Misadventures of the 10lees

My Nothing Weekend

I lazed around this weekend, which was great and partly due to Scott having a hurt back. As a favorite movie says 'I did nothing and it was everything I thought it could be'...

So I thought I would share with you a quote that is on the wall in my Yoga center. At my center it is incorrectly atributed to Nelson Mandela's Inaguration speech in 1994, but it is actually a quote from Marianne Williamson's book A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles and it really struck me:

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.

Hopefully you find it meaningful too...