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 WILLIAMSONA 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.
More Marianne Williamson Quotes
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You 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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Change is in the air, as old patterns fall away and new energies are emerging. Consciously release what needs to be released, and welcome with a full embrace the newness you’ve prayed for and so richly deserve.
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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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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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Love is a wave flowing in the direction of bliss for all living things. It will carry you if you allow it to flow through you.
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You don’t need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.
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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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Love, when it is a sacred quest, is a space of resurrection and repair. It does more than help us survive a soulless world; it helps us to transform.
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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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We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.
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Inner peace doesn’t come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.
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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.
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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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You get to decide what energy you choose to download in any moment. No one but you gets to decide who you wish to be.
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Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.
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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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Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
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The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.
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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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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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The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.
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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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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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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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To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
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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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