Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.


Marianne Williamson

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MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
We are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in eve...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary televis...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Forgiveness is the stroke of God within us. The American people haven't ignored what he did. He aske...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Prayer enables us to transform the world, because it transforms us.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it wi...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part t...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those o...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of po...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
In his farewell address, George Washington warned the people about political parties. Now we see how...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every he...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
We are so trained in the thought system of fear and attack that we get to the point where natural th...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
As we let our light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are lib...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that othe...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could G...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to y...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
We are beautiful because God created us that way
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transf...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
You know what we need to heal are the thought forms and the feelings that cause us to create war and...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world w...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
In every moment, we teach either love or fear. As we demonstrate love towards others....we learn how...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the he...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is t...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
We embrace the idea -- advanced by both ancient philosophers and modern physicists -- that the world...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love -...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ou...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fea...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will n...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness b...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spe...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it wi...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
In my first book, 'A Return to Love', I wrote about things in the outer world that need to c...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON