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I'm passionate about

Writing, exploring our beautiful planet and helping people. I also enjoy learning languages & believe that languages can bring us closer. My dream is to abolish prisons and give humans dignity.

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  A comment on Conversation: What is your favourite quote and why?

  Mar 25 2012: One of my favorites:
  
  “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.”
  (Marianne Williamson....quoted by Nelson Mandela in his inauguration speech).
  
  
  Thanks to Colleen Steen for telling me about it! :)
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  A comment on Talk: Myshkin Ingawale: A blood test without bleeding

  Mar 25 2012: Epic!!!
  I'm speechless. All the best to you sir!!

• A reply on Conversation: Fear of success?

  Feb 19 2012: Thanks for replying Mary!
  How do I go about finding the root of the problem?
  Thank you for the quotes!

• A reply on Conversation: Fear of success?

  Feb 19 2012: Thank you for replying Michael! and I hope you make it through and be awesome!
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  A reply on Conversation: Fear of success?

  Feb 19 2012: I truly believe in the fact that when we change our thinking, our feelings do change! Fear IS a thought and when I move away from it I feel like I can accomplish a LOT more! Thank you Colleen!

• A reply on Conversation: Fear of success?

  Feb 19 2012: Hi Colleen!
  It's wonderful talking to you here! I can't help wishing I could get to know you better!
  I do question a LOT of things but many of those questions are negative. also, those questions are sometimes answered immediately by the 'negative' voice inside me! So how do I turn those around? And I sometimes wonder whether there are any real answers?

• A reply on Conversation: Fear of success?

  Feb 19 2012: Hi Mary!
  Thanks for replying! Wow, that is quite an awesome way of looking at fear!! I'll try it out n let you know what happens! By curiosity do you mean just wondering about it?

• A reply on Conversation: Fear of success?

  Feb 19 2012: Hi Joao!
  Thank you for those awesome words. I can kind of relate to what you're saying esp with the subconscious feeling that being successful might be trouble. Could you expand on the idea of the ego? Do you mean not caring about what it says/fears? And thanks for the advice!
  
  Love,
  A.

• A reply on Conversation: Fear of success?

  Feb 17 2012: Hi Spencer!
  Same here! I've been taught growing up that being superior is absolutely wrong, even if I ranked 3rd in the country or achieved anything. Have you ever faced this fear? What was the result?

• A reply on Conversation: Fear of success?

  Feb 17 2012: Interesting Xavier!
  I think both fears stem from the same source? My fear of growing into myself and ALLOWING myself to be successful stems also from a fear of it not being good enough? Or fear of the consequences?