I have learned that love is, above all, incredibly easy. If you are with someone that continually pushes your buttons, makes you angry, or that it just feels like it is a struggle, this is not the "perfect person" for you.  This is not unconditional love - this is being together for otehr reasons entirely.
 
Love should flow - beautifully and easily. You should feel totally, unconditionally loved by the one that you are with, and they should feel just as loved by you.

In order to find this kind of love, you must first decide exactly who you really want - the qualities that you truly desire. Then, you must work on yourself to believe that you deserve this love. Finally, you must open to it - to allowing it to flow to you with ease.

Never settle. Don't believe that love is a struggle, or that arguing is normal. I have been with my husband for 10 years now, and we have never had a fight. We completely, totally, and entirely adore each other for exactly who we are, and we support each other in the ways that we decide to change.

Believe that this is possible for you, too. Everyone deserves this experience of love - and everyone can have it.

Any. I would love to ask any major religious figure - such as those featured in religious texts or those that wrote them - how much of the texts that we have now are actually what was said or intended.

It would be fascinating to hear about the real words and intentions of any of these people...

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Elvis Presley. Okay - let me explain that one. My dad always loved Elvis, and I grew up dancing with my dad to his music, often while my dad did his best Presley impression. I particularly remember one evening when I was allowed to stay up to see Elvis's concert in Hawaii on tv, and I was in my little white nightgown, and my dad was dancing around the room with me. It still makes me smile - and I just feel connected to my dad whenever I hear Elvis now.

Recently, I have been loving Pink (she is so raw and exactly who she is - unapologetically exactly who she is, and that inspires me - I admire it!). Also, I truly love India. Arie - especially her first album, which I thought was one of the best albums in total I have ever heard.

Beyond that, I love hip hop. Always have. Turning some hip hop in in my car will always put me in a better mood, and being in a better mood means that I create a better day for myself and everyone around me - I that is a pretty good effect!!

In my husband's arms. His unconditional love of me allows me to be myself in an unlimited way.

knowing I have helped someone.

Yes. There is beauty in every person. Peel back the anger, peel back the hurts that have caused their actions, and there, somewhere, there is beauty.

I remember, when I was in high school, that there was a friend of mine's brother that EVERYone said was, well, not a nice guy, to put it mildly. However, I just kept choosing to be kind to him, to smile and listen to him, and to really try to connect with him. 

In the end, he and I really got along. Why? I think it was because I took the time to see past his hard, ugly exterior and see the beauty within. He felt safe with me.  

On this inauguration day, I am moved by the beauty of the myriad faces and incredible energy I see in Washington. In my lifetime, I never thought - I never dreamed - that this moment would come. I wasn't sure we were ready; I wasn't sure that the right time and place and energy would come together to make this incredible moment happen.

And yet, it has.

And I am struck by the lesson inherent in this day - or, perhaps, more correctly, one lesson within a rainbow of lessons - and that is, the simple power of doing exactly what you were meant to do in this world.

Looking at President-Elect Barak Obama, does anyone have a doubt that he was meant for this moment? That, from birth, he was INTENDED to lead?

It is hard to imagine a person MORE intended to be exactly who and where he is right now.

Of course, the truth is that ALL of us are intended to be something special - to contribute our special energy to the world in a way that is needed and that makes the world a better place. Maybe we are not all meant to be President, but we might be intended to be the best mom, the most incredible counselor, the perfect accountant, or the top cleaning person ever (or anything else YOUR soul calls to you to do!).

Yet, we may hear the calling in our souls of what we are intended to be - but we might doubt it. We might let other's opinions get in our way - or simply in our minds, which is worse. We might put ourselves down as not good enough, or just as being a "dreamer" - a person who imagines things that can never be.

None of it is true. When we get in our own way - when we choose to not believe in our own inner callings to live a certain kind of life in a certain kind of way, when we question our ability to put our energy forward in a way that is good and powerful, we rob the world of the power - the world-changing power - of who we are.

What if Barak Obama had been afraid to step forward and claim his truth?

We all know that the world would have missed out on a great, powerful change.

What if you choose to not live YOUR truth?

It is no less significant a loss.

Today, be inspired to BE exactly who you were intended to be. Choose to believe in the beauty and power in your soul - in the unique energy that you - JUST YOU! - are called to manifest in this world.

By simply and powerfully living your truth, you change the world. Answer that calling with confidence, and BE that change right now.

The crowd yelled "Yes, you can!" as a woman tried to climb a tree...

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On a day of such incredible change, a little humor in the midst!

Happy Inauguration Day, Everyone!!!

People who will do anything to make money, refuse to give of themselves or their prosperity to the unfortunate, and call that manifesting. 

It is so counter-intuitive to who I am what I know, and what I stand for, that I just have a hard time understanding this perspective.