Marianne Williamson Quotes
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You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.
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Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.
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Many people who say they're looking for love are merely looking for superficial comfort. They're not looking yet for the true romantic adventure. For that entails a readiness to die to who we were, in order to be born again prepared for love, truly worthy of the romantic heights.
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While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.
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America is a great country, and we've done a lot of good in the world. But we are a collection of people, not saints. We have our own sins to atone for.
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I don't think making love the new bottom line is naïve; I believe that thinking we can survive the next hundred years doing anything less, is naïve.
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A tulip doesn't strive to impress anyone. It doesn't struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn't have to. It is different. And there's room in the garden for every flower.
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Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.
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Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you.
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Our most meaningful conversations go on late at night when we're on the phone with our friends or talking to our lovers.
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Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.
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When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.
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Often on a journey of spiritual transformation, that is ultimately what heals the pain: the veil is removed from in front of our own eyes and we see where we had been thinking thoughts that would inevitably lead to pain. Until we change those thoughts, the pain will remain.
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I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.
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Spiritual growth and spirituality always seem suspect to some people.
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God goes with me everywhere, because God is in my mind.
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I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other human beings.
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Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?
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If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.
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God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God’s peace.
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Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.
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God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.
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When we think with love, we are literally co-creating with God.
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What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.