Feel the Fear – Be Powerful Beyond Measure!
I was thinking about how “fear” can hold us back from so much, both personally and professionally. Fear paralyzes us from taking action, from taking a risk, from love… In wonderful passage in A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson, she writes: “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 fears, our presence automatically liberates others.” Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love Please read this passage again, feel what touches you today. There will be a moment today when you hesitate because of this four …