Friday, December 15, 2006

Our deapest fear is that we are great

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 were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. Not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people the permission to do the same. As we are liberated form our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

-Marianne Williamson 1992

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