Marianne Williamson Quotes
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No one is any more or any less important than you are.
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We embrace the idea -- advanced by both ancient philosophers and modern physicists -- that the world is one. Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.
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The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only way to spread one’s influence wide to learn how to go deep. The world we want for ourselves and our children will not emerge from electronic speed but rather from a spiritual stillness that takes root in our souls. Then, and only then, will we create a world that reflects the heart instead of shattering it.
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Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go out for drinks.
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Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.
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When you turn your life over to God, you don't give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.
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If your eyes were open to all the beauty in the world, you would be overwhelmed with joy.
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Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.
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Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners... Love leads us to act with impeccability, integrity, and excellence... Those things are the opposite of a poverty consciousness; they're the stuff of spiritual wealth creation.
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War is just an effect, not a cause.
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As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.
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The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.
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Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.
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The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.
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Until we get to the point where we've had enough of things that hurt and long more than anything for a peaceful love, we are bound to take painful roads. We are destined to play out our frivolous disasters until we declare ourselves finished and done with them. How much pain do we have to suffer before we are sure we want no more? As much, it seems, as we have to until we don't.
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The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there is diminished possibility of sacred, transformative sharing.
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When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.
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Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.
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I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance.
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Bless more; blame less.
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You are a child of God, small games do not work in this world. For those around us to feel peace, it is not example to make ourselves small. We were born to express the glory of God that lives in us. It is not in some of us, it is in all of us. While we allow our light to shine, we unconsciously give permission for others to do the same. When we liberate ourselves from our own fears, simply our presence may liberate others.
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Physically, we get older and then we die. Yet spiritually, whether we go backward or forward is a matter not of the body but of consciousness. When we think about age differently, then our experience of it changes. We can be physically older but emotionally and psychologically younger. Some of us were in a state of decay in our 20s and are in a state of re-birth in our 60s or 70s. King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.
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Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.
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Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.