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If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.

Marianne Williamson

If we never take a risk, we’ll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
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Ourselves Philosophy Risk Wisdom
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
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Born Fear Learning Love Ourselves
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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Love Soul Space Survive Transformation World
Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
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Healing Play Unique World
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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Angry Choice Forgiveness Mad Miracle Moments Ourselves People Replacement
I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.
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Enough Greatness Inside Live Ourselves Philosophy
Your future isn’t programmed by your past; it’s programmed by your thoughts.
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Future Past Program Thinking Yourself
Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you’ll just repeat what’s old.
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Expectation Old Preparation Repeat Yourself
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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Community Heart Nation Power Work
To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

Ego Mindset Spiritual Surrender
We were all born carrying a promise — a promise to make the world better — and there’s a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.
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Better Born Carry Ourselves Promise World
A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love-from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.
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Change Fear Love Miracle Reality
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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Challenge Happiness Ourselves Program Universe
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.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

Permission Play Service Shine Small World Yourself
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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Heart Meaning Popularity Right World Yourself
A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.
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Assignment Choice Lesson Ourselves Relationship Walk

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