Wandering Sage: April 2015

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Summer 2015

I am not teaching this summer so I have a lot of time to think about my life. Bisan unsa na to ako gitry, till I bumped into the VA scam. I came to the conclusion that mobalik na lng sa KH even if tenured na ko sa CDU. La mn gd koy padulngan didto, all I do is teach and nothing more. Di ko kahandle ug supervisory position. I looked at Bongthom yday and I chanced upon this International Advisor post sa Sustainable Schools, operated by an American NGO. I applied right away. For interview na ko ig Monday phon. All the best Doki, basin mao na ni! :)

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