Once 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 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 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 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 only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONPeople hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONEverything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONTo the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONYour future isn’t programmed by your past; it’s programmed by your thoughts.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONNo one is any more or any less important than you are.
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 WILLIAMSONWe are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONThink of everything you’ve ever experienced that was painful; that’s the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that’s the meaning of Easter.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONThe one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONWhatever situation you’re in: Send love, place it in God’s hands, open your heart to everyone involved – and it will turn out miraculously.
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 WILLIAMSONYour character defects are not where you’re bad, but where you’re wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it’s yours now and you’re responsible for it.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON