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.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONYour future isn’t programmed by your past; it’s programmed by your thoughts.
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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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Something very beautiful happens to people when their world’s fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.
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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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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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Love isn’t material. It’s energy. We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.
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No matter what the problem, a miracle can solve it. Remember to ask for one.
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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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People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.
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It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.
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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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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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Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don’t yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.
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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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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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In any moment, in any circumstance, a miracle will occur when we align ourselves with truth.
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