anyone know?

[fritoman]

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 and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
...Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people
won't feel insecure around you.
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.

Nelson Mandela quoted this in his inaugural speech, but it's originally from a female writer...can't remember her name at the moment.

[brokend]

I could be wrong, but it sounds like Maya Angelou.

I know I've heard it before, but I could be wrong. :huh:

[GRITS]

Marianne Williamson


Did Mandela intentionally leave off the God references?

[FuzzyShoting]

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a
creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely
a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!--incomparably the
bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.
Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact
that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth
to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the
very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more
afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by
an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam
as men who "didn't know what fear was," we ought always to add the flea--and
put him at the head of the procession.

[[CAKE]anonymity]

Marianne Williamson


Did Mandela intentionally leave off the God references?

GOOGLED!

[GRITS]

yeah,
so,
smart enough to know how to find the answer....never said I know everything:P