Posts Tagged ‘fear’

dark light

November 20, 2007

Marianne Williamson’s poem took me to a slightly different place.  I would like to move away from the competitive duality of light versus dark.   For me, darkness is home to the unknown, the place possibility also lives.  I don’t think it’s an accident that seeds grow inside dark earth like a baby in a mama’s womb.   Light is [...]

Our Deepest Fear

November 20, 2007

A favorite poem..
Our Deepest Fear
It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
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 [...]

Fear, the shout by the door

November 19, 2007

Just like western culture has ingrained consumerism into our systems, it has also created a culture of fear.  We only have to turn on the news to see how fear permeates everything.  Fear is the voice inside that tells us not to take a risk, trust, grow, learn, and often receive because something horrible will [...]