Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONJust 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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The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.
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Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.
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Imagine the week ahead unfolding in an ever-increasing flow of miracles. Allow the image to sink into your heart. Receive it with a big yes!
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If you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world.
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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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Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
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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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Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you’ll just repeat what’s old.
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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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Forgiveness is the key to inner peace because it is the mental technique by which our thoughts are transformed from fear to love.
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Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.
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The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.
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We don’t reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light.
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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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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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