Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
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Prayer is the medium of miracles; in whatever way works for you, pray right now.
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By my mid-20s, I was a total mess.
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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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No matter what I write or speak about, it always has some connection to how our spiritual understanding impacts the world we live in. Whether I'm writing or teaching about nutrition, pilates, green living or meditation, all topics simmer down to self thought and intention.
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Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.
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In the Jewish religion it says - in the time of deepest darkest night act as if the morning has already come.
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I really got into Osho's books. I have always loved his books. They were top notch.
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You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.
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Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed, but can only be hidden.
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There's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment, when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.
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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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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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The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.
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We are always pregnant with a truer version of ourselves.
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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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Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.
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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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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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Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and hurt and anger often have to come up in order to be released. On the other side we're a better person, capable of a happier life...who we are when we're no longer burdened by the buried feelings that weighed us down, or the self - defeating patterns that the pain produced.
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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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To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation.
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You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
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Every judgement blocks the light!