Further on the topic of of crumpled quotes and hidden treasures... There's a slip of paper that I have saved in a tin box for about 10 years now. Each "picnic stop" in life offers its own perspective and glimpses into things yet unknown. This quote for me has offered fresh challenges over the years as it resurfaces and offers its nourishment to me.
--from Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural speech
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, fabulous?"
Actually, who are you Not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightening 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 is not in just some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our 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.
2 comments:
Man, did I need to hear that.
THANK YOU, Joyce!
Madelyn-
(great name, i've always liked it).
It is powerful, isn't it?
Christy-
Happy to be at your service, esp in light of the fact that I have another crumpled paper containing wisdom on the distinction between self acceptance and "settling"....
right back at 'ya, thank you.
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