Fear of success.

Can we fear our own success?  Can that fear be the distractor of succeeding?  Does it make us hold the sword from the blade?  Or is it merely the figment of our imagination?  The fear and the success.  What is success?

Too many questions for a brilliant Friday morning.  Even if such fear exists, it’s a good fear.  Good one, because it’s easy to beat.  Beating it feels good, beating feels complete.  It makes us breath easier.  Beating the fear is the success.

Our 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, 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.

—- by Marianne Williamson

On unrelated note: it’s Friday

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