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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 are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us; its in everyone.
And as we let our own 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.

Nelson Mandela - Inaugural Speech 1994

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