Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond mesure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are we 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 manifest the glory of God that is within us, it is in everyone, and as we let our light shine we unconcsiously give other people permssion to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears, our prescence automatically liberates others.
- Nelson Mandela