What is your deepest fear?

Paul McManus (VC and lecturer for our class last summer advanced entrepreneurship programme at Boston University) still sends us his "random thoughts" newsletter, with small challenges for us mentally speaking. A great inspiration to dear to do what we fear the most!

I was really inspired by his last post, and so I publish it here - you should all
think this over people! (thanks paul)


What is your 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.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of the world.
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 potential that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is 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
(supposedly used by Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speach)::