"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 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.

There's nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us;
it is 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!"

- the words of Nelson Mandela at his inauguration as president of South Africa in 1994