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.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONLove 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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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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People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.
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Our problem is not that we don’t have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.
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A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.
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Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.
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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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The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.
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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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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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To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
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Part of forgiving people is releasing them from our own agendas.
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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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Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.
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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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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
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