Marianne Williamson Quotes
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You have to make a space in your heart, in your mind and in your life itself for authentic human connection.
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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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In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.
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If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.
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When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough compensation for any diminishment in materiality.
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People don't usually come see me because things are going well.
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We must be proactive in our love in order for it to change our lives.
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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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Do not fear. Look beyond what's dying to what's being born.
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Think of your work life therefore, not as separate from your spiritual life but as central to your spiritual life. Whatever your business, it is your ministry.
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Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all.
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It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
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Emmet Fox was one of the world's greatest metaphysical teachers. His works have contributed profoundly to the spiritual understanding of millions of people, including myself.
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...a miracles is a reasonable thing to ask for.
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Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.
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Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.
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The implication was that if you had any skepticism whatsoever, you were anti-science. I think there's a difference between having skepticism about science and having skepticism about the pharmaceutical industry.
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If we get away from the lazy and fuzzy thinking that is like a poison in our society - if we get away from all the bad television that we tend to watch - and begin to take up serious meditation and other sacred exercises, we will have a real revolution of consciousness. If that happens, the world will change by itself.
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There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.
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The soul is the truth of who we are.
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The beauty of personal authenticity can compensate for the lost beauty of our youth.
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There is a trend in child-rearing that I find abhorrent: "Whatever the kids want to do is fine." For me, the classic example of this is when someone has a visitor and says, "Go kiss Aunt Gertrude," and Aunt Gertrude says, "She doesn't have to kiss me if she doesn't want to." Well, I think that's wrong.
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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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We're often afraid to do anything unless we know we can do it extremely well. But we get to Carnegie Hall by practicing. I remember how freeing it was several years ago to read in an interview with Joan Baez that some of Bob Dylan's early songs weren't so wonderful. We have this image of genius springing fully grown out of Zeus' forehead.