Our worst 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? Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are born to manifest the glory within us. It is not just in some of us, it is 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.

--Nelson Mandela

I wonder where the rest of me resides
Are you nonexistent?
Are you in things I have not met yet?
In people, in places, in experiences
I wonder if this idea of feeling more whole is out there somewhere
It must, if I am wondering about it
But what is this peculiar language I speak?
And this I wonder if anyone else knows my soul's dialect
It's tragic to wonder if there's someone for me, like me
If that someone is me, my ideal me
I don't feel whole, World, I don't feel whole
Please send me the other parts of me
My Being, my Soul
But higher than that, send me patience
Calm my chaos
Understand my tension
Tell me the ways of water
Because I don't like a secluded reality
So send me people, send me places
Send me my entirety of my Soul.