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We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.

Marianne Williamson

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.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

Permission Play Service Shine Small World Yourself
We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.
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Change Forgiveness Healing Oneself Person
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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Change Emotional God Love Maturity Ourselves People Philosophy Stability
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
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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Direction Love Wave Yourself
And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
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Listening Ourselves Voice
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
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.
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Born Earth Fear Heart Journey Learning Love Purpose Spiritual
God is the electricity and we are the lamps.
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Electricity God Lamp
Just like a sunbeam can’t separate itself from the sun, and a wave can’t separate itself from the ocean, we can’t separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.
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Connection Divine Mindset Ocean Ourselves Philosophy Shine Sun Wave
We aren’t bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
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Body Darkness Determination Love Ourselves Value
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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Action Burn Consequence Forgiveness Karma
Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.
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Act Cry Help Love
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
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
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

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