Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Coincidence? Or is it?

Several years ago I went to a Tarot reader who was a friend of a friend. I don't remember much about the reading, other than the fact she was pretty accurate about several things.

On the way out the door she gave me a quote she had taped to her fridge. After reading it she told me to keep it because it was "meant" for me.

Fast forward to the present day where I re-discovered the quote in a pile of papers I was sifting through in my office:

A Challenging Perspective
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, fabulous? Actually, who are you 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 are born to make manifest the Glory of God that is within us. It is 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're liberated from our our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson
A Return to Love; Reflection o the Principles of a Course in Miracles


Interesting coincidence, isn't it?

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