{"id":21,"date":"2006-10-26T05:32:24","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T12:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2006\/10\/26\/permission-to-shine\/"},"modified":"2006-10-26T05:32:24","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T12:32:24","slug":"permission-to-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2006\/10\/26\/permission-to-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"Permission to Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate;<\/em><\/p>\n

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.<\/em><\/p>\n

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.<\/em><\/p>\n

We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant?”<\/em><\/p>\n

Actually, who are you not to be?<\/em><\/p>\n

You are a child of God.<\/em><\/p>\n

Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.<\/em><\/p>\n

There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking<\/em><\/p>\n

So that other people won’t feel insecure around you.<\/em><\/p>\n

We were born to make manifest the Glory of God that is within us.<\/em><\/p>\n

It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.<\/em><\/p>\n

And as we let our own light shine,<\/em><\/p>\n

We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.<\/em><\/p>\n

As we are liberated from our own fear,<\/em><\/p>\n

Our presence automatically liberates others.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nelson Mandela, 1994<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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?” Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-oct-2006","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}