Marianne Williamson Quotes
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I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.
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I can't say that there are "things" that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. Those are thoughts that take me beyond myself; that remind me that there's a bigger game going on on this planet than simply my own existence; that love works miracles, and how much we need them at certain moment.
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Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.
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For what we engage, we transform. And what we engage with our hearts is transformed forever.
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Imagine a temple inside your mind, a haven from the chaos of the world. Visit often.
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The human race is almost addicted to war. It's like we just can't stop.
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Taking the time to meditate is as important as taking the time to breathe. One pumps oxygen into the body, the other pumps peace into the mind.
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Envision possibility. Don't worry who else believes in it; the universe is only looking for instructions from you.
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We find our happiness to the extent to which we use our minds to bless the world, for that is the natural use of the mind. It is the reason we were born.
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When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.
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As we let our light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
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I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it.
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Many people who say they're looking for love are merely looking for superficial comfort. They're not looking yet for the true romantic adventure. For that entails a readiness to die to who we were, in order to be born again prepared for love, truly worthy of the romantic heights.
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I don't think making love the new bottom line is naïve; I believe that thinking we can survive the next hundred years doing anything less, is naïve.
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I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.
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Family... a group experience of love and support.
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Children are not children. They are just younger people.
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Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.
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Charles Manson ate apples. That doesn't mean I'm not going to.
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Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.
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When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.
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Happiness is a decision I must make.
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We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.
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Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects.