“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.” - Ansel Adams

I should stop trying so hard to be my Self, and just be myself.

 

February 22 2012 

 

I've just more intentionally decided that with each year I shall perfect being an Anabelle Dimang. Then I got humbly excited

 

December 29 2012  

 

My heart. My heart sometimes feels like it wants to take care of all of the other hearts.

 

March 27 2013 

 

There are relatively grand decisions you'll have to make in your life. The answer will come to you intuitively...then you may go into a state of doubt and think of other possible options. A heaviness in your mind. Layers and layers of thought. But alas thy heart steadies and you hear what life was suggesting the entire time. A cloud lifts and clarity presents itself to you once again.

 

May 15 2013 

 

What mighty and many things my little hands of 23 years have done thus far. We've found loves, we've found craft, and we've found many thoughts to ponder.

 June 22 2013 

 

Cooking up some breaded chicken, alfredo from scratch, baked brussel sprouts, and garlic bread while Alex does his law schoolwork across the room. Classical music overpowers the heat from the oven and all of the windows are open because it's nice out. Tranquility in our own worlds and in harmony together. Golly, this is life.

 September 12 2013  

That moment your mind gets overwhelmed by your own life's potential.

December 2 2013 

Time goes by without thinking of waiting for us. I wish I could spend more moments with such wondrous souls that my life has met. I wish I could give all the gratitude I somehow carry but can't ever express enough! This heavenly burden of my time colliding with others. To think of all of the people in the world. To think of all of the worlds in my person.

February 19 2014 

An artist I booked today said the word 'momentum' during our talk and now it can't leave my mind. What a great word that seems to encapsulate this particular time in my life. Because I feel.....dare I say it, unstoppable. As if the world is growing and so am I. As the more I pour myself, the more that is wonderfully poured in my life. Everything is limitless as I remain open. Is this weird to share all of these feelings here? Aw well, I hope by you reading this some of this energy goes into your life because I have an abundance! I am mentally hugging the shiza out of the world.

February 21 2014

"If you want to awaken all of humanity,
then awaken all of yourself.

If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself.

Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation."
The great Lao Tzu

"Shut your eyes to the outside world. Direct your thoughts and words to the inside of you. The Master within you is the key to all the treasures in the world."

"Changing beliefs, emotional reactions, and destructive behaviors is through mastering your point of view, attention, and dissolving the false beliefs in your mind. When you learn to shift your Point of View you can literally move your self out of a Belief and out of an emotion. From a new point of view you will have the awareness to see the faulty logic of the beliefs behind the behavior. With the awareness of the false beliefs behind your actions you will be able to refrain from destructive behavior. Eliminating the false beliefs eliminates the triggers of your emotions. It is the elimination of the false beliefs that will dissolve the fear." 

"Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness within you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality."

"Be careful in your thoughts when you are alone. And be careful in your words when you are in a crowd"  

A public love letter, because who can contain such a love.

You! You are the one who sends auroras through my person and water to my quenched heart! Many wondrous things have come from me through the influence of you. How fortunate I am to be loved by and in love with such a grand person! You open the gateway to facing myself at times when I don't want to and you've calmed many of my seas. Gratitude it is that I always want to send to the world because our lives have met and merged. The past three years would have not been as bright without you. I admire you so.

"And then my soul saw you and it kind of went 'Oh there you are. I've been looking for you."
March 22 2014

""Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom. Uncertainty means stepping into the unknown in every moment of our existence. The unknown is the field of all possibilities, ever fresh, ever new, always open to the creation of new manifestations. Without uncertainty and the unknown, life is just the stale repetition of outworn memories. You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday.

Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities.""

"This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, rushing by like a torrent down a steep mountain.

We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will have been worthwhile."

--Deepok Chopkra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

Where you rightfully live

"I will always be safe from the random hurricanes of outcome as long as I never forget where I rightfully live. I don't know where you rightfully live but I know that there is something you love more than you love yourself, something worthy...You've got to identify the best worthiest thing you love most then build your house right on top of it and don't budge from it. And if you should someday somehow get vaulted out of your home by either great failure or great success then your job is to fight your way back to that home. The only way that it has ever been done by putting your head down and performing with diligence and devotion and respect and reverence, whatever the task is that love is calling forth from you next."

--Elizabeth Gilbert
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