The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONThe more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONIf you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONChildren are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called “All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONOn any given day, in any given moment, something could happen that opens up for you an entirely new path. Be still, be alert, be ready.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONA tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONWe were all born carrying a promise — a promise to make the world better — and there’s a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONOur deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONOur triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONLove isn’t material. It’s energy. We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONWe don’t reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONWith every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle. It is not our circumstances, then, but rather our thoughts about our circumstances, that determine our power to transform them.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONSuccess means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONThought is cause: experience is effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONDarkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONThe reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we are not yet starring in our own lives. The cosmic spotlight isn’t pointed at you, it radiates from within you.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONA relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON