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The passage below is something I find profoundly moving. Like many
others I erroneously attrbuted it to the inaugural speech of Nelson
Mandela. The story had been told to me and I had no reason to
think anything else until a very special person, another wordsmith, and
darn fine poet as well pointed out the actual fact to me.
AWAKENINGS
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'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.
The information below about the writer of the piece is a wiki quote.
Marianne
Williamson is a spiritual activist,
author, lecturer and founder of The Peace Alliance, a grass roots
campaign supporting legislation currently before Congress to
establish a United
States Department of Peace.
A
Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in
Miracles", Ch. 7, Section 3
(1992)P. 190.
The famous passage from her book is often
erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson
Mandela. About the mis-attribution Williamson
said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A
Return to Love began popping up
everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address.
As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words,
indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I
am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many
people."
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