Sunday, March 05, 2006

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. 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 were all meant to shine as children do.
Its not just in some of us, its in everyone.
As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear
Our presence automatically liberates others


- Temo Cruze in the movie Coach Carter

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

so how do you ignite your own fear? Do you do so through what you fear in others or do you do so from what you feel lacking in yourself?

chrome said...

the shrinking bit is so true. I've played down my skills to make others comfortable. and gotten passed over in the process

DJ Ho said...

dizzy - i think it depends. MOstly for me, it is what i feel lacking in myself. although someitmes i am driven by what i fear in others.

Obi - I've been guilty of that in the past as well. By standing taller, we let others know that its ok too. You gotta shine.