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.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONIf 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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I’ve come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth.
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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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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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Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called “All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
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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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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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A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.
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Your future isn’t programmed by your past; it’s programmed by your thoughts.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes when we don’t know the answer, it’s time to simply be with the question.
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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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Part of forgiving people is releasing them from our own agendas.
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Bless more; blame less.
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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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Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.
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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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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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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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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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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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Ego says, “Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace”. Spirit says, “Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place”.
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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 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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