To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONThe spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.
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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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No matter what the problem, a miracle can solve it. Remember to ask for one.
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Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe.
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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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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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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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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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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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Your life shows up for you when you show up for your life.
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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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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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Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.
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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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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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Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.
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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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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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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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Love, when it is a sacred quest, is a space of resurrection and repair. It does more than help us survive a soulless world; it helps us to transform.
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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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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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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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In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today is the day to attune to that power and use it on behalf of peace on earth.
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Your character defects are not where you’re bad, but where you’re wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it’s yours now and you’re responsible for it.
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The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.
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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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