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 Our Greatest Fear
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This is one of the most moving quotes. It is by Marianne Williamson, and quoted by Nelson Mandela in a speech in 1994.  The bolds are my own.

Our Greatest Fear

It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us

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 does not serve the world.

There's nothing enlightened 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'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.

-Marianne Williamson



[Quoted by Nelson Mandela in a speech in 1994 and often attributed to him. The source is Return to Love by Marianne Williamson, Harper Collins, 1992. -Peter McLaughlin]

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