May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONMay we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONSometimes when we don’t know the answer, it’s time to simply be with the question.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONLet’s forgive the past and who we were then. Let’s embrace the present and who we’re capable of becoming. Let’s surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.
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 WILLIAMSONForgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONLove, when it is a sacred quest, is a space of resurrection and repair. It does more than help us survive a soulless world; it helps us to transform.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONA miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love-from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.
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 WILLIAMSONIn 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.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONIf you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONI have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONLiving meaningfully is what brings joy.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONThe one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONJust like a sunbeam can’t separate itself from the sun, and a wave can’t separate itself from the ocean, we can’t separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.
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 WILLIAMSONThe universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON