Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.
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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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Our deepest human need is not material at all. Our deepest need is to be seen.
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For every person who might reject you if you live your truth, there are ten others who will embrace you and welcome you home.
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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 think optimism is a moral imperative.
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The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.
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If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.
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Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.
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May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
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Sometimes it's easier to love people when there is a healthy distance between us.
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Everything we do is infused with the energy in which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we are peaceful, life will be peaceful.
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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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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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The world is a holographic universe, with every piece containing the whole.
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Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.
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As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before.
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Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.
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The world is in trouble. Many have prayed. God sent help. God sent you.
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A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. a leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others.
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Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they're seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn't that they don't want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth.
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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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As difficult as it can be to find genuine inner calm, it is the key to creating peace in the world as we know it. The world will not change until we do, and there is nothing the world can deliver to us that will give us the peace we crave. Peace comes not from the world, but from God.
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My biggest past mistakes have been when I made decisions out of ego rather than spirit. When I acted too quickly. When I wasn't contemplative or reflective or prayerful enough, and I ended up making what I would only later see to be unwise decisions.