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Excellence Starts with You

December 30, 2008

From: Arussy, L., (2008).  Excellence every day: make the daily choice - inspire your employees and amaze your customers.  Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc.

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 other people permission to do the same.  As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others. - Nelson Mandela, from his 1994 Inauguration Address (Arussy, 2008, p. 53-54).

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Created: 2008-12-30, Updated: 2009-02-19