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.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONAny situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don’t yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.
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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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Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe.
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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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Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.
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Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.
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No one is any more or any less important than you are.
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On any given day, in any given moment, something could happen that opens up for you an entirely new path. Be still, be alert, be ready.
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In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
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And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
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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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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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Let’s forgive the past and who we were then. Let’s embrace the present and who we’re capable of becoming. Let’s surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.
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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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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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Inner peace doesn’t come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.
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