"Our
deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we
are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that
most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. You're playing
small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about
shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are
all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the
glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in
everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other
people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own
fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
- Marianne Williamson,
is a best-selling author, lecturer and founder of The Peace Alliance, a
grass roots campaign supporting legislation currently before Congress
to establish a United States Department of Peace.
"If
God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my
arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought,
not one feeling, nor any act, I would not bow to."
- Rumi, page 68 from Love Poems from God. Rumi was a 13th Century Sufi Mystic.
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