'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It's our LIGHT, not out 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 the Universe.
Your playing small doesn't 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 the Spirit 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.'
-Excerpt from Nelson Mandela 1994 inaugural speech
