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Marianne Williamson is the co-founder of the Peace Alliance

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Marianne Williamson is the co-founder of the Peace Alliance

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The Peace Alliance is committed to growing a movement of a million strong for peace. Together, we will create a critical mass necessary for peacebuilding to be our societal norm. We can make it happen!

We are a grassroots educational and advocacy organization focused on transforming how individuals, communities, and nations respond to conflict and violence. The prevention and intervention solutions we promote have proven effective in saving lives and dollars while enhancing cooperation skills and increasing social resilience.

The Peace Alliance is connected with an international organization in existence for over 10 years now that promotes departments of peace internationally - currently known as the Global Alliance for Ministries and Infrastructures for Peace - or GAMIP. With members representing 50 countries, 6 countries actually have operational governmental peace infrastructures - Costa Rica, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, South Sudan and East Timor.

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The Peace Alliance is committed to growing a movement of a million strong for peace. Together, we will create a critical mass necessary for peacebuilding to be our societal norm. We are a grassroots educational and advocacy organization focused on transforming how individuals, communities, and nations respond to conflict and violence.

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Williamson is the founder of Project Angel Food

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Williamson is the founder of Project Angel Food

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Project Angel Food's mission is to feed and nourish the sick as they battle critical illness. Volunteers and staff cook and deliver nutritious meals, free of charge, to homes throughout Los Angeles County to alleviate hunger, prevent malnutrition and return our clients to health.

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The basis for the book

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A Course In Miracles - Foundation for Inner Peace

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Website of the original organization appointed by the scribe, Dr. Helen Schucman, to publish and distribute the only authorized manuscript of A Course in Miracles, a self-study spiritual thought system that teaches the way to Universal Love through Forgiveness

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Get to know more about her and her mission

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Dear Friends,
With every decade, we go through developmental stages - no less as adults than as children. Yet the developmental stages of adulthood are less well researched and investigated than the stages of childhood.

TEARS TO TRIUMPH
TEARS TO TRIUMPH: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment is Marianne's latest New York Times bestseller. With references to A Course in Miracles, plus an inquiry into the spiritual responses to suffering of Buddha, Moses and Jesus, the book opens a much needed conversation about the source of our sadness and its transcendence.

BOOKS BY MARIANNE
Marianne Williamson has written seven New York Times best sellers, including her newest book Tears To Triumph. Four of her books have been #1 New York Times best sellers, including the mega best seller A Return To Love. A Return To Love contains the famous paragraph beginning, "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."
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ON-DEMAND, ONLINE COURSES
You can now enjoy access to Marianne's digital library of her most popular online courses and seminars. The Aphrodite Training; The Law of Divine Compensation - On Work, Money, and Miracles; A Return to Love; Creating a Career that Matters, Miraculous Relationships and more, all instantly available via on-demand access.
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SISTER GIANT 2017
On February 2-4, 2017, Marianne partnered with Derrick Harkins, Vice President of Union Theological Seminary, to host the 4th SISTER GIANT conference - live in Washington DC and via Livestream - which explored the intersection of spirituality and politics. Marianne was joined by Senator Bernie Sanders, and a host of experts speaking on the most critical spiritual and political issues of our day.

Harvard Divinity School
On Consciousness, Spirituality, and Politics in America. October 2015

University of Southern California Baccalaureate Speech. May 2016

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Marianne Williamson " #1 New York Times Best-Selling Author

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Dear Friends, With every decade, we go through developmental stages - no less as adults than as children. Yet the developmental stages of adulthood are less well researched and investigated than the stages of childhood. TEARS TO TRIUMPH TEARS TO TRIUMPH: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment is Marianne's latest New York Times bestseller.

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Listen to accounts emphasizing the importance of love

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Love often feels inexplicable, the most unpredictable of forces. Using science, math and methodical observation, these speakers offer clues to understanding it.

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Marianne Williamson on Recognizing Miracles in Your Life

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Author Marianne Williamson says a miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love. Watch as she reveals how to open your heart and embrace the path you're meant to take in life. Plus, learn the one question you should ask yourself if you're feeling stuck.

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How the Course connects to Williamson's arguments 

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How the Course connects to Williamson's arguments 

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MIRACULOUS RELATIONSHIPS: About the Course

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A new online course on relationships with Marianne Williamson, based on the principles of A Course in Miracles. Details here: http://miraculousrelationshipscourse.com

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The impact spiritual healing has on a life

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The impact spiritual healing has on a life

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It is my own journey of total self-acceptance and healing that inspired the creation of the Sensual Seed Oracle Card Deck. So that every woman could celebrate and honour her natural essence.

