Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Dear God, Please bring your Light Into the darkened corners Of our world today. May Divine Love Cast out all fear, And peace prevail on earth. Forgive us, Oh God, For our errors. Forgive others for theirs, As well. Please help us, God. Amen
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We must be proactive in our love in order for it to change our lives.
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The only issue that I have a problem with when it comes to the new age is the way that people such as myself are diminished by that label. I simply don't consider myself "new age." It's other people's small-mindedness that tries to connect me with someone who, let's say, thinks crystals are the answers to all of life's problems. I never did. There are those who suggest that anyone speaking from a base in California has less to say. That kind of bashing doesn't interest me.
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No one is any more or any less important than you are.
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We are likely to feel better when we go to bed tonight if we have an internal sense that we spent our lives meaningfully today.
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The world loves us when we choose to love the world.
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A lot of us simply disengaged from politics altogether, but then we woke up and went wow, wait a minute. Why does that insane conversation get to dominate? Who made those people the creators of the conversation? And how can we start a new one?
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The field of quantum possibility, in which love has opened doors otherwise unimaginable, is our soul's true habitat. The world of fear and limitation is not our home, and who among us is not profoundly weary of hanging out where we do not belong.
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When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.
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In any moment, in any circumstance, a miracle will occur when we align ourselves with truth.
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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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The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing.
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Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves.
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Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)
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When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see yourself. As you treat him, you will treat yourself. As you think of him, you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.
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Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.
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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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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 tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.
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What if we truly believed there is a God -- a beneficent order to things, a force that's holding things together without our conscious control? What if we could see, in our daily lives, the working of that force? What if we believed it loved us somehow, and cared for us, and protected us? What if we believed we could afford to relax?
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As we awaken individually, we will act more powerfully collectively.
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The people who have achieved more than you, in any area, are only a half step ahead of you in time. Bless them and praise their gifts, and bless and praise your own. The world would be less rich without their contributions, and it would be less rich without yours. There's more than room for everyone; in fact, there's a need for everyone.
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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 have a lot of choice about whether to interpret something as adversity or as opportunity. I see in myself the tendency at times to make situations worse than they have to be because of my catastrophic interpretation.