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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

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.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

Forgiveness Miracle Past Present Surrender
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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Permission Play Service Shine Small World Yourself
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
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Beyond Deep Fear Measurement Ourselves Powerful
No matter what the problem, a miracle can solve it. Remember to ask for one.
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Magic Miracle Problem Solution
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
Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we’re mad at people, we’re angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.
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Angry Choice Forgiveness Mad Miracle Moments Ourselves People Replacement
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
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
The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.
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Learning Meaning Ourselves Question
Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
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Form Love Ourselves
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
Your life shows up for you when you show up for your life.
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Life Optimism Yourself
If you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world.
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Change Heart Yourself
I’m better than I used to be. Better than I was yesterday. But hopefully not as good as I’ll be tomorrow.
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Better Goodness Hope Myself Past
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.
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Hold Love Philosophy Present
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what’s wrong in your life, or you can focus on what’s right.
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Choice Different Focus Life Right Wrong 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
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
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
The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.
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Circumstance Key Limitation Thinking
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
Think bigger. Forget limits. Embrace the idea of endless possibility…. It will change you.
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Big Change Embrace Ideas Possible Thinking Yourself
And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
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Listening Ourselves Voice
Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.
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Beginning Book Chapter End Life Religious
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
Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you’re a student all day. You know it’s the depth of your observation that is the issue – not how much the world has to show you.
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Moments Myself Observation Person Situation Teaching
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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Experience Healing Heart Meaning Pain Thinking

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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