Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Fear comes, but fear passes.
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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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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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The key to happiness is the decision to be happy.
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There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people.
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What you do comes from what you think.
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The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.
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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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Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow...those who consciously or unconsciously challenge our fearful positions. They show us our walls. Our walls are our wounds--the places where we feel we can't love any more, can't connect any more deeply, can't forgive past a certain point. We are in each other's lives in order to help us see where we most need healing, and in order to help us heal.
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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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You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.
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If we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities.
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An angry generation will not bring peace to the world; I do believe that.
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In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine.
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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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I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand 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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The difference between magic and miracles is this. Magic is when you use your mind to tell the Universe what you want. Miracles is when you ask the Universe what it wants and how you can serve it'.
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If you want to have a nonmiraculous day, I suggest that newspaper and caffeine form the crux of your morning regimen. Listen to the morning news while you're in the shower, read the headlines as you are walking out the door, make sure you're keeping tabs on everything: the wars, the economy, the gossip, the natural disasters. . . But if you want the day ahead to be full of miracles, then spend some time each morning with God.
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There's a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades - a we-can-do-anything spirit that makes so many things possible for all of us. We're rugged individualists, aspirational in nature, and we like to think for ourselves.
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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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The transformation from body identification to spirit identification is the purpose of our lives.
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We need more than a new politics; what we need is a new worldview. We need a fundamentally different bottom line.
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The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.