"Our Deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure...."
Marianne Williamson
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON (born July 8, 1952 in
Houston, Texas) is a spiritual activist, author, lecturer and founder of the
The Peace Alliance, a grass roots campaign supporting legislation currently
before Congress to establish a United States Department of Peace. She has been characterized as "an ex-cabaret-singing Jew from Texas", and is
sometimes associated with an urban myth concerning Nelson Mandela's 1994
inauguration speech as president of South Africa.
The press has referred to her as a
modern-day shaman, a Mother Teresa for the '90sand Hollywood's answer to God,
and failed to credit her for working with dying AIDS and cancer patients and
the homeless on L.A.'s streets. Williamson founded the Centers for Living, an
organization dedicated to providing home delivered care for people with
life-threatening diseases and has participated in fund raising activities for
charitable causes.
Williamson's monthly lectures were not
strictly Christian and that has been the central core of her appeal. She
addresses both established Christianity and Judaism in statements such as
"You've committed no sins, just mistakes." She teaches love and
common sense as all religions do, but she does so in the irreverent language of
the Seventies. Her earliest renown was for her talks on A Course in Miracles, a
step-by-step method for choosing love over fear. A passage from Williamson's book, A Return to Love, has become popular as an inspirational quote and has been used, amongst other places, in the 2005 film, Coach Carter and the 2006 film, Akeelah and the Bee. It is often incorrectly attributed to Nelson Mandela;
Williamson herself is quoted as saying, "As honored as I would be had
President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea
where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has
come to mean so much to so many people."The quote is:
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 doesn't serve the world.
There's 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's not just in some of us; it's in
everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we subconsciously give other
people permission to do the same.
As we're liberated from our own fear, our
presence automatically liberates others.
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