Marianne Williamson Quotes
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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 entire world would feel the vibration if America returned to its heart.
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Each of us is born with an internal navigational system. The thinking of the world has a way of switching the system off, but we can always turn it on again through prayer, meditation and forgiveness. Doing this puts us back on track in our lives, making us wise, convicted and powerful.
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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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The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.
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In Taoist philosophy, 'yin' is the feminine principle, representing the forces of earth, while 'yang' is the masculine principle, representing spirit.
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A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love-from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.
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There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.
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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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I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad and I never became that good.
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In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.
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One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.
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If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God.
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Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love - the money, the car, the house, the prestige - we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing. ("A Return to Love")
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We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.
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People involved in the inner journey discover the value of the feminine, the spiritually receptive and inclusive aspect of human consciousness.
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Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.
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The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.
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I think the violence in the world right now is being reflected inside people. And I also believe the violence inside people is being reflected in the world.
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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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God would have us move to the highest level of our nature, and that means that we need to understand that our capacity to deal with the spirit-the darkness of the spirit with the light of the spirit as our greatest power.
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America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.
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Fear unchecked grows exponentially. Love poured forth has the power to remove it. Thus is the power of God in our lives.