{"id":1794,"date":"2011-04-11T10:34:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T17:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theeduca.mywhc.ca\/?p=422"},"modified":"2011-04-11T10:34:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T17:34:27","slug":"422-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/422-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thought to Ponder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following is taken from a speech given by <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Nelson Mandela in 1994 <\/span><\/strong>and is addressed to those people who have a Skill or Talent to share and for some reason are afraid to do so.<\/p>\n<address>Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.<\/address>\n<address>Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.<\/address>\n<address>It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.<\/address>\n<address> <\/address>\n<address>We ask ourselves<\/address>\n<address>\u201cWho am I to be brilliant, Gorgeous, talented and fabulous?\u201d<\/address>\n<address> <\/address>\n<address>Actually, who are you not to be?<\/address>\n<address>You are a child of <strong>GOD.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address><strong> <\/strong><\/address>\n<address>Your playing small doesn\u2019t serve the World.<\/address>\n<address>There is nothing enlightened about shrinking, so that<\/address>\n<address>Other people won\u2019t feel insecure around you.<\/address>\n<p>We were born to make manifest the <strong>\u201cGLORY of GOD\u201d<\/strong> that is within us.<\/p>\n<address> It\u2019s not just in some of us;<\/address>\n<address>It\u2019s in <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">EVERYONE<\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address>And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously<\/address>\n<address>Give other people permission to do the same.<\/address>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Comment<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can anyone possibly imagine what the course of history would have been had Nelson Mandela decided that people would not like what he had to say and refuse to take the risk.<\/p>\n<p>Fabulous Words from a Fabulous Man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from a speech given by Nelson Mandela in 1994 and is addressed to those people who have a Skill or Talent to share and for some&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-educator"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"MasterMason","author_link":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/author\/mastermason\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/category\/the-educator\/\" rel=\"category tag\">The Educator<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The following is taken from a speech given by Nelson Mandela in 1994 and is addressed to those people who have a Skill or Talent to share and for some&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}