Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.
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Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.
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Think of the mystical three days between the crucifixion and the resurrection as the time it takes for a situation to change once spirit has infused our consciousness. As we come to look at an experience differently, in time in begins to transform.
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Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel.
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It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.
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I used to feel like I was waiting for someone to discover me, to 'produce' me, like Lana Turner at the drugstore. Utlimately I realized that the person I was waiting for was myself. If we wait for the world's permission to shine, we will never receive it.
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Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren't open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn't missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.*
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In every moment we make a decision -- whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone.
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Once you've had enough and you can't do it anymore, you consider the possibility that there might be a better way. That's when your head cracks open and God comes in.
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Always be open to new beginnings. To the universe, every moment is the start of the next big thing in your life.
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Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.
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All things show up in the world according to the purposes we ascribe to them.
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Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.
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The universe is an infinite opportunity creation machine. In every instant, the possibility of greater possibility is programmed into the nature of things. Love creates the conduit through which new possibility enters our experience, and lovelessness keeps it at bay.
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You are emerging from the cocoon of your former self. There are no limits to the extent of the transformation that's possible for you.
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If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.
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If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.
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Ultimately, my daughter is not going to learn from what I do, not from what I say. For better or for worse. I see that everyday.
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I personally am not a total pacifist. I do believe there is such a thing as a just war. I believe, for instance, the effort to destroy the Nazi regime militarily was justified military action.
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There will be no peace in the world until there is peace in our hearts.
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Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.
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I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it.
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We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
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Many people say they're looking for love, yet they're actually committed to never finding it. Many people would really rather not know the true scars and triumphs of the person who lies in their arms.