Who said our deepest fear quote

You are a child of God. Jemison, and former Spelman College president Johnnetta B. It showed up, attributed to Mandela, in the movie Akeelah and the Bee and the movie Coach Carter.

Both Williamson herself and the Nelson Mandela Foundation have issued official corrections about where the quote comes from. Yet it continues to persist.

But while the quote might not tell us anything about Nelson Mandela, it says a lot about Marianne Williamson. On a superficial level, if nothing else, Mandela fits the bill. That assumption might not bear close examination can you imagine Nelson Mandela exhorting his listeners to believe that they are gorgeous and fabulous? A Return to Love is often read as a standalone self-help book, but it was first conceived of as a supplementary religious text.

Williamson, who was raised Jewish and continues to identify as a Jew, says A Course in Miracles changed her life. It is perhaps ironic, then, that the book Williamson wrote upon finishing the Course, Return to Love , launched her into wildly successful superstardom.

And Williamson was protective of her fame. In , People magazine reported that Williamson was outraged when the LA Times published an article criticizing her. But in context, when Williamson tells her readers that they are the children of God, she means something specific. Therefore everything in the world that is unloving — fear, war, hunger, poverty — does not really exist. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.

They do. But our fear is not our ultimate reality, and it does not replace the truth of who we really are. Essentially, Williamson is saying that because God is love, and we are all children of God, the reality is that we are all brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous. Our fear is hiding that reality from us.

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We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we subconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

The average person could hardly be faulted for thinking the stirring words quoted above were spoken by former South African president Nelson Mandela, as they have been attributed to him in numerous web sites, films, books , and motivational posters, often cited as a passage from the speech Mandela gave upon his inauguration as the first black president of South Africa. Of the misattribution of her words, Ms. Williamson said:. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not.