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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.

Marianne Williamson

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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Happen Magic Service Universe Yourself
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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Darkness End Light Yourself
To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
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Ego Mindset Spiritual Surrender
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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Earth Experience Love Meaning Philosophy Purpose Reality
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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Angry Choice Forgiveness Mad Miracle Moments Ourselves People Replacement
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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Determination Fear Love Myself Represent
A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.
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Fear Love Miracle
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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Mindset Return Revenge Thinking Violence
Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you’ll just repeat what’s old.
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Expectation Old Preparation Repeat Yourself
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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Fear Forgiveness Love Mental Peace Thinking Transformation
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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Ourselves Service Sleep Success Talent Way
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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Beyond Deep Fear Measurement Ourselves Powerful
Love is a wave flowing in the direction of bliss for all living things. It will carry you if you allow it to flow through you.
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Direction Love Wave Yourself
The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.
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Acceptance Fear Journey Learning Love Spiritual
It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.
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Key Miracle Ourselves Thinking Transformation
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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Connection Divine Each Other Earth Lying Peace
Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.
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Growth Past Spiritual Story Universe Writing Yourself
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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Beginning Book Chapter End Life Religious
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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Bad Character Responsibility Wound Yourself
Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.
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Change Effect Experience Nature Reason Thinking Yourself
Bless more; blame less.
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Blame Blessing
Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you’re a student all day. You know it’s the depth of your observation that is the issue – not how much the world has to show you.
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Moments Myself Observation Person Situation Teaching
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
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Born Fear Learning Love Ourselves
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.
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Change Emotional God Love Maturity Ourselves People Philosophy Stability
Let’s forgive the past and who we were then. Let’s embrace the present and who we’re capable of becoming. Let’s surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.
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Forgiveness Miracle Past Present Surrender
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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Different Flower Garden Impression Rose Strive Struggle
The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.
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Learning Meaning Ourselves Question

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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