Knotty Musings

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I Am Enough

"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." ~ Marianne Williamson


Remove the Nots

Remove the Nots

Friday, July 3, 2009

I Feared

I feared being alone

Until I learned to like Myself.

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I feared failure

Until I realized that I only Fail when I don't try.

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I feared success

Until I realized that I had to try in order to be happy with myself.

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I feared people's opinions

Until I learned that people would have opinions about me anyway.

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I feared rejection

Until I learned to have faith in myself.

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I feared pain

Until I learned that it's necessary for growth.

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I feared the truth

Until I saw the ugliness in lies.

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I feared life

Until I experienced its beauty .

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I feared death

Until I realized that it's not an end, but a beginning.

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I feared my destiny,

Until I realized that I had the power to change my life.

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I feared hate

Until I saw that it was nothing more than ignorance.

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I feared love

Until it touched my heart, making the darkness fade into endless sunny days.

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I feared ridicule

Until I learned how to laugh at myself.

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I feared growing old

Until I realized that I gained wisdom every day.

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I feared the future

Until I realized that Life just kept getting better.

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I feared the past

Until I realized that It could no longer hurt me.

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I feared the dark

Until I saw the beauty of the starlight.

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I feared the light

Until I learned that the Truth would give me Strength.

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I feared change,

Until I saw that even the most beautiful butterfly had to undergo a Metamorphosis before it could fly.~Author Unknown

2 comments:

  1. I absolutely have come to depend on reading your posts daily. You always have something so meaningful, so inpiratiional, so motivating for us to read. Thank you for your wonderful posts.

    Iris

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  2. Good to know; I try to keep things meaningful. There is so much lack of meaning these days.

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