If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONIf our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONLove is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONLove is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONOnce the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONOnce you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you’re a student all day. You know it’s the depth of your observation that is the issue – not how much the world has to show you.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONYour life shows up for you when you show up for your life.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONSpeak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONDon’t be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONSomething very beautiful happens to people when their world’s fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONUntil we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONWe aren’t bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONLove and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONForgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we’re mad at people, we’re angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONEverything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONIt 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 WILLIAMSONEach of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON