Courage is required on the path to personal excellence. I have found a few quotes which I will share today -- they capture my thoughts quite well. I love the following quote because it states a simple truth about the greatness that lies within each of 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, 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 are all meant to shine, as children do. 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're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles", Harper Collins, 1992. From Chapter 7, Section 3])
Another quote which was given by Eleanor Roosevelt is also awesome... "You gain strength, courange and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing you think you can not do." As I mentioned in one of my other postings, we learn our fears by experiences, watching others, etc. The "unlearning" of those fears occurs as we continue to act inspite of the fear. Ambrose Redmoon (don't know who he was) said, "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."
The pursuit of our best will only come as we face the challenges in front of us and consistently focus on developing strengths to become great!
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