"We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, tallented, and famous?
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 people won't feel insecure around you.
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 all of us.
And when we let our own light shine,
we unconciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others."

--Maryanne Williamson