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.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONThe 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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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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Once 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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Imagine the most outrageously positive possibility for your life, claim it, and consider it done.
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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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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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Just like a sunbeam can’t separate itself from the sun, and a wave can’t separate itself from the ocean, we can’t separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.
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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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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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Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
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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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To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
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Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.
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Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.
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For every person who might reject you if you live your truth, there are ten others who will embrace you and welcome you home.
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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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The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.
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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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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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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 can live your life out of a circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision.
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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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Bless more; blame less.
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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 more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.
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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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You don’t need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.
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