Marianne Williamson Quotes

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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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When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.

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Fear unchecked grows exponentially. Love poured forth has the power to remove it. Thus is the power of God in our lives

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Whomever it is you were born to be, whatever your soul was coded to accomplish, whatever lessons you were born to learn, now is the time to get serious and get going.

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It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears for every devastating loss, tears for every humiliating failure, tears for every repeated mistake. Those who honor those tears, and even honor them, are not failures at love but rather its true initiates. First the pain and then the power. First the heart breaks and then it soars.

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But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.

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Our greatest hope is for the experience of joy, and often we are not as smart as we think we are when it comes to predicting what would bring us that joy... Hope that is attached to a particular outcome is looking for pleasure but fishing for pain, because attachment itself is a source of pain. It is best to hope for an experience of life in all its fullness-a life that can embrace both joy and sorrow, and will still be at peace.

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The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.

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The beauty of personal authenticity can compensate for the lost beauty of our youth.

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Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love in service to mankind.

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The wisdom that comes from having experienced heartbreak cannot be bequeathed; it can only be gained through experience. And having truly felt it, we are far more likely to have compassion for others. Anything that takes us close to true compassion takes us closer to what will one day be an experience of even greater joy.

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The bottom line in love is not whether someone loves you, but whether someone chooses you.

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Forgiveness is a selective remembering. It is a conscious choice to focus on someone's innocence instead of his or her mistakes...This serves *you*...Your body was not created to bear the burden of your overattachment to it, but was created as a container for the light of your spirit. It will more easily remember how to function perfectly when you remember the perfection in everyone.

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What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.

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The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.

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It is your thoughts and your thoughts alone that determine what's possible for you now.

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God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.

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The love within us is meant to extend outward. The closer we grow to our inner light, we feel a natural urge to share it. We all long for meaningful work, some creative endeavor that will be our ministry, by which the energies within us might flow out to help heal the world.

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The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through

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It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.

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A healthy, vital society is not one in which we all agree. It is one in which those who disagree can do so with honor and respect for other people's opinions... and an appreciation of our shared humanity.

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Part of forgiving people is releasing them from our own agendas.

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If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

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Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight...

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Relationships are eternal. The 'separation' is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.

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Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

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World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers within as well as powers without. A new, spiritually based social activism is beginning to assert itself. It stems not from hating what is wrong and trying to fight it, but from loving what could be and making the commitment to bring it forth.

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

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We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.

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