This blog is about a quote that comes from a book by Marianne Williamson. I will give the particulars, like I usually do at the end for those who want to find the full excerpt, website, etc.
Here it is:
... as we let our own light shine, we consciously give
other people permission to do the same.
What if we woke up every morning assuming we were going to have a good day? We greeted the first people we met with a positive attitude and a smile on our face. Others took up the same routine and gradually people would come to expect great things happening. Not that there would be disappointments, but that we looked for the good, not the bad. We anticipated the evening news to have uplifting local stories, for example.
Positive Attitude ushers in trust - a trust in yourself and others. Confidence to try out and see where a talent or interest will take you. Letting your Light Shine leads to bolstering your self esteem where you can perhaps reach out to neighbors, friends, and those in need.
Light a candle and it softly glows. Light many candles and see what the effect is...
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The quote is from a paragraph from the book, A Return to Love. Someone has turned it into a poem which I like the best. See: http://www.squidoo.com/our_deepest_fear
The paragraph in the book appeared like this. See: http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/17297.Marianne_Williamson
There is much on the web attributing the quote to Nelson Mendela's inaugural 1994 speech. This needs more research.
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