Marianne Williamson Quotes
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A primary goal of the spiritual life is to learn to quiet the mind through prayer and meditation, through spiritual practice, so that we can hear what in both Judaism and Christianity, is called the small, still voice within.
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No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
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I feel that as women we've allowed ourselves to be deluded by certain ideas that hold us back, such as the over-glorification of masculine consciousness.
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Once you see that everything in life is a gift, you see that food is also a gift. If you are about to eat chemically processed, unhealthy food, you realize that to do so is, on a certain level, an act of violence against yourself.
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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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Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
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Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.
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Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.
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The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government - quaint though it might seem to even mention it at this point - is that ours is to be a government 'of the people, by the people, for the people.'
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You get enough people agreeing in consciousness that Mexico is a dangerous place, and that dangerous thought will make it so.
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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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Spiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against a greater pain. It means that we surrender to God our perceptions of all things.
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Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.
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The universe is conspiring at this moment to bring you happiness and peace.
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We experience who we really are, and what it is we are meant to do, in any moment when we pour our love into the universe.
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The miracle often lies outside our comfort zone.
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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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The spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and who we decide to become because of what happens to us. The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.
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Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!
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Your personal power is not something that is going to reveal itself at some later date. Your power is a result of your decision to reveal it. You are powerful in whatever moment you choose to be....
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Christ is born into the world through each of us.
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Only what I'm not giving is what is lacking in any situation.
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Gay men in a very real way created my career.
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You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love.