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I believe that the most urgent need of parents today is to instill in our children a moral vision: what does it mean to be a good person, an excellent neighbor, a compassionate heart? What does it mean to say that God

I believe that the most urgent need of parents today is to instill in our children a moral vision: what does it mean to be a good person, an excellent neighbor, a compassionate heart? What does it mean to say that God exits, that He loves us and He cares for us? What does it mean to love and forgive each other? Parents and caregivers of children must play a primary role in returning our society to a healthy sense of the sacred. We must commit to feeding our children’s souls in the same way we commit to feeding their bodies.

Marianne Williamson
Children, Believe, Mean

Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love - the money, the car, the house, the prestige - we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing. ("A Return to Love")

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Lying, Mean, Addiction
Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow...those who consciously or unconsciously challenge our fearful positions. They show us our walls. Our walls are our wounds--the places where we feel we can't love any more, can't connect any more deeply, can't forgive past a certain point. We are in each other's lives in order to help us see where we most need healing, and in order to help us heal.

Marianne Williamson
Wall, Healing, Past

Every relationship is a gift exchange.

Marianne Williamson
Inspirational, Spiritual Gifts, Exchanging
FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Mar 08, 2013

Your relationship with love is your relationship with the essence of who you are. It affects your relationship with your body, and your relationship with food. When you realize that you are a spirit and that this body is a temple, then you want to treat it well.

Marianne Williamson
Love Is, Essence, Want
Interview with John Robbins, foodrevolution.org. January 1, 2013.

Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.

Marianne Williamson
Children, Care, Motherly
"SISTER GIANT: Consciousness and Politics" by Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that doesn't mean that Judaism was inadequate.

Marianne Williamson
Mother, Religious, Mean
Source: scottlondon.com

If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.

Marianne Williamson
Happiness, Believe, Thinking

People who are meditating every day and involved in a serious spiritual practice don't usually wake up in the morning and want to rush out to eat a bunch of junk food.

Marianne Williamson
Spiritual, Morning, Practice
"John Robbins Interviews Marianne Williamson". foodrevolution.org. January 01, 2013.

Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't love. And without those things, a woman's soul is bereft.

Marianne Williamson
Heart, Political, Soul
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.

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Dying, Age, Want
Source: www.lotusguide.com

Love is not neutral. It takes a stand. It is a commitment to the attainment of the conditions of peace for everyone involved in a situation.

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Commitment, Love Is, Situation
Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

We shouldn’t come up with a pseudo-spiritual excuse for turning away from the pain of the world.

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Spiritual, Pain, World
"SISTER GIANT: Consciousness and Politics" by Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

A healthy, vital society is not one in which we all agree. It is one in which those who disagree can do so with honor and respect for other people's opinions... and an appreciation of our shared humanity.

Marianne Williamson
Appreciation, Honor And Respect, People
Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.220, Random House

We experience who we really are, and what it is we are meant to do, in any moment when we pour our love into the universe.

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Our Love, Moments, Universe

People want the nation to transform in the same way they want their own lives to transform. If you're interested in transforming your life, you can't just transform some things. You can't try to fix some things, but sweep other things under the rug because it's too hard to face them. And the same is true for a nation.

Marianne Williamson
People, Trying, Way
"Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 09, 2012.

The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.

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Real, World, Transformation
Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.

Marianne Williamson
Book, Life Is Like, Ends
Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

A Course in Miracles tells us that although 'we think that without the ego, all would be chaos, the opposite is true. Without the ego, all would be love.'

Marianne Williamson
Thinking, Opposites, Miracle

We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We were connected to a richer world, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous. What happened?

Marianne Williamson
Love, Creativity, Imagination

Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

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Happiness, Giving Up, Attachment
Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.

Marianne Williamson
Love, Inspirational, God
Interview with Ken Page, www.psychologytoday.com. January 22, 2012.

We must keep in mind that where the road is crooked, God makes it straight, and where our hearts are wounded, God makes us whole. As we open our hearts in purity and simplicity, admitting to God that we are completely powerless in the area of our problem, His illumination redeems us.

Marianne Williamson
Heart, Illumination, Simplicity
Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

I sometimes say to people who have life-challenging illnesses: "Right now you are tempted to think that if you were physically well you would be happy. But if that were true, everybody who is physically well would be happy."

Marianne Williamson
Thinking, People, Challenges
Source: scottlondon.com

The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.

Marianne Williamson
World, Serious, Joyful
Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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