The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONAny situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don’t yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.
More Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Behind every fear, there is a miracle waiting.
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Think of everything you’ve ever experienced that was painful; that’s the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that’s the meaning of Easter.
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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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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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Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
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Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
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Change is in the air, as old patterns fall away and new energies are emerging. Consciously release what needs to be released, and welcome with a full embrace the newness you’ve prayed for and so richly deserve.
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With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle. It is not our circumstances, then, but rather our thoughts about our circumstances, that determine our power to transform them.
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Your future isn’t programmed by your past; it’s programmed by your thoughts.
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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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No one is any more or any less important than you are.
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If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God.
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Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness – all karma is burned.
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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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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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Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.
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You get to decide what energy you choose to download in any moment. No one but you gets to decide who you wish to be.
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It takes courage…to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.
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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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To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
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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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Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.
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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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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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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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The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.
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