Marianne Williamson Quotes
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You get to decide what energy you choose to download in any moment. No one but you gets to decide who you wish to be.
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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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The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that confronted generations in the past. It is not a medicine or a solution so much as a healing process. It is the active spiritual immune system of humanity.
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The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.
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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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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us.
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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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You are loved, and your purpose is to love.
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It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing to the world. That is why God is needed in intimate relationships, to move us beyond the perceptions that can so often poison love.
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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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We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.
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The transformation from body identification to spirit identification is the purpose of our lives.
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An angry generation will not bring peace to the world; I do believe that.
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There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves.
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The letters I get on the Internet and the responses to my books make it very clear that something is trying to happen. And I'm just one person. There are millions of people really ready to go. We're just not sure where to go yet.
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In God, there is no lack and no recession.
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I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.
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Dear God, May all the tears I cry, and all the tears I have not cried but hold within, pour forth into Your hands. Please take each painful thought and unhealed wound, and send angels here to me. I long for peace. Amen.
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Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.
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Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts.
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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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As long as you identify with the universe - which is perfect and can correct material conditions to bring them back into alignment with that Divine perfection - as long as that is where your mind is aligned, it's as though there were two parallel universes. You decide with every thought you think which one you're going to inhabit. Two parallel universes of experience, as it were.
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The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.
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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.