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I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

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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I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.
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The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.
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Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.
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I think the vast majority of Americans would have supported military action to stop the second plane from hitting the World Trade Center, if that had been possible. I would have been among them.
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The wisdom that comes from having experienced heartbreak cannot be bequeathed it can only be gained through experience. And having truly felt it, we are far more likely to have compassion for others. Anything that takes us close to true compassion takes us closer to what will one day be an experience of even greater joy.
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We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.
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I think future generations will see the invention of the Internet as having been as important as the invention of the printing press. It’s the democratizing tool of all tools. As long as no one can control the flow of information, then freedom always has a chance.
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We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.
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I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.
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The difference between magic and miracles is this. Magic is when you use your mind to tell the Universe what you want. Miracles is when you ask the Universe what it wants and how you can serve it'
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So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.
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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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No matter what is happening now, events will ultimately bend toward love the way a flower bends toward sunlight.
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If you're getting your guidance about who you are and what to do with your life only from the external world, then by definition you'll be led away from your authentic truth. Your authentic truth isn't in the material world. It's counterintuitive, but you have more power in the world when you know you're not of it.
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You are free to experience life negatively or positively, and the choice you make determines whether you are at cause, or at effect, of the life you are living.
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The power to be at peace - not because of anything your physical senses perceive, and sometimes in spite of what your physical senses perceive - is the power to help heal this world miraculously.
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When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection to others.
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There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.
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God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.
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Love is a hero’s journey, and the hero’s journey is a noble but difficult path.
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