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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"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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"There are only two core emotions: love and fear. And love is to fear as light is to darkness; in the presence of one, the other disappears. As we shift our perceptions from fear to love – sometimes in cases where it's not so hard and ultimately in cases where it takes spiritual mastery to do so – we become miracle workers in the truest sense. For when our minds are surrendered to love, they are surrendered to a higher power. And from that, all miracles follow."
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"God has a blueprint for creating peace on earth. It's not a physical blueprint, but rather a plan that exists in His Mind, pieces of it ready to be downloaded into the mind of anyone who asks to receive his or her part. Each of us carries maximal potential to be used by God to heal the world. He has a plan. And it cannot not work."
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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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"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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"Nations, like individuals, emerge spiritually from the Mind of God….and He is love."
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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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"When we're not thinking with love, we're actually not thinking at all. We're hallucinating."
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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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"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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"Now, in our time and through our efforts, we are called to a great vision: to think the thoughts of a world at peace, infused with total love….Years from now, when we ourselves are no longer remembered, people will live on a peaceful planet, not knowing whom to bless, not knowing whom to thank. Children will ask their parents, 'Is it true that there was once a time when people had wars?' And the parents will say, 'Yes, there was such a time. But a very long time ago. Wars don't happen anymore.' And when that happens, surely on some level our souls will receive the blessing we gave. We will lift our glasses to the heaven we are already in, and with both tears and laughter we will howl, 'We did it!'"
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"When we mentally identify with the realm of the spirit, we see endless love, unlimited possibility, and the oneness of all things."
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"Ever-unfolding good is actually the natural order of the universe."
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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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"Our mistakes are not sins God wants to punish but rather errors He wants to correct."
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"The real you is an expanded self, literally one with the entire world."
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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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"A new commitment to love is rising up from the depths of our humanity, and its power is changing us on fundamental levels. Our mind has been opened to a liberating truth, and we feel this truth like an alchemical substance that bathes our cells and transforms our thinking."
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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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"Who we really are is a power bigger than all our problems, both personal and collective. And when we have remembered who we are, our problems – which are literally nothing other than manifestations of our forgetfulness – will disappear."
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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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"If we're deeply, truly honest with ourselves, we know we're longing to be pregnant with God."
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"The present is holy ground – the only place where eternity meets linear time."
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"Obedience to God means a willingness to follow the dictates of love; thoughts and behavior prescribed for us by a force that wants only our happiness and good."
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"We can live in fear, or we can live in love. And every moment, we decide. The greatest power God has given us to change the world is the power to change our thoughts about the world. And as we do, the world transforms."
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