I had always felt fragile, not just in body but even in my soul. However, the real turning point in my life came when I gave birth to my daughter and she was unable to come home with me from the hospital. Things were definitely not turning out as I had expected and nothing prepared me for what lay ahead.

I felt totally powerless and unable to express all the emotions I was undergoing or allow anyone to see the real me. I was depressed, anxious and alone with all my insecurities. I tried to keep busy as a way of coping but nothing would relent the gnawing feeling of emptiness inside. To me, I was just not 'good enough.'

Growing up in a family where feelings were not expressed openly, it was difficult, if not impossible, for me to verbalise everything I was feeling and undergoing.

I was confused and it reflected in my relationship with my husband. I was struggling to make sense of myself and my life and this was taking me further and further away from my marriage.

I began looking for 'something' different in all the wrong places. The irony was that I did not really know what I was looking for. Perhaps, it was just a distraction from my inner turmoil that I was seeking.

One afternoon while standing alone in the kitchen making a cup of tea, a profound sense of realisation dawned upon me. A thought suddenly flashed into my mind that life is a game. It was like I was instantly seeing everything through new eyes. I had come face to face with the fact that my marriage was falling apart and the thought of losing my family was unbearably painful. At that moment, I decided to quit playing the impossible game I had been playing for a new happier one.

I knew that I needed something to pull me out of this dark space. Yet being so sensitive, I felt scared to go down the medical path which had always left me fearful and anxious.

I knew I needed to find another way. I needed to find the light within my own heart to get back in touch with my true self.

It was divine timing when a friend invited me to join a meditation class, and a whole new world of hope and joy opened up. From there, I began exploring the world of metaphysics and natural healing. I then undertook studies in counselling and hypnotherapy so that I could understand myself better.

Things began to slowly fall into place. My marriage healed, my husband and I came through it together and stronger than ever.

One thing that had truly helped me through this dark night of my soul was a nightly seed meditation practice I had built up. I would write down one word that represented what I was feeling that day on handmade paper I had crafted. I would contemplate what the word meant to me, what images it evoked, and write down everything that came to me spontaneously allowing the words to flow naturally and effortlessly. Through this practice I found comfort, self-acceptance and assurance that everything was working out for my highest good. I felt empowered as it became easier and more natural for me to believe in my potential and to trust my inner guidance.

Looking back, I know that this is where the sowing of the seeds for the creation of the Sensual Seed Oracle card deck happened.

Remember that healing starts with a desire to feel better, along with the willingness and courage to take responsibility and look inside. Inside you there is a treasure, it is your greatest gift and it's been waiting for you your whole life. The path that leads you to this treasure is the path of unconditional love towards your own Self. When we love ourselves completely and unconditionally, something miraculous happens. Everything falls into place - people, relationships, situations, everything. I hope that through Sensual Seed oracle cards you will also experience this magical return to love that I have experienced!

With love, Christine

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Christine's Story - A Return to Love | Sensual Seed | Oracle Cards

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It is my own journey of total self-acceptance and healing that inspired the creation of the Sensual Seed Oracle Card Deck. So that every woman could celebrate and honour her natural essence. I had always felt fragile, not just in body but even in my soul.

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A coach realizes the true purpose of his career 

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I'm about to come across like an old fart right about now. But I do so with love.

Remember when MTV played these weird things called music videos? It was a short film based around a band's latest single. Granted, music videos are still popular on YouTube, but it's not the same.

Dang it! It's not the same! #getoffmylawn

One of the most iconic clips of the 1980s was Addicted to Love by the late English singer Robert Palmer. Oh, gentlemen of a certain age...I know all y'all remember this video.

What's it going to take to let love into my life? What's it going to take to accept the love that people have for me at its core? Without question and without condition.

He's dressed simply but he's looking sharp in a crisp white dress shirt, a black necktie, and dark slacks. Behind him is a chorus of models serving as his "band." They're all dressed in tight black dresses, impossibly high heels, and all are wearing bold, bright, red lipstick. They're all mindlessly dancing while pantomiming their instruments.

While it's obvious they aren't really playing - pay close attention to the lady sitting behind the drum kit - they looked damn good doing so.

"You know you're gonna have to face it, you're addicted to love."

C'mon, you're all humming the chorus in your head right now. Don't lie to Coach Ryan...

I saw Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 the other day and I only have a three-word review. "I am Groot."

But as I'm headed home, I put my Apple Music on shuffle. All You Need Is Love came up. And I haven't heard that song in a long time.

"Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be. It's easy."

Okay, why did I just reference two songs that came out 29 years apart? That just happen to have the word "love" in the title?

Consider that all my work as a coach, all my work with a coach, and all my transformational work that I have taken on in the last three years has been leading to one thing. All the talk about power, forgiveness, authenticity, and the like has been leading to one thing.

