The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONIf you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.
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Consider the possibility of infinite possibility.
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Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.
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Whatever situation you’re in: Send love, place it in God’s hands, open your heart to everyone involved – and it will turn out miraculously.
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In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.
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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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Imagine the most outrageously positive possibility for your life, claim it, and consider it done.
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When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
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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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You don’t need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.
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Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.
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The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.
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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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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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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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Your future isn’t programmed by your past; it’s programmed by your thoughts.
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The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.
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Every bird that sings, sings for you. Every breeze that blows, blows for you. Every sunray shines for you. If you only knew how loved you are.
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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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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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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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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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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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Something very beautiful happens to people when their world’s fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.
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Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
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Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
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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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