A Quote A Friend Found
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It's our light, not our darkness that frightens us most. 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 doesn't serve the world, there's 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 some of us; it's in everyone, and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same."
What do you think?
I've read this or heard this before, but I'm not sure where.
2 comments:
hmmm... sounds like the book from Twyla's book club... I can't remember what it was called now. Or else the one on beauty we read this summer... um... Captivated or something wasn't it called?
And yes, I think it's true, at least in me.
-Coralou-
Marianne Williamson wrote it, and Nelson Mandela quoted it in his inaugural speech in 1994.
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