What is your deepest, darkest fear? Is it fear of rejection, of being isolated, or not being loved? Or is it the fear of being accepted but not wanting to feel as if you didn’t earn that acceptance- as if you owe it to society to work for something that they want. What do you want? What is holding YOU back from achieving what YOU want?
I ask myself those questions too often- it is like I am trying to solve a puzzle that just refuses to come together because I am missing a few valuable pieces. And then someone showed me this “poem”, and I realized where all my fear originates from.
“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
My fear is not being able to achieve something great, it is becoming something so great I would never have imagined being able to achieve it in the first place.
What is stopping you?
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