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It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

Marianne Williamson
Courage, Pain, Discovery

In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.

Marianne Williamson
Pain, Heart, Greatest Treasure
Marianne Williamson (2013). “Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

Until we get to the point where we've had enough of things that hurt and long more than anything for a peaceful love, we are bound to take painful roads. We are destined to play out our frivolous disasters until we declare ourselves finished and done with them. How much pain do we have to suffer before we are sure we want no more? As much, it seems, as we have to until we don't.

Marianne Williamson
Hurt, Pain, Play

You don't want to try to protect yourself from the pain of a crisis. You want to learn everything you can from it.

Marianne Williamson
Pain, Trying, Want
Source: rayhemachandra.com

World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers within as well as powers without. A new, spiritually based social activism is beginning to assert itself. It stems not from hating what is wrong and trying to fight it, but from loving what could be and making the commitment to bring it forth.

Marianne Williamson
Pain, Hate, Commitment
Marianne Williamson (2014). “Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

Our greatest hope is for the experience of joy, and often we are not as smart as we think we are when it comes to predicting what would bring us that joy. . . Hope that is attached to a particular outcome is looking for pleasure but fishing for pain, because attachment itself is a source of pain. It is best to hope for an experience of life in all its fullness-a life that can embrace both joy and sorrow, and will still be at peace.

Marianne Williamson
Hope, Pain, Smart

You can't remove that layer of pain by just saying, "Okay, I'm not going to wallow in it." The only way to remove that layer of pain is to face what it says and to recognize it as the look in the mirror that it is, reflecting the things you did that you wish you hadn't done and the things you didn't do that you wish you had done.

Marianne Williamson
Pain, Mirrors, Wish
Source: rayhemachandra.com

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

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

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

I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

Marianne Williamson
Pain, Thinking, Hands
Source: www.lotusguide.com

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

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

No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.

Marianne Williamson
Prayer, Pain, Psychics
Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.73, Random House

Spiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against a greater pain. It means that we surrender to God our perceptions of all things.

Marianne Williamson
Spiritual, Pain, Mean
Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.59, Random House

When the heart is pierced, there is pain, yes, but also an invitation to a greater becoming.

Marianne Williamson
Pain, Heart, Becoming
Source: rayhemachandra.com

Chaos often fosters the greatest creativity. Breakdowns often precede the greatest breakthroughs. And when the pain is greatest is often when we're on the brink of the greatest realization.....When the pain is burned through rather than numbed, when our darkness is brought to light and then forgiven, then and only then can we move on. And move on we do.

Marianne Williamson
Pain, Moving, Creativity

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

It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears for every devastating loss, tears for every humiliating failure, tears for every repeated mistake. Those who honor those tears, and even honor them, are not failures at love but rather its true initiates. First the pain and then the power. First the heart breaks and then it soars.

Marianne Williamson
Pain, Mistake, Heart
"Enchanted Love". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.

Marianne Williamson
Pain, People, Pleasure
Source: scottlondon.com

The pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain.

Marianne Williamson
Pain, Reflection, Products
"A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

I surrender it to God, knowing that the pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain. Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.

Marianne Williamson
Pain, Grief, Moving
"A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.

Marianne Williamson
Pain, Thinking, Old Love
FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 01, 2013

What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.

Marianne Williamson
Pain, Past, Giving
Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

Yes, whatever happened, happened; but what happens now is up to you. You can respond from ego, ensuring pain, or you can respond from spirit, ensuring a miracle.

Marianne Williamson
Pain, Miracle, Ego

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