Posted at 11:47 AM

Something that made me think these past few days...

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.

Your 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 is not just in some of us; it is 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,
A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles", 1992
(commonly misattributed to Nelson Mandela, 1994 inauguration speech)

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ok, naked truth! i'm getting pissed these past few days.
pissed about yahoo photos closing, pissed about not being able
to brush up on my reading, pissed about working all day and
not being able to spend time with alex, pissed about other people
being oblivious to other people's needs, pissed about almost
everything! my life would be for the dogs if it weren't for my little
angel. i just wanna go "blah" 'coz there really isn't anything left
for me to do.

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