The following inspirational piece by new paradigm author, <A HREF="http://www.marianne.com/">Marianne Williamson</A>
, excerpted from her book, "<A HREF="http://www.help-yourself.com/Inspirations/mwilliamson.html">A Return to Love</A>" and quoted by <A HREF="http://www.anc.org.za/people/mandela/">Nelson Mandela</A> in
his 1994 inaugural address:

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 you--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.
We are liberated from our own fear; our presence automatically liberates
others.



"The attitude of great poets is to cheer up slaves and horrify despots" ...<A HREF="http://ipoet.com/ARCHIVE/CLASSIC/Walt/Whitman.html">
Walt Whitman</A>



My heart rouses
thinking to bring you news
of something that concerns you
and concerns many men. Look at
what passes for the new.
You will not find it there
 but in despised poems.
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack of what is found there.
-- William Carlos Williams

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