small blessing in our lives.

The worst things prepare you for the best times of your life. When you get blessings you can savor them because you know how the opposite feels.

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True Love

We talk about how parents’ love is the only love that is unconditional.

I think that’s one of the biggest lies we are told.

I haven’t yet met a parent who loves their children without any condition. It’s all about the conditions if you’d ask me.

A child’s love towards a parent on the other hand is truly unconditional.

Until a child hits a certain age and gets conditioned by society and surroundings it loves freely, unconditionally.

How you do anything is how you do everything. So when you get conditioned your ability to love get’s conditioned as well.

True love, it offers love freely. A child doesn’t love her mother or father for any reason.

It just loves because it loves. Because it’s given. It loves because he or she is Love.

There is nothing logical about love, we just try to make love logical. We just force the love to make sense.

As you can’t make sense of your being. You can’t make sense of true love.

You are you.

And who you are – is love.

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Life Sucks, So Do you! Now What?!

What do you do

When you are in a room full of people and still feel lonely?

When everyone tells you how much they love you and none of it touches your heart?

When your health is declining and you lose hope or when your loved ones die?

When you are in so much emotional pain that you want to disappear but have to put up a smile on your face (that you can’t even stand anymore) and be “normal”?

When your family misunderstands you or you can’t be with the person that you love?

What do you do when it seems like there is no light at the end of the tunnel and even worse when you don’t even see a tunnel? Neither feel nor believe that there ever will be a tunnel.

When you live in a world where children in Africa are dying from hunger while Each year, 108 billion pounds of food is wasted in the United States.

When you live in a world, where people kill in the name of love and torture each other in the name of Jesus.

What do you do at those moments when there is no evidence that you will ever be okay and nothing is or feels fair around you?

How do you keep going? Not to just exist, but to thrive.

How do you come out of it stronger than ever as they say?

How do you win over the worst enemy you can ever have – Your Mind?

How do you make and build yourself mentally so strong that no matter what comes your way you transform it?

How do you pave your path in the dark when you don’t have neither map nor torch?

I have to tell you something equivalent to when parents tell their kids that there is no Santa.

Being unhappy, depressed, poor, undisciplined, having a weak mentality, lacking skills of communication, unfulfilled, hopeless, loner, sad, etc… doesn’t make you unique, to be honest, it just makes you part of the majority. All of these are actually pretty common.

What is uncommon is the individual who will despite what happened to him or her won’t let life define her but she will define the life itself however she wants.

This has to stop being normal.

I think the clue is in our childhood. I believe we have been taken out of our natural form and world and we have been lied to accept the “fake” world as our innate world.

“The ancient people understood that our world is a circle, but we modern people have lost sight of that. I don’t live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn’t flow, and where life stops. I don’t want to live in a dead place. People say that I don’t live in a real world, but it’s modern Americans who live in a fake world because they have stepped outside the natural circle of life. I live in nature where everything is connected, circular. The seasons are circular. The planet is circular, and so is the planet around the sun. The course of water over the earth is circular coming down from the sky and circulating through the world to spread the life and then evaporating up again. I live in a circular teepee and build my fire in a circle. The life cycles of plants and animals are circular. I live outside where I can see this.

Do people live in circles today? No. They live in boxes. They wake up every morning in a box of their bedrooms because a box next to them started making beeping noises to tell them it was time to get up. They eat their breakfast out of a box and then they throw that box away into another box. Then they leave the box where they live and get into another box with wheels and drive to work, which is just another big box broken into little cubicle boxes where a bunch of people spend their days sitting and staring at the computer boxes in front of them. When the day is over, everyone gets into the box with wheels again and goes home to the house boxes and spends the evening staring at the television boxes for entertainment. They get their music from a box, they get their food from a box, they keep their clothing in a box, they live their lives in a box.

Break out of the box! This not the way humanity lived for thousands of years.”

We are real people caged in the fake world.

“They caught the wild children and put them in zoos,

They made them do sums and wear sensible shoes.

