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There's a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades - a we-can-do-anything spirit that makes so many things possible for all of us. We're rugged individualists, aspirational in nature, and we like to think for ourselves.


Marianne Williamson

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MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to y...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We are beautiful because God created us that way
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transf...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON You know what we need to heal are the thought forms and the feelings that cause us to create war and...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world w...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In every moment, we teach either love or fear. As we demonstrate love towards others....we learn how...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the he...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is t...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We embrace the idea -- advanced by both ancient philosophers and modern physicists -- that the world...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love -...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ou...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fea...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will n...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness b...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spe...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it wi...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In my first book, 'A Return to Love', I wrote about things in the outer world that need to c...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it ...
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