Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Always be open to new beginnings. To the universe, every moment is the start of the next big thing in your life.
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As we let our light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
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Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.
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A Course in Miracles tells us that although 'we think that without the ego, all would be chaos, the opposite is true. Without the ego, all would be love.'
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Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.
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Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.
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In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.
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'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.
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Know that there's enough room for everyone to be passionate, creative & successful. In fact, there's more than room for everyone; there is a need for everyone.
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I personally am not a total pacifist. I do believe there is such a thing as a just war. I believe, for instance, the effort to destroy the Nazi regime militarily was justified military action.
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Envision possibility. Don't worry who else believes in it; the universe is only looking for instructions from you.
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No matter what is happening in the world of appearances, beyond the veil of illusion there is love and only Love.
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I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it.
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When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.
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Atoms are driven by consciousness. In proximity to love, they move in harmonious collaboration with other atoms. When in proximity to fear, they become disharmonious and chaotic. We choose each moment the energy that surrounds us.
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Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.
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Charles Manson ate apples. That doesn't mean I'm not going to.
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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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Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.
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As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
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The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.
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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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We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.
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Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.