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We shouldn’t use our own upset as an excuse for not helping.

We shouldn’t use our own upset as an excuse for not helping.

Marianne Williamson
Upset, Use, Helping
"SISTER GIANT: Consciousness and Politics" by Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.

Marianne Williamson
Pain, Self, Phoenix
Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.74, ReadHowYouWant.com

When we pray for God to illumine our path, we are saying, ‘Dear God, please show me the way. What thoughts do I need to think, to be able to navigate my life at this point? What perceptions do I need; what insights will guide me? Who do I need to forgive? What parts of my personality do I need to look at; what changes do I need to make? Please come upon me and heal my life. Amen.

Marianne Williamson
Thinking, Personality, Forgiving

The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.

Marianne Williamson
Honesty, Real, Love Is

We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.

Marianne Williamson
Miracle, Littles, Disaster
Marianne Williamson (2012). “The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles”, p.10, Harper Collins

Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.

Marianne Williamson
Jobs, Prayer, Mind
Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.89, Penguin

What you do comes from what you think.

Marianne Williamson
Responsibility, Thinking, Personal Responsibility

Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.

Marianne Williamson
Spiritual, Shopping, Ordinary
Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.75, Random House

I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance.

Marianne Williamson
Powerful, Vision, Said
Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are payoffs for holding on to small, weak patterns. We have an excuse not to shine. We don't have to take responsibility for the world when we're spending all our time in emotional pain. We're too busy. The truth that sets us free is an embrace of the divine within us.

Marianne Williamson
Giving Up, Pain, Responsibility

The universe is an infinite opportunity creation machine. In every instant, the possibility of greater possibility is programmed into the nature of things. Love creates the conduit through which new possibility enters our experience, and lovelessness keeps it at bay.

Marianne Williamson
Inspirational, Opportunity, Machines
FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 18, 2013

Real intimacy; real love has to do with a joining of the mind, a joining of the spirit, a joining of the heart.

Marianne Williamson
Real, Heart, Mind
Source: www.psychologytoday.com

Desperately seeking something is not what attracts it to us. When we dwell, in deep peace and kindness, whatever would add to our happiness just flows to our door.

Marianne Williamson
Kindness, Doors, Add
FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 06, 2012

The people who have achieved more than you, in any area, are only a half step ahead of you in time. Bless them and praise their gifts, and bless and praise your own. The world would be less rich without their contributions, and it would be less rich without yours. There's more than room for everyone; in fact, there's a need for everyone.

Marianne Williamson
Inspirational, People, Would Be
Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same.

Marianne Williamson
Children, Challenges, Lessons
Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.92, Penguin

I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking for great people so much as becoming great people.

Marianne Williamson
Angel, Thinking, Self
Source: rayhemachandra.com

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

Marianne Williamson
Life Changing, World, Changing The World
Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.13, Penguin

There is a dichotomy between people who feel economic principles should order human civilization and people who believe humanitarian principles should order human civilization. That essential disagreement is underlying practically all our world drama.

Marianne Williamson
Drama, Believe, Order
Source: rayhemachandra.com

As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.

Marianne Williamson
Jobs, Long, Way
Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.88, Penguin

Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.

Marianne Williamson
Spiritual, Pain, Joy
Source: www.lotusguide.com

We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.

Marianne Williamson
Pain, Singing, World
Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.32, Ballantine Books

The key to happiness is the decision to be happy

Marianne Williamson
Keys, Decision, Key To Happiness

Kennedy's assassination was the opening salvo in the social revolution of the sixties. In some ways, perhaps, Princess Diana and Mother Teresa dying when they did, and how they did, represent the opening salvos of a social revolution in the nineties.

Marianne Williamson
Mother, Princess, Dying
Source: scottlondon.com

While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.

Marianne Williamson
Betrayal, Commitment, Self
Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.157, Hay House, Inc

Faith is believing that the universe is on our side, and that the universe knows what it's doing. Faith is a psychological awareness of an unfolding force for good, constantly at work in all dimensions. Our attempts to direct this force only interferes with it. Our willingness to relax into it allows it to work on our behalf.

Marianne Williamson
Believe, Relax, Sides
Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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