Wandering Sage: July 2009

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Femininity

I found a very nice book by Marianne Williamson at Book Sale yesterday. It's titled, "A Woman's Worth". I am learning so much from it. I gave it as a birthday present to my old college friend. I hope she's getting as much from it as I am.

Let's all celebrate our femininity! :)

TESOL

I just enrolled myself in a TESOL program. I'm so excited! They said I can finish it in a month's time then they'll give me a certificate. Good luck to me!

This could just be my new field. I hold on!

Fresh Pick

A Return to Love, by Marianne Williamson
(as quoted by Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speech, 1994)

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 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's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

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 fears, our presence automatically liberates others.

--The Power of Focus, 2000, by Canfield, Hansen and Hewitt, p. 159