Purpose
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Thank your past self
Old memories...
In this lifetime, we will mourn and hold funerals for all the versions of ourselves that we’ve been.
You aren’t who you were in the past anymore.
You are who you are now, here, in this present moment.
Thank your past self for helping you survive.
Thank your past self for being strong and enduring pain.
Thank your past self for doing their best and fighting hard.
Thank your past self for being brave.
Thank your past self for getting back up and continuing to try.
Thank your past self for making you who you are today.
Thank your past self for making mistakes which you’ve learned from.
Thank your past self for letting you move forward.
Thank your past self because even if they no longer resonate or align with who you are today… you couldn’t have done it without them.
Let go in order to be you are now
It’s understandable if you’re mourning for who you used to be and feeling all of the feels that come with change: sadness, joy, fear, excitement, anxiety and elation.
You’re allowed to mourn for who you used to be whether you were proud of past you or not.
And when you’re ready, truly let go… in order to be who you are now 💐
Who you are becoming.
Who you choose to be.
Whilst remembering with great gratitude to the past you, who has enabled you to be who you are today and where you are today.
How you show up today, will result in who you become in this moment, in tomorrow, in the future.
An excerpt from my book — The Great Unlearning: Awakening to Living an Aligned and Authentic Life.
Available worldwide June 23, 2023.
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All about perspective
What are you going to do with your time?
To someone, you’re young and to another, you’re old.
There is comfort and privilege in getting older.
You become wiser, you become more aware of what you want, and you know who you are.
You’ve experienced pain and loss.
You’ve taken things for granted and have found a new way to approach life with less fear and regret.
It’s all relative anyway and, at the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter what someone else thinks.
What truly matters is what you do with your time, here and now in the present moment.
Use your time wisely and intentionally with all your heart.
And just maybe if you’re one of the lucky ones, you’ll get another shot, chance or opportunity in life – but it isn’t guaranteed.
So, what are you going to do with your time?
The choice is yours...
When it comes to time this is the one thing you have to realise ⏱️
It’s all about perspective.
Anything can change in a moment,
It can slow down or speed up.
It can be painful or pleasant.
The choice is yours.
An excerpt from my book — The Great Unlearning: Awakening to Living an Aligned and Authentic Life.
Available for pre-order now, released worldwide June 23, 2023.
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You will get stronger
Life doesn't get easier, you get stronger
It’s not about what’s happening around you on the outside, it’s about what’s happening on the inside of you, your internal world.
You can deep dive underwater and still come up for air.
It’s easy to be strong when life goes to plan.
It’s easy to be strong when life is going the way you want.
Real strength comes from braving the storms, riding the waves and withstanding the hurricanes.
Life doesn’t get easier, you get stronger.
Your heart and soul
What’s going on inside of you? 🌀
Check in with your heart and soul, you know ❤️🔥
An excerpt from my book — The Great Unlearning: Awakening to Living an Aligned and Authentic Life
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The greatest gift of all
I hope you remember...
When everything seems too hard, I hope you remember the strength and resilience that has kept you here despite all the hardships and heartache you’ve endured.
I hope you remember how deeply you’re loved.
I hope you remember how much you’ve grown.
I hope you remember the purity and innocence of your heart, with its vast capacity to love.
I hope you remember how incredible it is that you’re here and get to experience the greatest gift of all: life.
Despite it all...
Because better days are on their way… ✨ and you still being despite it all, breathing, believing is truly a gift in itself 🌟
An excerpt from my book – The Great Unlearning: Awakening to Living an Aligned and Authentic Life
Available 23 June 2023 worldwide.
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Strong soul…
Life doesn't get easier, you get stronger
Even when a storm comes and rocks you, there is safety within.
It’s not about what’s happening around you on the outside world, it’s about what’s happening inside of you, your internal world.
It’s easy to be strong when life is going the way you want it.
It’s easy to be strong when positivity comes naturally.
Real strength comes from braving the storms, riding the waves and withstanding the hurricanes.
Life doesn’t get easier, you get stronger.
Strong soul
There are times in life where you have to sit in the discomfort; the pain; the unpleasant; the chaos 🌀
These are the times where you are being called to go within.
To tap into your inner strength; inner resilience; inner essence.
These are the times you get to know your true self — your soul that cannot be messed with.
Your power isn’t determined on controlling the outside, it’s from calming and braving the inside.
Your world, your domain ⚔️
As Haruki Murakami says: “When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” ⛈️
An excerpt from my upcoming book — The Great Unlearning: Awakening to Living an Aligned and Authentic Life
Available for pre-order worldwide, releasing June 23 2023.
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I’m grateful for…
I'm grateful for...
I’m grateful for all that my heart feels.
I’m grateful for the way it beats with pride and joy.
I’m grateful in the way it floats with excitement and swells with tenderness.
I’m grateful when it feels heavy and anchored.
