Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.
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Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love, in service to mankind. Within the worldly illusion, we all have different jobs. Some of us are artists, some of us are business people, some of us are scientists. But in the real world that lies beyond all this, we all have the same job: to minister to human hearts.
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Real intimacy; real love has to do with a joining of the mind, a joining of the spirit, a joining of the heart.
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Life is hard enough, you don't have to embellish the drama!
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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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Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check.
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I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.
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Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.
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Actually, who are you not to be?
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I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.
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In the East, the guru never calls himself a guru.
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The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.
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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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Judaism is interesting in that there is something there that I think you just can't understand if you're not a Jew - it moves into a realm of true mystery.
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Only God's Thoughts - or love - is actually real. So when we separate ourselves from that love, we're actually not thinking at all: we're hallucinating.
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Children are happy because they don't yet have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong." They don't have a mind-set that puts "Things to Fear" before "Things to Love." Unless we can be like little children, we can't enter into the kingdom of heaven; unless we can be like little children, we can't be happy. Children are happy because they don't have all the facts yet.
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Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.
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At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.
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Only what I am not giving can be lacking in any situation.
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If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.
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God isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things.
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As far as nonviolence and Spiritual Activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, is essential reading for anyone who wants to improve their communication skills. Applying the concepts within the book will help guide the reader towards a more loving, compassionate, and nonviolent way of understanding and functioning with others, and foster more compassion in the world. I highly recommend this book.
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We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
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We are here to repair the world. I grew up thinking that was what everybody was trying to do.