"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 frighten 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 will not 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 others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." -- Marianne Williamson, from her book A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles (1992)

Saturday, 28 April 2012

Breaking Through, 2


Desperate times tend to bring out our real selves. Then again, it depends on what exactly you mean by 'desperate times'.

Like Howl from the movie 'Howl's Moving Castle' (some of you may know him from the original novel by Diana Wynne Jones). His desperate time was when Sophie cleaned his bathroom and accidentally 'meddled' with his hair dyes. Here, we see just how vain he really is. Another character, Markl, remarked that the last time he moped this much was when a girl left him.

So I suppose 'desperate times' do vary. But see, this is the beauty of movie-making and first-class storytelling: you can have more than one layer, and for each layer, a different direness. A different insecurity. A different self. A different point of view, a new perception. Layer after layer of you until you get to the core. Obviously, Howl's hair plight isn't the point of the film but rather, how he and Sophie shed that insecurity, learning how to live with who they really are.

Our discovery of our real selves is what makes us beautiful, don't you think?


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