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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

Your character defects are not where you’re bad, but where you’re wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it’s yours now and you’re responsible for it.
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Bad Character Responsibility Wound Yourself
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
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
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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Community Heart Nation Power Work
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
You can live your life out of a circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision.
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Circumstance Life Live Vision Yourself
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
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
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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Block Determination Miracle Ourselves Power Thinking Transformation
Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
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Healing Play Unique World
The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.
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Acceptance Fear Journey Learning Love Spiritual
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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Assignment Choice Lesson Ourselves Relationship Walk
Your future isn’t programmed by your past; it’s programmed by your thoughts.
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Future Past Program Thinking Yourself
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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Courage Discover Endurance Live Ourselves Pain Sharp
Forgiveness is the key to inner peace because it is the mental technique by which our thoughts are transformed from fear to love.
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Fear Forgiveness Love Mental Peace Thinking Transformation
The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present.
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Choice Past Present Yourself

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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