“Claiming Your Light”

“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 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 light shine
We unconsciously give other people
Permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.”

--Quote from A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson