Marianne Williamson Quotes
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When my sister was diagnosed with cancer in 1989, her doctor told her that the cancer had probably been in her system for 10 years. By the time cancer's diagnosed, it's usually been around for quite a while.
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To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.
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Only what I'm not giving is what is lacking in any situation.
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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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Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.
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Christ is born into the world through each of us.
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Look at Fukushima. Should we or should we not agree with the U.S. government that none of that radioactive energy is making its way here? Hello!
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I do think that every generation has its unique story.
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Much like a GPS, love re-calibrates itself if you've made a wrong turn.
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Nobody has to tell me about the glories of the capitalist system. But what concerns me is that there no longer seems to be a commitment to make the opportunities afforded by technology and capitalism universally accessible.
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The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!
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I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.
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Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.
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I don't believe the United States is going through a midlife crisis. The United States is going through an adolescent crisis.
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Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.
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If you went to live in the Himalayas and everyone was lovely there, I'm sure it would be fairly easy to be a spiritual master.
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Surrender doesn't obstruct power; it enhances it.
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Love can be a huge mountain, a gentle garden, a raging storm, a cool breeze, or a perfect bath. But there is always fire somewhere nearby. There is always the red-hot stuff of the soul's initiation. If there isn't fire, then it isn't love ... If it doesn't insist that you move to your next level, if it doesn't take your heart and make it explode in a million pieces, only to fall back together again in some Moment of enlightened understanding, then you haven't really loved.
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The universe is conspiring at this moment to bring you happiness and peace.
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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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Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.
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Our challenge is to not look away, but rather to transform the field; to create a new political conversation, our own conversation, out of which we can speak our truth in our own way.
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The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.
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Whatever we put out, it's coming back to us. The universe keeps a perfect set of books.