Marianne Williamson Quotes
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The entire world would feel the vibration if America returned to its heart.
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When we're in our right minds, we are hopeful. Because the arc of the moral universe does bend toward justice, nature does bend toward healing, and the heart does bend toward love.
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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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The teenager begins to realize he or she really does want to be part of a community, really does want to have good relationships with others, really does want to create something truly good with his or her life. The teenager comes to understand just being smart and just being privileged are not enough.
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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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Sometimes you are lifted up to the mountaintop as a gift from the universe, so you can see what is possible. Then you are put down back at the bottom: Now you have to earn it for yourself.
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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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The miracle often lies outside our comfort zone.
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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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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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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 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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Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
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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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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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But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.
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The role of a leader is not to rule over other people, but to hold a space for their own genius.
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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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You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love.
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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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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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If your eyes were open to all the beauty in the world, you would be overwhelmed with joy.
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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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You get to decide what energy you choose to download in any moment. No one but you gets to decide who you wish to be.