Deepest Fear!!

“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? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not 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 unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Above is one of the excerpt from Marianne Williamson’s A Course in Miracles and also from the movie Coach Carter

Whenever I remember this line or come across it, I feel the suddenness of it. So true its written, many times we come across a situation, where we lye low so others don’t feel insecure from us rather than giving over full potential, we just do things for the sake of doing it so no one see us as a competition!!

I have always been thinking on same line, I was shrinking my ability so others like me, till I came to this quote in the movie Coach Carter few years ago, which brought my feelings and concern in right words. Rather than shrinking oneself, one should shine bright and show the world what quality instills in him.

Now i ask myself what I have achieved by lying low and what I could have if I didn’t; and the answer from within comes that I did it wrongly!! I would have been more confident and successful than today. Even after this realization I am not able to change much, still same fear haunts me, I still behave the same!!

I cannot conclude this because this fear, this feeling is still incomplete!!!