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After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as an antidote to the pain of our times.

Marianne Williamson

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Marianne Williamson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Peace Activist
Philanthropist
Politician
Writer
Houston
Texas
Marianne Deborah Williamson
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We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.
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Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.
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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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There can be no darkness where I provide the light.
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Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.
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My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.
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The gap is not between knowing it and living it, it's between knowing it and living it consistently. You know, we've all had moments when we got it right. Most of us have moments when we get it right every day. The trouble is getting it right when a curve-ball comes at us.
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It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
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