Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.
Marianne WilliamsonRead
Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.
Interpretation
Spiritual growth requires letting go of past narratives to allow for new possibilities.
This quote emphasizes the importance of releasing the burdens of past experiences and traumas in order to facilitate personal and spiritual development. By letting go of outdated beliefs and stories, individuals open themselves up to new opportunities and the creation of a more fulfilling life narrative that aligns with their true selves.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming adversity, you might use the quote to emphasize starting anew.
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.
As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts.
The world is in trouble. Many have prayed. God sent help. God sent you.
Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.
A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and grown more beautiful because of it. She has proved she can hold her kingdom together. She has become its vision. She cares deeply about something bigger than herself. She rules with authentic power.
Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.
Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.
The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis--only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the reality before which we must justify our existence. For this is the truth we must reach to live, that everything is and we just in it.
Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation.
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Every creature is a word of God.
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