Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It read more

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.

Krishna was conceived
in the womb of Devaki
mysteriously as the sun setting
in the West imparts his rays
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Krishna was conceived
in the womb of Devaki
mysteriously as the sun setting
in the West imparts his rays
to the rising moon in the East.

I don't try to imagine a God; it suffices to stand in awe of the structure of the world, insofar read more

I don't try to imagine a God; it suffices to stand in awe of the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us who can
be against us?

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us who can
be against us?

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.

Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.

Man thinks, God directs.
[Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.]

Man thinks, God directs.
[Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.]

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come read more

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

In the faces of men and women I see God.

In the faces of men and women I see God.