Marianne Williamson - A Return to Love (1992)

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

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

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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.

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I used to feel like I was waiting for someone to discover me, to 'produce' me, like Lana Turner at the drugstore. Ultimately I realized that the person I was waiting for was myself. If we wait for the world's permission to shine, we will never receive it.

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Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.

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In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

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The only thing we have to give to the world is our own grasp on it.

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We're often afraid to do anything unless we know we can do it extremely well. But we get to Carnegie Hall by practicing. I remember how freeing it was several years ago to read in an interview with Joan Baez that some of Bob Dylan's early songs weren't so wonderful. We have this image of genius springing fully grown out of Zeus' forehead.

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

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We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

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Truth will always reassert itself, given a symbolic three days. Three days represents the time it takes between the crucifixion and the resurrection, between an open-hearted response to hurt and the experience of rebirth that will always follow.

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There is no greater gift to future generations than that we do the work God has asked us to do: love one another, that the world might be made right.

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Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.

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We're just afraid, period. Our fear is free-floating. We're afraid this isn't the right relationship or we're afraid it is. We're afraid they won't like us or we're afraid they will. We're afraid of failure or we're afraid of success. We're afraid of dying young or we're afraid of growing old. We're more afraid of life than we are of death.

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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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Once you've had enough and you can't do it anymore, you consider the possibility that there might be a better way. That's when your head cracks open and God comes in.

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Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.

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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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When we think with love, we are literally co-creating with God.

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

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

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Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of Heaven. Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.

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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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A long-term romance is like a rose bush. In any given season, a blossom might fall off. But if the plant is well nourished, then the season will come around again, and new blossoms appear.

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

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Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us.

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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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