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.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONYou 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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If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God.
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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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We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.
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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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In any moment, in any circumstance, a miracle will occur when we align ourselves with truth.
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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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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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Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.
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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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Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
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With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle. It is not our circumstances, then, but rather our thoughts about our circumstances, that determine our power to transform them.
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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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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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The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.
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Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.
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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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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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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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On any given day, in any given moment, something could happen that opens up for you an entirely new path. Be still, be alert, be ready.
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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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Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe.
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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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Every bird that sings, sings for you. Every breeze that blows, blows for you. Every sunray shines for you. If you only knew how loved you are.
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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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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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The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.
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