Permission to shine? Granted!

A Return to Love
“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’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, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”

I took this picture inside a local Middle School. It made me so happy because it was quoted in a movie about a basketball team, Coach Carter.

 

A Good Mother

“The most important thing she’d learned over the years
was the there was no way to be a perfect mother
and a million ways to be a good one.”

– Jill Churchill

Wisdom from Mother Teresa

“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relive hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.”

A succession of such moments

“Love the moment.
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
Therefore, each moment is vital.
It affects the whole.
Life is a succession of such moments
and to live each is to succeed.”

– Sister Corita Kent

Bud or Blossom?

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

– Anais Nin