Vicky

"Accept youself, love yourself, you are God's creation. God's signature is on you, and you are special, unique. Nobody else has ever been like you, and nobody else will ever be like you -- you are simply unique, incomparable. Accept this, love this, celebrate this -- and in that very celebration you will start seeing the uniqueness of the others, the incomparable beauty of the others. Love is possible only when there is a deep acceptance of onself, the other, the world. Acceptance creates the milieu in which love grows, the soil in which love blooms."

 

Osho

 

"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?

 

You are a child of God.

 

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

 

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking

so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

 

We are born to manifest the glory of God within us.

 

It's not just in some of us -- it's in everyone.

 

And as we let our 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

used by Nelson Mandella in his 1994 inaugural speech

"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'Universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

 

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

 

Albert Einstein