Marianne Williamson Quotes
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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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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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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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I do think that every generation has its unique story.
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Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.
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Love can be a huge mountain, a gentle garden, a raging storm, a cool breeze, or a perfect bath. But there is always fire somewhere nearby. There is always the red-hot stuff of the soul's initiation. If there isn't fire, then it isn't love ... If it doesn't insist that you move to your next level, if it doesn't take your heart and make it explode in a million pieces, only to fall back together again in some Moment of enlightened understanding, then you haven't really loved.
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We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.
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Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us.
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The change we are looking for is always a change within ourselves. And the change will come. I've noticed that as long as I'm willing to be different, something or someone arrives to show me how.
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We need adventure, we need meaning, we need identity. We need love. Someone who has seen us through loving eyes has awakened us from the ranks of the formerly dead. Most people bear the terminal stress of walking the world unseen, a mere number or cog in a lifeless machine.
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Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.
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Freedom has its risks.
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When you carry yesterday's thinking into today, you program tomorrow to be like yesterday.
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People tend to have a government that reflects the level of consciousness of the majority of people who voted.
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Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.
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If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.
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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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Dear God, I give this time of quiet to You. Please dissolve my thoughts of stress and fear And deliver me to the inner place Where all is peace and love. Amen.
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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 way I see it, we teach our children through modeling.
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I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.
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You must master a new way to think, before you can master a new way to be.
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The ego is always looking to find something. The Spirit can see what's already there.
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Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression. And the universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting. The embryo becomes a baby; the baby is born; its lungs continue to breathe - not only were they created but then they continue to breathe. The heart is not only created but it continues to breathe. If there is injury and disease that becomes present within the body, the body is also equipped with an immune system to correct that.