"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 is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure about you. You were born to manifest the glory that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our a light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberate others."
                                                                        Nelson Mandela quoting Marianne Williamson

"The fullness of time is here and now, and Spring does not last forever. It is time to gather my energy and walk through the confusions and paradoxes, the opposing pulls and contradictory challenges, the desires and attachments, needs and programmes, and all kinds of fears and blocks and "get it on". This means getting centred on a path that is chosen for no better reason, and no worse, than that my intuition says, "it feels right".                                                                                                          Rivers, from Dwellings

"He’s here but he’s not here. He rejects the here, is unhappy with it, wants to be further up the trail but when he gets there will be just as unhappy because he will be "here." What he is looking for, what he wants is all around him but he doesn't  want that because it is all around him. Every step is an effort, both physically and spiritually, because he imagines his goal to be external and distant."
                                            Pirsig, from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

"Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that moment when one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would otherwise never have occurred. A whole stream of events  issues from the decision raising in one’s favour. All manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt    could have come his way.

I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets:
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
                      Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."              
                                                                                                               W. H. Murray