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The biggest problem is our lack of response-ability. That’s what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.

The biggest problem is our lack of "response-ability." That’s what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.

Marianne Williamson
Love Is, People, Lines
"Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.

Marianne Williamson
Economic Value, Principles, Needs
"Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

Marianne Williamson
Encouragement, Greatness, People

You are emerging from the cocoon of your former self. There are no limits to the extent of the transformation that's possible for you.

Marianne Williamson
Self, Cocoons, Limits
FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Dec 08, 2009

It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love.

Marianne Williamson
God, Love You, Expectations
Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.59, Penguin

There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.

Marianne Williamson
Heart, Our World, People
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

The only thing missing in any situation is that in which you are not giving

Marianne Williamson
Giving, Missing, Situation

If you're getting your guidance about who you are and what to do with your life only from the external world, then by definition you'll be led away from your authentic truth. Your authentic truth isn't in the material world. It's counterintuitive, but you have more power in the world when you know you're not of it.

Marianne Williamson
World, Definitions, Guidance
"Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 09, 2012.

I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.

Marianne Williamson
Spiritual, Struggle, Thinking
Source: rayhemachandra.com

I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary.

Marianne Williamson
Letting Go, Grieving, Forgiving
Source: rayhemachandra.com

I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.

Marianne Williamson
Thinking, Self, World
Source: scottlondon.com

The role of a leader is not to rule over other people, but to hold a space for their own genius.

Marianne Williamson
Space, People, Leader
Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.80, Penguin

I can't say that there are "things" that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

Marianne Williamson
Alive, I Can
"Marianne Williamson Talks Transcendental Meditation, Enlightenment And Shoulder Pads In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2013.

In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal: a return to inner peace. We’re not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change. We’re looking for a softer orientation to life.

Marianne Williamson
Goal, Miracle, Inner Peace
Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.

Marianne Williamson
Book, Writing, Appreciate

What is happening in politics today is a similar process to what happened in the medical world a few decades ago: realizing that there's more to healing than just addressing symptoms. Primary paradigm when it comes to dealing with political and social disease is allopathic: Pass a law, lock someone up, engage in warfare. And the state of the world today makes it clear that such allopathic measures have not exactly brought peace to all.

Marianne Williamson
Healing, Law, Political
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

We are dominated on this planet by a fear-based rather than a love-based thought system. Enlightenment involves relinquishing the thought system based on fear and instead accepting a thought system based on love.

Marianne Williamson
Enlightenment, Accepting, Planets
"A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack. In other words, what happens for most of us is that we are tempted and we are taught, we are trained as it were, to meet limited circumstances with limited thought.

Marianne Williamson
Spiritual, Taught, Circumstances
"A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

I had an experience that probably is shared by many parents. When my daughter was born, I felt viscerally connected to generations before and after me in a way that took me by surprise.

Marianne Williamson
Daughter, Parent, Generations
Source: rayhemachandra.com

Living in this world, under the dominance of the ego mind, is difficult. That's the struggle.

Marianne Williamson
Struggle, Ego, Mind
Source: rayhemachandra.com

You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins.

Marianne Williamson
Regret, Emotional, Toxins
Source: rayhemachandra.com

If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.

Marianne Williamson
Pain, Regret, Self
Source: rayhemachandra.com

The number of nuclear bombs on the planet today - the sheer quantity of weapons of mass destruction in the possession of people and governments throughout the world - along with the fact that the use of brute force and militarism is an almost knee-jerk way of problem-solving on the planet today, makes the eradication of war the great moral issue of this generation.

Marianne Williamson
War, Numbers, Issues
Source: rayhemachandra.com

Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.

Marianne Williamson
Generations, Nuclear, Weapons
Source: rayhemachandra.com

The reason we don't often confront the larger question of whether or not war is survivable is because of a failure of imagination. We honestly cannot imagine having reached a state in our own evolution in which we do not fight.

Marianne Williamson
War, Fighting, Imagination
Source: rayhemachandra.com

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