Marianne Williamson - Lives Quotes

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When love isn't in our lives, it's on the way. If you know that a special guest is coming at five o'clock, do you spend the day messing up the home? Of course not. You prepare. And that is what we should do for love.

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It takes courage... to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

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Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.

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The spiritual path, then, is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.

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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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The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.

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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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When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.

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We must be proactive in our love in order for it to change our lives.

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The world in which we live today-reflecting in so many way the opposite of our sweetness and love-reminds us how desperately important it is to break the spell that's been cast on the human race and retrieve our shining self.

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No matter what is happening in our lives, we choose how we wish to think about it. And the greatest gift we give ourselves is often our willingness to change our minds. Despite what might seem to be the saddest and most intractable situation, we have the power to believe that something else is possible, that things can change, that a miracle can happen.

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There are clearly times when quieting down and bringing our energy back into ourselves is a step toward inner peace.

Yet the most powerful life is not one in which we bring ourselves back to our center when we have spun away from it, but rather one in which we seek to live from that center at all times.

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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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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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