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Topic: Our greatest fear
TxsGal3333 Joined Tue 09/05/06 Posts: 76438	Sun 04/15/12 05:21 PM
Our Greatest Fear: It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us 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. Please make sure that anytime one is quoting and Author to in fact give the Author credit. This piece is actually wrote by .............................. —Marianne Williamson Site Mod Kristi

ashryn Joined Sat 03/12/11 Posts: 383	Mon 04/16/12 07:19 PM
greatest fear?? lightning...

oldhippie1952 Joined Mon 03/14/11 Posts: 22693	Tue 04/17/12 02:42 AM
Dang I don't have any fear except for needles.

wux Joined Wed 07/29/09 Posts: 7426	Tue 04/17/12 02:49 AM
I have two fears: 1. If I go to heaven, it will be full of pontificating dullards who make no or little sense and I will be intellectually starved forever. I don't want to hear about god because I don't even believe it exits. I don't want to hear unscientific and dumbfounded theories about what is this and what is that. I like to think I can figure those things out on my own much better, thank you very much. 2. If I go to hell, it will hurt.

wux Joined Wed 07/29/09 Posts: 7426	Tue 04/17/12 02:51 AM
Our Greatest Fear: It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us 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. Please make sure that anytime one is quoting and Author to in fact give the Author credit. This piece is actually wrote by .............................. —Marianne Williamson Site Mod Kristi Oh, thank goodness then, that it's Marianne Williamson who is the moron, not the OP.

wux Joined Wed 07/29/09 Posts: 7426	Tue 04/17/12 02:55 AM
Our Greatest Fear: It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us 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. ~Nelson Mandella~ People keep saying this belongs to Nelson Mandela...it is NOT from Nelson Mandela I agree... Nelson was much more intelligent than to publish such intellectually zero-value spiritual diarrhoeaing. And you are right... he spelled his last name with only one L. I don't know why people can't spell the name of their favourite authors.

Ladywind7 Joined Sun 04/08/12 Posts: 7833	Tue 04/17/12 04:23 AM
Nelson mandela qouted this in his inaugural speech, hence the confusion.

Unknow Joined Sat 10/21/06 Posts: 3353	Tue 04/17/12 04:30 AM
I have two fears: 1. If I go to heaven, it will be full of pontificating dullards who make no or little sense and I will be intellectually starved forever. I don't want to hear about god because I don't even believe it exits. I don't want to hear unscientific and dumbfounded theories about what is this and what is that. I like to think I can figure those things out on my own much better, thank you very much. 2. If I go to hell, it will hurt. I'm not worried about any of that.....Heaven don't want me and Hell is afraid I'll take over!

Conrad_73 Joined Sat 09/29/07 Posts: 22488	Tue 04/17/12 06:01 AM Edited by Conrad_73 on Tue 04/17/12 06:05 AM
fear is the (little) darkroom where negatives are developed a Michael Pritchard apparently

WholesomeWoman Joined Sun 03/18/12 Posts: 763	Tue 04/17/12 10:19 AM
fear is the (little) darkroom where negatives are developed a Michael Pritchard apparently Good one! True.

WholesomeWoman Joined Sun 03/18/12 Posts: 763	Thu 04/19/12 02:12 PM Edited by WholesomeWoman on Thu 04/19/12 02:14 PM
A thought... rather, could be death the greatest fear ... if, "Fear of death is the root of all religion". ~unknown

oldhippie1952 Joined Mon 03/14/11 Posts: 22693	Thu 04/19/12 02:15 PM
A thought... rather, could be death the greatest fear ... if, "Fear of death is the root of all religion". ~unknown Not really afraid of death. When it's my time to go, I'm gone! Nothing I can do about it but hope it lets me alone for a few more decades.

jemare Joined Fri 04/24/09 Posts: 2105	Thu 04/19/12 02:42 PM
I'm not afraid of death either. There was a time last year when I had to face that possibility. I had two weeks prior to a second surgery to think about my death. Thank God the second surgery relieved that fear. I realized it wasn't death that scared me, it was the WAY I could die. Slow and painful. It's the thought of dying a painful death that scares me When it's my time, I want it quick and painless. 30 or 40 years from now would be fine with me too

oldhippie1952 Joined Mon 03/14/11 Posts: 22693	Thu 04/19/12 03:41 PM
I'd prefer to die in my sleep. Just doze off forever. Just not anytime soon mind you!

