Marianne Williamson quotes - page 9

I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?' (Marianne Williamson)
From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant. View quote
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We are so trained in the thought system of fear and attack that we get to the point where natural thinking -- love -- feels unnatural and unnatural thinking -- fear -- feels natural. It takes real discipline and training to unlearn the thought system of fear. View quote
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Fear comes, but fear passes. View quote
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You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart. View quote
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What if we truly believed there is a God -- a beneficent order to things, a force that's holding things together without our conscious control What if we could see, in our daily lives, the working of that force What if we believed it loved us somehow, and cared for us, and protected us What if we believed we could afford to relax. View quote
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We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything. View quote
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I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching. View quote
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Love is a hero's journey, and the hero's journey is a noble but difficult path. View quote
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But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us. View quote
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The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress. (Marianne Williamson)
Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in the form we expected, or even thought we desired, but it will come, and we will recognize it by how we feel. In spite of everything, we will feel at peace. View quote
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Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of what has been, giving birth to the eternally new. View quote
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What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past and the future as well into the hands of God. The biblical statement that time shall be no more means that we will one day live fully in the present, without obsessing about past or future. View quote
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In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal: a return to inner peace. We're not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change. We're looking for a softer orientation to life. View quote
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I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence -has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day. View quote
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You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love. View quote
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Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we are so much more than we think we are, so much more powerful than we seem to know. Jesus said that we would someday do even greater works than He; should we not take Him at His word? And should not 'someday' be today? It's time for us to start working miracles, if indeed we have the capacity within us to do so. View quote
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You are loved, and your purpose is to love. View quote
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Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us. View quote
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Love will be our medicine. (Marianne Williamson)
God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God's peace. View quote
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As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance-an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love-then external lack is bound to be temporary. View quote
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We have to wage peace. That's the law of the spirit is the waging of peace, because if we simply seek to manage the effects of hatred, which does need to be done, of course. But if all we do is manage the effects of hatred, then hatred will simply stalk us the next decade or the next generation. We need to dismantle hatred itself. View quote
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Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy. View quote
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