This speech that my brother sent me is just about right on time.  I heard that I was great in church two weeks ago when my self esteem was a little low.  Today, my esteem is not as low as it was, but it is not as high as it should be...and my brother sends me this from the great Mandela speech in 1994.  Wow!  I  had to read it over several times to get the fullness of it.  Everytime I read it, I picked up something new.  Man, I wish this was my mantra.  I wish I knew this by heart and recited every morning...wow!

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 are 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 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.

                            Nelson Mandela
                        1994 Inaugural Speech