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| ad4d21d | The world as it has very little use for your womanhood. You are considered a weaker sex and are treated as a sexual object. You are thoroughly dispensable except for bearing children. Your youth is the measure of your worth, and your age is the measure of your worthlessness. Do not look to the world for your sustenance or for your identity as a woman because you will not find them there. The world despises you. | womanhood | Marianne Williamson | |
| 0cb2fa6 | But it is not regressive to surrender to our feminine selves. It's the most progressive line if development because it honors, instead of represses, our emotions. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 2e65ebf | Love interrupts the past and opens the future to new probabilities. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 15cbc58 | now embrace the divine child within me. May it burst forth now to bless the world. May I not be tempted to doubt the light that lights the entire world. Illumine the earth and save the world. Thank You, Lord. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 762d719 | You are a perfect child of a divine Creator, and nothing about you is imperfect. The Creator, being perfect, does not create the imperfect. It is therefore humble--not arrogant--to accept the divine perfection of your true self. In any moment when you behaved imperfectly, you did not become imperfect; in that moment, you simply forgot your perfection. You simply forgot who you are. And when we cannot remember who we are, we have a harder ti.. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| bdb12ed | A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love--from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 974e88a | you are not merely a being of the material world; you are a being of unlimited spirit. And in spirit there is no lack. You are not lacking just because your circumstances are. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 1859886 | Our deepest fears is not that we are inadequate, . . . | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 1f92eab | the Holy Spirit is within us to do the impossible. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| cc73cf6 | But when we ask Him to change them, He will. When we're angry, or upset for any reason, we're asked to say, "I'm angry but I'm willing not to be. I'm willing to see this situation differently." We ask the Holy Spirit to enter into the situation and show it to us from a different perspective." | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 24c43a1 | When Michelangelo was asked how he created a piece of sculpture, he answered that the statue already existed within the marble. God Himself had created the Pieta, David, Moses. Michelangelo's job, as he saw it, was to get rid of the excess marble that surrounded God's creation. So it is with you. The perfect you isn't something you need to create, because God already created it. The perfect you is the love within you. Your job is to allow t.. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 7c35276 | Before the Prince can save the damsel in distress, he has to slay the dragons that surround her castle. So do we all. Those dragons are our demons, our wounds, our egos, our brilliant ways of denying love to ourselves and others. The ego's patterns have to be rooted out, detoxed from our system, before the pure love within us can have a chance to come forth. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 66f2c73 | The only real problem is a lack of love. To address the world's problems on any other level is a temporary palliative--a fix but not a healing, a treatment of the symptom but not a cure. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| c6d3229 | If I'm convinced that I'm not good enough, I will have a difficult time accepting someone into my life who thinks I am. It's the Groucho Marx syndrome of not wanting to like anyone who would want me in their club. The only way that I can accept someone's finding me wonderful, is if I find myself wonderful. But to the ego, self-acceptance is death. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| c852dfb | You "The Thought God holds of you is like a star, unchangeable in an eternal sky." | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 9e38265 | In business as well as in everything else, you're in business to spread love. Your agency should spread love, your screenplay should spread love, your store should spread love, your life should spread love. The key to a successful career is realizing that it s not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self and your most basic self is love. | career love | Marianne Williamson | |
| 41c5e26 | you dig deep enough into your mind, and deep enough into mine, the picture is the same: at the bottom of it all, what we are is love. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 41c5d29 | The love in one of us is the love in all of us. 'There's actually no place where God stops and you start,' and no place where you stop and I start. Love is energy, an infinite continuum. Your mind extends into mine and into everyone else's. It doesn't stay enclosed within your body. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 6689682 | The ego doesn't come up to us and say, "Hi, I'm your self-loathing." It's not stupid, because we're not. Rather, it says things like, "Hi, I'm your adult, mature, rational self. I'll help you look out for number one." Then it proceeds to counsel us to look out for ourselves, at the expense of others. It teaches us selfishness, greed, judgment, and small-mindedness." | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 54d9708 | The Course teaches that the Holy Spirit was created in the moment when the first fearful thought was thought. As perfect love, God corrects all mistakes the moment they occur. He couldn't force us back to love, because love doesn't force. It does, however, create alternatives. The Holy Spirit is God's alternative to fear. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| a703b7b | So it is with you. The perfect you isn't something you need to create, because God already created it. The perfect you is the love within you. Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self, just as excess marble surrounded Michelangelo's perfect statue. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| eb346fa | In order to escape the illusion and find inner peace, remember that only love in a situation is real. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| ac38162 | He teaches us to see love as our only function. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 9793205 | Course in Miracles says that everyone we meet will either be our crucifier or our savior, depending on what we choose to be to them. Focusing on their guilt drives the nails of self-loathing more deeply into our own skin. Focusing on their innocence sets us free. Since 'no thoughts are neutral,' every relationship takes us deeper into Heaven or deeper into Hell. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 30aaf4e | For some reason, it takes my brain a moment to process...the open-close symbols on elevators, which is which. | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | ||
