Marianne Williamson Quotes
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When it comes to our money and work lives, most of us have had our challenges, our valleys. Most of us have a couple of files in our head. One, I name "It was my own damn fault." And the other one I name, "I don't know how I will ever forgive those bastards."
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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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A change of heart leads to change in behavior, and a change in behavior leads to changing the world.
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Nobody wants to die feeling that they have not sung their song.
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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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Prayer enables us to transform the world because it transforms us.
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There is nothing spiritual about complacency.
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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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Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.
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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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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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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.
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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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Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.
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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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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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Fear is a psychic tyrant that has no intention of letting its slave go free. It will say whatever it needs to say to confuse your thinking... It will always seek to preserve itself.
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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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We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.
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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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Bless more; blame less.
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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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Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.