“ 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, created for a purpose. 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 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 unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
-Marianne Williamson
I thought nothing much of this short verse when I got it as a graduating gift back in college. But just about one month back, this verse came back to me again. It was so beautifully presented by my mentor, yee, that everything just got to me at that moment I read it for the second time in my life.
Things still get to me every now and then. I do fear and I do fail. I realize that I might not be as good as I was last time, or that I might never have been. But I’ve still got that magic in me to make things happen.
I will keep working on this. I’ve been wanting to talk to yee for the longest time ever, to find some grounding and inner peace. Hopefully in a few years time, I’ll be able to say that this piece of literature by williamson “saved my life twice”, just like how the church of brockhampton saved yee.
