Our Deepest Fear

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, 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 enlightening about shrinking so other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. 

It’s not just in some of us, but in everyone of us.

And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give others the permission to do the same.  As we are liberated, we automatically liberate others.

-       Marianne Williamson
(used by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 Inaugural Address)

Touch the stillness within and listen.  Let go of all thought.  Let go of being small.  Let go of hesitation and fear.  Let go of all expectations. 

Let spirit quiet you.  Let spirit move you.  Let it wash over you like a cleansing river of pure joy.  Let it burst open like a flower that can no longer contain the power of its fragrance.

God is and always shall be.