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Sunday, May 3, 2009

Summer

It seems summer has unofficially ended with the advent of rains (and typhoons here in Legazpi). But I do miss home and the summer outings more and more. La pa man gud ko kaadto sa beach, la pa ko kakita butanding or done any summer activity.

I am just dying to get out there. But I don't have company. Why did (and do) I leave myself alone? I hardly learn my lessons in life. They're very simple actually, but I always get off the track. Tsk, tsk...Have faith, Heide!

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