Marianne Williamson Quotes
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You get to decide what energy you choose to download in any moment. No one but you gets to decide who you wish to be.
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Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love - the money, the car, the house, the prestige - we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing. ("A Return to Love")
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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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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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You must master a new way to think, before you can master a new way to be.
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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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Nobody wants to die feeling that they have not sung their song.
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The role of a leader is not to rule over other people, but to hold a space for their own genius.
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Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.
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While it is tempting to believe that you are the victim of certain people or forces beyond your control, A Course in Miracles teaches you to recognize that you are not a victim. Through the grace of God, you are lifted above and beyond any forces-internal or external-that threaten to limit you. Knowing you're not a victim is a major form of personal empowerment.
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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 purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.
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To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.
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Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.
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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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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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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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A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and grown more beautiful because of it. She has proved she can hold her kingdom together. She has become its vision. She cares deeply about something bigger than herself. She rules with authentic power.
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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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Our career is not something that we go out and *find.* Your perfect career is something that emerges from deep within you. When you are aligned with the truth within yourself, then you magnetize people and circumstances which align with that truth.
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The Universe is either expressing a miracle or is pregnant with the next one.
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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 don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.
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The way I see it, we teach our children through modeling.