In answer to the questions "What is
your deepest fear?", this is the response, in a modernised form used in
the film Coach Carter
(2005). The clip can be seen on YouTube
Our Deepest Fear.It was quoted by Nelson Mandela in his Inauguration
speech, 1994, but originally written by Marianne Williamson in her book
"A Return to Love: Reflection on the Principles of a Course in
Miracles"1992. The original can be found at the following link
Our Deepest Fear
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.
Your playing small
does not serve the world, there is nothing enlightening about shrinking
so that, other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were all meant to
shine as children do, it's not just in some of us, its 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.
