Marianne Williamson Quotes
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You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.
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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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Emmet Fox was one of the world's greatest metaphysical teachers. His works have contributed profoundly to the spiritual understanding of millions of people, including myself.
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You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.
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In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal: a return to inner peace. We’re not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change. We’re looking for a softer orientation to life.
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No matter what the problem, a miracle can solve it. Remember to ask for one...
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God picks you up. You don't pick yourself up. You're the one who knocked you down or even if somebody else knocked you down, your willingness to believe that what they said had value, was your conspiring with them, with their effort to knock you down - I've never been able to get myself up and I've noticed that every time I ask God to pick me up - he does.
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Again--nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.
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The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.
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We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me.
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I had an experience that probably is shared by many parents. When my daughter was born, I felt viscerally connected to generations before and after me in a way that took me by surprise.
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Trust is very hard if you don't know what you're trusting.
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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 desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.
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There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people.
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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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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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Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. When you choose to love, you choose to work miracles.
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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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Christ is born into the world through each of us.
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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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People don't usually come see me because things are going well.
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I can't say what most people are doing. I can only say what I am doing.
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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.