See, these things actually do Come Together?

Perhaps I've got monkey finger? Have you considered that?

No?

Moving on.

As I'm listening to the Beatles' song, it hit me; one of the most existential questions of my entire transformation. And, to be honest, perhaps one of the most existential questions of my entire life.

Am I allergic to love?

I'm quite proud of my life right now. I've dropped more than 60 pounds in not quite a year. I'm neck deep in a new book. I've developed relationships with people I couldn't imagine just a couple years ago. And I own a passport for the first time. AND I'm going to use it soon!

What is my life?

I gotta say, there's one aspect of my life I don't know if I've truly let in yet. I've had offers and I've made investments, but I haven't unconditionally let this into my life yet.

Yet!

Even now, with some amazing people who love me, there are times when I don't believe I truly deserve it. I don't believe I truly deserve the love. And I am pushing away the love that people have for me.

What's it going to take to let love into my life? What's it going to take to accept the love that people have for me at its core? Without question and without condition.

What's it going to take for me to unconditionally love myself?

Let me let you in on a secret. And yes, I'm about to talk about my dog again.

When I first adopted Pete, I must've googled the phrase "does my dog really love me" twenty times. I had no concept that a creature could love me unconditionally and only ask for love in return.

I sure as hell wasn't getting love from the man in the mirror.

"You know, I'm gonna have to face it, I'm allergic to love."

Where are the dancing girls? The fancy production values?

Even now, with some amazing people who love me, there are times when I don't believe I truly deserve it. I don't believe I truly deserve the love. And I am pushing away the love that people have for me.

What more can I say? Love scares me. Love concerns me. Love confuses me. Love confounds me.

But am I really allergic to love?

I gotta say, in a twisted way this love allergy seems to be serving something. Maybe not a healthy something, but it serves something nonetheless.
This allergy keeps me safe from enjoying and appreciating my great life. It keeps me from celebrating me.
Because when I celebrate me, I get to live a life of possibility. And possibility isn't reality...yet. It's not a sure thing and the unsure thing scares me. (Sez the guy who just moved from Alabama to New York for pure possibility.)

When I start to feel the love that people have for me, I question it. I don't take it at a surface level. I can't help but think there's an ulterior motive behind it. Like it's the setup for a punchline.

How could ANYBODY love me?

Can I really believe this? Can I really believe people actually love me?

Maybe people love me, but not until I provide them with something. With laughter, thought, or if I give love first.

Why am I so scared of love? Why am I so scared of the people in my life who love me?

It's a process. But it's a process I'm eager to undertake because it fulfills an essential, basic human need.

Humans need love.

As always, I'd love to work with you (see what I did there?) Perhaps I can support you in creating and embracing some love in your lives. [email protected] is my email. Hit me up and we'll connect.

While I don't believe a love addiction is what everybody needs. I do believe that love is all we need. Love has solved more problems and has led to more breakthroughs than doubt ever has and ever will.

As Marianne Williamson once wrote: "Love is the only thing that's real. Everything else is an illusion."

Don't fear love. Embrace it. And it'll come to you.

It's easy.

Photos by Funky Dooby and Jeff

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Stellar student inspired by a quote from A Return To Love

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CHEYENNE - Some girls spend days leading up to their high school graduations perfecting their outfits, signing yearbooks and making summer plans.

Lauren Streeter probably still made time for those things, but she spent several days before the Burns Junior-Senior High School graduation ceremony Sunday at a horse competition in Pueblo, Colorado.

"We go to probably 15 different shows a year," Streeter said Friday.

"Right now, I'm actually standing in a stall barn in Pueblo."

Streeter said she's been riding horses since she was about 4 years old, and started showing reining horses when she was in eighth grade.

"We like to describe reining as figure skating on horseback so you do sliding stops and spins and run circles of varying speeds," she explained.

In December, Streeter found out she was named the 2016 American Quarter Horse national champion in youth reining, based on competition points she earned at events throughout the year. She'll be honored at the American Quarter Horse Youth Association's World Championship Show in August in Oklahoma City.

"It was a goal that she set that she was determined to get done - she knew that she wanted to reach that goal," Jan Streeter, her mother, said.

And that's the kind of student she was in high school, too.

"It doesn't matter if it's school work or riding horses or judging horses, she's certainly a perfectionist, wants to do the best she can," Craig Spatz, the agricultural education teacher and FFA (Future Farmers of America) advisor at Burns, said.

Spatz said Lauren Streeter is an excellent student not only in his class, but in all classes, and that she has tremendous work ethic "whether it be in the school or in the arena."

"She works extremely hard to make sure that she can do the things that she wants to do," he said.

