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You can learn a lesson the first time, when it's presented in a package that is joyous - or at least palatable. But if you don't learn the lesson the first time, then there will be a second time and a third time. And each time it will just get harder and harder.

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Marianne Williamson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Peace Activist
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Houston
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Marianne Deborah Williamson
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I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is about - have been very hard on me. There is an expression in Alcoholics Anonymous called contempt prior to investigation. I feel many people practice contempt prior to investigation.
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I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God.
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It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.
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Every relationship is a gift exchange.
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You can know everything that the books have to say, but ultimately it boils down to whether we do the inner work of devotion and surrender, whether we can put aside our own agendas and allow the spirit to move through us.
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The key to a successful career is realizing that it's not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self. And your most basic self is love.
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Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.
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We are likely to feel better when we go to bed tonight if we have an internal sense that we spent our lives meaningfully today.
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If you are not grieving, you are not conscious. But if you are not rejoicing in the possibilities of how this could all change, then you are not looking through the filter of the greatest spiritual perspicacity.
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Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.
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Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.
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Go forth in confidence and go forth in peace. For there are angels to your left and angels to your right angels in front of you and angels behind you angels above you and angels below. You are loved, and you are not alone.
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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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I think that every moment you succumb to cynicism, you're taking energy away from change.
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Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.
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From a pure metaphysical perspective, there is no world outside ourselves. So, at the deepest level, the state of the planet is more a reflection of the consciousness of mankind than the consciousness of mankind is a reflection of world events.
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Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.
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