“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 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 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’re liberated from our own fear,

our presence automatically

 LIBERATES OTHERS.”

– Marianne Williamson in “A Return to Love”