Marianne Williamson Quotes
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We will have gone from men telling us condescendingly to not bother our pretty little heads about important things like politics, to not bothering our pretty little heads without even being told not to! The suffragettes struggled and suffered so much on our behalf; what a travesty of everything they stood for, if we simply look away as though we can't be bothered.
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Imagine the most outrageously positive possibility for your life, claim it, and consider it done.
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It is absolutely a relationship with food that is a displaced relationship with God. And that displaced relationship with God takes two forms: our availability to other people and our availability to our own thoughts and feelings.
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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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We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.
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The world we knew as children is still buried within our minds. Our childlike self is the deepest level of our being. It is who we really are, and what is real doesn't go away.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I'm proud to say I was part of a movement in which we sang 'All You Need Is Love' at political rallies.
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Looking for Mr. Right leads to desperation, because there is no Mr. Right. There is no Mr. Right, because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us and the perfect lessons to be learned from that person.
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To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.
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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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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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No matter what's happening in your life, you can change the trajectory of events by closing your eyes, reviewing your thought and behavior, and sending love wherever you've been withholding it.
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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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Much like a GPS, love re-calibrates itself if you've made a wrong turn.
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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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Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.
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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.