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If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

Marianne Williamson

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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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Part of forgiving people is releasing them from our own agendas.
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There will be no peace in the world until there is peace in our hearts.
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We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We were connected to a richer world, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous. What happened?
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Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.
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A certain desperation is usually necessary before we're ready for God... Until your knees finally hit the floor, you're just playing at life, and on some level you're scared because you know you're just playing. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins
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I believe that the spirit of God enters into the details and if we ask for guidance we will be led to the places where we can learn most fully because we can be most joyful. If I'm in a place that's lonely, I think God has one or two things to say. Extend your hand in service so that you might meet people or go somewhere else - or both.
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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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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 purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.
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It isn't courageous to go forth when you don't know the dangers. But it's very courageous to go forth when you do.
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Love is to fear as light is to dark in the presence of one, the other cannot exist. So wherever there is a place of fear in your life, think of one thing - even if it's just a thought you can think-where you can generate love to cast out the fear.
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The world as it is perceived by most people, is a world of finite resources.
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We arrogantly assume that the nervous system doesn't really need to be coaxed into romance. That romance comes from some other place.
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Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
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We must seek to be intellectually inclusive, just as we seek to be culturally inclusive. Ideas come and go - that's what makes a free society so vital.
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Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.
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The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
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During times of challenge, what you have faith in is what determines what the challenge will turn into. Have faith in the reality of the challenge, and it will birth more challenges. Have faith in the reality of miracles, and the challenge will transform into something else.
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From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant.
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Only what I'm not giving is what is lacking in any situation
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