While sorting through some papers I ran across this, worth contemplating:

“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?
……as we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.”

NELSON MANDELA