Barbara De Angelis (born March 4, 1951) is an American relationship consultant, lecturer and author, TV personality, relationship, personal growth adviser and spiritual teacher.
I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it's scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.
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
I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.
If you let your mind talk you out of things that aren't logical, you're going to have a very boring life. Because grace isn't logical. Love isn't logical. Miracles aren't logical.
Love is the magician of the universe. It creates everything out of nothing.
Love and kindness are never wasted.
Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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.
When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break. . . but broken live on.
Don't be proud of what you know, and don't be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as from the learned. Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection.
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
It 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.
That experience showed me that I-from moment to moment-am the only person in control of my connection to God. It's not that God is deciding to connect with me, depending on whether I had a good day, or did good or bad deeds. It's all up to me. God, the awareness of God, the love of God, the blessings of God-that lively ecstasy-is always there. It's me who separates from God by judging, by indulging in negativity, by criticizing myself, as well as others.
All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.
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.