Our Greatest Fear

Botlhale Boikanyo won SA Got Talent in 2012.

Her talent is an inspiration and deserves to be celebrated.

 

Our Greatest Fear by Marianne Williamson

It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us

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 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 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 fear,

Our presence automatically liberates others.

 

Know you are utterly, perfect

Are you a slave to routine?

Or a slave to your mind?

Or a slave to the fears

That now riddle mankind?

 

Those invisible shackles

Are locked only by thought

Fictitious, limiting beliefs

Of which many are taught

 

Surrender takes courage

A lengthening of stride

A desire to be better

To encompass, not divide

 

Are you only counting days

Of a life, to get through?

Anxiety pandemic

Acquiring more, a virtue

 

Wake up from your sleep!

Seize the present; it’s a gift

Know you are utterly, perfect

Then start to heal your own rift

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You are the you, within you

Take a look around the corner

At the signpost of fear

Remove the pole from the earth

Raise your arms, scream a cheer

 

Allow the flow of possibility

To be your own crew

Engage your spirit into your body

You are the you, within you

 

The mathematics of living

Just divides up the whole

Perpetuating inner conflict

Removes the present, from the soul

 

We’re not heading for oblivion

No, not on my watch!

The world is not for our convenience

So who are we, to botch?

 

By creating our own problems

Ensuing madness results

And we keep blaming it on others

Only ourselves, we insult…

 

So stop acting out of impulse

Intuitions really rocks!

The thinking thought is the culprit

It is the hole, in our sock

 

Let’s let language be collective

Let our word be our wand

It is our blessing and our lesson

Our life’s, karmic bond

 

With collectively shared meaning

We will go with the flow

So deem to live your life fearlessly

On your marks. Get set. Go!