[16353] in APO-L
A thought about volunteerism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Brown)
Tue Mar 4 14:42:08 1997
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 13:29:32 -0600
Reply-To: Tom Brown <tebrown@lonestar.jpl.utsa.edu>
From: Tom Brown <tebrown@lonestar.jpl.utsa.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
Something to think about in anticipation of Volunteer Recognition Week!
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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 and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of god.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel
insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of god that is within us.
It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission
to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates
others.
Nelson Mandela
Inaugural Speech
1994
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