Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Relationships never end, because they're of the mind; only bodies can separate. When you're missing someone, know it just means that on a soul level they've come to visit.
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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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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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Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life.
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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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We are beautiful because God created us that way.
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God is the water, and you are the faucet.
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Imagine that anything is possible, and name the most amazing thing that could happen in 2013.
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I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me.
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There is an old cliche, 'You can see the glass half empty, or you can see it half full.' You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. But whatever you focus on, you're going to get more of. Creation is an extension of thought. Think lack, and you get lack. Think abundance, and you get more.
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I embrace each moment as an opportunity for a miracle.
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God heard us. He sent help. He sent you.
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A failure remains a failure only if we refuse to learn from it. Any situation that teaches us greater humility, sobriety, wisdom about self and others, responsibility, forgiveness, depth of reflection, and better decision making -\-\teaching us what's truly important-\-\is not an ultimate failure. Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.
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Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.
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Your life shows up for you when you show up for your life.
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Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.
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Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
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You can learn a lesson the first time, when it's presented in a package that is joyous - or at least palatable. But if you don't learn the lesson the first time, then there will be a second time and a third time. And each time it will just get harder and harder.
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I believe we are shown the path that is right as soon as we ask for it. Then we must live in the world and in some way express what we have learned.
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Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.
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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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Prayer is the medium of miracles; in whatever way works for you, pray right now.
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I take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the best of my ability. I need to monitor my own progress - take my own inventory - and clean my own closet. I am trying to do all that.
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The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.