I’m taking a detour from the blog entry I was going to post coming up.
A faithful friend is gone and I feel the need to honor his memory. He was a peer who brought joy to everyone whose lives he touched.
Riding home in a private car after hearing the news two lines from the famous Marianne Williamson quote streamed into my head over and over: You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
Might we dare greatly to take up space even when the media darlings, the anti-psychiatry cranks, and countless others hate judge and shame us. What irks them about us is their problem not ours.
Here is the full Williamson quote with the pertinent lines in bold:
“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, 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 other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. 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.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”
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