Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.
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We are always impacting the world...through our presence, energy, interactions - what kind of impact are we having?
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Your life has purpose as long as you dedicate it to love. It's not what we do but who we are that forms our biggest contribution.
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The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing.
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Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.
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To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place.
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No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.
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Our thoughts about the future go far toward creating it; our minds and hears are like filaments taht connect today to tomorrow, they are conduits for either the status quo or the emergence of different, hopefully more loving, possibilities. How we think and how we behave determine where we are going.
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Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.
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We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has.
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The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.
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Actually, who are you not to be?
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May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.
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Some things need to be let go before other things can be let in.
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The only antidote to chaos is peace itself.
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The end does not justify the means. If we try to be someone we are not in order to achieve a result, then the result cannot help but be something other than what we intended.
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I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.
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I don't think I represent some new category. I think I do represent kind of a freethinker.
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I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is about - have been very hard on me. There is an expression in Alcoholics Anonymous called "contempt prior to investigation." I feel many people practice contempt prior to investigation.
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A relationship is not meant to be the joining at the hip of two emotional invalids. The purpose of a relationship is not for two incomplete people to become one, but rather, for two complete people to join together for the greater glory of God.
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Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.
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You don't have to pray to attract great things, because great things are attracted to you already. Pray that you won't throw them away once they get here.
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There is a lot of sixties-bashing going on these days that I don't agree with at all. I feel that extremely important ideals were brought to the forefront of the collective consciousness at that time. Granted, drug use was so pervasive that our generation did not as a group have the capacity to manifest our ideals to any great extent. But many of the people who were young in the sixties and who were most touched by that collective ethos are still touched.
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Often on a journey of spiritual transformation, that is ultimately what heals the pain: the veil is removed from in front of our own eyes and we see where we had been thinking thoughts that would inevitably lead to pain. Until we change those thoughts, the pain will remain.