Marianne Williamson Quotes
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There are clearly times when quieting down and bringing our energy back into ourselves is a step toward inner peace. Yet the most powerful life is not one in which we bring ourselves back to our center when we have spun away from it, but rather one in which we seek to live from that center at all times.
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Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
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Think bigger. Forget limits. Embrace the idea of endless possibility.... It will change you.
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I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.
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I believe that hunger for a 'lost dimension' of experience is a natural yearning in all of us, and it doesn't go away just because we ignore it. It is evidenced among other places in the millions of children and adults who obsessively read the 'Harry Potter' books. It is said that fiction is where someone gets to tell the truth.
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The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it.
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It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.
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Our hearts are being stretched to span the violence and the suffering in our lives and world, and at the same time we are also witness to so much magnificence and brilliance. We are a species that has produced nuclear weapons, and also one that has developed profound insight into the nature of life itself.
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Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.
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The concept of a divine, or 'Christ'-mind, is the idea that, at our core, we are not just identical, but actually the same being.
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Each of us has an inner room where we can visit to be cleansed of fear-based thoughts and feelings. This room, the holy of holies, is a sanctuary of light.
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Go forth in confidence and go forth in peace. For there are angels to your left and angels to your right; angels in front of you and angels behind you; angels above you and angels below. You are loved, and you are not alone...
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People tend to have a government that reflects the level of consciousness of the majority of people who voted.
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We have to wage peace. That's the law of the spirit is the waging of peace, because if we simply seek to manage the effects of hatred, which does need to be done, of course. But if all we do is manage the effects of hatred, then hatred will simply stalk us the next decade or the next generation. We need to dismantle hatred itself.
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The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present.
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I'm certainly not saying anything new, and I'm not even saying anything all that different from what everyone else I know is saying right now - I'm saying what millions of people are saying. I'm just saying it publicly.
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God cannot do for us what he cannot do through us.
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Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.
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When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity and wisdom is the most powerful generator of new beginnings possible.
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Every thought creates form on some level and all that our physical experience is - is a reflection of our thoughts.
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Don't be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.
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Relationships are our primary teacher. They are the context in which we either grow into God consciousness, or deny ourselves and others the opportunity to do so.
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The 'Course in Miracles' says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation.
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The reason we don't often confront the larger question of whether or not war is survivable is because of a failure of imagination. We honestly cannot imagine having reached a state in our own evolution in which we do not fight.