To begin with me

I'm finding a need to share this at this time where people roam the streets for a cause, here in Malaysia. To begin with the self, is where it all begins. It is where the biggest reform one can ever begin. The most courageous. Not the streets, not with the government, not with systems. Physical reality will shift ONLY when many recognize personal responsibility and reform from within. It is the basic understanding of creation, we have missed. It is alot easier facing what is outside of us for change, than to come within, face the self and change the within. The truth the within unfolds reforms the heart & spirit. The outside reforms minds & perception. Go to work on the self, is the base of what Marianne Williamson writes. My favorite piece.

“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'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 are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

-- from A Return to Love, by Marianne Williamson.