Your playing small doesn't serve the world. Marianne Williamson More Quotes by Marianne Williamson More Quotes From Marianne Williamson We don't reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light. Marianne Williamson analysis light dark Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. Marianne Williamson fear inspirational love The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present. Marianne Williamson drag way past Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer. Marianne Williamson healer wells medicine To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving. Marianne Williamson giving-up spiritual mean 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. Marianne Williamson space doe world Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct. Marianne Williamson powerful self night 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. Marianne Williamson compassion revenge kindness Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we call forth more positive. Having loved and lost, I now love more passionately. Having won and lost, I now win more soberly. Having tasted the bitter, I now savor the sweet. Marianne Williamson attitude sweet love God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws. Marianne Williamson freedom law thinking Imagine the week ahead unfolding in an ever-increasing flow of miracles. Allow the image to sink into your heart. Receive it with a big yes! Marianne Williamson positive-thinking miracle heart Every relationship, every situation is part of a divinely created and highly specific curriculum for your soul growth Marianne Williamson curriculum growth soul Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace. Marianne Williamson forgiveness inspirational love Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help. Marianne Williamson marriage helping love 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. Marianne Williamson bliss flow love-is You don't want to try to protect yourself from the pain of a crisis. You want to learn everything you can from it. Marianne Williamson pain want trying Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality. Marianne Williamson essentials love-is reality Your personal power is not something that is going to reveal itself at some later date. Your power is a result of your decision to reveal it. You are powerful in whatever moment you choose to be. Marianne Williamson powerful moments decision The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person. Marianne Williamson midlife humble beautiful The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?" Marianne Williamson contribution-to-society wise inspirational
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