Our problem is not that we don’t have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONMay we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
More Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Living meaningfully is what brings joy.
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We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.
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You can live your life out of a circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision.
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Let’s forgive the past and who we were then. Let’s embrace the present and who we’re capable of becoming. Let’s surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.
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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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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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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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Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don’t yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.
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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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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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Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
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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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Imagine the most outrageously positive possibility for your life, claim it, and consider it done.
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The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present.
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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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