They put them to bed at the wrong time of day And made them sit still when they wanted to play.

They scrubbed them with soap and they made them eat peas. They made them behave and say pardon and please.

They took all their wisdom and wildness away.

That’s why there are none in the forests today.”

Jeanne Willis

The warriors of the lights, the “Santiago”s, Harry Potters, and all the heroes that we so admire all come from pain. Pain is almost their middle name. Pain has shaped them into the people they chose to become.

I wonder why do we like heroes and superheroes so much, why do we love watching them reading and talking about them? Is it because we know we can never be them or because we know deep down in our hearts we are supposed to be like them. Transforming our pain into our purpose. Maybe watching them gives our brain stimulation and satisfaction of achieving it. At least for a few moments, we can be who we were meant to be through them.

All these heroes have done nothing but transmute their pain into healing.

That is rare.

Life sucks so do you.

Now What?

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The Difference Between

The difference between co-existing and living together.

The difference between surviving and thriving.

The difference between living and existing.

The difference between loving and longing.

The difference between creating and producing.

The difference between knowing and knowledge.

The difference between impulse and clarity.

The difference between alignment and confusion.

The difference between acceptance and possessiveness.

The difference between you and me.

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Death is The Best Reminder To Live Our Lives To The Fullest

If you knew that you were dying today who would you call? What would you say and to whom? If you were dying today what would you do?

Let’s talk about death more.

Not in the way that scares us. But in a more empowered way.

Instead of fearing death and limiting our life because of it, how about using it to live fully.

We live once. Life isn’t a rehearsal.

Whatever you focus on grows and that’s where your energy flows.

If you focus on the positive aspect of death it will urge you to create the life that you always wanted to live.

So here’s the truth you are going to die someday.

The question is:

What Do you want to do with your life? How do you want to write your own story?

Imagine you are on a deathbed what would be your regrets?

Remember nobody has it figured out. No one has arrived. Absolute knowingness is a state of endness.

We all do the best we can and our best looks different every single day.

Some days are dark and oh my god it can get so dark you might forget that there ever was light.

But you can always remind yourself about the light.

I know it’s “unfair” that the darkness comes so easily and it can stay so effortlessly. I know it’s challenging that for the light to enter our souls we have to actually allow it. We need to surrender.

It seems like surrendering is effortless but it takes so much strength and courage to surrender and trust, to believe, and to love.

Life isn’t a rehearsal. It has an expiration date.

No matter how crazy your dreams may seem, they are yours. Unless you are physically harming or abusing anyone with your dreams, they deserve to be actualized. ( And if you are choosing a major that your mom dissaproves and she’s devastated that doesn’t count as “harm” )

Forget how you “should” live your life, forget your parents, society’s and your own expectations.

How Do YOU want to live your life?

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Emotions and Feelings Suck Sometimes

Having feelings doesn’t make us weak, it makes us human.

You can’t expect to experience joy and happiness in life without experiencing pain and suffering.

Both exsist if you try to avoid those painful feelings you won’t have the capacity to experience joy.

The feeling of the emotion, the process, is the same it’s just the emotion itself is different.

The allowance of an emotion is the key.

Do feelings come first or emotions?

For me emotion is a reaction to a thought and the feeling is a reaction to an emotion.

Let the emotion take over no matter you like it or not. Some of them feel like you are going to die and not survive but you will surive, you can take it and you’ll come out stronger.

Monitor you thoughts and change them as you catch unwanted ones. Thought creates our reality. Make sure you are thinking some supportive ones.

Most importantly forgive yourself for the mistakes you make, for the moments you can’t get strong of yourself. Those moments will always be present in your life. Learn to forgive faster and deeper.

You will fall constantly thoughout your life, but you will only fail if you blame anyone or anything else for that moment on the ground.

It’s you. It has been you all this time. You are the creator of your reality. Everything that happenes in your life either happens because of what you are or what your higher self wants you to become.

Much Love’

Ani Rich <3

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