Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull 'em up. Choose joy.
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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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We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.
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Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
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There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure.
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It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.
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Nothing that happened before this moment has any power over you whatsoever, except to the extent to which you carry it into this moment. Dwell in the present with full forgiveness of yourself and others, and your life will be lifted to divine right order...perfection, prosperity and peace.
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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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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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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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People tend to have a government that reflects the level of consciousness of the majority of people who voted.
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Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
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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 only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present.
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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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To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten.
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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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You are free to experience life negatively or positively, and the choice you make determines whether you are at cause, or at effect, of the life you are living.
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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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So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.
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God cannot do for us what he cannot do through us.
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Don't go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy.
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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 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.