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Offline Sandman

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« on: July 01, 2005, 10:10:32 PM »
This was quoted in the movie, "Coach Carter." I'm not really into poetry, but this is just awesome, imho.

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 is not just in some of us; it is 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
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« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2005, 10:12:53 PM »
This is off her website; I'm going to have to read some of her stuff.

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"Spiritual principles do not change, but we do. As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before....


How true.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

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« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2005, 10:39:30 PM »
Yeah she gets it.
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« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2005, 10:56:26 PM »
Glad she does, I don't...
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« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2005, 10:57:35 PM »
Urch, it hides in plain sight. Toughest thing to find.  ;)
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

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« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2005, 11:25:11 PM »
You enlightened ones speak so linear, as if the light you find is the same across all ends of tunnels.  

As for Sandy's quote, I dig it.  Sounds familiar, yet I cannot remember where I may have heard it before.  It's rather easy to replace the word 'god' with the 'humanity.'  Insta-universal-quote.

just sayin..
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« Reply #6 on: July 01, 2005, 11:26:30 PM »
More from Marianne:

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That is the question: who are we, really? For if we think we are only small and separate, mortal beings, then the world we create will reflect that belief. We will live in a world of separation and suffering and death. Yet when we change our sense of who we are--when we realize we are boundless, unified with all life--then the human experience as we know it transforms. The one exercise repeated in the workbook of A Course in Miracles states the following: "I am as God created me." In some essential way we still are who we were at the moment of our creation, and all problems derive from our forgetting that.

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« Reply #7 on: July 01, 2005, 11:26:53 PM »
And this whole time I was taught it was fear itself.  Or was it the only thing to fear?  I never could get it right cuz...

I ain't skeered.
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« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2005, 01:45:34 AM »
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Originally posted by Octavius
You enlightened ones speak so linear, as if the light you find is the same across all ends of tunnels.  

As for Sandy's quote, I dig it.  Sounds familiar, yet I cannot remember where I may have heard it before.


Nelson Mandela said it in a speech, I believe.
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« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2005, 01:49:58 AM »
Really?
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« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2005, 01:50:55 AM »
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Really?


Do a google. That quote or parts of it are often attributed to Nelson Mandela. I can only assume that he spoke it somewhere. Then again, there are plenty of sites that state that he didn't say it either.

One story attributed it to his 1994 inaugural speech, but I found the transcript and it's not in it.

I'm beginning to doubt if he ever said it at all.

Nothing on Snopes either way.
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« Reply #11 on: July 02, 2005, 01:54:24 AM »
Reason I asked is because it seemed very familiar to me also. I don't think I've heard it in a Mandela speech, yet I've never seen "Coach Carter" either. Weird.
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« Reply #12 on: July 02, 2005, 10:42:48 AM »
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« Reply #13 on: July 02, 2005, 10:51:09 AM »
I like the above quote but her site is nothing but a leftist leberal rant against GWB.  Like most of these sites they offer all the criticism in the world and no solutions what so ever.  I can't beleive I went there and nearly ruined a pair a shoes when I steped in it.
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« Reply #14 on: July 02, 2005, 11:27:19 AM »
I must have missed that part of her site. As near as I can tell, MW is a peace-nik.

She's got nothing on a true anti-Bush site.
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