The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONThe more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.
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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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes when we don’t know the answer, it’s time to simply be with the question.
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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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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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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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The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.
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God is the electricity and we are the lamps.
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May 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.
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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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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.
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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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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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If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.
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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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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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You can live your life out of a circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision.
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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 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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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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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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Think of everything you’ve ever experienced that was painful; that’s the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that’s the meaning of Easter.
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