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We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.

Marianne Williamson

In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.
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Greatness Heart Hold Ourselves Pain Room Treasure
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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Permission Play Service Shine Small World Yourself
Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.
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Darkness Patience Shine Sun Time
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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Avoid Big Endurance Face Problem Sorrow
I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.
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Enough Greatness Inside Live Ourselves Philosophy
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what’s wrong in your life, or you can focus on what’s right.
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Choice Different Focus Life Right Wrong Yourself
The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.
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Challenge Happiness Ourselves Program Universe
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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Bad Character Responsibility Wound Yourself
A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.
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Assignment Choice Lesson Ourselves Relationship Walk
Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you’ll just repeat what’s old.
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Expectation Old Preparation Repeat Yourself
Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
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Healing Play Unique World
Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.
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Act Immunity Kindness Yourself
To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
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Ego Mindset Spiritual Surrender
Behind every fear, there is a miracle waiting.
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Fear Miracle Wait
Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.
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Growth Past Spiritual Story Universe Writing Yourself
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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Change Effect Experience Nature Reason Thinking Yourself

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