Marianne Williamson Quotes
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I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.
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To me, everything happening inside of us is political.
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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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Seek more opportunities to put more love in the world.
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The love that saves us is not a love that might come to us in the future, but rather the love we can give to whomever is around us right now.
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Love will be our medicine.
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When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
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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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I'm not bowled over by how different all the world's religions are - I'm bowled over by how similar they are.
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Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus became one with him. Every thought, action, and deed of Jesus was guided by the Holy Spirit instead of ego.
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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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Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.
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The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But a life without heart is a life without life force. The psyche, as well as the body, needs both heart and brain in order to survive. Like Chinese women who bound their feet and the could no longer walk freely, we have bound our hearts, and thus stunted our growth as moral beings.
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To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn't blind, it's visionary.
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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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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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I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.
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If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God.
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People who are meditating every day and involved in a serious spiritual practice don't usually wake up in the morning and want to rush out to eat a bunch of junk food.
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It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.
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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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There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.
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Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left is who we really are, and who we really are is compassionate and intelligent and wise.
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You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.