The Bathroom Door

The following is one of the most profound and inspiring messages I've ever read. I came across it by chance while glancing at family photographs and assorted other stuff tacked to the outside of the bathroom door at Andy's Price-Rite Transmission Repair Shop in upstate New York. You just never know where you're going to find inspiration.

"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?
You are a child of God; your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God 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