Sing Your Torch Song

“We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.”

– Whoopi Goldberg

Don’t be afraid of your inner light.

“We can easily forgive a child afraid of the dark.  The real tragedy is when an adult is afraid of the light.”

– Plato

Follow Your Bliss

“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”

– Joseph Campbell

Stained Glass

“People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when
the sun’s out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is
revealed only if there is light within.”

 – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Fear of Success

“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 are all meant to shine, as children do. We are 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
21st century spiritual teacher
from A Return to Love

 

What Lies Beneath

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson