Marianne Williamson Quotes

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Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Marianne Williamson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

Marianne Williamson
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Marianne Williamson
To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

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I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.

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We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.

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We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.

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Real love is comforting, to be sure, but not always at first.

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Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we call forth more positive. Having loved and lost, I now love more passionately. Having won and lost, I now win more soberly. Having tasted the bitter, I now savor the sweet.

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In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.

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Rather than accepting that we are the loving beings that He created, we have arrogantly thought that we could create ourselves, and then create God. Because we are angry and judgmental, we have projected those characteristics onto Him. We have made up a God in our image. But God remains who He is and always has been: the energy, the thought of unconditional love.

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Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.

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Where there is lack, God's abundance is on the way. Hold on. Have faith. It's coming.

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There's a collective knowing that a dimension of reality exists beyond the material plane, and that sense of knowing is causing a mystical resurgence on the planet today. It's not just children who are looking for a missing piece. It is a very mature outlook to question the nature of our reality.

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When the wisdom of the heart replaces the chatter of the mind, The power of Love flows forth.

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In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

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It isn't courageous to go forth when you don't know the dangers. But it's very courageous to go forth when you do.

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Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.

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We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything.

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The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins

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A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and grown more beautiful because of it. She has proved she can hold her kingdom together. She has become its vision. She cares deeply about something bigger than herself. She rules with authentic power.

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While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.

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A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.

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I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance.

Marianne Williamson
To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn't blind, it's visionary.

Marianne Williamson