Standing in our power requires us to let go of the need to make others like us & instead stand committed to honoring ourselves.

Resentments lodge inside you, causing you to lose touch with your inherent worth, your joy, and - more important - your God-loving heart.

Live in the knowledge that you are a gift to the world.

Your life will be transformed when you make peace with your shadow.

Take back your light. Know that when you're in awe of someone else's greatness, you're really seeing yourself. Identify what you most admire or love about others and see how you can nourish those qualities and bring them out in yourself. Instead of fixating on someone else's brilliance, find ways to develop and demonstrate your own.

When you make peace with yourself, the world will mirror back that same level of peace.

If we are willing to allow our dark side to be a part of the whole of who we are, we will find it comes equipped with all the power, skill, intelligence, and force needed to do great things in the world.