December 7, 2008
Our Deepest Fear is that we are Powerful Beyond Measure
Pyramid of Time
I’m going to read you something from Nelson Mandella from his 1994 inaugural speech which is really from Marianne Williamson. So here it is:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that 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 does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to 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. ”
You’re choosing to have an influence in the world. Many of your higher priorities are about creating money and finances and financial security. You will do it only when you yourself have empowered yourself to step fully into your potential to create your world consciously out of the love from your heart. If you go, “Okay, it’s money, it’s money, it’s this sale, it’s this sale, it’s this sale,” and you forget the integrity of your heart in action, in relationship to the gas station attendant, in relationship to your mail person, in relationship to your business colleagues, in relationship to your families, you will be unsuccessful. This is about a whole-person approach to creating. It is not one context of your life.
It is who you are that you bring to the table. In relationship, people are talking about the dynamics between men and women, the dynamics of sexuality, the dynamics of tantric yoga. All of it is pieces of a very simple point, which is you only bring to the table of your relationship the relationship you have with yourself.
If you are in a place where you have become out of step with your own personal integrity, you will bring your lack of integrity to the relationship, and in that relationship you will harvest the fruits of your lack of integrity.
You only bring you. Relationships are a path of self-awakening as reflected and mirrored to you through the eyes and the actions of another. It is there where you find the greatest level of mirroring and seeing what you have yet to see subconsciously. This is a road of a very personal path for each one of you. It is other than about business. It is other than about a relationship. It is about you unfolding to your destiny. That’s what this is about, and you will be successful in all the contexts of your life.
When you master that one, “How am I?” the spark of this thing that creates, that all religions through time have said, “How can I activate this aspect of myself?” when you go to that point and utilize and come from there, everything underneath it resolves itself. Robert Dilts who has written some of the definitive literature on NLP has done a tremendous amount of work on Logical Levels.
All our human behavior can be organized into logical levels. Robert has stated throughout his work that there is no resolution at the same logical level. Logical levels are environment, behavior, capabilities, beliefs in values, identity, and spirituality. He said when you resolve issues at the highest logical levels, it resolves everything else underneath it.
Discover your life purpose and mission and live it with every word you breathe with integrity and honesty and everything else falls into place. It’s what the Bible said. It’s what the Koran said. It’s what Taoism says. It is God first, whatever that is for you, and everything else is added unto you. Now, we can just take God out of it if that’s offensive to you and just say, “Okay, it’s my integrity in the world first. It’s my honesty and my truth first, and everything else falls underneath that, falls in alignment with it. It’s you.
Love & Light