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.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONYou don’t need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.
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Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
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We don’t reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light.
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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.
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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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The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
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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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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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Living meaningfully is what brings joy.
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If you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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