“A
positive vision is like the light at the
end of the tunnel, which, even though dimly
glimpsed, encourages us to step in that
direction.”
Peter
Russell
“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 doesn’t 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."
Nelson
Mandela, inaugural address as President
of South Africa, 1994
“People
have to see with new eyes and understand
with new minds before they can truly turn
to new ways of living.”
Commission
on Global Governance
“…selfless
sharing and co-operative understanding between
men and women of goodwill everywhere can
rebuild a new world, bring into being a
more beautiful life, and restore that which
humanity itself has destroyed. The best
is yet to be. We can rest back upon the
realisation that the history of the human
race has been one of a steady moving forward
down the ages and towards the light.”
Alice
Bailey
“We
know you will find with us a natural home
in a land where the barren earth of bitter
division, oppression and hatred is being
transformed each day into soil rich with
the seeds of hope, peace and reconciliation.”
Nelson
Mandela – in welcoming the artists
and writers of the Right to Hope Trust established
in South Africa in 1995. The Right to Hope
Trust is committed to educational, development,
environmental, cultural and human rights
issues in South Africa and around the world.
“We
need belief in ourselves – and we
need sound understanding – all of
us, to turn our country into the success
story that it can be.”
Trevor
Manuel, South African Minister of Finance
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