On Judgment

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 and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not 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 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.

Unfinished

The greatest intelligence that one can gain is of himself. On a side note I've never been an advocate of using "one" as a subject. Now I'll use the cliche "...but I digress." 

When I sat down to compose this post I had in mind no real story to tell. I'm simply allowing my thoughts to flow as they come. Whether or not I can garner a general premise by the end of this composition will be a mystery and a task in itself. 

I have no problem in sharing my weaknesses with any and all who question them save for the fact that ignorance is a burden to hold. Not that I am ignorant of my weaknesses - but that others are - and for that I hold back. 

I wish to be judged not by what I can do with materials, not by what I have been taught from a textbook necessarily, but from that which I gained from my experiences - that which I have harnessed myself. That is:

1. What I have learned about myself

Because the central theme of our lives is me. Not me in the sense that everyone lives for me and only me. But the you-me. You. The 'me' that we all live for. Me, my, I, mine, myself. Need I prolong this idea any further?

I realize that I come from a family that does not represent me. Not to dash my background or impede on its importance. But I say in earnestness that our ideals are apart from each other. I do not attribute the ideals of my family in comparison to mine as a result of the "generation gap." I do believe that our experiences affect our ideals. I have learned so this past year. 

Human nature need interact with experience before we can have a set dogma to defend without argument. All of human nature may be different yet it is all the same - because it deals with me.

Man's greatest downfall is in his nature to judge.

I'll end here.