Are you a decision maker?
“Maturity comes with the acceptance of responsibility.” – Dr Edwin L. Cole
Have you ever come across some people who seem to perpetually live in a state of confusion? They seem to love saying, “I don’t know, I’m just so confused…” They relegate themselves to a position where the circumstances around them are in control of what they do. Some even want to have their friends tell them what to do and until someone tells them, they don’t do anything. These people abdicate their role in their own lives to be proactive. They allow other people to build and shape their lives. Unfortunately their lives are often shaped in the wrong way for them and built too small to mean anything. It is a sad scenario, yet so common today. “Man will do anything in his power to avoid thinking.” – Earl Nightingale
Transcending our deepest fear
• More Excerpts from Spirit Talk: The Wisdom of Stone Revisited
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, “Our Deepest Fear”, A Return to Life Read more
The narrow path
In the woods, a narrow path jumps out of the blankness
And snakes underneath shadows of thorn trees
Into the hidden valley
It looks cleanly swept
As if many feet have journeyed upon it
In search of God-knows what
That which exists beyond the realm of the transient present
A search out of the frozen reality of being
The path closes at my feet,
And for some reason I wish I was the moon
Free to awaken dark azures
Beyond the thorn trees, I suddenly see the path opens widely Read more
