This takes me back to another favorite quote of mine from Marianne Williamson's A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles"It is as though we want to be dwarfs when God wants us to be giants"
These are the words that I whisper on those days where I find myself sinking into an abyss of self-pity."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."
Shrinking is easy, staying in the shadows is easy .. the challenge is in stepping out.
When I first read Marianne's essay I was in awe for days. The truth within it hit me like a brick. I finally realized that what has set me back all these years wasn't a fear of failure or of ridicule as I had come to believe. It was a fear of my own potential to be great. My "deepest fear is ... that I'm powerful beyond measure".
I know all that I am capable of being and doing, and get lost in the density of my capabilities. My mind becomes swarmed with self-doubt and what ifs.
What I've come to realize:
I was not created to stand in the darkness.
I am not a dwarf.
I stand tall.
And proud.
And majestic.
I am a giant.
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