Shrinking To Please Others Is A Disservice To The World

This is the second of a series of articles this week that began with the September 18, 2006 article entitled "Inoculate Yourself Against Toxic People”.

Toxic people can pop up without warning even if you try to avoid them. Here’s some inoculation to overcome the toxicity, some advice sometimes attributed to Marianne Willamson and sometimes attributed to Nelson Mandela.

“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’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you...

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.”

continued tomorrow ...

Copyright 2006 Raymond T. Lee. All rights reserved.
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