love for others in the most beautiful & powerful way

I just saw something that is so powerful and moved me to tears like few things ever did. It's about love like nothing else. Love for others, love for life, it's about unity, purpose and truly making a difference. The impact has been huge already and can be even bigger. If we all unite and step in whatever way we can. I invite you to watch the heartbreaking-turning-very-inspirational-video I just watched (click the image below) and you'll see what I mean. Real and substantial change is possible.

reclaim love

on Valentine's Day I'd like to just send this simple message:

source : the Love Army Facebookpage
 artwork: Ashluka

Much love 💗 Monique

Revolutionary Love

in a Ted Talk of november 2017 mother, lawyer, filmmaker and civil rights activist Valarie Kaur talks about what I strongly feel and believe in, in a beautiful and powerful way. She also offers a down-to-earth message of hope by providing a revolutionary way of looking at what's going on in the world and how we can really change things.

'my life on the frontlines of fighting hate in America

has been a study in what I've come to call Revolutionary Love.' 

~ Valarie Kaur ~

source: the Love Army : "in a time of deep polarization and escalating hate, we are staging a cultural intervention - we are reclaiming love as a force for justice"

Much love 💗 Monique

'the love that binds us'

I received an e-mail with a link to an article about Zach Wahls speach in 2011, a speach I just watched. It reflects perfectly what I think life is about, what anything should be about, but too often is viewed upon in similar ways Zach describes. Love is all that matters and is almost always behind the issue people fear the most when looking at something they don't know.

it warms my heart to hear someone speak about it so clearly and eloquently again. Something I hope will happen more and more often. May it become clear once more that love is what we're all seeking and should never be mistaken for something else, out of fear for the unknown.

Happy New Year, may it be a year of L💗VE & acceptance, everywhere and in everything!

Much love 💗 Monique

small gestures, huge difference

I haven't done much at all or at least not nearly enough. I've done all that I could with what I had, it always touches my heart just that can make such a difference, combined with what others contribute as well. Combine enough waterdrops and you create an ocean right? A message that shows that love can be given and felt in so many ways

"love in times of hate

a bright light in times of darkness"

Much love ❤️ Monique

love in everyday life that warms your heart

despite what seems to be the only thing around, there's much love in the world. I've always seen the world as a beautiful place and one where there's much more love than there is hate. You 'just' have to look beyond the surface that might suggest the opposite. Our beautiful planet is filled with people who live with their hearts instead of from fear and worry. There are countless, but here are 10 examples of what that looks like, it will warm you heart, enjoy!

Top ten kindness stories

image: pexels.com, free stock photo's

 and if you like stories like that, here's more. 

Much love, Monique

'the mask you live in'

I'd like to share a documentary that - to me anyway - has everything to do with love. I was told by someone it was really powerful and worth seeing and it is. It's about how men in American society (but applies to men worldwide I think to different degrees) are being raised and influenced and how this effects everything in profound ways, for them and the world we live in. Although much of it was not new to me, some stuff is and seeing it all together is telling a powerful and sometimes heartbreaking story.

 

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