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Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair.

Marianne Williamson

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Marianne Williamson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
Author
Peace Activist
Philanthropist
Politician
Writer
Houston
Texas
Marianne Deborah Williamson
Antidote
Enlightenment
Despair
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World

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Nobody has to tell me about the glories of the capitalist system. But what concerns me is that there no longer seems to be a commitment to make the opportunities afforded by technology and capitalism universally accessible.
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Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
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Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.
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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.
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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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Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming it's trying to see that the good times are here.
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If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.
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In a choice between love and fear, choose love.
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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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Sometimes we think, We're the only people who see it this way, but that's really not the case.
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Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.
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Individuals seem to have reached their walls and so has the entire human race. Whatever isn't working, isn't life-producing, isn't producing love for ourselves or others, is going to have to go now. Or, literally, there will be hell to pay.
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Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we have
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The issue is that we, with our fears, our attacks, our judgments, our blame, and our constant emphasis on the realm of the body rather than the realm of love, eclipse the experience of true love.
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Where there is lack, God’s abundance is on the way. Hold on. Have faith. It’s coming.
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