Marianne Williamson on acceptance
Marianne Williamson109 quotes“The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.”
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Whatever situation you’re in: Send love, place it in God’s hands, open your heart to everyone involved – and it will turn out miraculously.
Marianne WilliamsonMarianne Williamson The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.
Marianne WilliamsonMarianne Williamson Living meaningfully is what brings joy.
Marianne WilliamsonMarianne Williamson 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.
Marianne WilliamsonMarianne Williamson You can live your life out of a circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision.
Marianne WilliamsonMarianne Williamson Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.
Marianne WilliamsonMarianne Williamson 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.
Marianne WilliamsonMarianne Williamson Ego says, “Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace”. Spirit says, “Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place”.
Marianne WilliamsonMarianne Williamson 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.
Marianne WilliamsonMarianne Williamson We don’t reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light.
Marianne WilliamsonMarianne Williamson 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.
Marianne WilliamsonMarianne Williamson 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.
Marianne WilliamsonMarianne Williamson Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you’re a student all day. You know it’s the depth of your observation that is the issue – not how much the world has to show you.
Marianne WilliamsonMarianne Williamson 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.
Marianne WilliamsonMarianne Williamson Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don’t yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.
Marianne WilliamsonMarianne Williamson Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
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When you are with your friends, control your tongue.
Stuart PetersonStuart Peterson And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
Alma-May NoaAlma-May Noa No one else is on your path so why should their limits be?
Elezabeth SymondElezabeth Symond I heard many tongues in many languages saying that people cannot be Gods, and that’s a given. But what if people don’t know what was given to them?
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn Pride – it screams a lot louder than love sometimes.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix Messed up people even see the beauty in all the shitty places.
Lara-LeanLara-Lean I loved you more than love was allowed.
Lang LeavLang Leav Don’t mistake your discovery for the absence of yourself.
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People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.
Hillary ClintonHillary Clinton The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
Dick GregoryDick Gregory It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Quantum mechanics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is – absurd.
Richard FeynmanRichard Feynman No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
Joseph HellerJoseph Heller Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
Jesse JacksonJesse Jackson Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore
