THE GIFT OF CHANGE, SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE FOR A RADICALLY NEW LIFE
Marianne Williamson
Williamson delves deeply into the powerful role of change in our lives today. Far from being something to fear and avoid, she says, every change - even the most difficult - gives us an opportunity to receive the divine gift of personal, and ultimately global, transformation.
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"Many point their fingers critically at other people, not realizing that the pointed finger itself is the source of all evil. It is the concept of enemy that is our greatest enemy of all."
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"Love is the only absolute reality, which never changes and never dies. Dwelling in that which does not change, while things around us are changing all the time, is our key to inner peace."
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"If we're deeply, truly honest with ourselves, we know we're longing to be pregnant with God."
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"There is a plan for our lives – God's plan – and it oversees exactly where we are and where we need to be going."
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"Many of us think God has a plan, and we believe – still – that its name is love. Not a silly love. Not a childish love. But a powerful love, an awesome love so aligned with God that it will change all things."
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"Through prayer we can work miracles in our lives. We have so much more power than we are using yet – to heal disease, repair relationships, reconcile nations, protect our cities, and transform our world."
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"The truth is that every stage of our lives is perfect, if we allow ourselves to really live in it. If we concentrate on the present, contributing and showing up for it as fully as we can, then any moment can have its blessings, and the future will unfold in the direction of ever greater good."
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"The present is holy ground – the only place where eternity meets linear time."
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"There IS a larger plan of unfolding good, a will-to-healing that is built into the workings of the universe. We will be told everything we need to know and shown everything we need to see. The Whole (Holy) Mind (Spirit) of God impresses itself upon us when we pray and meditate and seek to follow spiritual principles. As we open ourselves to receive His guidance, our thoughts and feelings fall into patterns that lead all things within and around us to realms of divine right order."
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"Love is not just a feeling; it is a force. And it is a force that is ultimately more powerful than violence of any kind.'
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"Whether or not a particular religion is our personal path, its core mystical teachings apply to everyone."
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"Every point in life's journey is inherently preparing us for our future in ways the rational mind cannot possibly comprehend."
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"Each of us is an infinitely creative being, endowed by God with extraordinary potential that He would have us make manifest."
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"When we reach for the highest within ourselves, people around us feel called to their highest. And that is the beacon for which every soul is looking."
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"The conversion to Christ need not entail a conversion to the Christian religion. The word is a symbol for the Child of God within us, our true identity and a space of remembrance of all that is divine. To be His disciple is to take on the mantle of His ministry by refusing to acknowledge the ultimate reality of any walls that divide us."
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"Look at the spokes of a bicycle wheel. At the rim, each spoke is separated from all the others. At the hub, each spoke is one with all the others. Each of us is like one of those spokes, connected with all the others at the center, at our spiritual hub."
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"This new mind awaits us in this next stage of our evolutionary journey. We are being challenged by the forces of history to grow into this mind, to mutate, as it were, in order for our species to survive. Jesus had the new mind, called in him the Christ Mind, as did Buddha and others. It is the mind when it is overshadowed by God, our mind when it has become one with His, when we have touched the heavenly light and been permanently altered by it. This state of enlightenment is the exaltation of our existence, the uplifting of our human consciousness to such a high place that we manifest, at last, as the children of God we truly are."
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"Each of us has the opportunity now to grow into the fullness of our divine potential in order to take our place in God's plan. The plan exists in the Mind of God, and to the extent to which we surrender our thinking to Him, we take our part. Our primary function is to stand in the light of who we are and become the people we are capable of being. From that, all good will follow."
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"The notion that a great wave of love will be the salvation of the human race is an idea whose time has come. And our willingness to be part of that wave gives a transcendent purpose to our lives."
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"We're like sunbeams thinking we're separate from the sun or waves thinking we're separate from the ocean. But sunbeams can't BE separate, and waves can't BE separate of course. The idea of our separation is nothing but a vast hallucination."
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"The real you is an expanded self, literally one with the entire world."
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"We know there is a world of love that lies beyond what we see, and we were born to make it manifest. If we apply ourselves body and soul to the task, then one day – right here on earth – we will experience an illumined world."
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"Every situation represents a choice: do we prefer to stay with ego-based patterns of thought and behavior, or do we choose to play life in a higher, more loving way? Will we tread the path of limitation and fear, though that path has grown painful and boring and old, or do we choose to give birth to a higher mode of expression?"
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"It's my responsibility to remind myself how blessed I am and to extend that blessing to others."
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"As long as we doubt that happiness and God's will are the same thing, we tend to decide against ourselves."
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