How navel.....

[mangosteen]

The following quote/poem/thingie has been bouncing around my mind for the past few weeks. Not only because it was shamelessly paraphrased in a recent movie, but because I'm trying to answer a few questions about myself. All I can say is that I'm closer now than I've been in years, but that just means that I may have found the right questions to ask.


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 frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

There's nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are 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 fears,
Our presence automatically liberates others.

-- Marianne Williamson


Observation: The will to act is 50% of your grade.

Comments

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

I have this as having come from Nelson Mandela that he used it in his 1994 inagural address.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

He used it, but she wrote it.

[nisaa.livejournal.com]

Hmmm . . . I for one am enjoying your recent navelty. It'll also make me pay more attention when I go see that movie tonight for the second time. I think it may explain someone's actions after we saw that for the first time . . . thanks for posting this!! *lightbulb*

[meirion.livejournal.com]

thank you. i hadn't read/heard that before, and it helps. particularly at the moment.

-m-

[dariusk.livejournal.com]

Hey... you friended me. Who are you? You seem to know both solipsistnation and nchanter, which means I could know you from any of two vastly different groups of friends.

[mangosteen]

I was at darxus and nchanter's housewarming party.
I was the Angry Bearded Network Goon.

[dariusk.livejournal.com]

Okay! I remember you now. Eeeexcellent.