Ángeles López

I love people who are intellectually omnivorous. The kind who can discuss folklore, black holes, bird migration, poetry, and grocery store pricing in a single conversation without getting lost.

I get blown away every time I read this paragraph by Carl Jung: To love someone else is easy, but to love what you are, the thing that is yourself, is just as if you were embracing a glowing red-hot iron: it burns into you and that is very painful. Therefore, to love somebody else in the first place is always an escape which we all hope for, and we all enjoy it when we are capable of it. But in the long run, it comes back on us. You cannot stay away from yourself forever, you have to return, have to come to that experiment, to know whether you really can love. That is the question-whether you can love yourself, and that will be the test.

Once you have truly experienced God, no amount of money, power, sex, or fame can keep you from seeking remembrance of your true nature. There is nothing in this transient world that comes close.

A one hour walk in nature increases a core region in the brain for inhibiting stress. Nature is neuroplasticity.

I treat synchronicities like love letters from the universe.

DON'T FALL IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE WHO HAS DONE THEIR WORK Because they will not allow you to hide forever. Not through cruelty. Not through control. Not through judgment. But through presence. The kind of presence that quietly illuminates the places within you that have been waiting to be seen. The wounds you learned to normalize. The fears you disguised as independence. The grief you buried beneath competence. The stories you tell yourself about why you cannot fully trust, fully receive, or fully belong. People often think love is finding someone who makes them comfortable. Sometimes it is. But the deepest forms of love are often unsettling. Not because they are unsafe, but because they invite honesty. They expose the distance between who we are and who we could become. They challenge the defenses that once protected us but now limit us. They ask difficult questions: Can you be loved without performing? Can you be respected without controlling? Can you be seen without hiding? Genuine intimacy can feel so confronting. A person who has done their work is not searching for someone to complete them. They are not asking you to save them from themselves. They can stand alone. They know how to carry their own loneliness, regulate their own emotions, and take responsibility for their own healing. Which means they are free to love rather than need. And that freedom has a way of revealing where dependency, fear, and self-abandonment still exist. Do not fall in love with someone because they make you feel comfortable. Fall in love with someone whose presence inspires greater honesty, courage, growth, and authenticity within you. Because the right relationship does not merely offer companionship. It creates a space where both people become more fully themselves. And once you have experienced that kind of love, it becomes very difficult to settle for anything less. ~ Katie Kamara ✨🙌🏾💫 Artist © Smita Urunkar

Sometimes it’s not love bombing tho sometimes (very rare tho) two people can just meet and be super passionate and even more genuine scary kinda but embrace it