"Our deepest
fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest
fear is that we are powerful behound 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. (This is being humble... my words, not Mandela's)
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it's in everyone, and, as we let our
light shine, we unconsciously give other people premission to do the same: as we are liberated from our own
fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
Nelson Mandela.
