If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONIf you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.
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 WILLIAMSONBehind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONThe more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONLife is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.
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 WILLIAMSONYou get to decide what energy you choose to download in any moment. No one but you gets to decide who you wish to be.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONForgiveness is the key to inner peace because it is the mental technique by which our thoughts are transformed from fear to love.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONWithholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
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 WILLIAMSONNo one is any more or any less important than you are.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONCarrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONNo matter what the problem, a miracle can solve it. Remember to ask for one.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONThink bigger. Forget limits. Embrace the idea of endless possibility…. It will change you.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONBehind every fear, there is a miracle waiting.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONWe are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON