"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 the world

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 all meant to shine, as children do..

We were born to make manifest in the glory of the world 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:

There is nothing we cannot do!"

Adapted from part of Nelson Mandela's Inaugural Speech, 1994, South Africa