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

Marianne Williamson

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
I’ve come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth.
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Challenge Growth Lesson Ourselves Soul Trust
Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.
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Determination Fear Love Myself Represent
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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Better Born Carry Ourselves Promise World
Every bird that sings, sings for you. Every breeze that blows, blows for you. Every sunray shines for you. If you only knew how loved you are.
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Bird Self Love Shine Sun Yourself
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
Your future isn’t programmed by your past; it’s programmed by your thoughts.
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Future Past Program Thinking Yourself
Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.
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Absence Darkness Fear Fight Light Replacement
Part of forgiving people is releasing them from our own agendas.
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Forgiveness Ourselves People
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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Mindset Return Revenge Thinking Violence
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
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
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Easy Feeling Forgiveness Pain Philosophy Suffering Time
No one is any more or any less important than you are.
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Important Love Worth 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
Bless more; blame less.
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Blame Blessing
A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love-from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.
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Change Fear Love Miracle Reality

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