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Yes, whatever happened, happened; but what happens now is up to you. You can respond from ego, ensuring pain, or you can respond from spirit, ensuring a miracle.

Yes, whatever happened, happened; but what happens now is up to you. You can respond from ego, ensuring pain, or you can respond from spirit, ensuring a miracle.

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Pain, Miracle, Ego

With every prayer and every thought of love, we release the light that will cast out darkness. One light alone seems small and weak, but no one's light is ever alone, for all our lights are part of God.

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Prayer, Light, Darkness

Sex is not the ultimate high, but the ultimate high hangs out around sex. The ultimate high is the dance with another person, played so deep down and with such abandon that glee returns to grown-ups.

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Sex, Return, Glee
Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.97, Ballantine Books

You are a child of God, small games do not work in this world. For those around us to feel peace, it is not example to make ourselves small. We were born to express the glory of God that lives in us. It is not in some of us, it is in all of us. While we allow our light to shine, we unconsciously give permission for others to do the same. When we liberate ourselves from our own fears, simply our presence may liberate others.

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Children, Games, Light

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

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Creativity, Desire, Essentials

Relationships are eternal. The 'separation' is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.

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

Instead of praying: 'Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,' try: 'Dear God, make me into someone fabulous.'

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Trying, Fabulous, Dear God

We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.

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Pain, Joy, Never Quit

The universe is wired to give us what we need, yet we have to show up for the experience of life with a positive attitude in order to experience its gifts.

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Attitude, Order, Giving

Actually, who are you not to be?

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Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.229, Hay House, Inc

You are a child of God.

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Children, Child Of God
Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.159, Hay House, Inc

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

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Confidence, Fear, Famous Motivational
Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.

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Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

God would have us move to the highest level of our nature, and that means that we need to understand that our capacity to deal with the spirit-the darkness of the spirit with the light of the spirit as our greatest power.

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Moving, Mean, Light

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

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Inspirational, Mistake, Past
FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 10, 2011

Each of us is born with an internal navigational system. The thinking of the world has a way of switching the system off, but we can always turn it on again through prayer, meditation and forgiveness. Doing this puts us back on track in our lives, making us wise, convicted and powerful.

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Wise, Prayer, Powerful
FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Oct 20, 2011

To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.

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Pain, Looks, Consciousness
Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.72, Random House

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

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Success, Healing, Differences

Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

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People, Groups, Desperate

Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.

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Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness
Marianne Williamson (2013). “Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.

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Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

Children are happy because they don't yet have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong." They don't have a mind-set that puts "Things to Fear" before "Things to Love." Unless we can be like little children, we can't enter into the kingdom of heaven; unless we can be like little children, we can't be happy. Children are happy because they don't have all the facts yet.

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Children, Heaven, Mind
Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.88, Random House

The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!

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People, Weakness, Hollywood

Relationship are part of the vast plan for our enlightenment.

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Relationship, Enlightenment, Plans

Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.

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Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness
Marianne Williamson (2013). “Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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