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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.

Marianne Williamson

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
A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower.
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Different Flower Garden Impression Rose Strive Struggle
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
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
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
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
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
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
If we never take a risk, we’ll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
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Ourselves Philosophy Risk Wisdom
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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Energy Intimacy Joy Love Material Peace
Don’t be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.
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Appearance Fall Order Wonderful
Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.
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Carry Freedom Future Ourselves Past Present Program
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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Happen Magic Service Universe Yourself
The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.
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Choice Empowerment Instrument Love Ourselves
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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Decision Energy Moments Yourself
The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.
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Allow Enjoyment Happiness Joy Ourselves Reason

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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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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