Marianne Williamson Quotes
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It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.
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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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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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Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.
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The wisdom that comes from having experienced heartbreak cannot be bequeathed; it can only be gained through experience. And having truly felt it, we are far more likely to have compassion for others. Anything that takes us close to true compassion takes us closer to what will one day be an experience of even greater joy.
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Since our peace lies in loving as God loves, we must strive to love everyone. The only love that completes us is the love of God, and the love of God is the love of everyone.
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The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.
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I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'
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Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.
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But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.
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What I think about you, I will not be able to escape thinking about myself, and what I do to you, I will not be able to escape experiencing myself.
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You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.
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What you do comes from what you think.
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Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper levels.
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The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who've put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A.
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Miracle workers learn to keep their own counsel. Something that's important to know about spiritual wisdom is that, when spoken at the wrong time, in the wrong place, or to the wrong person, the one who speaks sounds more like a fool than a wise one.
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I realize that the curriculum is my life on any given day. At this point, more than anything, my spiritual path means looking at every circumstance and trying to see my part in where it's good and where it's not so good.
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When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.
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Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.
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The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.
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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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Imagine how differently American business would function were our faith in the power of goodness to replace our faith in the power of money. Huge industries would no longer make billions of dollars on activities that diminish the well-being and safety of our children, our health, and our environment, on the pretext that it's "just business." To put money before goodness is idolatry, and the laws of the universe ensure that in the end all idols will fall.
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I'm always honored to be speaking alongside Deepak Chopra.
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Your future isn't programmed by your past; it's programmed by your thoughts.