Light Within

People are like stained glass windows:

they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,

but when the darkness sets in
their true beauty is revealed

only if there is a light within.

- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Letting Your Beauty and Light Shine

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 frightens us most.

We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?'

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 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 all of us.

And when 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.

- Maryanne Williamson (Nelson Mandela used in his 1994 inaugural speech)

Looking to the Light

Every day you must arise and say to your heart,

I have suffered enough and now I must live

because the light of the sun must not be wasted,

it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.

- Simone Schwarz-Bart