Darkness 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 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 WILLIAMSONSometimes when we don’t know the answer, it’s time to simply be with the question.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONWe 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.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONLiving meaningfully is what brings joy.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONIf we never take a risk, we’ll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONPart of forgiving people is releasing them from our own agendas.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONThe goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
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 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 WILLIAMSONOur problem is not that we don’t have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.
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 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 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 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 playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won’t feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.
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 WILLIAMSON