EMPOWERING THOUGHTS - from Nelson Mandela (Marianne Williamson)

Empowering Thoughts To Live By
(Courtesy of Ernie D. Delfin, an active Rotarian and
Founder, National Foundation For Next Generation)


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 is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that others will
not feel insecure around us.

We are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.

And, as we let our own candle shine, we consciously give others
permission to do the same.

As we liberate from our own fear, our presence automatically
liberates others.

Authored by: Marianne Williamson
Nelson Mandela helped made this poem more popular in his
inaugural speech in South Africa in 1994)
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THE SEVEN SINS IN OUR WORLD
1. WEALTH WITHOUT WORK.
2. PLEASURE WITHOUT CONSCIENCE.
3. KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT CHARACTER.
4. COMMERCE WITHOUT MORALITY.
5. SCIENCE WITHOUT HUMANITY.
6. WORSHIP WITHOUT SACRIFICE.
7. POLITICS WITHOUT PRINCIPLES.
---- Mahatma Gandhi