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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Coast to Coast AM. I am Lie

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Speaker 1: Cigar and my guest is Marianne Williamson. We've been talking

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Speaker 1: about the state of the world today and how many

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Speaker 1: Americans are feeling this level of anxiety or depression or despair,

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Speaker 1: and how we can change that level of thinking. And

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Speaker 1: although the statistics are daunting, Marianne, how can we use

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Speaker 1: any type of discipline of your mind to bring about

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Speaker 1: some type of good for yourself or others? Is there

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Speaker 1: anything that you recommend. I know that you're a big

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Speaker 1: student of the course and miracles. Well, it has to

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Speaker 1: begin on the inside, of course, and many people pray,

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Speaker 1: many people meditate, anything that has to do with finding

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Speaker 1: that love inside yourself. Sometimes we are so wounded and

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Speaker 1: hurt by life that we become hard and we put

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Speaker 1: a shell around ourselves so we won't be hurt by

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Speaker 1: anyone again. But putting up that shell and putting up

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Speaker 1: those walls actually invites more hurt because when we do

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Speaker 1: put up a wall, what we're really signing deep in

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Speaker 1: a heart someone please love me. But we deflect, you know,

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Speaker 1: we send away the love, the relationships, the good will

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Speaker 1: that we most want. So it does begin with waking

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Speaker 1: up in the morning and just sending love out to

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Speaker 1: everybody you're going to see today. You know, people say, oh,

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Speaker 1: that's silly, Well, it's funny to hear when you know, theoretically,

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Speaker 1: isn't that what the words of Jesus were, that we

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Speaker 1: should love one another, The words of Buddha, where our

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Speaker 1: infinite compassion brings happiness, the words of the Old Testament justice, justice,

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Speaker 1: do justice, of mercy, walk humbly with thy God. And

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Speaker 1: many people who don't relate specifically to a particular religious

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Speaker 1: philosophy are coming to understand we've all got to find

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Speaker 1: that inner quiet within ourselves. I think between social media,

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Speaker 1: the fact we're all on our tablets, we're on our

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Speaker 1: on our you know people, you know, we go to

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Speaker 1: the dinner table and our kids are on their computers,

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Speaker 1: they're on their tablets, are on their iPads or iPhones.

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Speaker 1: We've got to discover each other again. And I think

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Speaker 1: that takes some discipline because the one thing, as far

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Speaker 1: as those tablets are concerned, we're all addicted and we

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Speaker 1: know it, and they they they're designed that way. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they're designed to addict us. And we all know have

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Speaker 1: to start in our own families. It has to start

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Speaker 1: in our own homes. It has to start with parents saying,

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Speaker 1: you know, you're not going to bring that to the

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Speaker 1: dinner table. It has to start with our talking to

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Speaker 1: one another again and just asking, you know, asking the

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Speaker 1: God of your understanding, make me an instrument of love.

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Speaker 1: Make me a person who contributes to other people. Help

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Speaker 1: me not worry about myself so much that I'm not

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Speaker 1: thinking about how many other people are in the same

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Speaker 1: boat that I'm in, going through the same struggles that

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Speaker 1: I'm going through. That's the only way that aren't any

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Speaker 1: silver bullets that's going to heal everything, right, But there's

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Speaker 1: if there's way to the only thing that's going to

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Speaker 1: dissolve all the hate that's in the era is if

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Speaker 1: we put out more love. Love is the only thing

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Speaker 1: that can drive out hate. You you have the only

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Speaker 1: thing that can drive out darkness. You've been a student

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Speaker 1: and a teacher of course and miracles for many, many,

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Speaker 1: many years. I've followed your daily lessons from the course.

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Speaker 1: Could you tell us a little bit about what that is?

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Speaker 1: Was it originally? Was it a channeled text. Well, the

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Speaker 1: Course in Miracles. You know, no book like The Course

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Speaker 1: of Miracles has a monopoly on truth. It's a psychological

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Speaker 1: mind training based on universal spiritual things. So people from

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Speaker 1: all religions read the course, people from no religions read

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Speaker 1: the course. It's simply about recognizing the power of the mind,

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Speaker 1: and that every single thought we think carries with it

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Speaker 1: the capacity to affect our lives and the lives around us,

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Speaker 1: not just everything we do, but everything we think. And

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Speaker 1: we are trained in this world, and we're trained by

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Speaker 1: the narratives of this world. And in many ways we're tempting,

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Speaker 1: because of all the anxiety that we've been talking about

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Speaker 1: and so the problem that group of people is the problem.

