Love isn’t material. It’s energy. We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONThe 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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Your character defects are not where you’re bad, but where you’re wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it’s yours now and you’re responsible for it.
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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 choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.
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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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A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to 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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And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
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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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Consider the possibility of infinite possibility.
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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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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.
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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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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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Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
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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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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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Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.
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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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The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.
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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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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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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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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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To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
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Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
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