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Nothing that happened before this moment has any power over you whatsoever, except to the extent to which you carry it into this moment. Dwell in the present with full forgiveness of yourself and others, and your life

Nothing that happened before this moment has any power over you whatsoever, except to the extent to which you carry it into this moment. Dwell in the present with full forgiveness of yourself and others, and your life will be lifted to divine right order...perfection, prosperity and peace.

Marianne Williamson
Order, Divine Right, Perfection
FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Dec 12, 2011

In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other heads of states.

Leo Tolstoy
Government, Law, Divine Right
Leo Tolstoy, M. K. Gandhi (2016). “A LETTER TO A HINDU (A Fascinating View on Love and Non-Violence): Including Correspondences with Gandhi & Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby”, p.31, e-artnow

I am totally free to choose thoughts of joy. It is my Divine right to do so.

Louise Hay
Divine Right, Joy, Divine

Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.

George Osborne
Country, Divine Right, World
"George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference in full". www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010.

Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Divine Right, Parent, Bears

We need some remedial training on how to live as subjects in a kingdom. We may be justified in rejecting the divine right of kings to rule but we cannot be justified if we reject the rule of our divine king.

Joe Carter
Kings, Divine Right, Training

The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right.

Frank Rich
Divine Right, Actors, Stage

Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and what's going on right now. They all have had to apply more and more harsh rhetoric of superiority and divine right to justify the building of hegemony.

Dar Williams
Past, Divine Right, Hegemony
Source: progressive.org

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