Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONLife is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.
More Marianne Williamson Quotes
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No one is any more or any less important than you are.
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Ego says, “Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace”. Spirit says, “Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place”.
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Whatever situation you’re in: Send love, place it in God’s hands, open your heart to everyone involved – and it will turn out miraculously.
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Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you’ll just repeat what’s old.
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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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Don’t be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.
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God is the electricity and we are the lamps.
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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’m better than I used to be. Better than I was yesterday. But hopefully not as good as I’ll be tomorrow.
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Consider the possibility of infinite possibility.
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To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
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I’ve come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth.
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The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.
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Think of everything you’ve ever experienced that was painful; that’s the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that’s the meaning of Easter.
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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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Love, when it is a sacred quest, is a space of resurrection and repair. It does more than help us survive a soulless world; it helps us to transform.
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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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Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.
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We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.
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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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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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You can live your life out of a circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision.
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A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.
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Love isn’t material. It’s energy. We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.
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Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don’t yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.
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And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
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