Marianne Williamson Quotes
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At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.
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The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
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If you are not grieving, you are not conscious. But if you are not rejoicing in the possibilities of how this could all change, then you are not looking through the filter of the greatest spiritual perspicacity.
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We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything.
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Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.
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In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.
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People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.
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People who have life-challenging experiences who choose to remain invested in a consistent catastrophic interpretation are not the ones I meet. I have met many more people who have recognized how vital it is to their healing and to the quality of their life to interpret their experiences differently. That is why some of the people I've met who have life-challenging illnesses are much happier than some people I've known who are physically quite healthy and yet who live lives of greater desperation and depression.
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Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.
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We're just afraid, period. Our fear is free-floating. We're afraid this isn't the right relationship or we're afraid it is. We're afraid they won't like us or we're afraid they will. We're afraid of failure or we're afraid of success. We're afraid of dying young or we're afraid of growing old. We're more afraid of life than we are of death.
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The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing.
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Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.
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Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves.
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To me, drone use is a moral issue.
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God heard us. He sent help. He sent you.
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If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.
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We have the same soul at 60 that we had at 40, and the same soul at 25 that we had when we were 5.
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Thought that is no longer limited, brings experience that is no longer limited.
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The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached.
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I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.
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Your life shows up for you when you show up for your life.
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Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.
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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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Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.