One of Streeter's dreams outside of the arena is to work for NASA, Burns Principal Bobby Dishman said, sounding impressed.

"Driven, absolutely driven," Dishman said emphatically when asked to describe Streeter.

Dishman explained that one of the teachers requires students to pick their dream job, research colleges and go through a mock interview process. Streeter, of course, picked working at NASA.

"Her interview was quite impressive," he said. "For an 18-year-old girl not ready for the field yet, so to say, (it) was very impressive."

Jan Streeter said Lauren became inspired by "Hidden Figures," a recently released movie about three black women who worked as mathematicians in the 1960s at NASA.

"That was an inspiration to her as well, like, 'I should do that,'" she said.

Eric Allen, science teacher at Burns, said Streeter has always been committed to school and goes above and beyond to understand whatever she's learning - especially science.

"She was a year ahead of most of her peers in science," he said. "She jumped ahead a year and doubled up on science, so it has always been something she's been interested in."

Allen said Streeter has never let her involvement with reining interfere with her schoolwork, either.

"She works really hard to do her very best at both things," he said.

"Even though she misses some school, she does a really good job at coming back and learning what she needs to learn."

And she's personable, too, Allen said, describing her as cheerful and friendly in addition to being focused on her goals.

"She's able to work with a lot of different other types of personalities, which is really nice," he said.

"(She's) just good with including her peers and working with them."

Streeter plans to attend Oklahoma State University in the fall to study aerospace engineering.

"I went, my husband went and then her sister's there, so we are OSU fans all the way," Jan Streeter said.

"I really have liked science and math classes throughout high school, and just planes are so darn cool," Streeter said.

Streeter said she and her family has affectionately nicknamed her horse, Yankee, "Yankee Tuition."

"He gets to be sold when I go to college to pay for tuition," she said with a laugh.

Her mom explained the situation more seriously, also touching on how successful in training horses she has been over the years.

"One thing about this sport - their horses are an investment, they're not a pet," Jan Streeter said.

"And so when its time, when you're not using that investment, you sell the investment. It sounds very harsh, because so many people keep their horses as pets, but these animals are valuable, and they are an investment, so the investment will turn into tuition."

Jan Streeter said her daughter started off with a more inexperienced horse, but has trained and purchases better and better horses.

"That's how she's got to this level," she said. "It's a risky business, but it did work."

Burns graduates look to future

CHEYENNE - Graduates of Burns Junior-Senior High School spent their graduation ceremony Sunday reflecting on their time spent together and encouraging each other to go on to do great things.

"One of my favorite quotes is this: 'A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for,'" class valedictorian Katrina Norris said, quoting John A. Shedd.

"So let your ship sail," she continued. "Leave the harbor and go explore your ocean."

Norris told her class that after spending six years with most of them attending school in Burns, "I am absolutely certain of one thing: You all have the ability to sail your ship to the ends of the earth if you so choose. Do it.

"So often, we sit around waiting for something big to happen to us, letting opportunity after opportunity pass us by," Norris said.

"But we each have a talent, a skill, a passion, something that will enable you to make a difference in the world. Maybe not the whole world, but certainly your part of it. Use your something to make a mark. Whether it's fixing cars or people, writing chemical equations or poetry."

Class salutatorian Meghan Murphy said in her speech that it's easy to take classmates for granted during the years.

"However, now that we are all about to go our separate ways and start our own individual adventures, we realize that we have watched each other grow up and learned from our mistakes," she said.

"We have remained the best of friends throughout all those years, including those questionable haircuts and awkward seventh-grade dance moves," she continued.

"The truth is, the class of 2017 really is a family, and no one will ever have the same experience we've had throughout all these years. Thank you for being my classmates, my family and my friends."

In his second year as Laramie County District 2 superintendant, Jon Abrams presented the class of 2017 with a framed quote, just as he did last year with the class of 2016.

"I'm not naïve enough to believe you're going to remember a thing I say," he joked.

Abrams chose a quote from Marianne Williamson's book, "A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of 'A Course in Miracles,'" that is often misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

He said he and his wife gave the same quote to their sons when they left home.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure," the quote begins.

"It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?"

The quote ends by saying that "as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Abrams encouraged the students, saying, "When you get off to school or the military or work, wherever you are, and you're having a bad day, you sit down and you read that. And you'll realize just how amazing you are and how much you have to offer this community and this world."

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CHEYENNE - Some girls spend days leading up to their high school graduations perfecting their outfits, signing yearbooks and making summer plans. Lauren Streeter probably still made time for those things, but she spent several days before the Burns Junior-Senior High School graduation ceremony Sunday at a horse competition in Pueblo, Colorado.