It’s Okay To Shine
By Marianne Williamson
  

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 frightens us most.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant,

gorgeous, talented, fabulous?

Actually who are you not to be?

We are a child of God. Our playing

small doesn’t serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that

other people won’t feel insecure around us.

We are all meant to shine,

as children do .

We are born to make manifest the

glory of God that is within us.

It’s not just in some of us.

It’s 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.