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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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Marianne Williamson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Peace Activist
Philanthropist
Politician
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Houston
Texas
Marianne Deborah Williamson
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I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.
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It's not just in some of us it's in everyone.
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Living in this world, under the dominance of the ego mind, is difficult. That's the struggle.
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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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What if we truly believed that there is 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?
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Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos the two cannot coexist at the same time.
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If there is anything interesting about my story it's the fact that it's not unique at all. I feel that I have been through what almost everyone I know has - a slow and gradual maturation process.
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The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
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Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.
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We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.
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You don't have to pray to attract great things, because great things are attracted to you already. Pray that you won't throw them away once they get here.
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Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)
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Once the Western mind was disconnected from its sense of divine responsibility and genuine reverence towards nature, all hell broke loose. And that’s where we are now.
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We will make love an art and we will love like artists.
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