| de06793 | It takes a snowflake two hours to fall from cloud to earth. Can't you just see its slow, peaceful decent? | snowflakes | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | |
| 31c09e3 | Only then will women be able to talk about what "beauty" really involves: the attention of people we do not know, rewards for things we did not earn, sex from men who reach for us as for a brass ring on a carousel, hostility and scepticism from other women, adolescence extended longer than it ought to be, cruel aging, and a long hard struggle for identity. And we will learn that what is good about "beauty"--the promise of confidence, sexual.. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 216726f | By the 1980s beauty had come to play in women's status-seeking the same role as money plays in that of men: a defensive proof to aggressive competitors of womanhood or manhood. Since both value systems are reductive, neither reward is ever enough, and each quickly loses any relationship to real-life values. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 4a112b2 | Some women have become far too proscriptive of other women's pleasures and private arrangements, and the definition of feminism has become ideologically overloaded. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| da1e988 | The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty born in that era, the seed of the idea, was perfect. More important, the idea itself carried within it the moral power to correct the contradictions in its execution that were obvious from the very birth of the new nation. | freedom liberty perfection | Naomi Wolf | |
| e94cb4f | The beauty myth posited to women a false choice: Which will I be, sexual or serious? We must reject that false and forced dilemma. Men's sexuality is taken to be enhanced by their seriousness; to be at the same time a serious person and a sexual being is to be fully human. Let's turn on those who offer this devil's bargain and refuse to believe that in choosing one aspect of the self we must thereby forfeit the other. In a world in which wo.. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| b81f75b | The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| b2bfd26 | I thought of how many women told me dispiritedly about how their husbands waited for them to ask--or to make a list--and how demoralizing that was for them. I could not help thinking that there was some element of passive aggression in this recurrent theme of nice men, good, playful dads, full of initiative and motivation at work, who "waited to be asked" to do the more tedious baby-related work at home, until the asking was finally scaled .. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 70ab7ec | Sexuality follows fashion, which follows politics. | sexuality | Naomi Wolf | |
| 7b70e2b | Dopamine can be read as the ultimate feminist chemical in the female brain. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 52fe368 | Everyone needs faith: faith that even though the world is full of evil, a suitor will come and kiss us awake; faith that the girl will escape the tower, the big bad wolf will die, and even those poisoned by malevolence can be reborn, as innocent as purity itself. | Rene Denfeld | ||
| fd4a2f9 | The fact is, women aren't having cosmetic surgery to stay beautiful. As Naomi Wolf wrote in The Beauty Myth more than twenty years ago, many women who undergo surgery are fighting to stay loved, relevant, employed, admired; they're fighting against time running out. If they simply age naturally, don't diet or dye their hair, we feel they've "let themselves go." But if they continue to dress youthfully we feel they're "trying too hard" or br.. | Emma Woolf | ||
| 4842aed | Let me use a second metaphor. Imagine that you found a tangle of seaweed on the edge of the shore and lifted it. The heaviest parts rest on the sand in a mesh, but some skeins extend vertically. This neural network is shaped like that: it looks like a tangled skein of a hundred thousand golden threads that has been drawn upward. The mass of it gathers in the pelvis, but strands from the same network extend upward to the spinal cord and brai.. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 61cf3de | It is not biology alone but heroism too that drives women to find the will and grit and creativity to put one's own impulses aside to serve the needs of a tiny creature around the clock--especially in an environment in which that heroic choice is only casually acknowledged, much less honored, cherished, or assisted. I believe the myth about the ease and naturalness of mothering--the ideal of the effortlessly ever-giving mother--is propped u.. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 126d8f7 | There are men who are wolves inside, and want to eat up other people to fill their bellies. That it what was in your house with you, all your life. But here you are with your brothers, and you are not eaten up, and there is not a wolf inside you. You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away. That is all we can do for each other in the world, to keep the wolf away. And if there has been food in my house for you, then I am glad, glad w.. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 3b4b0d1 | Dieting makes women think of ourselves as sick, religious babies. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| d13739d | The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying. | heroes illiad patroclus sidekicks | Thomas C. Foster | |
| 573254d | The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge. | literature quest writing | Thomas C. Foster | |
| 0d53659 | Please note, I am not suggesting that illicit drugs are required to break down social barriers. | humor | Thomas C. Foster |