Quotes from Marianne Williamson

God has lit your mind Himself, and keeps your mind lit by His Light because His Light is what your mind is.

If we really desire a moral answer to the Holocaust, we do everything in our power to create a world in which it could never happen again. As

As I began to study A Course in Miracles, I discovered the following things: God is the love within us.

When we choose to love, or to allow our minds to be one with God, then life is peaceful. When we turn away from love, the pain sets in. And whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.

Partners are meant to have a priestly role in each other's lives. They are meant to help each other access the highest parts within themselves.

Love taken seriously is a radical outlook, a major departure from the psychological orientation that rules the world. It is threatening not because it is a small idea, but because it is so huge.

What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present. Salvation

By affirming that love is our priority in a situation

Political manifestations, both good and bad, are but outer reflections of internal realities.

His correction of our perception is called the Atonement.

Another miraculous transformation is the shift from a sales mentality to a service mentality. When we're motivated by the desire to sell, we're only looking out for ourselves.  When we're motivated by the desire to serve, we're looking out for others.  Since in the realm of consciousness, we only get to keep what we give away, a service mentality is a far more abundant attitude.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

The  thought system which dominates our culture is laced with selfish values, and relinquishing those values is a lot easier said than done. The journey to a pure heart can be highly disorienting.  For years, we may have worked for power, money or prestige.  Now all of a sudden we've learned that these are just the values of a dying world.

What we mentally refuse to permit others, we refuse ourselves. What we bless in others, we draw to us.

In asking the Holy Spirit to help us, we are expressing our willingness to perceive a situation differently. We give up our own interpretations and opinions, and ask that they be replaced by His.

universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving. It's the Holy Spirit's job to draw our attention to that, and help us move beyond that point.

We're not at the mountaintop until any zone is comfortable. Love isn't love until it's unconditional.

Sometimes it takes the knife that emotionally pierces our heart, to pierce the walls that lie in front of it.

Dear God,        Please impress upon me        The vision of whom I am meant to be.        Reveal to me the bigger life        That You would have me live.        Undo the forces that keep me bound,        That I might serve You more.        Amen.

Rage turned outward is called rage. Rage turned inward is called ulcers and cancer and things like that. The unhealthiest thing you can do with anger is to deny you have it.

The "face of Christ" is the innocence and love behind the masks we all wear

and seeing that face, touching it and loving it in ourselves and others, is the experience of God. It is our divine humanness. It is the high we all seek.