Our Deepest Fear

This is one of my favorite quotes. Taken from A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles by Marianne Williamson 

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 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.

I love this quote because so many of us doubt ourselves. We never think we are good enough or we deserve anything. We often think if we shrink into the background it would be better. But better for who? Like Marianne said "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."

When people are depressed or abused they tend to think that if they shrink maybe they will be left alone but to overcome these things we have to do the opposite. We have to show these abusers that we will not stand for being treated like nothing for we are something. We deserve better. We deserve the best.

So try to remember this poem whenever things are rough and try to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Everything will be okay if we just believe in ourselves