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The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

Marianne Williamson

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Marianne Williamson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Peace Activist
Philanthropist
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Houston
Texas
Marianne Deborah Williamson
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There is a lot to look at when you are serious about transformation. You look at everything you've ever done, every circumstance you've ever been in, cleaning up everything in your past. Reconciling, forgiving others, forgiving yourself. It's a lot of work, actually.
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Yes, we see that there are problems in the world. But we believe in a universal force that, when activated by the human heart, has the power to make all things right.
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Think of the mystical three days between the crucifixion and the resurrection as the time it takes for a situation to change once spirit has infused our consciousness. As we come to look at an experience differently, in time in begins to transform.
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For every person who might reject you if you live your truth, there are ten others who will embrace you and welcome you home.
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Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.
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Miracles begin when we consider the possibility that there might be another way.
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The voices of fear are so loud today. The voices of love should never shout, but neither should they whisper - not at a time like this.
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I find being a mother harder than I though it was going to be. That is a tremendous revelation for me personally. Much more time, more care, more attention and more effort needs to be spent on care for the children. That will save the world at large.
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Anybody can be heard. Anyone can express their truths. And communication is possible without the confines of the body.
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A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.
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Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.
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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 reason we don't often confront the larger question of whether or not war is survivable is because of a failure of imagination. We honestly cannot imagine having reached a state in our own evolution in which we do not fight.
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It is absolutely a relationship with food that is a displaced relationship with God. And that displaced relationship with God takes two forms: our availability to other people and our availability to our own thoughts and feelings.
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Nobody wants to die feeling that they have not sung their song.
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On any given day, in any given moment, something could happen that opens up for you an entirely new path. Be still, be alert, be ready.
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At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.
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There can be no darkness where I provide the light.
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What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.
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Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.
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