I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is about - have been very hard on me. There is an expression in Alcoholics Anonymous called "contempt prior to investigation." I feel many people practice contempt prior to investigation.
Marianne WilliamsonOften we see a couple who has separated or divorced and look with sadness at the โfailureโ of their relationship. But if both people learned what they were meant to learn, then that relationship was a success.
Marianne WilliamsonIf you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.
Marianne WilliamsonA relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.
Marianne WilliamsonAlways be open to new beginnings. To the universe, every moment is the start of the next big thing in your life.
Marianne WilliamsonI don't believe there are any powers, which in the larger sense, are unnatural or even supernatural. I think we just do not yet scientifically understand all of the powers inherent in the human consciousness, and the more attuned we are to the realm of spirit, the more our conscious mind is available to subconscious, spiritual prompting.
Marianne Williamson