Talk 1: NO FAKES - Reflection Guide

Psalms 139:13-17
You created every part of me; you put me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because you are to e feared; all you do is strange and wonderful…

Jeremiah 1:5
I chose you before I gave you life, and before you were born I selected you to be a prophet to the nations.

Zephaniah 3:17
The Lord your God is with you; his power gives you victory. The Lord will take delight in you, and in his love he will give you new life. He will sing and be joyful over you…

Insight:
God created every part of you. Every fiber of your being was designed, fashioned, and shaped by God. Your personality, talents, and gifts are part of your anointing. To reach your highest potential and greatest happiness (bliss), you need to be true to yourself. You need to follow your call, your path, your destiny.

Other Food for Thought:
Follow your bliss. --Joseph Campbell

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of somebody else. --Judy Garland

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your life fishing, only to discover that is was not fish you were after. --Henry David Thoreau

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. --Lao Tzu

You cannot believe in God until you believe in your self. –Swami Vivekananda

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever. --Nancy Lopez

Magic is believing in yourself; if you can do that, you can make anything happen. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. --Buddha
Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Taken! --Charlie Brown