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 WILLIAMSONThought 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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Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
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No one is any more or any less important than you are.
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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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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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Inner peace doesn’t come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.
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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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Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
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The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
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Ego says, “Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace”. Spirit says, “Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place”.
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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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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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Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
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Behind every fear, there is a miracle waiting.
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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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If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.
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