Marianne Williamson Quotes
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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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It is absolutely a relationship with food that is a displaced relationship with God. And that displaced relationship with God takes two forms: our availability to other people and our availability to our own thoughts and feelings.
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It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
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I think future generations will see the invention of the Internet as having been as important as the invention of the printing press. It's the democratizing tool of all tools. As long as no one can control the flow of information, then freedom always has a chance.
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With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle.
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Real liberation for men means that they can explore and integrate their feminine aspects of consciousness.
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The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"
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When you've written 10 books and have six on the New York Times best-seller list - and four have been No. 1 - I think you have a right to be a member of Congress.
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Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.
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When it comes to politics, we have an internal glass ceiling. We stand as good a chance as a man to win a political race, but women don't want to run at the same rate as men do. People point to the work-family balance issue, but I think it's much more than that. Many women don't have children, or have children who are no longer at home. There are some deeper psychological and emotional issues in play, like the fact that many of us feel like the embarrassment, humiliation and personal demonization in politics are simply more than our hearts can take. What stops us is fear.
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...you're on this earth with a divine purpose: to rise to the level of your highest creative possibility, expressing all that you are intellectually, emotionally, psychologically, and physically in order to make the universe a more beautiful place.
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I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles is fairly good.
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Sometimes when we don't know the answer, it's time to simply be with the question.
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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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By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.
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Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.
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If there is anything interesting about my story it's the fact that it's not unique at all. I feel that I have been through what almost everyone I know has - a slow and gradual maturation process.
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Love is a hero’s journey, and the hero’s journey is a noble but difficult path.
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Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.
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Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.
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Every moment is an invitation to live out of your weakness or to live out of your strength.
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Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you're a student all day. You know it's the depth of your observation that is the issue - not how much the world has to show you.
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Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.
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Often miracles are happening right in front of our eyes, but we think they should look different, so we miss them though they're right there.