We watched Coach Carter yesterday evening as part of the Leadership Development Course Programme. In the morning, the LDC1 Boys learnt that Leadership is the ability to motivate others to work towards a common goal. In the movie, we saw Coach Carter (played by Samuel L. Jackson) displaying this leadership. He motivated the Richmond High basketball team to work towards being student leaders, the emphasis being on "students". It was a very inspiring movie. The Boys enjoyed it.
Coach Carter asked one of the basketball team members, Timo Cruz, this question, a couple of times: What is your greatest fear? In the scene where the basketball team members gathered to study in the gym where they had their basketball practices, after the school board voted to stop the locking of the gym, Timo gave his answer. He quoted from the poem "Our Greatest Fear" by Marianne Williamson from her book 'A Return to Love'. I'd like to share it with everyone:
"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 were born to make and 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."
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