The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.
Marianne WilliamsonPersonal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.
Marianne WilliamsonThe goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.
Marianne WilliamsonSpiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against a greater pain. It means that we surrender to God our perceptions of all things.
Marianne Williamson