Marianne Williamson Quotes
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When you turn your life over to God, you don't give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.
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Love is a hero’s journey, and the hero’s journey is a noble but difficult path.
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Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
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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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Miracles are happening all the time, but if your eyes aren't open and your ears aren't open and your mind's not open and your heart's not open - then even though the miracles are there - you're not!
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I think future generations will see the invention of the Internet as having been as important as the invention of the printing press. It's the democratizing tool of all tools. As long as no one can control the flow of information, then freedom always has a chance.
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If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.
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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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Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.
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You get to decide what energy you choose to download in any moment. No one but you gets to decide who you wish to be.
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We are all part of a vast sea of love. One indivisible mind.
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The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting.
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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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We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
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Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.
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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.
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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.
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Without nourishing our own souls, we can't nourish the world, for we cannot give what we do not have. As we attend to our souls, we emanate invisibly and involuntarily the light we have received.
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In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame.
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Doug Motel makes 'conscious comedy'. He makes me laugh, and he makes me think.
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Your character defects are not where you're bad, but where you're wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it's yours now and you're responsible for it.
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The key to happiness is the decision to be happy.
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The holidays are only holy if we make them so.
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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.