Our deepest fear

 is not 
that we are inadequate. 
Our deepest fear is that we are 
powerful
beyond
Measure
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
Quoted by Nelson Mandela during his 1994 Inauguration Speech
From A Return To Love by Marianne Williamson
Our
LIGHT
 liberates others.”
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