heretostay
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What do you all think of this quote by 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, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.”
I disagree with it. I feel inadequate. plain and simple. I wrote that on some enlightenment board and this is a response i got from Howard:
"The idea is that the feeling of inadequacy is the protection against the unlimited power you have within you to create. The real fear is "Who will I be without my story of inadequacy?" You would be someone who goes right into action to create your dreams. You would become an entirely new version of yourself. So the real fear is in that undefined, unbounded idea of who you can become. The unknown. However, once you realize that there is nothing to fear and nothing to lose, life magically changes!"
Howard says that if we realized our feelings of inadequacy are just a story we tell ourselves for protection against our unlimited power, then we'll create our dreams. at least, that was my take on his response. but i dunno. arent there some people who cant attain their dreams because of inadequacy's? that's how i feel about it anyway. what do you all think?
“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? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.”
I disagree with it. I feel inadequate. plain and simple. I wrote that on some enlightenment board and this is a response i got from Howard:
"The idea is that the feeling of inadequacy is the protection against the unlimited power you have within you to create. The real fear is "Who will I be without my story of inadequacy?" You would be someone who goes right into action to create your dreams. You would become an entirely new version of yourself. So the real fear is in that undefined, unbounded idea of who you can become. The unknown. However, once you realize that there is nothing to fear and nothing to lose, life magically changes!"
Howard says that if we realized our feelings of inadequacy are just a story we tell ourselves for protection against our unlimited power, then we'll create our dreams. at least, that was my take on his response. but i dunno. arent there some people who cant attain their dreams because of inadequacy's? that's how i feel about it anyway. what do you all think?