Thank you so much for all your warm birthday wishes. Turning 30 was so easy and so hard at the same time. I had many fabulous moments, but did I just sleep through most of my twenties? Where was the adventure, the trips to Dubai, and the swimming with the dolphins? Okay, so maybe it’s enough that I live vicariously through Kalki. But still, am I just wasting this precious gift of life I’ve been given?
I found this quote on a blog I visited for the first time this week. The blog author shared this quote, and I think it was something my heart needed to hear. Perhaps it will become my mantra in my 30’s.
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 and fabulous?
Actually who are we not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn’t 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 when 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
April 10, 2008 at 10:29 am
Love this.
And no matter how many adventures a person has seen or change in the world a person has caused, I think it’s in our nature to still doubt that we’ve done enough. I struggle with this a lot, both professionally and personally. I’m afraid of missing out and not living my full potential, but I’m also sometimes hesitant to take the steps or make the sacrifices that are necessary to fulfill my big intentions. It’s an odd balance between striving for more and yet being content with what we’re doing.
April 12, 2008 at 4:09 pm
http://www.fleurdelis.com/desiderata.htm “You are a child of God” reminded me of this poem. And this puts everything into perspective http://leb.net/~mira/ full chapters, everything you ever needed to know…everything we already know but need to see in print http://leb.net/~mira/
April 15, 2008 at 4:11 pm
“You are a child of God” reminded me of http://www.fleurdelis.com/desiderata.htm
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5484/Gibran.htm