Marianne Williamson Quotes
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I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!"
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Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of grief, like old skin cells to drop off us.
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Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they're seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn't that they don't want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth.
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We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.
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When you understand spiritual law, then you realize that everything you give, good or bad, will in fact come back to you tenfold and that's just the way it is. You give someone flowers and the person you are ultimately giving to is yourself.
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We were all born carrying a promise -- a promise to make the world better -- and there's a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.
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The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.
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The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.
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If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.
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Your future isn't programmed by your past; it's programmed by your thoughts.
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Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.
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Every moment is an invitation to live out of your weakness or to live out of your strength.
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When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.
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Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.
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Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
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Again--nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.
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Sometimes it's easier to love people when there is a healthy distance between us.
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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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Nobody has to tell me about the glories of the capitalist system. But what concerns me is that there no longer seems to be a commitment to make the opportunities afforded by technology and capitalism universally accessible.
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Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.
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In God, there is no lack and no recession.
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In every moment, we make a choice about which direction we are going to go. Once we realize that this is a self-correcting and self-organizing universe, then we don't have to look any further than our own life circumstances, the relationships and situations that we are in, to begin the transformation.
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Forgiveness is key to enchanted love because it is key to living right, period. It is the capacity to see beyond the veil of personality and worldly illusions. No one is perfect or attractive every day. Forgiveness means we are capable of relating to someone on a deeper level than the ordinary self. And that we are committed to doing so no matter what the appearances are, no matter what the situation is.
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Dear God, I surrender this thought to you, for I would see the miracle that lies behind it. Amen.