Marianne Williamson Quotes
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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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In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
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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 ego is always looking to find something. The Spirit can see what's already there.
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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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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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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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Freedom has its risks.
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Once you see that everything in life is a gift, you see that food is also a gift. If you are about to eat chemically processed, unhealthy food, you realize that to do so is, on a certain level, an act of violence against yourself.
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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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We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.
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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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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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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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You can know everything that the books have to say, but ultimately it boils down to whether we do the inner work of devotion and surrender, whether we can put aside our own agendas and allow the spirit to move through us.
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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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Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.
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The Universe is either expressing a miracle or is pregnant with the next one.
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We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.
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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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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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You must master a new way to think, before you can master a new way to be.
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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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Behind every fear, there is a miracle waiting.