In the Programme

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 12:34 pm Post subject: In the Programme

This bit of prose on the first page of the programme really touched my heart last weekend, so i thought I'd type it out in case some of you missed it!

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEKEND

Our deepest fear is 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 is
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 is not just in some of us:it is in
everyone. And as we let our own
light shine, we unconsciously give
other people the permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own
fear, our presence automatically
liberates others.

By Marianne Williamson (- whoever she is she has the spirit of Glade!)

Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:07 am Post subject:

i read it at glade and put a smile on my face.

Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject: Re: In the Programme

A wise man once said

Cartman: Hippies.They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.

Wink

sorry i couldn't resist!

Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:37 am Post subject:

Elliot wrote (View Post): ›
Hippies.They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.

too true (they sure know how to put on a party though..)

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 7:13 pm Post subject: Re: In the Programme

A nice sentiment but I don't want to be reading about God at a festival!

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 7:55 pm Post subject: Re: In the Programme

laalhippy wrote (View Post): › A nice sentiment but I don't want to be reading about God at a festival!

I was thinking this too, but I googled the poet and its not really a 'religious' God (the bad kind, obv) but more of a spiritual god, which isnt as bad.

Still Im a pessimistic git so it just got this: Rolling Eyes

And this:

From me

Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 11:43 am Post subject:

I wish I'd read that before the festival! thumbs up

it's not really about god anyway... more about you

Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:35 pm Post subject: Re: In the Programme

Take more drugs and you will reach god.

Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:55 pm Post subject:

Take enough drugs and you'll become god Laughing

(t least, that seems to be what happens with me & NOS every so often)

Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 3:09 pm Post subject:

tavdy 79 wrote (View Post): ›
Take enough drugs and you'll become god Laughing

(t least, that seems to be what happens with me & NOS every so often)

I find coke can do that as well.

Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject:

we are all god

in a way...

Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 10:28 pm Post subject: Re: In the Programme

I get it, and I got it that it wasn't about "God the father" from church too, but I just kindof find that phrasing about God turns me off a bit. I'd rather it said "you are a child of the Universe" or "you are a child of Creation" or something, it would carry less religious baggage with it then.

But then again I am a witchy old Hippy

Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 10:36 pm Post subject:

I tend to view God as a kind of universal oversoul (those of you who have watched B5 will know what I'm talking about - large chunks of Minbari & Narn religious philosophy were based on the concept). I also think of Gad as being asexual (as opposed to male/female). Read the poem in that light and there is a very different spirit to it (very much more Hippy

)

Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:01 pm Post subject:

Presuming there is a "god"....

No point god having a sex, it can spontanoiusly create and destroy anything at any time, so it can reproduce as much as it likes anyway, IMVHO.

Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject:

I know there is a God, as I was meant to get my period during Boom Festival, but got it one week early this month. So there you go!

Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:01 pm Post subject:

Praise be!!! I testify to the lord

oh and by the way 'God' is just another name for rikniktopdjs...okizay??

sweet poem joy-girl

ps i mean most things that have the word god in it, are easily definable in relation to weather they are 'church like' or say 'holistic'

because it wont say forgive our sins, or hallelujah, or hosannah in the highest blah blah blah

Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:43 pm Post subject:

god is a part of "go down" innit?! Wink

Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:44 am Post subject: Re: In the Programme

if you like that passage youll love desiderata by max erhman.

my favourite of all time. it even addresses that whole 'god' thing Wink

Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:49 pm Post subject:

bbamford wrote (View Post): › I find coke can do that as well.

Funny, me too. Wink

Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:23 am Post subject:

arif wrote (View Post): ›
if you like that passage youll love desiderata by max erhman.

my favourite of all time. it even addresses that whole 'god' thing Wink

very nice too. christianity is all based on myths. read jesus mystery or Joseph Campbell's, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, jesus and lost goddess. i am prolly christian but tend to view god in a differant rather that of the fundamentalist. i am not practising but nor am i sure of what i believe.