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Marianne Williamson Love Quotes and Sayings
#1 A Return to Love: Reflections on the principles of “A course in miracles” [S]
1. When we know that love is an infinite resource—that there is enough abundance of every kind for everyone and that only what we give to others we get to keep—then we stop denigrating other people, and start blessing them instead.
#2 A Return to Love: Reflections on the principles of “A course in miracles” [S]
2. We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.
#3 A Return to Love: Reflections on the principles of “A course in miracles” [S]
3. All that is real in our past is the love we gave and the love we received.
#4 A Return to Love: Reflections on the principles of “A course in miracles” [S]
4. Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.
#5 Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage
5. Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who that person is. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.
#6-8 Marianne Williamson: On Work, Money and Miracles, 23 April 2013 [S]
6. We are stuck on a level of personal love for people we like, or love for people who are like us. And the love that will save the world is not just love for people that we like. It’s not just love for people that we know. It’s not just love for our children. It’s love for all of the children. It’s not just love for our home, it’s a realization that the earth itself is our home.
7. Love is who we are, love is the true thought, it’s the thought of the true self. And anytime we deviate from that love, it is like light to darkness.
8. Fear is to love what darkness is to light. You don’t hit the darkness to get rid of it, and you can’t just hit the fear to get rid of it. But you turn on the light and the darkness is automatically gone. You turn on the love and the fear is automatically gone.
#9 Twitter, 22 March 2012 [S]
9. Unless we give love, we won’t feel it though it’s all around us.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Marianne Williamson is a spiritual teacher, author and lecturer. She has published ten books, including four New York Times #1 bestsellers. She is also the founder of Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area, and co-founder of The Peace Alliance, a grass roots campaign supporting legislation to establish a United States Department of Peace.
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Sayings by Marianne Williamson
#1 A Return to Love: Reflections on the principles of “A course in miracles” [S]
1. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
#2 A Return to Love: Reflections on the principles of “A course in miracles” [S]
2. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
#3 Twitter, 20 November 2015 [S]
3. The presence of so much darkness in the world is an invitation to all of us: turn up the light.
#4-5 A Woman’s Worth
4. …there is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.
5. Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things are.
#6 Lesson 12: Commit to Yourself, A Course In Weight Loss
6. It’s not enough to just tell yourself what not to do; you must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.
#7 Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage
7. Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
#8 A Return to Love: Reflections on the principles of “A course in miracles” [S]
8. What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves.
#9 A Return to Love: Reflections on the principles of “A course in miracles” [S]
9. In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
#10 A Return to Love: Reflections on the principles of “A course in miracles” [S]
10. If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
#11 A Return to Love: Reflections on the principles of “A course in miracles” [S]
11. The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
#12 A Return to Love: Reflections on the principles of “A course in miracles” [S]
12. The spiritual path, then, is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don’t know it.
#13 A Return to Love: Reflections on the principles of “A course in miracles” [S]
13. People who do make us angry, however, are our most important teachers. They indicate the limits to our capacity for forgiveness.
#14 A Return to Love: Reflections on the principles of “A course in miracles” [S]
14. Forgiveness is “selective remembering”—a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.
#15 Twitter, 10 November 2010 [S]
15. Happiness isn’t circumstance-dependent; it’s a frame of mind. You and you alone decide how to interpret everything that happens.
#16 Facebook, 10 October 2011 [S]
16. Patience is the spiritual power to wait with faith, remembering that the universe is on your side even when other people aren’t.
#17 Facebook, 28 September 2013 [S]
17. The miracle often lies outside our comfort zone.
#18 Twitter, 18 July 2018 [S]
18. When the entire world is spinning out, the most powerful thing any of us can do is to cultivate inner stillness.
#19 Twitter, 5 March 2016 [S]
19. Every minute we spend tearing someone down is a minute we could spend building someone else up. The latter is much greater use of our power.
#20 Facebook, 13 September 2011 [S]
20. If a train doesn’t stop at your station, then it’s not your train.
#21-22 Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness And Making Miracles
21. Every situation is a lesson in becoming who we are capable of being.
22. Forgiveness is our decision to see the love that is real in all of us, despite whatever appearances to the contrary there are.
#23-25 The Time That Matters Most [S]
23. The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now.
24. We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.
25. We cannot find peace by seeking it in a past we cannot change or by seeking it in a future we cannot control. Peace can be found only in the present, in which we deeply accept all of life–what was, is and will be.
#26 Twitter, 7 September 2013 [S]
26. What we focus on in our minds we will experience in our lives.
#27 Twitter, 26 September 2013 [S]
27. Next time you’re about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.
#28-32 Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage
28. Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.
29. Forgiving others is the only way to forgive ourselves, and forgiveness is our greatest need.
30. Children are happy because they don’t yet have a file in their minds called “All the Things That Could Go Wrong.”
31. The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
32. Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
#33 Twitter, 25 August 2013 [S]
33. Some things need to be let go before other things can be let in.
#34 Twitter, 6 September 2013 [S]
34. Life is not a solo act; it’s an ensemble piece. You’re in this with other actors whose lines are just as important as yours.
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Unsourced Quotes by Marianne Williamson
1. We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.
2. If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.
3. Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
4. How can the universe support a vision that you yourself won’t hold tenderly and steadily within your heart? Your consciousness is your spiritual womb. Be quietly and proudly pregnant with the most beautiful possibilities for your future.
5. One night I was up in the middle of the night, laying awake in my bed and worrying about this or that, when a voice in my heart said, “Marianne, most people in the world do not have beds.”
6. Any resentment you hold on to is a wall in front of your heart. No technique other than forgiveness can remove it, and no one but you can do it.
7. Forgiveness is the only way we can release ourselves from the past.
8. Ego says, “Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace.” The spirit says, “Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place.”
9. Faith doesn’t mean you don’t have to do the work; it just means you’re absolutely certain the work will pay off.
10. We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what’s wrong in your life, or you can focus on what’s right.