Marianne Williamson quotes
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Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong".
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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
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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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And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
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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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The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
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There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children 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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You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.
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In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.
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Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.
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Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.
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Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
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We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what's wrong in our life, or we can focus on what's right.
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When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
