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Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.

Marianne Williamson

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Marianne Williamson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Houston
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Marianne Deborah Williamson
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