WholesomeWoman Joined Sun 03/18/12 Posts: 763	Thu 04/19/12 03:53 PM
I wonder from the point of view in the formation of religion if death had a play in its roots. You hear from the times of the Eqyptians ... to Plato's days, to the Roman Empire ... other eras about immortality and gods, things like living an afterlife, nothing to fear for death has been conquered and live being eternal ... etc. I found the quote, "Fear of death is the root of all religion" as name unknown on a physics site sitting by itself after a discussion on metaphysics. I thought, hmmm, death is a bonafided fear for man and at the heart in teachings of religion. Just a thought.

WholesomeWoman Joined Sun 03/18/12 Posts: 763	Thu 04/19/12 04:02 PM Edited by WholesomeWoman on Thu 04/19/12 04:43 PM
I'd prefer to die in my sleep. Just doze off forever. Just not anytime soon mind you! That would be a pleasant way, to doze off in your sleep. Did you know, some people in certain cultures, where people were at a high heirachy level or powerfully rich, the elite, would labor in planning their death to planning their poison for death after having all things in place, and was done as in the Roman Empire days of Julius Caesar as an honorable thing to do. No fear there of death there and generall to doze off in their sleep was the way done. The egyptian Kings, Queens ... nobles went to their afterlife planning their tombs, taking others with to death, their bodies housed in the Pyramids.

oldhippie1952 Joined Mon 03/14/11 Posts: 22693	Thu 04/19/12 04:30 PM
I'd prefer to die in my sleep. Just doze off forever. Just not anytime soon mind you! That would be a pleasant way, to doze off in your sleep. Did you know, some people in certain cultures, where people were at a high heirachy level or powerfully rich, the elite, would labor in planning their death to planning their poison for death after having all things in place, and was done as in the Roman Empire days of Julius Caesar as an honorable thing to do. No fear there of death there and generall to doze off in their sleep was the way done. The egyptian Kings, Queens ... nobles went to their afterlife and their tombs the Pyramids. Don't forget the eskimos and how when they got "too" old they sit on an ice flow and awaited their fate.

OIF_Chef Joined Mon 12/26/11 Posts: 541	Thu 04/19/12 04:47 PM
I have two fears: 1. If I go to heaven, it will be full of pontificating dullards who make no or little sense and I will be intellectually starved forever. I don't want to hear about god because I don't even believe it exits. I don't want to hear unscientific and dumbfounded theories about what is this and what is that. I like to think I can figure those things out on my own much better, thank you very much. 2. If I go to hell, it will hurt. While heaven is without a doubt a beautiful and inspiring theory, and hell a terrifying and ugly concept, both are simply social memes which have persisted for thousands of years with no help from science or the unknown in the way of proof or disproof. Your fear, while real in your mind, is no more or no less real than anything conceivable in the collective unconscious. Small comfort maybe, but it gives me hope for other possibilities beyond my own comprehension.

OIF_Chef Joined Mon 12/26/11 Posts: 541	Thu 04/19/12 04:50 PM
I fear the pain associated with various methods of dying. Beyond that, all other fear is irrational and does not serve my goals.

WholesomeWoman Joined Sun 03/18/12 Posts: 763	Thu 04/19/12 04:52 PM Edited by WholesomeWoman on Thu 04/19/12 04:53 PM
I'd prefer to die in my sleep. Just doze off forever. Just not anytime soon mind you! That would be a pleasant way, to doze off in your sleep. Did you know, some people in certain cultures, where people were at a high heirachy level or powerfully rich, the elite, would labor in planning their death to planning their poison for death after having all things in place, and was done as in the Roman Empire days of Julius Caesar as an honorable thing to do. No fear there of death there and generall to doze off in their sleep was the way done. The egyptian Kings, Queens ... nobles went to their afterlife and their tombs the Pyramids. Don't forget the eskimos and how when they got "too" old they sit on an ice flow and awaited their fate. Never heard about the Eskimoe way, interesting, thanks. Even the animal kingdom, such as the eagle, and I cannot recall if this is folklore or of belief of the the Native American Indians, or biological, for when the eagle knows it is time to die will look into sun flying until it falls to its death. A family pet cat of twelve years when I was a child walked off and never returned. It is not uncommon for the cat to do so, to wander off, find a hidden niche and lay to die.