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The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life (精装)
by Marianne Williamson
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Continuing in the tradition of A Return to Love, Williamson's latest draws on the New Age tome A Course In Miracles to offer spiritual advice for troubled times and find peace. |
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Wayne W. Dyer (Author of The Power of Intention) (MSL quote), USA
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[From] one of our most profound teachers of transformational wisdom, this book is truly a gift to the world. |
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Deepak Chopra (Author of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success) (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-31 00:00>
Read this book - you’ll discover you can dance with the luminous mystery of existence, co-creating a new world with God. |
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Caroline Myss (Author of Sacred Contracts and Anatomy of the Spirit)(MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-31 00:00>
Never has a society needed this wisdom and guidance more than now. |
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Body & Soul (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-31 00:00>
Marianne Williamson challenges us to dive beneath the slick surface of our everyday life to encounter - and embrace - what frightens us most. |
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Steven Taylor (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-31 00:00>
Marianne Williamson's book, The Gift of Change, is a gift for anyone who struggles with a world that is constantly changing. Change can be a source of fear and frustration, and something to be resisted. Or, it can be an opportunity for us to discover our blocks to love, and to grow in our ability to love and forgive unconditionally. I believe that everything that happens in our lives can be a tremendous blessing - if we choose to look at it that way. And few writers say that as eloquently, and with as much passion and conviction, as Marianne Williamson. Thank you, Marianne, for this wonderful gift! |
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Connie Davis (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-31 00:00>
Marianne Williamson says, "Every change is a challenge to become who we really are." She is so right! I recently lost my Mother who turned 89 years of age one month before she went to heaven. Regardless of the age, or how sick they may be, we are never prepared for the loss of our Mother who brought us into this world. Once they are gone, there is an emptiness that no one, except God, can fulfill.
Upon the death of a loved one, there are members of a family with whom we had a close relationship suddenly change - especially when a settlement of an estate is involved. We are startled to find out that same person we thought was our friend, and loving relative becomes a compete stranger overnight.
The love once shared turns to bitterness, misunderstanding, and we begin to harbor unforgiveness in our heart toward this estranged person that we once held dear. Not only that, we lose sight of the person we really are, and become someone we no longer recognize in the mirror. The ugly thoughts that creep in are foreign to our personality - we ask ourselves where did they come from?
This book offers us ways in which to handle dramatic and emotional changes that present themselves in our daily life. Marianne has a gift of words that reaches the depth of our very soul - words guiding us into peace, joy, and a new hope for a better tomorrow through the Holy Spirit.
Marianne Williamson radiates peace when she speaks, and it comes across in her books as well. In the chapter on "From Fear To Love" she teaches a way to achieve or embrace a more spiritual perspective to the challenges we face in order to resolve the discontent that lies within our heart toward another person.
The turn of each page causes the reader to search within themselves and seek the abundant peace that will allow us to dismiss the turmoil and unhappiness that is destroying our spirit, and find true forgiveness for those who are trying to harm us. Should we expect to have a better and happier life, we must indeed seek The Gift of Change which can come only through the prayer and by the grace of God.
Thank you Marianne, for writing this excellent book to challenge our minds and direct our pathway to a higher level on this life's journey. If we endeavor to seek change - we will find it through reading this book.
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John P. Morgan (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-31 00:00>
This is yet another incredible book from Marianne Williamson. The same author who gave us the delightful and inspiring, A Return to Love.
I think that for the most part change is very scary; that nobody really embraces change when we are first confronted with it because when things change, we change and of course the reverse of this is true.
But we must realize with Marianne that despite everything we may be going through, there is another way of looking at things in our lives and if we are open to it, God will show it to us as well as through us. When we look at it, the only constant in our finite lives is change so we might as well learn how not only to accept it, but how to embrace it, love it, and truly welcome it into our lives.
I know that there are those people who want to claim that their way to God is the right way and they can back it up with all kinds of scripture, but the really sad thing that most of us have done without even fully realizing it is that we have "made" God small by being small ourselves. Not that you really can make God small, mind you, but our ideas, our beliefs, our opinions can be small and limited and to me life is too expansive, too incredible, too wondrous to put God in a box and say, "This is the Truth."
We all have ideas that "ring true" but we must not say that ours is better than others, we must simply say that it's just another way of looking at things.
One day, and I don't know when, we will harness the energies of Love, Compassion, Peace, Forgiveness, and Truth and our world will burn in the purifying fires of Spirit and we will come to know that all is God and God is all.
