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Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone, and as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
Enlightened people don't have anything we don't have. They have perfect love inside, and so do we. The difference is that they don't have anything else.
- Marianne Williamson
THE DIVINE MIND "God has lit your mind Himself, and keeps your mind lit by His Light because His Light is what your mind is.
- Marianne Williamson
Eastern religions tell us that if we go for God, all that is not authentically ourselves will drop.
- Marianne Williamson
God has lit your mind Himself, and keeps your mind lit by His Light because His Light is what your mind is.
- Marianne Williamson
As I began to study A Course in Miracles, I discovered the following things: God is the love within us.
- Marianne Williamson
Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all.
- Marianne Williamson
The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness
- Aristotle
Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.
- Aristotle
Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.
- Henepola Gunaratana
Hope to sin only in the service of waking up.
- Alice Walker
The first and wisest of them all professed to know this only, that he nothing knew.
- John Milton