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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.

Marianne Williamson

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
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
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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Carry Freedom Future Ourselves Past Present Program
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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Choice Past Present Yourself
People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.
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Heart Level People Talk 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
The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.
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Choice Empowerment Instrument Love Ourselves
Your future isn’t programmed by your past; it’s programmed by your thoughts.
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Future Past Program Thinking Yourself
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
Bless more; blame less.
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Blame Blessing
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
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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Better Born Carry Ourselves Promise World
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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Darkness Heart Monster Ourselves Philosophy Try Work World
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
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
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Energy Glory Herself Possible Rise Woman
To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player.The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.
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Heart Life Play Player Princess Purpose Queen Rule Serious Woman
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
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Born Fear Learning Love Ourselves
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
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Easy Feeling Forgiveness Pain Philosophy Suffering Time
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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Decision Energy Moments Yourself
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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Capacity Condition Love Situation
You don’t need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.
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Life Need Perspective Sight View Yourself
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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Born Earth Fear Heart Journey Learning Love Purpose Spiritual
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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Challenge Growth Lesson Ourselves Soul Trust
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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Beautiful Fall Intelligence Ourselves People World
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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Assignment Choice Lesson Ourselves Relationship Walk
Living meaningfully is what brings joy.
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Happiness Live Meaning 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

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