Tool: Let Your Light Shine

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Use this tool when you are feeling small or playing small, holding back in a relationship, friendship or community, when you are afraid to shine for fear of what "they" say, making others feel bad, not want you, or rejecting you. When you come to the light and dark crossroads and have to choose: choose the light, to live it, love it, and shine it however you choose, consequences be damned. As you will see, you will not only liberate yourself, you will liberate those around you. Live your light. Shine the way. 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 are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is in 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 are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Marianne Williamson, in A Return to Love