— Aesop: Was a creator of fables in Ancient Greece
It's amazing how easilly we can be limited because of how we measure our internal representation. You know that place you hope no one can see, that place where our darkest fears reside, against how we perceive the external posturing of others.
Somehow to us it seems we don't have a snowballs chance in hell against all these gorgeous, gifted, witty, talented people.
It may then come as a surprise to realise that they're probably looking at you in exactly the same light.
There's a great quotation that some originally attributed to Nelson Mandella, and while it would be nice to think that these words were spoken by this great elder statesman sadly it seems it was someone elses.
So this week the challenge is to measure yourself by asking this of yourself.
It's quite enlightening when you do.
“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 are all meant to shine, as children do. We are 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.”
Get out there and shine gloriously at whatever you do and have fun.
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