"What is your greatest fear deep down in your heart? Is it your own inadequacy?"
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. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't insecure around you. We were all meant to shine, as children do. 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 liberates others.
What we fear most is not that others look down on us, but what we fear most is that we have a bright future. What we really fear is our bright side, not our dark side. It's pointless that we are mediocre and intimidating, so that people around us don't feel uneasy! We are destined to impact the world, everyone from small to large. Let us reach our potential so that people can be inspired. Let's get rid of fear so that people can be freed.
(This passage is taken from A Return to Love by American author Marianne Williamson, quoted by Nelson Mandela in his Inaugural Speech in 1994 )
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