What is your deepest fear?

Your deepest fear is not that you are inadequate.

Your deepest fear is that you are powerful beyond measure.

It is your light, not your darkness, that most frightens you.

You ask yourself—

Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you.

You are meant to shine—as children do.

You were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within you.

It is not just in you—

It is in everyone.

And as you let your own light shine, you unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As you are liberated from your own fear, your presence automatically liberates others.

—Marianne Williamson