Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Our Greatest Fear
I discovered the following quotation on an interesting blog site from Thomas Bryner:
http://fnrthomas.blogspot.com/
Thomas was kind enough to write to say he read my blog as well, and I appreciated knowing that he was part of the audience of this site.
The following was written by Marianne Williamson in her 1992 book "Return to Love" (it is sometimes mistakenly attributed to Nelson Mandela):
"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 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 unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."
http://fnrthomas.blogspot.com/
Thomas was kind enough to write to say he read my blog as well, and I appreciated knowing that he was part of the audience of this site.
The following was written by Marianne Williamson in her 1992 book "Return to Love" (it is sometimes mistakenly attributed to Nelson Mandela):
"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 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 unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."
