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 frightens us most.

We ask ourselves,
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, Talented and fabulous?

 Actually, who are you not to be?

 You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking

So that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

 It is 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.

 –Mary Ann Williamson