Marianne Williamson Quotes
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How tragic it is that so often we stop everything just as we reach the starting line. We must move past the narcissistic preoccupation with getting the love we think 'works' for us. The point of love is to make us grow, not to make us immediately happy. Many of us have forsworn the chance for the deepest love in reaching out for the easier one.
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The voices of fear are so loud today. The voices of love should never shout, but neither should they whisper - not at a time like this.
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The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.
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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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Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts.
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Love brings up everything unlike itself.
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I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.
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Every judgement blocks the light!
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As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.
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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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Spiritual 'exercise' keeps your mind in shape the way physical exercise keeps your body in shape.
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I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.
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At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.
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Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
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Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.
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We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.
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Take a good look at your life right now. If you don't like something about it, close your eyes and imagine the life you want. Now allow yourself to focus your inner eye on the person you would be if you were living this preferred life. Notice the differences in how you behave and present yourself; allow yourself to spend several seconds breathing in the new image, expanding your energy into this...
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I know. And that's what took me so long.
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Love, when it is a sacred quest, is a space of resurrection and repair. It does more than help us survive a soulless world; it helps us to transform.
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Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way I do it. If I'm not pregnant with words and I'm not in labor with them, I don't even try to bring them forth because they won't be any good anyway. Once I'm ready to deliver, it's like being pregnant. I've got to find a typewriter or a piece of paper. The only words that have ever had any possible value to others seem to have been those words that just had to come out.
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You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.
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There are other kinds of emotional pain that emerge from our own mistaken thinking. As we surrender that pain, we are inviting into our thought system a guide who will lead us to different thoughts. It's like the song "Amazing Grace": I was blind and now I see.
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In 2004, Kucinich was the only presidential candidate who warned that a war in Iraq would be completely disastrous. I remember how mocked he was when he predicted hand-to-hand combat in Baghdad. I remember Candy Crowley, and other reporters as well, treating his views on the impending war as ridiculous, out there, almost insane.
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For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.