Our innate brilliance

I suspect it is the most common illness on the planet... our fear of our own power and beauty as individual human beings.

The true shame of this is that it limits who we can be. It limits the contribution we can make to the world, to our family, our friends, our communities, and our planet.

We already hold inside us all the gifts, wisdom and insights we need, but because we are not always sure how to express them and (more importantly) what to do with them once we have got them out, we keep them locked up inside.

There is courage in trusting ourselves. In trusting our path.  In believing that, although we do not know what to in the next moment, when that moment does arrive, we will know what to do.

The path emerges one step at a time. Just as our brilliance emerges one thought at a time. Allowing and trusting each step, each thought, is the road to manifesting our Unique Genius.

“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'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