Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONOnce the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.
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Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.
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The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.
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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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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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And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
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Whatever situation you’re in: Send love, place it in God’s hands, open your heart to everyone involved – and it will turn out miraculously.
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Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you’ll just repeat what’s old.
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The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.
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Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
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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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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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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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Part of forgiving people is releasing them from our own agendas.
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Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.
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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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You can live your life out of a circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision.
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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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Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.
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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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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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The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.
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We aren’t bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
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We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what’s wrong in your life, or you can focus on what’s right.
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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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We were all born carrying a promise — a promise to make the world better — and there’s a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.
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A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love-from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.
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