Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
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The way to have the life we want is to receive more deeply the life we have. Sometimes we keep our own life at arm's length, thinking we'll wait until circumstances improve before giving it all we've got. But life is just a reflection of consciousness, so it's never going to give any more to us than we give to it. Don't wait for a perfect life; breathe in the life that's already perfect.
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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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We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
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In medicine, we have invented an entirely new healing paradigm. Now we no longer simply look to the doctor and to medicine to heal us. We now recognize what has been substantiated scientifically everywhere from Harvard to Duke to Stanford - that the power of the mental and spiritual consciousness of the patient is as significant in healing as physical factors are. If we apply that same paradigm to politics, we see that the mind and the spiritual consciousness of the citizen are every bit as important as anything that goes on in the government.
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Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
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Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts.
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Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despairing the most are in their thirties and forties and looking just great.
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If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.
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Love brings up everything unlike itself.
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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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From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant.
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Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.
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Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.
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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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We lack faith in *what* exists within us because we lack faith in *Who* exists within us.
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I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
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Our deepest need is to be seen.
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My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't want to make the same mistake. I don't want to miss this. As Bonnie Raitt sang like she was singing it for all of us, "Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste."
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On any given day, in any given moment, something could happen that opens up for you an entirely new path. Be still, be alert, be ready.
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Faith isn't blind, it's visionary.
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Forgiveness is the stroke of God within us. The American people haven't ignored what he did. He asked for forgiveness and the American people gave it to him. Theirs is the higher morality.
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I see the universe as naturally and infinitely self-correcting.
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Our deepest human need is not material at all. Our deepest need is to be seen.