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 WILLIAMSONForgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.
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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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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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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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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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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
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And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
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No one is any more or any less important than you are.
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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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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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Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you’ll just repeat what’s old.
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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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In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
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If we never take a risk, we’ll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
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I’ve come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth.
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Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.
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