Friday, August 22, 2008

"Our deepest fear..."

"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 and 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 other people won't feel insecure around you. We are born to manifest God's glory within us. It's not in just 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." Nelson Mandela (inaugural speech)

2 comments:

DXOX said...

Amen!
I am reading God Wants a Powerful People By Sheri Dew. Have you read it?
I am back from Mexico and have to catch up on your blog.~DXOX

Padre Viejo said...

"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only
fly by embracing one another."

-- Lucretius