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As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.

Everyday Grace: Having Hope

You have tremendous gifts to give; God sent them with you when you came to this earth. And while you...

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Everyday Grace: Having Hope

Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we a...

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Everyday Grace: Having Hope

There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you...

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Illuminata: A Return to Prayer

The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own ...

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Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

Spirituality reflects the most sophisticated mindset and the most power force available for the tran...

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Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

...there are four rules for miraculous work creation: Be positive. Send love. Have fun. Kick ass. Am...

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The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work

Love makes us wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and a flow of creative ideas. Love floo...

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The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work

From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the ...

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The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

The Law of Divine Compensation: Mastering the Metaphysics of Abundance

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

The Law of Divine Compensation: Mastering the Metaphysics of Abundance

The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only...

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The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life

Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those o...

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Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ...

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Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part t...

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Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

The soul theoretically is the purview of religion. But in today’s society, relatively few people loo...

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Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call...

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The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fr...

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We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are ...

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Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind asc...

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I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are const...

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Sometimes people claim they don't need a crutch like Jesus, but he's not a crutch, he's a teacher. I...

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Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true ...

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Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.

Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt ...

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I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me t...

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Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that ...

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...

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We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too com...

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The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it g...

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Relationships are eternal. The 'separation' is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting g...

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Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be ...

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Love is what we were borne with. Fear is what we learned here.

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the he...

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For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the ...

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As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events w...

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Certainly there is such a thing as chemical depression, and for that, obviously, there are issues th...

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Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from...

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Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our histor...

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As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are l...

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Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.

The problem with setting goals is that they can be limiting.  Perhaps we're asking for something goo...

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

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility...

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There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation o...

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There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation o...

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And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering i...

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When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, mor...

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...

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Birth is violent whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective fo...

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Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In...

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I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in...

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Trust is very hard if you don't know what you're trusting.

The Queen is coming to reclaim her girls.

There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic ...

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To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life a...

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The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate tha...

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Christmas and Easter are attitudinal bookends for an enlightened world view. With an enlightened vie...

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When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you c...

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The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spe...

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One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocabl...

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Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of po...

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As a cell contains a natural intelligence by which it fosters the healthy functioning of the body, I...

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Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at...

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There is nothing to find, only to realize. There is nothing to become, only to be. There is nothing ...

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You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinke...

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If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love then love will wholeheartedly respond to y...

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There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We...

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It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending ...

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Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place...

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.

We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The w...

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Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could G...

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A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer he...

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In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every he...

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A marriage is meant to be a blessing on the world, because it is a context in which two people might...

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Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgi...

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A spiritual relationship is not necessarily one in which two people are smiling all the time.  Spiri...

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A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

Whether we're forgiving our parents or someone else or ourselves, the laws of mind remain the same. ...

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A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

The  thought system which dominates our culture is laced with selfish values, and relinquishing thos...

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A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real...

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A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...

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A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull p...

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A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

In the Christic tradition, this is the meaning of  'becoming as a little child.'  Little children do...

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A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who...

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A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are.  Our worldly power results from our p...

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A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

The process of miraculous change is twofold.  One:  I see my error or dysfunctional pattern.  Two: I...

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A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

Forgiveness is like the martial arts of consciousness.  In aikido and other martial arts, we sideste...

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A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

In fact, ambitious tension actually limits our ability to succeed because it keeps us in a state of ...

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A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

If we're talented at music, that talent is of god.  If something makes our heart sing, that's god's ...

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A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is t...

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A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and our abilities were used in a way ...

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A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

The return to love is hardly the end of life's adventure.  It's the real beginning.  A course in mir...

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A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

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Marianne Williamson

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Born: 1952-07-08

Died: N/A

Marianne Deborah Williamson (born 8 July 1952) is a spiritual activist, author, lecturer and founder of the Peace Alliance, a grass roots campaign supporting legislation currently before Congress to establish a United States Department of Peace.More