{"id":515,"date":"2007-09-25T18:33:12","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T23:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/515"},"modified":"2007-09-25T18:34:55","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T23:34:55","slug":"our-deepest-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/515","title":{"rendered":"Our deepest fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time for a quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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, &#8216;Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?&#8217; Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won&#8217;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. 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