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“It’s just a ride and we can change it any time we want.
It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings
and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love.
The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door,
buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see
all of us as one.”
~Bill Hicks (1961 – 1994)
Stand-up comic
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 the moment one definitely commits oneself,
then Providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one
that would never otherwise 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
would 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, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, Published by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1951
From Gary Halbert, author of The Coat-of-Arms Letter, the most mailed direct response letter in the history of direct response advertising…Gary Halbert…
“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 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 permission to do the same.
”As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence
automatically liberates others.”
~ Gary Halbert (1952 – 2007)
The Gary Halbert Letters
