Marianne Williamson Quotes
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God, please use me" is the most powerful affirmation we can say for an abundant career. It is the miracle-worker's prayer. Everybody wants a great job. Accept that it's already been given you. The fact that you're alive means a function has been assigned to you: open your heart to everyone and everything. That way you're a vessel of God. Don't worry about what to say or what to do. He'll let you know.
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We are all part of a vast sea of love. One indivisible mind.
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Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.
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People on a spiritual path (personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga, and so forth) are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day. And there's an important reason for this: people on such journeys are adepts at change. They know that the mechanics of the heart and mind are the fundamental drivers of transformation.
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Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.
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America is a great country, and we've done a lot of good in the world. But we are a collection of people, not saints. We have our own sins to atone for.
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The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.
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I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.
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Genuine transcendence doesn't just look away from human suffering and say, "I am at peace, so I'm at the mountaintop." Genuine transcendence looks human suffering in the eye and attains peace because of a faith in things unseen.
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The key to happiness is the decision to be happy.
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Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of Heaven. Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.
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In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.
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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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Love is a wave flowing in the direction of bliss for all living things. It will carry you if you allow it to flow through you.
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When the wisdom of the heart replaces the chatter of the mind, The power of Love flows forth.
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Beauty is an internal light, a spiritual radiance that all women have, but most women hide - unconsciously denying its existence. What we do not claim, remains invisible.
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It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
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If our prayer is “Dear God, please use me to be of service,” then that is what we will be. And it is not for us to judge either the size or value of our gifts. Our job is to try to get out of the way, to defer to the spirit moving within us and become open channels for the flow of God’s love.
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As we give, so shall we receive. Service does not mean self-sacrifice. It means giving the needs of another person the same priority as our own.
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The only thing we have to give to the world is our own grasp on it.
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What we give, we will receive, and what we withhold will be withheld from us.
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What I think about you, I will not be able to escape thinking about myself, and what I do to you, I will not be able to escape experiencing myself.
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In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.
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If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.