Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane. Our overidentification with the world does not give us power within the world so much as it diminishes our power here. It makes us frightened and nervous and full of anxiety.
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Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire; it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we have.
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If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.
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Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. When you choose to love, you choose to work miracles.
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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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Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.
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Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.
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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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In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not a celebration of our own unique characteristics, we insisted that we had no unique characteristics... that gender differences were hogwash, and a feminine woman was nothing more than a plaything for men.
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I went into therapy several times, but it rarely made an impact.
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Only do what you feel called in your heart to do, and then give all of yourself to the task.
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Again--nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.
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Truth will always reassert itself, given a symbolic three days. Three days represents the time it takes between the crucifixion and the resurrection, between an open-hearted response to hurt and the experience of rebirth that will always follow.
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The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.
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People don't usually come see me because things are going well.
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Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.
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The thinking of the world leads us to think shallowly and act too quickly.
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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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Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.
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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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We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?
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Desperately seeking something is not what attracts it to us. When we dwell, in deep peace and kindness, whatever would add to our happiness just flows to our door.
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When we begin to see each other through what the metaphysician calls, the third eye, we begin to know each other on a level that is beyond what our physical eyes can see.