I’m grateful when it feels like it’s being crushed alive.
I’m grateful when it swoons with delight and wonder.
I’m grateful when it beats slowly and gently.
I’m grateful when it races to the rush and thrill of it all.
I’m grateful when it aches and I feel every time it bleeds.
I’m grateful when it rushes off the cliff and suspends itself for a moment in time.
I’m grateful because my heart reminds me I’m alive.
Allow yourself to feel it all
With all the emotions arising from the potent energies we’ve experienced; it is my hope that you let them flow like water.
Allow yourself to feel it all.
Every layer.
Every shift.
Every ounce.
Be in the flow instead or resisting it.
And then you will feel free… 🦋
An excerpt from my debut book — The Great Unlearning: Awakening to Living an Aligned and Authentic Life
Available for preorder world wide, releasing June 23 2023
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Welcome to the darkening of the light
Dark & Light
Welcome to the darkening of the light.
Just like winter or the dark night of the soul, we need darkness to ultimately find the light.
We need darkness as a veil to what is growing beneath the surface.
What surfaces is your endurance to channel your crisis into change.
It is time to surrender your heart and soul to the universe.
Shed like a snake what no longer serves you.
Let go and flow with where the steam of life wants you to go.
Listen to the rhythm and beat of your heart.
Surrender your soul to the alluring pull of what you desire.
Release your fears and doubts, child of the universe.
The stars and angels are always supporting you.
You are exactly where you need to be right now.
When the world is dark your inner light shines bright.
Allow yourself to change...
🎢 Life is a rollercoaster of experiences and emotions driven by the highest of highs and lowest of lows.
The feels can be excruciating.
To feel so deeply.
Heartache and pain contrasted with liberation and ecstasy.
From a spiritual point of view our soul chose to get on this ride.
To learn.
To grow.
To expand.
Your soul is hungry for experiences and emotions that nudge you into alignment.
The depth of darkness and shadow you feel also opens up the limitless love and joy you can also feel.
Allow yourself to change.
Allow yourself to merge with your shadow.
On this rollercoaster of life one minute we are up and the next we are down… and it will continue to go on. Otherwise wouldn’t life be boring?
Enjoy it for all that life is – it’s only temporary anyway!
An excerpt from my upcoming debut book available for pre-order worldwide—
The Great Unlearning: Awakening to Living an Aligned and Authentic Life by Phi Dang
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CHANGES…
Change pushes you to expand...
Why do you only want change if it’s on your terms?
That is not how change works.
Change pushes you to expand.
The circumstances of life and the universe will show you what is happening.
Some doors are closed to redirect you.
A door to another path will open and show you another way of doing things.
Rejection is protection.
You cannot control the pace of change.
It just happens and is inevitable, so you might as well embrace it because you’ll emerge stronger, wiser and smarter than before.
Trust and surrender...
There’s one common thing that most of us do that stops us from growing and changing 👀
That very thing?
The desire to control.
So very human of us.
You are a powerful creator collaborating with the universe and life force itself.
You’ll find your life fill with more ease when you realise the only thing you can control is you.
Your inner reality.
Choosing what thoughts you’ll follow and go into the rabbit hole with.
Choose your perspective on the world and what you’ll do with those feelings.
Choose your impact on the world through the way you move and what you do.
No matter how hard you try — you cannot control life.
It’s the beauty of life, it will unfold as it should.
Trust and surrender beautiful soul 🌊
Let go of the heavy need to control it all because you can’t and why would you want to?
It would be a heavy task and where’s the fun in that?
Enjoy the ride 🦋
📖 The Great Unlearning: Awakening to Living an Aligned and Authentic Life by Phi Dang
Now available for pre-order worldwide at all good online retailers and bookstores, releasing June 2023.
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Grateful for this life
Grateful, thankful and blessed
At times it can feel like life isn’t perfect and neither am I.
Even knowing and experiencing that, I am grateful.
I am grateful when I did not get what I want because life was protecting me.
I am grateful when life stepped in and gave me a life greater than I ever imagined for myself.
I am grateful that everything that seemed to be going wrong was really steering me in the right direction.
I am grateful for all the sadness, struggle and pain because life provided a contrast to truly appreciate all the beautiful moments, the highest of highs.
I am grateful for the hardships I have faced because I have gained strength and wisdom that I never would have otherwise.
I am grateful to still be here because traversing rocky roads have led me to conquer mountains I never thought I could.
Ultimately I have come to understand through the imperfection, that really, life is perfect and who I am right now is exactly who I am meant to be.
On perspective...
Whilst you can’t change or control life circumstances, you’ll always have a choice when it comes to perspective.
Often in hindsight we can find gratitude for the very things in the moment we dismissed as undesirable.
Never underestimate the power you have in any moment to use your mind, not let it use you 🧠
love & positivity ✨ phi