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Hit a point in Marianne Williamson’s A Return to Love yesterday where I just had to accelerate. Wound up devouring much of it.
Gems that speak to different aspects of me:
Adam and Eve were naked in the garden of Eden but not embarrassed. That doesn’t mean they were physically naked. It means they were emotionally naked, totally real and honest, yet they were not embarrassed because they felt accepted completely for who they were.
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There is practically a mania these days for blaming the events of our childhood for our current despair. What the ego doesn’t want us to see is that our pain doesn’t come from the love we weren’t given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren’t giving in the present.
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What speaks to me so loudly today:
In every relationship, in every moment, we teach either love or fear. “To teach is to demonstrate.” As we demonstrate love towards others, we learn that we are lovable and we learn how to love more deeply. As we demonstrate fear or negativity, we learn self-condemnation and we learn to feel more frightened of life. We will always learn what we have chosen to teach.
–Marianne Williamson, A Return To Love
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Could not be more joyful that I’ve been starting my day with doses of Marianne Williamson. Really focused on not speeding through A Return To Love, as I am wont to do with books.
Gems from this morning’s reading:
So we work within the worldly illusion, politically, socially, environmentally, etc., but we recognize that the real transformation of the world comes not from what we’re doing, but from the consciousness with which we’re doing it. We’re actually just buying time while the real transformation of global energies has a chance to kick in.
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When we outgrow our immature preoccupation with the small self, we transcend our selfishness and become cosmically mature.
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As I make my way through my re-read of A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson, the quotes will continue to make their way here. Another:
In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal: a return to inner peace. We’re not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change. We’re looking for a softer orientation to life.
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To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn’t blind, it’s visionary. Faith is believing that the universe is on our side, and that the universe knows what it’s doing. Faith is a psychological awareness of an unfolding force for good, constantly at work in all dimensions. Our attempts to direct this force only interferes with it. Our willingness to relax into it allows it to work on our behalf. Without faith, we’re frantically trying to control what it is not our business to control, and fix what it is not in our power to fix.
– from A Return To Love, Marianne Williamson
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The return to love is the great cosmic drama, the personal journey from pretense to self, from pain to inner peace.
– Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love
A classic
Inexplicably drawn to reread Marianne Williamson’s A Return To Love. Something tells me the reason why will be revealed on its pages.
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A Facebook friend posted this and I loved it so much I had to share it here:
Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.
– Author Unknown
Just what I needed …
An extra special thank you, TUT, for your note from the Universe this morning:
You are the right person, this is the right time, you’ve paid your dues, you’re thinking the right thoughts, you’re doing the right things, and this very moment, you are exactly where you’re supposed to be … poised for the happiest time of your life.
Dang, Nancy!
The Universe
Swirling and roiling
So much crackly energy swirling around me these days. After reading my July horoscope on Susan Miller’s Astrology Zone, I understand why:
We are now in the middle of eclipse season, and the ones barreling up the coast are in Cancer and your sign, Capricorn.
And this:
Avoiding issues this month won’t work. There is no way around these cosmic storms other than to ride right through them and try to get out and on the other side as best you can. Fortunately, the eclipse due on July 11 will be warm, friendly, and very helpful, and not at all like its evil twin that arrived last month on June 26.
Sometimes a little roiling of the gut is a good thing …
