From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V10 #236 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Monday, December 26 2005 Volume 10 : Number 236 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Off-Topic(?): Our Deepest Fear [Robert McCausland ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 00:28:21 -0500 From: Robert McCausland Subject: Off-Topic(?): Our Deepest Fear Good people - On tonight's Christmas Eve "Prairie Home Companion", Odetta read a piece from Marianne Williamson, which she said Nelson Mandela had prominently used. Here it is, with a link to Marianne's site. ~Rob "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 subconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - -- From A RETURN TO LOVE http://marianne.com/book/index.htm XCERPTS o?< Buy at Amazon If you like the paragraph, you'll love the book! ... ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V10 #236 ****************************