Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Our problem isn't that the universe isn't on our side; the problem is that too many of us numb these days, not awake to the game, or to the power of the universe that flows through our psychic veins. Some of us need to stop whining. It's not like we're the first generation who faced serious challenges. But others rose to the occasion, and we need to too.
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Change is in the air, as old patterns fall away and new energies are emerging. Consciously release what needs to be released, and welcome with a full embrace the newness you've prayed for and so richly deserve.
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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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If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.
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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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Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.
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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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Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.
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Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.
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In pursuing personal growth, there are issues where we can advance just so far by ourselves. At some point, our continued progress and improvement can only come about through relationships with others. Romantic love is an intense and intimate exposure to another person; if we can be who we want to be, even in that context, then our spiritual growth is exponentially expanded.
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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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The universe is conspiring at this moment to bring you happiness and peace.
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When you carry yesterday's thinking into today, you program tomorrow to be like yesterday.
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Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)
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During times of challenge, what you have faith in is what determines what the challenge will turn into. Have faith in the reality of the challenge, and it will birth more challenges. Have faith in the reality of miracles, and the challenge will transform into something else.
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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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Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
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First there was the word. A Course in Miracles says that prayer is the "medium of miracles." It's the realm of thought where we are aligned with the thought of God and therefore in a co- creative mode. It's where we surrender our minds to His mind and become empowered.
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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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Bless more; blame less.
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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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I think those of us on a spiritual journey can help create a new conversation, a new America, and a new world.
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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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Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.