Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don’t yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONIf we never take a risk, we’ll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
More Marianne Williamson Quotes
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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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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
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The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present.
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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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Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.
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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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Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.
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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.
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Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.
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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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In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.
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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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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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For every person who might reject you if you live your truth, there are ten others who will embrace you and welcome you home.
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God is the electricity and we are the lamps.
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Sometimes when we don’t know the answer, it’s time to simply be with the question.
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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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Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.
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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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We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.
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The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.
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The reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we are not yet starring in our own lives. The cosmic spotlight isn’t pointed at you, it radiates from within you.
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Life 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.
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It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.
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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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Your future isn’t programmed by your past; it’s programmed by your thoughts.
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