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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.

Marianne Williamson

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Marianne Williamson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Marianne Deborah Williamson
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Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.
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The solution to low self-esteem is to get over yourself and get a higher purpose.
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People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.
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Gandhi said the end is inherent in the means, which means you cannot create any more peace than you yourself have attained. An angry generation will not bring peace.
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I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.
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Only what I'm not giving is what is lacking in any situation
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Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self.
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There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.
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The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.
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No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address that suffering while remaining in a blissful center.
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We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.
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I believe the universe presents more options to a more loving mind.
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There is a perverse comfort zone to living a small life. For women, that zone has to do with the fact that we're less likely to be challenged, we're less likely to be criticized, we're less likely to be called angry or strident, if we simply go along and acquiesce to the prevailing patterns of thought and behavior.
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A relationship is not meant to be the joining at the hip of two emotional invalids. The purpose of a relationship is not for two incomplete people to become one, but rather, for two complete people to join together for the greater glory of God.
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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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I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.
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Often miracles are happening right in front of our eyes, but we think they should look different, so we miss them though they're right there.
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What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.
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