The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.
Marianne WilliamsonWhen you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the conscious mind are not enough by themselves to handle the problem. It is like a breaker switch in your brain is simply flipped. Anybody who has had this kind of a problem knows that it doesn't matter how intelligent you are. Sigmund Freud said, "Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis."
Marianne WilliamsonWe think that because we dwell inside our bodies that we are separate from other people who dwell inside theirs.
Marianne WilliamsonAngels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)
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