One of my favourite inspirational poems:
Our Deepest Fear
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 and fabulous?
Actually who are we not to be?
You are a child of gOd.
Your playing small doesn't 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 when 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
Saturday 23 February 2013
Oh Great Spirit: Sioux Prayer
Oh Great Spirit Whose voice I hear in the wind
Whose breath gives life to all the world.
Hear me; I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty,
and my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the the things you have made
and my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may understand the things
you have taught my people.
Help me remain calm and strong in the face of all
that comes toward me.
Let me learn the lessons you have hidden
in every leaf and rock.
Help me seek pure thoughts and act
with the intention of helping others.
Help me find compassion
without empathy overwhelming me.
I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother,
but to fight my greatest enemy, myself.
Make me always ready to come to you
with clean hands and straight eyes.
So when life fades, as the fading sunset,
my spirit may come to you without shame.
(Translated by Chief Yellow Lark, Lakota Sioux)
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