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A healthy, vital society is not one in which we all agree. It is one in which those who disagree can do so with honor and respect for other people's opinions... and an appreciation of our shared humanity.

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Marianne Williamson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
Author
Peace Activist
Philanthropist
Politician
Writer
Houston
Texas
Marianne Deborah Williamson
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You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.
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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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There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves.
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Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.
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Every change is a challenge to become who we really are.
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Some of us believe humanity should be in divine partnership with nature, some people believe that man has been given by God the right to have dominion over nature. But since even they say that we should be good stewards, that right there should be the common ground.
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Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.
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The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.
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The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing. When the being is intense enough, when the words are spoken enough, when the thoughts are thought enough, the doing will automatically follow.
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Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.
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To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place.
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The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it.
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Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.
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Kennedy's assassination was the opening salvo in the social revolution of the sixties. In some ways, perhaps, Princess Diana and Mother Teresa dying when they did, and how they did, represent the opening salvos of a social revolution in the nineties.
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I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.
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The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.
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My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.
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Each of us is born with an internal navigational system. The thinking of the world has a way of switching the system off, but we can always turn it on again through prayer, meditation and forgiveness. Doing this puts us back on track in our lives, making us wise, convicted and powerful.
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Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.
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In the Jewish religion it says - in the time of deepest darkest night act as if the morning has already come
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