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Speaker 1: And we can disagree about things like we were talking

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Speaker 1: politically before. It's important to have passionate disagreements or to

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Speaker 1: have to personally demonize one another. And we once again

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Speaker 1: it's on social media. It's in too much of the media.

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Speaker 1: We are far too indulgent of hatred and our hearts

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Speaker 1: and the only you know, we ourselves are responsible for

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Speaker 1: transforming our lives on the inside. We have rights to

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Speaker 1: it now does to help transform things on the outside.

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Speaker 1: But none of that is a substitute for the changes

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Speaker 1: everybody who's listening right now, they even think of just

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Speaker 1: one person, and everybody's listening, there's one person who If

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Speaker 1: you forgave that person, your whole life would change. Because

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Speaker 1: you are holding onto resentments, and you're holding onto grievances,

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Speaker 1: you're holding onto what they did to you, and so

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Speaker 1: you're not letting life begin again. You're not letting you know,

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Speaker 1: the way the universe works is kind of like a GPS.

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Speaker 1: If you took the wrong turn, the GPS will automatically recalibrate. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's how life works. You know, somebody treated you without love,

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Speaker 1: At least, so we all have those things. But life

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Speaker 1: is created to give you another path. But not if

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Speaker 1: you're holding onto the resentments. You know, not if you're

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Speaker 1: holding on to the you know what they did to me,

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Speaker 1: and then you actually subconsciously invite more of the same

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Speaker 1: with a toning in our hearts, with a mistakes we've made,

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Speaker 1: and praying in whatever way we pray, or asking, you know,

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Speaker 1: whatever language works for us, that we might we ourselves

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Speaker 1: might change and be more open hearted. Every thought we think,

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Speaker 1: good things. We attract people who want to be with us,

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Speaker 1: We attract love, we attract happiness. But when our hearts

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Speaker 1: us the way we're shut down to them. And you know,

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Speaker 1: everybody's listening recognizes everything I'm saying, because this is just

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Speaker 1: a human experience. Yes, it definitely is, and you have

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Speaker 1: I was listening to a lecture from lind twist, and

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Speaker 1: visiting indigenous tribes. And there's a prophecy amongst these tribes

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Speaker 1: prophecy says that we're moving is more towards this light,

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Speaker 1: solution and resolution. And so this conversation is aproposed to

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Speaker 1: that because you're talking about, yes, these daunting statistics and

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Speaker 1: conversation needs to go towards that level of hope. What

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Speaker 1: do you feel is possible, Marianne, what do you see

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Speaker 1: in the next twenty years. Well, we're living in two

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Speaker 1: simultaneous realities right One world is clearly falling apart around us,

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Speaker 1: I mean, things are crumbling, and clearly there is the

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Speaker 1: infinite capacity to transform, to change, to begin again, I

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Speaker 1: of this the prodigal son. The father is more excited

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Speaker 1: stronger in the broken places. That's happening too. What's happening

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Speaker 1: And you know, there are so many ways that solutions

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Speaker 1: which one of those things we're put in our attention to. Yes,

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Speaker 1: sure astrologically this is all being supported that we're in

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Speaker 1: this transition I feel is taking place. But do you

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Speaker 1: towards this more hopeful future, a more connected humanity. Well,

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Speaker 1: on an external level, the average American has much less

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Speaker 1: always say, Lisa, when I practice what I preach, my

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Speaker 1: And we shouldn't kid ourselves. Oh yeah, civilization could go

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Speaker 1: we're aware of the statistics, and yes there is an

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Speaker 1: this could be used towards good How do I create

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Speaker 1: to generate more of the same like it does in Ai. Well, also,

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Speaker 1: you know when you say how do I, it's just

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Speaker 1: there is no how to to this? You decide to

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Speaker 1: You know, I realized a few years ago that the

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Speaker 1: best advice I can give myself, I'm telling you, ninety

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Speaker 1: answer is some form of oh, Marianne, get over yourself. Yes,

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Speaker 1: think about somebody who's life is a little harder than

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Speaker 1: yours right now, And how could you help just that

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Speaker 1: kind of thinking begin to transform everything? You know? Martin

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