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A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. a leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others.

A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. a leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others.

Marianne Williamson
Dog, Real, Order

Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.

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Trying, Good Times
FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Feb 09, 2013

God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.

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Peace, People, Energy
Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.18, Random House

If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

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Growth, World, Faces
Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life”, p.15, Harper Collins

Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.

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Spiritual, Goal, Growth
Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.138, Ballantine Books

Forgiveness is like the martial arts of consciousness. In Aikido and, other martial arts, we sidestep our attackers force rather than resisting it. The energy of the attack then boomerangs back in the direction of the attacker. Our power lies in remaining nonreactive. Forgiveness works in the same way. When we attack back, and defense is a form of attack, we initiate a war that no one can win.

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Art, War, Lying

Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel.

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Running, Sadness, Sometimes
FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jul 24, 2011

Truth will always reassert itself, given a symbolic three days. Three days represents the time it takes between the crucifixion and the resurrection, between an open-hearted response to hurt and the experience of rebirth that will always follow.

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Hurt, Healing, Three

The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.

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Spiritual, Commitment, Connections
Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.34, Random House

Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.

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Spiritual, Transformation, Nervous
Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.

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Religious, Simple, People
Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.33, Random House

We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.

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Jobs, Real, Thinking

Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history.

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Spiritual, Jesus, Discovery
"Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage". Book by Marianne Williamson (Part I "Thoughts", Chapter 2 "The Luminous Mind", p. 29), November 1994.

To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn't blind, it's visionary.

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Moving, Visionaries, Blind

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.

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Careers, Personality, Achievement

The only thing we have to give to the world is our own grasp on it.

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

I used to feel like I was waiting for someone to discover me, to 'produce' me, like Lana Turner at the drugstore. Utlimately I realized that the person I was waiting for was myself. If we wait for the world's permission to shine, we will never receive it.

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Shining, Waiting, World

Most of us feel on some level like race horses chomping at the bit, pressing at the gate, hoping and praying for someone to open the door and let us run out. We feel so much pent up energy, so much locked up talent. We know in our hearts that we were born to do great things, and we have a deep-seated dread of wasting our lives. But the only person who can free us is ourselves. Most of us know that. We realize that the locked door is our own fear.

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Running, Horse, Heart

We find our happiness to the extent to which we use our minds to bless the world, for that is the natural use of the mind. It is the reason we were born.

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Mind, Use, World
Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.127, Random House

Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.

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Healing, Emotional, Miracle
Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

As we give, so shall we receive. Service does not mean self-sacrifice. It means giving the needs of another person the same priority as our own.

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Mean, Sacrifice, Self
Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

Fear is a psychic tyrant that has no intention of letting its slave go free. It will say whatever it needs to say to confuse your thinking... It will always seek to preserve itself.

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Thinking, Psychics, Tyrants
Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.61, Hay House, Inc

Who we are, not just the services and products we provide, creates money.

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Who We Are, Products

What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.

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Inspirational, Silence, Sound
FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 12, 2013

The beauty of personal authenticity can compensate for the lost beauty of our youth.

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Beauty, Youth, Authenticity
Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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