Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.
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Beyond drama and chaos, beyond anxiety and fear, lies a zone of endless peace and love. Let's all take a very deep breath, slow down for just a moment and remember this. That alone will open the door...
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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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The field of quantum possibility, in which love has opened doors otherwise unimaginable, is our soul's true habitat. The world of fear and limitation is not our home, and who among us is not profoundly weary of hanging out where we do not belong.
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Fear comes, but fear passes.
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For a society as abundant and as blessed as ours, to have as many disadvantaged children as we have does not bode well for our long-term economic future.
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Environmentally, the planet will not sustain the kind of abuse it receives at our hands.
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The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.
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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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There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people.
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Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do.
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We live in a world of easy friendships - people here for you when it's easy, 'so-sorry-but-I-have-an-errand-to-do-now' when it's not.
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A certain desperation is usually necessary before we're ready for God... Until your knees finally hit the floor, you're just playing at life, and on some level you're scared because you know you're just playing. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.
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I've known Dennis Kucinich for a long time, and I don't think I have illusions about him. Sometimes I find him pompous, male chauvinistic, intellectually unbending. But he is a good man, and a serious one.
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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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As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance – an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love – hen external lack is bound to be temporary.
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The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting.
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Doug Motel makes 'conscious comedy'. He makes me laugh, and he makes me think.
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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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To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.
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Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
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The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.
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Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Vision, in preparation for an action, is as important as the action itself.
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It's difficult to be alive in America today and truly be in denial anymore. It's not hip to be unconscious or uninvolved. One of our great strengths is that we're an optimistic people, but that doesn't mean we don't have sad days.