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You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

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Believe, Responsibility, Exercise

Every bird that sings, sings for you. Every breeze that blows, blows for you. Every sunray shines for you. If you only knew how loved you are.

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Blow, Shining, Bird
FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jun 10, 2011

There is no such thing as a faithless person; we either have faith in the power of love, or faith in the power of fear. For faith is an aspect of consciousness. Have faith in love, and fear will lose its power over you. Have faith in forgiveness, and your self-hatred will fall away. Have faith in miracles, and they will come to you.

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Love, Faith, Forgiveness
FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 01, 2011

The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.

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Spiritual, Fear, Women
Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline, Marianne Williamson (2012). “Love For No Reason: 7 Steps to Creating a Life of Unconditional Love”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

No matter what is happening in our lives, we choose how we wish to think about it. And the greatest gift we give ourselves is often our willingness to change our minds. Despite what might seem to be the saddest and most intractable situation, we have the power to believe that something else is possible, that things can change, that a miracle can happen.

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Believe, Thinking, Giving
Marianne Williamson (2012). “The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles”, p.7, Harper Collins

I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were everywhere, but somehow I didn't connect with them. It was as though I was eating but couldn't taste the food. Finally, I've learned to celebrate the good while it's happening. I feel gratitude and praise today for what are sometimes such simple pleasures. I have learned that happiness is not determined by circumstances. Happiness is not what happens when everything goes the way you think it should go; happiness is what happens when you decide to be happy.

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Happiness, Gratitude, Simple

Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.

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Past, Miracle, Forgiving

The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.

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Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.

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Heart, Darkness, Trying
Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.17, Penguin

We're all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform. Our corner of the universe is our own life - our relationships, our homes, our work, our current circumstances -. exactly as they are. Every situation we find ourselves in is an opportunity, perfectly planned by the Holy Spirit, to teach love instead of fear.

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Home, Opportunity, Garden
Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.

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Life, Motivational, Thinking
Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.24, Harper Collins

What's difficult in life is to stay centered when somebody does or says something that tempts us to close our hearts because their heart was closed. That is hard. But that is also how we grow. We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us.

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Spiritual, Heart, Order
"Holistic Politics: A Conversation with Marianne Williamson". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. 1999.

Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.

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Karma, Mean, Responsibility
FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Aug 03, 2011

In every moment we make a decision -- whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone.

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Heart, Judging, Choices
FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jul 16, 2014

The choice to follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion within ourselves. The point at which we shut down on others is the point at which we shut down on life. We heal as we heal others, and we heal others by extending our perceptions past their weaknesses. Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who that person is. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is. Forgiving others is the only way to forgive ourselves, and forgiveness is our greatest need.

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Past, Love Is, Choices

The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.

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Giving, Feelings, Rooms

The universe is wired with the electricity of God, & each of us is a lamp. It doesn't matter the size or shape of the lamp; it only matters that the lamp is plugged in. With every prayer, every thought of forgiveness, every meditation, every act of love, we plug in. The more of us who plug in, to more the darkness of the world will be cast from our midst. Today, let's all increase love's wattage!

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Love, Happiness, Forgiveness
FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Oct 01, 2010

If you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world.

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Heart, World, Knows

Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle: the ability to see through mistakes that someone has made to the truth that lies in all of our hearts. Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves. The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

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Forgiveness, Mistake, Lying
"Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage". Book by Marianne Williamson, pp. 131-132, 2013.

Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you'll just repeat what's old.

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Embrace, Repeats
FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 07, 2010

Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.

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Light, Law, Darkness

May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.

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Wedding, Home, Heart
Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.267, Random House

You can live your life out of a circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision.

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Live Your Life, Vision, Circumstances

Behind every fear, there is a miracle waiting.

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Waiting, Miracle, Behinds

In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.

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Lying, Thinking, Different
Marianne Williamson (2012). “The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles”, p.5, Harper Collins

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