Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Every aspect of life is pre-programmed to rise to its highest creative possibility. We don't have to make that happen, but we have to allow it to happen. And that itself is the struggle of life: resisting the resistant mind.
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Love is to fear as light is to dark; in the presence of one, the other cannot exist. So wherever there is a place of fear in your life, think of one thing - even if it's just a thought you can think-where you can generate love to cast out the fear.
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I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.
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Faith doesn't mean you don't have to do the work; it just means you're absolutely certain the work will pay off.
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Taking the time to meditate is as important as taking the time to breathe. One pumps oxygen into the body, the other pumps peace into the mind.
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If you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world.
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I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.
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Family... a group experience of love and support.
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Obviously, I don't want to minimize the patriarchal nature of our media, our government and our culture as a whole. But I think it's our refusal as women to own our power that is our biggest problem, both individually and collectively. The linchpin that holds the current system in place is the slumber of women.
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My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.
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There is no way that carrying fifty or sixty extra pounds is easy on your heart, your lungs, or your liver. That's a fact. Every person in the world, no matter what size, shape, or form they are, deserves respect and love. But that doesn't mean we are supposed to pretend that something is healthy when in fact it is not.
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By the time something reaches the cover of Time magazine, it's old news anyway.
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Love is about letting go of the fears that stand in front of our hearts.
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Love will push every button, try every faith, challenge every strength, trigger every weakness, mock every value, and then leave you there to die. And then you will be ready to be born at last, to become a soul who is strong enough to take love on. You'll be a romantic mystic who has achieved the elements: you endured the flames of love, you were baptized in the waters of love, and now you can soar like only a mystic can through the skies and skin of a lover's heart.
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The masculine DOES while the feminine IS. Major in the feminine, but minor in the masculine.
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Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.
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The revolution of ideas that will save us is a revolution of goodwill, of compassion, and of higher thinking. I believe that they outnumber the people who would choose fear. But they are not a particularly politicized force. If you look at the numbers of people buying books about revolutions from within and personal transformation as the key to global change, the numbers add up to a much greater audience than most people realize.
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If a person is fearful, it is a fearful time. If a person is hopeful, it's a hopeful time. If you look at world events one way, fear is reasonable. If you look at the world another way, hope is justified.
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Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight...
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Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.
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Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.
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Some of us believe humanity should be in divine partnership with nature, some people believe that man has been given by God the right to have dominion over nature. But since even they say that we should be good stewards, that right there should be the common ground.
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When women think of power, we shouldn't think of it only for ourselves. We should be thinking about what we're going to do with power, once we have it. Women should be standing up powerfully and passionately for the care and protection of children, as well as the care and protection of the Earth itself. Women's voices should be front and center in protecting both our young and our habitat. That's the way it is in any species that survives.
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Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one.