“our christian habit is to bewail the world’s deteriorating standards with an air of rather self-righteous dismay. we criticize its violence, dishonesty, immorality, disregard for human life, and materialistic greed. ‘the world is going down the drain,’ we say with a shrug. but whose fault is it? who is to blame? let me put it [...]

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?” who are you not to be? you are a child of the universe. your playing small does not serve the world. there is nothing enlightened about shrinking so [...]