Marianne Williamson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“No one is any more or any less important than you are.”
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“Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.”
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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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“I don't believe there are any powers, which in the larger sense, are unnatural or even supernatural. I think we just do not yet scientifically understand all of the powers inherent in the human consciousness, and the more attuned we are to the realm of spirit, the more our conscious mind is available to subconscious, spiritual prompting.”
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“We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.”
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“People want the nation to transform in the same way they want their own lives to transform. If you're interested in transforming your life, you can't just transform some things. You can't try to fix some things, but sweep other things under the rug because it's too hard to face them. And the same is true for a nation.”
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“When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.”
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“I think the greatest gift we can give our children is the experience of deep quiet. If we don't help our children cultivate contemplation, reflection, prayer, meditation, or whatever other practice of mindfulness, then they're likely to be completely spun out of their center by the time they're in grade school.”
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“We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.”
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“When we're in our right minds, we are hopeful. Because the arc of the moral universe does bend toward justice, nature does bend toward healing, and the heart does bend toward love.”
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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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“The biggest problem is our lack of "response-ability." That's what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.”
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“What's difficult in life is to stay centered when somebody does or says something that tempts us to close our hearts because their heart was closed. That is hard. But that is also how we grow. We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us.”
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“We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.”
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“Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.”
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“There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.”
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“Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we're mad at people, we're angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.”
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“I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.”
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“The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.”
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“It is absolutely a relationship with food that is a displaced relationship with God. And that displaced relationship with God takes two forms: our availability to other people and our availability to our own thoughts and feelings.”
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“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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“Forgiveness is key to enchanted love because it is key to living right, period. It is the capacity to see beyond the veil of personality and worldly illusions. No one is perfect or attractive every day. Forgiveness means we are capable of relating to someone on a deeper level than the ordinary self. And that we are committed to doing so no matter what the appearances are, no matter what the situation is.”
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“Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.”
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“Think of the mystical three days between the crucifixion and the resurrection as the time it takes for a situation to change once spirit has infused our consciousness. As we come to look at an experience differently, in time in begins to transform.”
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“‎"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.”
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“Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.”
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“It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing to the world. That is why God is needed in intimate relationships, to move us beyond the perceptions that can so often poison love.”
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“The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.”
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“Only God's Thoughts - or love - is actually real. So when we separate ourselves from that love, we're actually not thinking at all: we're hallucinating.”
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“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.”
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