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.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONTo the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
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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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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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When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
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If you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world.
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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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No one is any more or any less important than 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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Think bigger. Forget limits. Embrace the idea of endless possibility…. It will change you.
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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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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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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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We don’t reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light.
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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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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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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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Change is in the air, as old patterns fall away and new energies are emerging. Consciously release what needs to be released, and welcome with a full embrace the newness you’ve prayed for and so richly deserve.
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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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In any moment, in any circumstance, a miracle will occur when we align ourselves with truth.
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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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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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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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God is the electricity and we are the lamps.
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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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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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On any given day, in any given moment, something could happen that opens up for you an entirely new path. Be still, be alert, be ready.
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