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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 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 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 unconcsiously
give others permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own
fear,
our presence automatically liberates
other.Nelson
Mandela
Inaugural Speech,
1994
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