Our Fears

“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, 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 won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. 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.”   Marianne Williamson

If someone were to ask me what is one of my favorite quotes- the one above from Marianne Williamson would be at the top! Many of us go through periods where we feel we are not good enough for this or that and look to perfectionism as a standard to judge ourselves.Most always for ourselves as we tend to look more kindly on other people and give them more of a break. We seem to be fearful in this regard and worry about measuring up.

But, I agree that our fear is more from the fact that we are most powerful and that holy cow, now what do we do? If we are really powerful beyond words then we would have to know things and be responsible and actually do something with our lives. We would have to get out of our mess and stand there shivering in a new light.We would be uncomfortable in this new situation because we cannot whine and cry about how bad things are and how bad we are beause we are not. That is the light that frightens us. The fact that we are "brillant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous" can be really hard to accept. It is easier to accept that  we are not.

We need to play ourselves as big as we are- we need to fill our bodies and reach out to the tips of our fingers and toes and to the top of our head and not make ourselves smaller but reach to the sky!  We are meant to shine in all we do and we need to spread the word that we are all most powerful!