The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing
to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in
that position.
-- Leo Buscaglia
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.
We ask ourselves 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and
fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? Your are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened
about shrinking so that other 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 everyone. And as we let our ownlight shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically iberates others.
-- Marianne WilliamsonLove is the virtue of the heart, sincerity the virtue of the mind,
decision the virtue of the will, courage the virtue of the spirit.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
There once was a bunch of tiny frogs,
who arranged a running competition.
The goal was to reach the top of a very high tower.
A big crowd had gathered around the tower to see the race and cheer on the
contestants...
The race began...
Honestly:
No one in the crowd really believed that the tiny frogs would reach
the top of the tower.
You heard statements such as:
"Oh, WAY too difficult!!
They will NEVER make it to the top."
or:
"Not a chance that they will succeed. The tower is too high!"
The tiny frogs began collapsing. One by one...
... Except for those who in a fresh tempo were climbing higher
and higher...
The crowd continued to yell
"It is too difficult!!! No one will make it!"
More tiny frogs got tired and gave up...
...But ONE continued higher and higher and higher...
This one wouldn't give up!
At the end everyone else had given up climbing the tower. Except for the
one tiny frog who after a big effort was the only one who reached the top!
THEN all of the other tiny frogs naturally wanted to know how this one frog
managed to do it?
A contestant asked the tiny frog how the one who succeeded had found the
strength to reach the goal?
It turned out...
That the winner was DEAF!!!!
The wisdom of this story is:
Never listen to other people's tendencies to be negative or pessimistic...
...because they take your most wonderful dreams and wishes away from you.
The ones you have in your heart!
Always think of the power words have.
Because everything you hear and read will affect your actions!
Therefore:
ALWAYS be?
POSITIVE!
And above all:
Be DEAF when people tell YOU that YOU can not fulfill YOUR dreams!
Always think:
I can do this!
-- Author Unknown
Leo is my favorite author with "Love" as the best book of all time for me. Thanks for remembering him with your inspiration. He taught a class way back when at USC, I believe, where he was a professor. It focused on YOU which was quite popular with the students and quite controversial with the university.
Posted by: Bea | Friday, July 24, 2009 at 04:16 PM