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

Marianne Williamson

Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you’re a student all day. You know it’s the depth of your observation that is the issue – not how much the world has to show you.
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Moments Myself Observation Person Situation Teaching
We aren’t bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
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Body Darkness Determination Love Ourselves Value
Our problem is not that we don’t have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.
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Ourselves Power Problem
Just like a sunbeam can’t separate itself from the sun, and a wave can’t separate itself from the ocean, we can’t separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.
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Connection Divine Mindset Ocean Ourselves Philosophy Shine Sun Wave
God is the electricity and we are the lamps.
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Electricity God Lamp
Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Darkness Hide Law Light
Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
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Form Love Ourselves
A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower.
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Different Flower Garden Impression Rose Strive Struggle
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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Beautiful Fall Intelligence Ourselves People World
You playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won’t feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.
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Permission Play Service Shine Small World Yourself
The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.
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Acceptance Fear Journey Learning Love Spiritual
Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness – all karma is burned.
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Action Burn Consequence Forgiveness Karma
The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.
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Choice Empowerment Instrument Love Ourselves
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
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Easy Feeling Forgiveness Pain Philosophy Suffering Time
Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.
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Change Effect Experience Nature Reason Thinking Yourself
May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
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Mindset Return Revenge Thinking Violence

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