"The love in our hearts is the power that matters." Marianne Williamson

 Excerpt From Nelson Mandela's 1994 Inaugural Speech
(attributed to Dag Hammerskjold and Marianne Williamson)

"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. As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others."

"When I dare to be powerful, to use my power in the service of my vision,
it is less and less important whether or not I'm afraid" - Audre Lorde

"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tightly closed in a bud
was more painful than the risk it took to bloom" - Anais Nin

"I think we can regard therapy, when it is good, as a waiting by the pond. Each time we dip our wound into that water, we get nourishment, the strength to go on further in the process. Initiation, then, does not mean ascending above the wound, nor remaining numbly inside it, but the process lies in knowing how or when, in the presence of the mentor, to dip it in the water." - Iron John: A Book About Men, Robert Bly, pg 41

"The best therapists do not merely [help] heal damage, they help people identify and build their strengths and virtues."
- Martin Seligman, AUTHENTIC HAPPINESS

"Experiencing the power of faith doesn't mean
we've annihilated fear, or denied it, or overcome it through strenuous effort...
it means feeling our fear and still remaining in touch with our heart...".
- Sharon Salzberg, 2002: Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience.
p. 96-97. Riverhead Books, New York.

"Let go or be dragged."

"Resentment is like taking poison &
waiting for the other person to die."