"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 and fabulous?'
Actually, who are we NOT to be? We are each children of the creator. Playing small does not serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around us.
We were born to make manifest the glory of creation that is within us. It's not just in some of us. It's in ALL of us! 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!
Nelson Mandela
1994 Inaugural Speech
