Welcome back from our Christmas holidays and here's hoping that you feel refreshed and ready for another semester as we've said goodbye to 2011 and ushered in 2012.
And what have we to look forward to in the Oughties. My hope is that we will see less dialogue and more action on things that affect us; that there resides more integrity, fairness, justice, transparency and accountability in our institutions and relationships; that we set aside pettiness and indifference to engage in meaningful, dynamic, honest and realistic avenues to affect change and transform our lives and societies; that we love more and hate less; that in our getting and spending we do not lay waste to our powers.
Our Greatest 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 you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not 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 fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.
—Marianne Williamson
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