01c. 1952 ADIf our prayer is “Dear God, please use me to be of service,” then that is what we will be. And it is not for us to judge either the size or value of our gifts. Our job is to try to get out of the way, to defer to the spirit moving within us and become open channels for the flow of God’s love.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
02c. 1952 ADAs long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
03c. 1952 ADFrom a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
04c. 1952 ADThe return to love is hardly the end of life's adventure. It's the real beginning. A course in miracle says we think we have many different problems but we really only have one: denying love is the only problem and embracing it is the only answer.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
05c. 1952 ADIn fact, ambitious tension actually limits our ability to succeed because it keeps us in a state of contraction emotionally and physically. It seems to give us energy but doesn't really. Like the white sugar of mental health, there's a short high followed by a crash. The cultivation of mental rest or surrender is like eating healthy food. It doesn’t give us an immediate rush, but over time it provides a lot more energy.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
06c. 1952 ADThere is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
07c. 1952 ADWe don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted and distorted.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
08c. 1952 ADIf we're talented at music, that talent is of god. If something makes our heart sing, that's god's way of telling us its a contribution he wants us to make. Sharing our gifts is what makes us happy. We're most powerful and god's power is most apparent on the earth when we're happy. A course in miracles teaches that we are only truly happy when we're doing god's will. The only thing to be saved from is our own negativity and fear. The crux of salvation in any area is a shift in our sense of purpose. That shift is a miracle, as always we consciously ask for it: 'Dear god, please give my life some sense of purpose. use me as an instrument of your peace. Use my talents and abilities to spread love. I surrender my job to you. Help me to remember that my real job is to love the world back to health.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
09c. 1952 ADIf our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
10c. 1952 ADSuccess means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and our abilities were used in a way that served people. We're compensated by grateful looks in other people's eyes, whatever material abundance supports us in performing joyfully and at high energy, and the magnificent feeling that we did our bit today to help save the world.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
11c. 1952 ADCan the purpose of a relationship be to trigger our wounds? In a way, yes, because that is how healing happens; darkness must be exposed before it can be transformed. The purpose of an intimate relationship is not that it be a place where we can hide from our weaknesses, but rather where we can safely let them go. It takes strength of character to truly delve into the mystery of an intimate relationship, because it takes the strength to endure a kind of psychic surgery, an emotional and psychological and even spiritual initiation into the higher Self. Only then can we know an enchantment that lasts.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
12c. 1952 ADBirth is violent whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
13c. 1952 ADLove is what we were borne with. Fear is what we learned here.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
14c. 1952 ADNothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help the desire to serve.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
15c. 1952 ADIf you give your life as a wholehearted response to love then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
16c. 1952 ADLove is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
17c. 1952 ADWe live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
18c. 1952 ADHope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
19c. 1952 ADJust as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
20c. 1952 ADIn 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 Williamson / quote ↗
21c. 1952 ADThe only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
22c. 1952 ADI never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
23c. 1952 ADNature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
24c. 1952 ADThe goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.Marianne Williamson / quote ↗
