Marianne Williamson Quotes
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When you carry yesterday's thinking into today, you program tomorrow to be like yesterday.
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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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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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Fear unchecked grows exponentially. Love poured forth has the power to remove it. Thus is the power of God in our lives.
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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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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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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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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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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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The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.
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Until you have a child, it's very tempting to look at the state of the world and say, "To hell with it, in 50 years I won't be around anyway." But if you have a child you don't say that, because even if you're not around in 50 years, your children presumably will be, and maybe even their children. You think of yourself as responsible to future generations in a whole different way.
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I remember I was walking through a store, and I saw clothes a 25-year-old would wear. And the conversation in my head was, 'I'm not young and fabulous anymore.' But, immediately, there was a voice that said, 'No, you can be older and fabulous.' In other words, still just as fabulous, but in a different way.
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The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.
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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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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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I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary...
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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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The body IS a miracle, after all.
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In that Holy Place where you tell Him everything and he understands; there are angels who stand in wait to hear his every command. How may they serve you and increase your joy?
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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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God isn't separate from us, because He's the love inside our minds. Every problem, inside and out, is due to a separation from love on someone's part. Thirty-five thousand people a day die of hunger on earth, and there's no dearth of food. The question is not 'what kind of God would let children starve?' but rather, 'What kind of people let children starve?'
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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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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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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.