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Published: November 11th 2006
It has been about a week I think since my last entry, and will probably be a few weeks before the next one. School has set in (yes, mom and aunty Nancy I AM studying...), along with swing dance classes, yoga, and vollunteering at an asylum seekers shelter, and this doesn't leave much time (nor have I left so much money!) for travelling and partying.
So I just thought I would leave you all with a quote that has been mulling through my head for the past five or six months. This is a phrase that has come to mean more and more to me with each passing day here, with each moment I spend either in tears or in joy, both of which there have been plenty of! It has been a rollercoaster like no other, just as all of life is, and I continue to fill page after page in my journal about what it means to be in this world. And this quote, I believe nails it on the head.
"...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 doesn't serve the world. There's 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're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
--Marianne Williamson
I love you all more dearly than ever,
Mel.
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Sharon
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Oddly enough, I'm waiting for a book by that author that I ordered from Amazon simply becuase it's illuminated and I'm a great fan of that artform. Looks like I'm going to love the writing too!What a beautiful quote to live by! You're quite a girl. Good luck with your studies. Love, Sharon