Marianne Williamson Quotes
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I don't like the tendency on the part of so many people today to think that those who don't agree with them are bad. In fact, I find that very dangerous.
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Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.
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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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We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.
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Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
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I have seen so much obstructed potential among people who lack personal discipline, who just slough it off, whatever it is, and who think that nothing matters very much. I want my daughter to have what I think of as a capacity for self-discipline. Not the sort of self-discipline that diminishes her own wild passions, but that makes it safer for her to own those wild passions.
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I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.
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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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In my first book, 'A Return to Love', I wrote about things in the outer world that need to change - how we need to ameliorate deep poverty, heal the earth, end war.
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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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Freedom has its risks.
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Every day can be like Christmas in its love and its peace if our hearts open up and make room for love. The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.
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The pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain.
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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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You must master a new way to think, before you can master a new way to be.
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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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The Universe is either expressing a miracle or is pregnant with the next one.
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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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The universe is wired to give us what we need, yet we have to show up for the experience of life with a positive attitude in order to experience its gifts.
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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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Behind every fear, there is a miracle waiting.
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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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We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.