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Chaos often fosters the greatest creativity. Breakdowns often precede the greatest breakthroughs. And when the pain is greatest is often when we're on the brink of the greatest realization.....When the pain is burned

Chaos often fosters the greatest creativity. Breakdowns often precede the greatest breakthroughs. And when the pain is greatest is often when we're on the brink of the greatest realization.....When the pain is burned through rather than numbed, when our darkness is brought to light and then forgiven, then and only then can we move on. And move on we do.

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Pain, Moving, Creativity

When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.

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Letting Go, Attachment, Surrender
Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

You are free to experience life negatively or positively, and the choice you make determines whether you are at cause, or at effect, of the life you are living.

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Being Happy, Choices, Causes
Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.108, Penguin

I have learned from experience that happiness is an acquired skill. Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same. Gratitude is essential to happiness. Every time our children rush up to us and smile, we have something to be happy about; every time we get out of bed and can take a deep breath and go out for a walk, we have something to be happy about-that is the essence of a happy existence. Happiness is a muscle we must use, or it will wither away.

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Happiness, Gratitude, Children

We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly and with our spirits we can. We are meant to ascend, to transmute the negative mass of the worlds corrupted thought forms. No one asked us to stay so long away from heaven, away from joy.

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Inspiring, Angel, Long

You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.

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Fear, Light, Darkness
FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 04, 2009

The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always NOW!

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Thinking, Matter, Moments

There is an old cliche, 'You can see the glass half empty, or you can see it half full.' You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. But whatever you focus on, you're going to get more of. Creation is an extension of thought. Think lack, and you get lack. Think abundance, and you get more.

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Thinking, Glasses, Focus

Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

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Self Esteem, Maturity, Waiting

Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.

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Reality, Uncertainty Principle, Perception
Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.

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Religious, Giving, Religion
Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end.

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Spiritual, Moving, Long
Marianne Williamson (2014). “Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past and the future as well into the hands of God. The biblical statement that “time shall be no more” means that we will one day live fully in the present, without obsessing about past or future.

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Mean, Biblical, Past

We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.

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

Problems come about when we try to direct the flow of the universe rather than allow it to reveal its own design. Inherent in that design is a love for all living things.

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Design, Trying, Flow
FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 23, 2011

I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance. Holding on to a vision invokes the circumstances by which the vision is achieved. Vision is content; material circumstances mere form.

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Powerful, Vision, Holding On

The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

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Issues, Use

Our spiritual mission is not to ignore the darkness, but to bring light TO the darkness. Ignoring darkness does not dispel it; only the light does. That is the difference between denial and transcendence.

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Spiritual, Light, Differences

The path to self-esteem lies in getting over yourself. There is nothing to esteem about our smaller dramas; it's our commitment to something beyond ourselves that is truly estimable to ourself and others.

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Inspirational, Self Esteem, Drama
FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 16, 2013

Whomever it is you were born to be, whatever your soul was coded to accomplish, whatever lessons you were born to learn, now is the time to get serious and get going.

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Soul, Lessons, Serious
Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

Our career is not something that we go out and *find.* Your perfect career is something that emerges from deep within you. When you are aligned with the truth within yourself, then you magnetize people and circumstances which align with that truth.

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Careers, People, Perfect

Spend the next few days preparing for the year ahead: Forgive everyone, let go of everything, let God take charge. Amen.

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Letting Go, Years, Forgiving
FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Dec 26, 2013

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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Reflection, Perspective, Events
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Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.

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Magic, Midlife, Force
Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.132, ReadHowYouWant.com

The implication was that if you had any skepticism whatsoever, you were anti-science. I think there's a difference between having skepticism about science and having skepticism about the pharmaceutical industry.

Marianne Williamson
Thinking, Differences, Skepticism

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