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Mary Bauer (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-01 00:00>
It is clear - Marianne Williamson is most interested in creating miracles in this world and not just short-term gains.
As a new reader to this author, The Gift of Change for me started a bit slow, perhaps even somewhat negative and hardly what I considered uplifting: "I think, there is a collective depression among us, not so much dealt with as glossed over and suppressed. Each of us, as individual actors in a larger drama, carries an imprint of a larger despair."
But I encourage you to keep reading. After the doom and gloom the author makes this profound point: "Only when we have faced the limits of what we can do, does it begin to dawn on us the limitlessness of what God can do. It is in the depth of the darkness now confronting our world that will reveal to us the magic of who we truly are. We are spirit, and thus we are more than the world. When we remember that, the world itself will bow to our remembrance."
As a student and lecturer of the principles taught in the heavily Christian "spiritual psychotherapy" called A Course In Miracles (Foundation for Inner Peace), Ms. Williamson liberally borrows many of her reflections and passages found in AGOC from the Course and makes no bones about it. So steeped in these teachings, she comes off as genuine and her approach to living life the best way possible is not only believable, but really hits home.
Her honesty is refreshing. She looks back on her life, as we so often do, and wonders how she could have thought the things she did. Now in her 50's, she muses over a picture she saw of herself taken when she was in her 30's and wonders how she could have ever thought that that was inadequate? She says what most of us are thinking and feeling: that somehow we will never muster up to anything close to good enough. We are extrememly hard on ourselves and left to the ramblings of our own puny egos, we will always think of ourselves as lacking...
But we are not our egos, as the author points out time and again throughout the Gift of Change. We belong to God. "It's not humble to think you can't do what God is asking you to do; it's arrogant to think you know yourself better than the One who thought you up." "I am not here to design God's universe but to allow Him to show me the design He has already created. It was created in total love, for me and all living things. My mission is to trust that."
In the end, I feel Ms. Williamson's point was not so much about the benefits of change, but more so about asking God for guidance and then acting on the advice we know to be true in our hearts which is that of love, compassion, joy, and kindness. This is the way we create lasting change in us and the world. This is the way we create miracles. |
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Connie Davis (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-01 00:00>
Marianne Williamson says, "Every change is a challenge to become who we really are." She is so right! I recently lost my Mother who turned 89 years of age one month before she went to heaven. Regardless of the age, or how sick they may be, we are never prepared for the loss of our Mother who brought us into this world. Once they are gone, there is an emptiness that no one, except God, can fulfill.
Upon the death of a loved one, there are members of a family with whom we had a close relationship suddenly change - especially when a settlement of an estate is involved. We are startled to find out that same person we thought was our friend, and loving relative becomes a compete stranger overnight.
The love once shared turns to bitterness, misunderstanding, and we begin to harbor unforgiveness in our heart toward this estranged person that we once held dear. Not only that, we lose sight of the person we really are, and become someone we no longer recognize in the mirror. The ugly thoughts that creep in are foreign to our personality - we ask ourselves where did they come from?
This book offers us ways in which to handle dramatic and emotional changes that present themselves in our daily life. Marianne has a gift of words that reaches the depth of our very soul - words guiding us into peace, joy, and a new hope for a better tomorrow through the Holy Spirit.
Marianne Williamson radiates peace when she speaks, and it comes across in her books as well. In the chapter on "From Fear To Love" she teaches a way to achieve or embrace a more spiritual perspective to the challenges we face in order to resolve the discontment that lies within our heart toward another person.
The turn of each page causes the reader to search within themselves and seek the abundant peace that will allow us to dismiss the turmoil and unhappiness that is destroying our spirit, and find true forgiveness for those who are trying to harm us. Should we expect to have a better and happier life, we must indeed seek "The Gift of Change" which can come only through the prayer and by the grace of God.
Thank you Marianne, for writing this excellent book to challenge our minds and direct our pathway to a higher level on this life's journey. If we endeavor to seek change - we will find it through reading this book. |
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Patricia Moore (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-01 00:00>
For some reason, Gary Renard's people are determined to slander Marianne Williamson. Pay no attention, let them swallow their own venom. This book is exquisite. It follows the Course's teachings about changing your state of mind and forgiving what seems to be around you, but also shows us that it's okay to improve the physical world at the same time. The two are not mutually exclusive. You CAN have both inner and outer peace. Sometimes a loving action is just what we need to bring the mind into alignment. Isn't it odd that Renard's group is constantly judging and attacking, when that is the very thing the Course implores us to release? Anyway, enjoy Marianne's book. It is truly a blessing. |
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