Sometimes, when I talk to someone who has just been diagnosed with cancer or some other illness, I'll remind them: "If you were honest with yourself, you were depressed before this happened. And if this were over you would be happy for a couple of weeks, a couple of months, and then something else would come along."
Marianne WilliamsonWhat if we truly believed that there is a beneficent order to things, a force that's holding things together without our conscious control? What if we could see, in our daily lives, the working of that force? What if we believed it loved us somehow and cared for us, and protected us? What if we believed we could afford to relax?
Marianne WilliamsonGod isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things.
Marianne WilliamsonForgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.
Marianne Williamson