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  <title><![CDATA[The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Marianne Williamson]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Feb 10 11:36:29 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Marianne Williamson.<br/><br/>She has a way of writing that is very clear and gets right to the heart of things.  <br/><br/>1. It is crucial to take the time everyday to go within and meditate and pray.  If you don't take the time to do that, you have no right to complain.<br/><br/>2. I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15062944">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jan 02 14:49:57 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[1. from Forgetting who we are to Remembering who we are (ego vs. holiness)<br/>2. from Negative thinking to Positive love <br/>3. from Anxiety to Atonement (meditation)<br/>4. from Asking God to change the world to Praying that he change us<br/>5. from Living in the past and future to Living in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41641658">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 28 13:44:48 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 31 18:55:42 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Here is what Caroline Myss, author of Sacred Contracts, wrote about this book: The Gift of Change needs to be read by every person who can feel the speed of change rapidly increasing in her/her personal world. In this essential book, Williamson examines change as a spiritual necessity and offe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34053474">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book covered a wide range of material and it wasn't until I finished it that I grasped just how vast that material was.  It begins with a lot on spiritualization: <br/><br/>1. The Challenge to Grow (spirtually), <br/><br/>2. Negative Thinking (&quot;You don't get karmic amnesy for, 'Oh, yea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16366561">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68045263">
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 19 10:30:13 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 27 23:23:52 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite quotes of all time is by Marianne Williamson. I've never read one of her books before until now. She is a woman who is in tune with PROFOUND TRUTH. Are you ready to step into your potential and change the world yet? The faster all of us do this, the quicker we bring peace and love...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68045263">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51471443">
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[While I was a bit hesitant to read Marianne Williamson (I thought her too 'commercial') I find now that she does present, for me, some new insights on our relationship with God. Many references to 'A Course in Miracles', which I have not yet read.]]></body>
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    <review id="71512514">
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    <location><![CDATA[San Ramon, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Sep 16 23:22:20 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are many words you can use to describe this book. One of them is mindblowing. Another is liberating. Marianne explains that the small-minded ego has us in its grip, confining our concern to the narrow manifold attachments we have in our lives that we are fearful of not having or losing, and th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71512514">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43416846">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jan 17 20:00:52 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 17 20:01:52 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Marianne.  I love her message, I love her writing style.  Did I mention I love the message?  When I read her I can't help but get charged up and lifted up.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="42837971">
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    <body><![CDATA[Marianne's books have had a huge impact on how I look at my life and respond to it. I got to meet her in San Francisco and she is so fabulous!]]></body>
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    <review id="57876024">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat May 30 13:58:31 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another book of Marianne's that I reference all the time.  I love her words and how she writes.  I recommend anything this women writes!]]></body>
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    <review id="62002879">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jul 09 11:43:27 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok.  I always check out other self-help books on the market.  I found Marianne Williamson's THE RETURN TO LOVE very good; this one was not as good, at least I didn't think so.]]></body>
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    <review id="72051778">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book and how it made me begin to find peace. ]]></body>
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    <review id="41706819">
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Marianne Williamson writing and words resonate with me so. ]]></body>
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    <review id="72388066">
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you are not ready to change then don't read it!]]></body>
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    <review id="43529822">
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this more than most of her books which, lately, have left me underwhelmed and almost disappointed.  For a full review:<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://satia.blogspot.com/2009/02/gift-of-change-by-marianne-williamson.html" title="http://satia.blogspot.com/2009/02/gift-of-change-by-marianne-williamson.html">http://satia.blogspot.com/2009/02/gift-o...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23365639">
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[M. Williamson has a unique ability to bridge the spiritual and practical, the inspirational and personal.  Skip this book if you're looking for quick tips, tools and techniques for, as the title says, 'living your best life'.  This is all about cultivating our inner life ... about paying greater att...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23365639">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56960051">
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderful book from a powerful author.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually met Marianne at a &quot;Celebrate Your Life&quot; Conference two years ago in Scottsdale AZ.  She already knew what I was going to say to her before I walked up to have her sign my book.  It was an amazing three minute discussion.  This is the book she signed for me.  I love it and her ve...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[reading a bit at a time. Great for meditations/ This was a great book for me. I was able to get so much joy and comfort from its spiritual <br/>perspective. I just gave it to a friend and I sincerely hope she enjoys it as much as I did!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Williams is one of my favorite writers. She has a deeper wisdom that just clicks with me. This book took me a while to get through and wasn't my favorite of hers, but parts of it have great nuggets that it is well worht the read.]]></body>
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